Showing posts with label Installation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Installation. Show all posts

Sunday, December 29, 2019

How to Install TensorFlow 2.0 on Anaconda (with CUDA support)

TensorFlow 2.0 has been released for a few months now. This latest version comes with many new features and improvements, such as eager execution, multi-GPU support, tighter Keras integration, and new deployment options such as TensorFlow Serving.

So, it's time we all switched to TensorFlow 2.0.

TensorFlow 2.0


The Anaconda-native TensorFlow 2.0 packages are now available in the main conda repository. So, let's see how we can install TensorFlow 2.0 on Anaconda Python. This method will work on both Windows and Linux. And, if you have a CUDA capable NVIDIA GPU, you can enable GPU support as well.

Step 1.Creating a New Conda Environment


We'll start by creating a new conda environment. (I'll name it 'tensorflow2'. You can choose another name if you like):

conda create --name tensorflow2 python=3.7 anaconda


Create a new conda environment
Create a new conda environment

Monday, December 16, 2019

How to Build and Install the Latest Version of Dlib on Anaconda on Windows

Dlib is a toolkit for C++ and Python containing machine learning algorithms and tools for creating complex software to solve real world problems. Dlib provides algorithms for machine learning/deep learning, multi-class classification and clustering models, support vector machines, regression models, a large set of numerical algorithms for areas such as matrix manipulations and linear algebra, graphical model inference algorithms, and utility algorithms for computer vision and image processing. And due to C++ implementations backing most of these implementations, they’re optimized to the point that can be used in some real-time applications as well.

If you’re interested in facial recognition models or facial emotion processing, then Dlib is a library you should definitely try out.

Dlib v19.19 in action on conda on Windows
Dlib v19.19 in action on conda on Windows

But with all the great features in Dlib, installing it has always been a little bit troublesome because of some specific dependency requirements it needs which had a habit of almost always conflicting with your other libraries. With the latest versions however, installing Dlib has become somewhat simple.

If you’re using Anaconda Python for your python experiments, like me, you’ll find that there is no native Dlib package in the native conda package list. In one of my earlier tutorials I showed how to install the Dlib conda package from the conda-forge channel in to your conda environment. The conda-force package works perfectly fine, and it’s still one of the quickest ways to install Dlib.

But if you really want the latest official package of Dlib installed (v19.19 as the latest at the time of this writing) then using the pip package is the way to go. In order to install the Dlib pip package you’ll first have to setup some dependencies.

Monday, May 20, 2019

Installing OpenCV got easier

OpenCV is undoubtedly the unmatched de facto standard library for computer vision. Not only does it provide a near complete set of vision algorithms, the set of primitive graphics functions it provides to manipulate images makes it essential to many of our projects.

OpenCV being used when building a Keras CNN model
OpenCV being used when building a Keras CNN model

Installing the latest version of OpenCV used to be hard. The pre-built binaries available was never up to the tasks we wanted. Compiling from source was an option, but was tedious and time consuming.

Then, we got the anaconda versions of OpenCV from Conda-Forge, which we could simply install using,

conda install -c conda-forge opencv

Now, things are going to be simpler, as Anaconda native OpenCV packages are now available.

Thursday, November 22, 2018

Installing the New Anaconda Native TensorFlow Package

For a while now, the most reliable two ways to get TensorFlow installed is to either use the pip package, or compile from source.
Compiling TensorFlow from source takes hours, and still prone to errors (see "Failed Attempts at Building TensorFlow GPU from Source"). While the pip package is relatively easier, getting the GPU version of TensorFlow installed using pip was a hassle.

But not anymore. Because the conda native TensorFlow packages are here now.

Installing is quite easy.

Note: Don't install the pip and conda versions of TensorFlow on the same conda environment. If you already have the pip version installed uninstall it using,

pip uninstall tensorflow


To install the CPU version of TensorFlow, just run,

conda install tensorflow


To install the GPU version,

conda install tensorflow-gpu


Thursday, August 23, 2018

Cleaning up your Anaconda installations

If you've been using Anaconda Python for a while, and been creating multiple environments and adding/removing packages, you may have noticed that it's starting to take up a lot of disk space (sometimes tens of GBs).

