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MXNet Julia Package - flexible and efficient deep learning in Julia

Is dmlc/MXNet.jl beginner-friendly?

We have not seen enough recent pull requests from outside contributors to dmlc/MXNet.jl to say how often they are merged. No beginner-friendly issue is open right now; the list below has the other issues we hold for it.

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Last GitHub push
Jan 7, 2019
Latest indexed
Sep 15, 2026
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  • Import fail MXNET.jl
    Open

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 28/100

    dmlc/MXNet.jl#432 · 2 comments · 1 reaction ·

  • No tools for many index operations DArrays
    Open

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

    dmlc/MXNet.jl#425 · 1 comment ·

  • LoadError: Cannot find or load libmxnet.dylib
    Open

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    dmlc/MXNet.jl#423 · 16 comments ·

  • Error message for Correlation not very helpful.
    Open

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    dmlc/MXNet.jl#421 ·

  • "separate not defined" on the cat example
    Open

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    dmlc/MXNet.jl#408 · 4 comments ·

  • port CapsNet example
    Open
    help wanted

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 10/100

    dmlc/MXNet.jl#335 ·

  • NDArray with parametric type?
    Open

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    dmlc/MXNet.jl#323 · 6 comments ·

  • BoundsError if the batch size is smaller than the dimension of the output
    Open

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 42/100

    dmlc/MXNet.jl#264 · 1 comment · 1 reaction ·

  • Thrice as much memory for AlexNet on Caltech256 in Julia than in Python. Why?
    Open

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    dmlc/MXNet.jl#261 · 3 comments ·

  • Can't install MXNet on windows
    Open

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    dmlc/MXNet.jl#257 · 54 comments ·

  • FTRL optimizer
    Open

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    dmlc/MXNet.jl#237 · 2 comments ·

  • ArrayDataProvider input format issue
    Open

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    dmlc/MXNet.jl#236 · 15 comments ·

  • Custom cost function is not being used for training
    Open

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    dmlc/MXNet.jl#218 · 8 comments ·

  • Option to disable logging
    Open

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    dmlc/MXNet.jl#216 · 1 comment ·

  • lstm mxnet charRNN
    Open

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

    dmlc/MXNet.jl#215 · 1 comment ·

  • CSVIter crashes claiming different row length
    Open

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

    dmlc/MXNet.jl#214 · 3 comments ·

  • char-lstm: invalid character index
    Open

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    dmlc/MXNet.jl#202 · 3 comments ·

  • LSTM example fails
    Open

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

    dmlc/MXNet.jl#197 · 18 comments ·

  • Custom output such as exponential function?
    Open

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

    dmlc/MXNet.jl#167 · 11 comments ·

  • Is creation of custom operators supported?
    May be free again @vchuravy claimed this 3562 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open

    dmlc/MXNet.jl#166 · 7 comments · 1 assignee ·

  • Support `:dist_async`
    May be free again @vchuravy claimed this 3587 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open

    dmlc/MXNet.jl#158 · 1 assignee ·

  • Call to mx.get_updater(optimizer) gives UndefRefError
    Open

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    dmlc/MXNet.jl#155 · 3 comments ·

  • Question: Minimal Tutorial
    May be free again @ultradian claimed this 3482 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    dmlc/MXNet.jl#154 · 5 comments ·

  • Port Executor Manager to Julia
    May be free again @vchuravy claimed this 3588 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open

    dmlc/MXNet.jl#153 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·

  • Bucketing in MXNet.jl
    May be free again @vchuravy claimed this 3678 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open

    dmlc/MXNet.jl#129 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · 1 assignee ·

  • num_filters in UpSampling
    Open

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    dmlc/MXNet.jl#108 · 6 comments ·

  • Variational Autoencoders - error function
    Open

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

    dmlc/MXNet.jl#103 · 1 comment ·

  • Representing the network as a graph.
    Open

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    dmlc/MXNet.jl#88 · 1 comment ·

  • Julia garbage collector does not reclaim GPU memory
    Open

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    dmlc/MXNet.jl#85 · 9 comments ·

  • Reuse executor for repeated prediction with different checkpoints
    Open

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    dmlc/MXNet.jl#84 · 5 comments ·

  • Automated adaption of batch_size to available GPU memory
    Open

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    dmlc/MXNet.jl#83 · 1 comment ·

  • Any plans to add custom loss functions?
    Open

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

    dmlc/MXNet.jl#77 · 3 comments · 1 reaction ·

  • interrupting model evaluation
    Open

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    dmlc/MXNet.jl#62 · 3 comments ·

  • _init_default initializer
    Open

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    dmlc/MXNet.jl#45 · 2 comments ·

  • Dynamic dispatching in optimizers
    Open

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    dmlc/MXNet.jl#44 · 3 comments ·

  • Julia-based definition of new layer
    Open

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

    dmlc/MXNet.jl#39 · 13 comments ·

  • Online/temporal learning
    Open

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

    dmlc/MXNet.jl#29 · 11 comments ·

  • Distributed MXNet with ClusterManager
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

    dmlc/MXNet.jl#21 · 3 comments ·

  • [TODO] More optimizers
    Open

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

    dmlc/MXNet.jl#11 · 5 comments ·

  • Segfault running MNIST example lenet-stn.jl
    Possibly taken @iblislin claimed this 3227 days ago. Open
    upstream

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    dmlc/MXNet.jl#369 · 18 comments ·

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