Quick Start

Theano is a Python library that allows you to define, optimize, and efficiently evaluate mathematical expressions involving multi-dimensional arrays.

The latest release is version 0.1. You can download the latest PDF documentation, rather than reading it online. You can go to the Table of Contents.

News

• 2009-04-01: Theano 0.1 released. See the release notes.

Choose your own adventure...

• You have no idea what Theano is and you read the introduction.
• Convinced by the Theano staff’s rhetoric that it is worthy of your time (you can hear them into the distance congratulating themselves on the success of their dishonest ploy - a lone puppy’s heart-wrenching cry echoes behind you but is cut short by an outworldly screech and what might be the dripping sound of a bloody blade - you don’t care, though, because Theano is wicked cool), you install Theano and learn the basics.
• Blinded by your newfound knowledge, you want to play God and learn how to extend Theano. The Gods are pleased that they get to devour your soul for this heresy, but you ascertain that it is worth it.
• Decidedly, your thirst for Theano-related information is unquenchable! So there you are, reading about Theano’s compilation pipeline. Little do you know that article could not have been made without the tears of a thousand innocent kittens.
• You descend into madness as you read detailed (or as-of-yet not written, but our plans for world domination as well as the hourly sacrifices that our God requires leave us little time for writing) articles about Op, Type, function interface, Module, Compilation and Linking, Graph optimization, Env and as you consult the list of List of Env Features. Sometimes you check the Glossary of terminology just in case you missed an important concept.
• Requiring help in your dark endeavors, you register and post to the theano-users mailing list and curious to know who is behind this witchery and how their wicked plans come into fruition, you read the theano-dev mailing list.
• Mistaking your feverish sweat for genuine excitation, you investigate Theano’s Trac for tickets that your feeble mind might comprehend and your consumed brain is yearning to solve.
• Bored a Friday evening, you browse Theano’s API. May the Great Ones help you with that one.

Note

May you be assured that this page was made solely under the unsobering influence of boredom and that all of the unspeakable things mentioned therein are merely artifacts of the author’s maddened delusions.