Anaconda installation can get big
Anaconda installation can get big


One reason is that anaconda environments are completely isolated workspaces from each other with their own copy of Python. So, the more environments you have, the larger the space needed by anaconda. But the other reason is that anaconda keeps a cache of the package files, tarballs etc. of the packages you've installed. This is great when you need to reinstall the same packages. But, over time, the space can add up.

So, how do we clean up this cache and regain some disk space?

Tuesday, July 10, 2018

Failed Attempts at Building TensorFlow GPU from Source

For the last 3 weeks, I've been trying to build TensorFlow from source. I wanted to get TensorFlow GPU version working on Windows with CUDA 9.2 and cuDNN 7.1. Since the pre-built wheels only work with CUDA 9.0, the only way we can get it working with 9.2 is to build it ourselves from source.

The Windows build of TensorFlow is done using CMake. The official instructions are here: https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/tree/master/tensorflow/contrib/cmake

Unfortunately, as I found out after multiple attempts, the build process is not as simple as it sounds.
Every attempt I have made to build it failed so far.

But, I decided to post the steps I took - which didn't work - so that you all may be able use it as a reference if you decided to try it out yourselves. Again, note that these steps did not work.

First, I started with gathering all the dependencies to build on Windows 10:
  • Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition With Update 3 (14.0.25431.01) with C++
  • Anaconda Python 3.6.5
  • Git for Windows 2.18.0
  • Swigwin 3.0.12
  • CUDA Toolkit 9.2
  • cuDNN 7.1
  • CMake 3.11.3

Saturday, September 9, 2017

What is the image_data_format parameter in Keras, and why is it important

We've talked about the image_dim_ordering parameter in Keras and why is it important. But since from Keras v2 changed the name of the parameter, I thought of bringing this up again.

As you know, Keras  is a higher-level neural networks library for Python, which is capable of running on top of TensorFlow, CNTK (Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit), or Theano, (and with limited support for MXNet and Deeplearning4j), which Keras refers to as 'Backends'.

The 'image_data_format' parameter in the keras.json file
The 'image_data_format' parameter in the keras.json file
Which backend Keras should use is defined in the keras.json file, which is located at ~/.keras/keras.json in Linux and Mac OS, and at %USERPROFILE%\.keras\keras.json on Windows.

The default keras.json file (default set to TensorFlow) would look like this,
 {  
   "epsilon": 1e-07,  
   "floatx": "float32",  
   "image_data_format": "channels_last",  
   "backend": "tensorflow"  
 }  
The "backend" parameter should either be "tensorflow", "cntk", or "theano". When switching the backend, make sure to switch the "image_data_format" parameter too. For "tensorflow "or "cntk" backends, it should be “channels_last”. For “theano”, it should be “channels_first”.

Tuesday, May 23, 2017

OpenCV 3.2 and Dlib 19.4 Packages Now Available from Conda-Forge

Anaconda is an asset for us Machine Learning enthusiasts. Not only does it have the ability to create fully isolated Python environments, its pre-built packages for many operating systems and architectures helps you to spend less time setting up, and more time doing actual machine learning stuff.

In some scenarios, to get some Python packages to work in certain environments, getting them from Anaconda was the only way that worked. If you tried installing Dlib or OpenCV 3 on Windows 64-Bit, then you know the effort it takes to get them setup, if it wasn't for Anaconda.

OpenCV and Dlib working perfectly together, thanks to Conda
OpenCV and Dlib working perfectly together, thanks to Conda

If you check my posts on Installing Dlib on Anaconda Python on Windows, and Installing OpenCV 3 on Anaconda Python 3.5 on Windows, you know how easy it is to use conda to install them on Python 3.5 64-Bit on Windows.

But there was a catch: The Anaconda registry only had OpenCV 3.1 and Dlib 19.0 - not the latest versions.

Thursday, March 9, 2017

Setting up TensorFlow with CUDA on Windows

I did the post about How to setup TensorFlow on Windows about a month back. I only covered setting up the CPU version of TensorFlow there, and promised that I'll do the guide for the GPU version soon. But I haven't had the change to come round to write the guide until now.

I guess better late than never. So, here's how to setup the GPU version of TensorFlow on Windows.

So, what do you need to get TensorFlow working on GPU?
You need to setup the following prerequisites, in that order.
  1. Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 (The free community edition of VS 2015 will work)
  2. CUDA 8.0
  3. cuDNN 5.1 for CUDA 8.0
Start by installing Visual Studio 2015. You can get the free community edition from here. When you install, make sure to select ‘Custom Installation’, and select ‘Visual C++’ in the programming language selection (by default, C++ is not selected). Once installed, check whether you have C++ capability by checking the ‘New Project’ options.

Visual Studio 2015 installed with C++
Visual Studio 2015 installed with C++

Wednesday, February 8, 2017

Installing OpenCV 3 on Anaconda Python 3.5 on Windows

If you checked my last post, you know that TensorFlow now officially works on Windows. This was really exciting to me, since I was using a Linux machine for my TensorFlow experiments, I had to switch between the Linux and Windows for my other tasks. Now, I should be able to perform some of those experiments on Windows as well. (I would still switch to Linux for more processor intensive deep learning models). So, I decided to set everything up on Windows again.

I've been using OpenCV 3 on Anaconda Python 3.5 on Linux. (Check out my guide on Installing OpenCV from source on Anaconda Python on Ubuntu 16.10 if you are trying to install on Linux). But on Windows, I've previously only tried OpenCV on Python 2.7. Since the OpenCV Downloads page has pre-built binaries for OpenCV 3 (version 3.2 being latest), I thought the installation would be straightforward.

I downloaded and ran the OpenCV 3.2 installer (which just extracts OpenCV to a directory of your choosing), set the OPENCV_DIR environment variable, add the bin dir in OpenCV to the PATH, and finally copy the cv2.pyd file to the site-packages directory in my Anaconda environment. I fired up the Anaconda environment, and tried loading cv2 in Python. But I got the following error,

 (tensorflow) C:\>python  
 Python 3.5.2 |Continuum Analytics, Inc.| (default, Jul 5 2016, 11:41:13) [MSC v  
 .1900 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32  
 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.  
 >>> import cv2  
 Traceback (most recent call last):  
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>  
 ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found.  

Thursday, February 2, 2017

Setting up TensorFlow on Windows

TensorFlow, since it has been released just over an year ago, has gained a huge popularity with its capabilities. But the platforms it worked on was limited - there were only pre-packaged Python packages for Linux initially, while it gained a Mac OS compatible version along the way. Windows users were left wondering when (or if) there will be a Windows version of TensorFlow. There has been few unofficial builds for Windows, and some have attempted to build from source for Windows with various degrees of success. But, there was nothing official.

Now, I'm happy to learn that TensorFlow now officially supports Windows. The release notes suggests that Windows compatibility was present from TensorFlow v0.12.0 RC0, and it has been tested on Windows 7, Windows 10, and Windows Server 2016. It only supports 64-Bit Python 3.5. Both the standard Python distribution (from Python.org) and Anaconda Python are supported.

TensorFlow Logo


This was great news for me, since I was switching between Linux and Windows for my machine learning experiments. So, I gave a try to setup TensorFlow on Windows.

I've been using Anaconda Python for most of my experiments, so I created an Anaconda environment - named 'tensorflow' - with all the basic packages I need.
 conda create --name tensorflow numpy scipy scikit-learn pillow h5py mingw libpython  

Then I activated the environment I just created,
 activate tensorflow  

Now for the big step, installing TensorFlow from pip.

Friday, January 13, 2017

Stepping into audio classification - Getting started with PyAudio

I've had an idea to attempt to train a deep learning model that can classify different audio noises. Having a system that can accurately identify different sounds would have implications in many fields, from medical diagnostics to echo locations systems, among others. I wouldn't expect building such a system would be an easy task. But, let's give it a try.

I first had the idea about 8 years back. But back then, libraries that enable audio processing were scarce, and what was available required a massive effort to get installed. Now it seems that things have improved a lot. I myself was searching online for audio processing libraries for Python, and I came across this excellent post - Realtime Audio Visualization in Python - by Scott Harden of University of Florida.

Realtime Audio Visualization with PyAudio
Realtime Audio Visualization with PyAudio

The tutorial uses the PyAudio Python package (PyAudio homepage), which is the Python bindings for PortAudio (PortAudio homepage) - a cross-platform audio I/O library - allowing PyAudio to give a consistent interface to process audio across platforms. So, I decided to give PyAudio a try. First of all, I needed to install PyAudio.

Installing PyAudio


At the time of this writing, the latest version of PyAudio is v0.2.9, and the PyAudio team has made the installation as simple as possible.

Sunday, January 8, 2017

Installing OpenCV from source on Anaconda Python on Ubuntu 16.10

I recently switched to Linux for my Machine Learning experiments, and I did a post on How to install Keras and Anaconda Python on Ubuntu 16.10.

Now, I wanted to install OpenCV on Ubuntu also. Since OpenCV does not have a pre-built package for Linux, it meant I had to compile OpenCV from source.

OpenCV 3.1 running on Lubuntu 16.10
OpenCV 3.1 running on Lubuntu 16.10

Adrian of PyImageSearch has recently done a post about how to compile OpenCV on Ubuntu 16.04 using virtualenv. I followed his steps as a base, but had to make numerous adjustments to some of the packages which gets installed (e.g. libpng-dev, libhdf5-serial-dev) and the build commands due to the changes from Ubuntu 16.04 to 16.10, and because I'm using Anaconda environments rather than virtualenv.

I'll be installing OpenCV 3.1, and will be using the Lubuntu 16.10 virtual machine which I used in my earlier post. But the steps and commands will be exactly the same for any flavor of Ubuntu 16.10.

First, as a habit, get and install the latest updates for Ubuntu,
 sudo apt-get update   
 sudo apt-get upgrade   

Then (if you have not done already) install the necessary build tools,
 sudo apt-get install build-essential cmake git unzip pkg-config  

Then, we install the following packages which allows OpenCV to interact with various image and video formats,
 sudo apt-get install libjpeg8-dev libtiff5-dev libjasper-dev libpng-dev  
 sudo apt-get install libavcodec-dev libavformat-dev libswscale-dev libv4l-dev  
 sudo apt-get install libxvidcore-dev libx264-dev  

Note: on Ubuntu 16.04, the package name for libpng was libpng12-dev. But on 16.10, it should be libpng-dev.

Saturday, November 19, 2016

Setting up Keras and Anaconda Python on Ubuntu 16.10

I’ve been using Anaconda Python for most of my Machine Learning experiments, mainly because of the flexibility it gives with the isolated Python environments. I recently did a post on how to install Keras on Anaconda on Windows.

I’m planning to switch to Linux for few of my experiments, so I decided to try out setting up Anaconda Python and Keras from scratch on Ubuntu. I’ll be using the latest Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) 64-Bit for this.

Note: The screenshots I captured are from a virtual machine with Lubuntu 16.10 (the LXDE flavor of Ubuntu). But the steps and commands are exactly the same for the standard Ubuntu desktop as well.

First and foremost, get and install the latest updates in Ubuntu, (Reboot the machine if necessary after updating.)
 sudo apt-get update  
 sudo apt-get upgrade  

Then, we’ll install the following necessary packages,
 sudo apt-get install build-essential cmake git unzip pkg-config  
 sudo apt-get install libopenblas-dev liblapack-dev  

Now, on to installing Anaconda. Head over to the Anaconda Python Downloads page, and get the Linux installer for Anaconda. We’ll be getting the Python 3.5 64-Bit package.
Go to the Anaconda Download page and download the Anaconda Python 3.5 64-Bit package for Linux
Download the Anaconda Python 3.5 64-Bit package for Linux

This will download a file named Anaconda3-4.2.0-Linux-x86_64.sh (the version numbers might be different based on the latest version available at the time of the download).

Tuesday, November 1, 2016

Switching between TensorFlow and Theano on Keras

Keras speeds up the task of building Neural Networks by providing high-level simplified functions to create and manipulate neural models. It itself does not provide the lower level neural and deep learning functions, but it’s rather meant to be run on an engine – which Keras refers to as a “backend” - which would provide such low-level functions.

Currently, Keras supports two such backends – TensorFlow and Theano.

The current version of Keras (v1.1.0 at the time of this writing) uses TensorFlow by default.

Most models written on top of Keras can be switched to a different backend without changes – at least it’s what’s said in the documentation. I’m yet to test this.

Which backend Kesas will use is defined in the Keras config file, which is located in the .keras directory in your home directory:
e.g.: on linux it would be ~/.keras/keras.json and on windows you can get to it on %USERPROFILE%\.keras\keras.json

For the default of using the TensorFlow backend, use the following config,
 {  
   "image_dim_ordering": "tf",  
   "epsilon": 1e-07,  
   "floatx": "float32",  
   "backend": "tensorflow"  
 }  

Notice the "backend" is set to "tensorflow" and "image_dim_ordering" is set to "tf".

To use the Theano backend, use the following,
 {  
   "image_dim_ordering": "th",   
   "epsilon": 1e-07,   
   "floatx": "float32",   
   "backend": "theano"  
 }  

Apart from the obvious "backend": "theano", note that "image_dim_ordering" is set to "th".

See my new post to see what the image_dim_ordering parameter in Keras does, and why is it important to set it properly.

Update: If you use Jupyter notebooks, and need to switch between TensorFlow and Theano backends quite often, fellow blogger desertnaut has a solution to dynamically switch the backend. Check out his solution at: Dynamically switch Keras backend in Jupyter notebooks

Related posts:
What is the image_dim_ordering parameter in Keras, and why is it important

Related links:
https://keras.io/backend/

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Tuesday, October 25, 2016

Installing Dlib on Anaconda Python on Windows

Update - 16/Dec/2019: There is now an easier way to install Dlib from the official pip package. Check out the new tutorial How to Build and Install the Latest Version of Dlib on Anaconda on Windows


Dlib is a Machine Learning library, primarily written in C++, but has a Python package also. It has many useful and optimized algorithms useful for machine learning, linear algebra, data structures, image processing, and much more available out-of-the-box.
"Dlib is a modern C++ toolkit containing machine learning algorithms and tools for creating complex software in C++ to solve real world problems. It is used in both industry and academia in a wide range of domains including robotics, embedded devices, mobile phones, and large high performance computing environments. Dlib's open source licensing allows you to use it in any application, free of charge." - dlib.net
One of the most popular features in Dlib is Facial Landmark Detection. Dlib installation ships with a pre-trained shape predictor model named shape_predictor_68_face_landmarks.dat, which as the name suggests, is trained to detect 68 facial keypoints including eyes, eyebrows, mouth, nose, face outline, etc.

Dlib's Facial Landmark Detection in action
Dlib's Facial Landmark Detection in action
You can view the sample code for face landmark detection here at the Dlib website, and download the pre-trained model from http://dlib.net/files/shape_predictor_68_face_landmarks.dat.bz2
(Make sure to unzip the .bz2 file once you download it)

Of course, Dlib is capable of much more than face landmark detection. I'm hoping to dig into some cool features of Dlib in later posts.

But first, we need to install it.

Getting Keras working with Anaconda Python

I've started using the Anaconda Python distribution for most of my Machine Learning. It has pre-built binaries of Python for many platforms and architectures, has hundreds of pre-built and tested Python packages directly available through the conda package manager, and it allows easy creation of virtual isolated environments - with its own Python version and packages - to experiment with.

You can get an idea of the capabilities of Anaconda by going through their Anaconda Test Drive guide.

Getting Keras (with Theano backend) working on any Python distribution is usually straightforward, but you do run into some errors occasionally based on the platform you're on and your environment settings.

So, here are the steps that worked for me to get Keras working on the Anaconda Python distribution:

First, you need to install Anaconda. It's as easy as getting the binary for your platform from Anaconda download page and running it. Once it's installed, the conda command will be available from your terminal or command prompt.

Now you can create an anaconda environment to install Keras and related packages,
 conda create --name keras-test numpy scipy scikit-learn pillow h5py mingw libpython  

'keras-test' is the name of the environment we're creating. You can give it a different name.
You can also create an environment with a different Python version. For example, if you want to create the environment with Python 2.7,
 conda create --name keras-test python=2.7 numpy scipy scikit-learn pillow h5py mingw libpython  

Once the environment is created, activate it.
 activate keras-test  

Then, we'll install Theano from Git, since we want the latest development version,
 pip install --upgrade --no-deps git+git://github.com/Theano/Theano.git  

And then, we install Keras from PIP,
 pip install keras  

Finally, we setup OpenBLAS and configure Theano to use it. My earlier blog post - Getting Theano working with OpenBLAS on Windows - details how to setup Theano with OpenBLAS in detail.

We can test whether the setup was successful by running the Python interpreter and importing Keras package,
 python  
 >>> import keras  
 Using Theano backend.  

Keras loading successfully
Keras loading successfully


If you don't get any errors when the Keras package is loading, then all is set.

Related posts:
Switching between TensorFlow and Theano on Keras
What is the image_dim_ordering parameter in Keras, and why is it important

Related Links:
https://www.continuum.io/downloads
https://docs.continuum.io/anaconda/pkg-docs
http://conda.pydata.org/docs/test-drive.html

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Friday, October 21, 2016

Working Theano configs

Here are the Theano configurations that I have tested and worked.
These were tested on Windows 10 64-Bit, and Windows 7 64-Bit.
(I will update when I test on other OS's and setups)

With GPU support, on CUDA and cuDNN


In order to allow Theano to use the GPU, you need to be on a machine with a supported Nvidia GPU, and have the CUDA toolkit and cuDNN setup. I will cover how to setup CUDA on a different post.

 [global]  
 floatX = float32  
 device = gpu  
   
 [nvcc]  
 flags=-LC:\Users\Thimira\Anaconda3  
 compiler_bindir=C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\VC\bin  
   
 [dnn]  
 enabled = True  
   
 [lib]  
 cnmem=0.75  
   
 [blas]   
 ldflags=-LC:\Dev_Tools\openblas\bin -lopenblas  

device = gpu tells Theano to use the GPU instead of the CPU.
flags=-LC:\Users\Thimira\Anaconda3 point this to your Python installation (I'm using Anaconda Python)
compiler_bindir=C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\VC\bin point this to the bin dir of your Visual Studio installation (Note: CUDA only worked with Visual Studio 2013 for me)
[dnn] enabled = True this enables cuDNN
cnmem=0.75 set the memory limit Theano can use of the GPU. Here it's set to 75% of the GPU memory
ldflags=-LC:\Dev_Tools\openblas\bin -lopenblas point to your OpenBLAS installation. Refer to my earlier post Getting Theano working with OpenBLAS on Windows

With only CPU support


Since not everyone have a compatible Nvidia GPU to have CUDA.

 [global]  
 floatX = float32  
 device = cpu  
   
 [blas]  
 ldflags=-LC:\Dev_Tools\openblas\bin -lopenblas  

device = cpu tells Theano to use the CPU.
ldflags=-LC:\Dev_Tools\openblas\bin -lopenblas point to your OpenBLAS installation. Refer to my earlier post Getting Theano working with OpenBLAS on Windows

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Thursday, October 20, 2016

Getting Theano working with OpenBLAS on Windows

I wanted to try out Machine Learning with Python, so my first choice was Keras with Theano.

Got Theano installed from Git (to get the latest development version):
 pip install --upgrade --no-deps git+git://github.com/Theano/Theano.git  


Then, I needed to setup Theano with OpenBLAS (otherwise, training Keras models was painfully slow).
Since I was on Windows, I had to look around for instructions on how to setup OpenBLAS properly.

Luckily, OpenBLAS provides binaries for Windows - both 32Bit and 64Bit - although, they may not be for the latest version of OpenBLAS.

Head over to https://sourceforge.net/projects/openblas/files/ and see which release has the binaries already built for Windows. We need both OpenBLAS and MinGW binaries.

At the time of this writing the latest version of OpenBLAS was v0.2.19, which unfortunately doesn't have the Windows binaries released.

But, going back a few releases, we find that the release v0.2.15 includes the binaries - OpenBLAS-v0.2.15-Win64-int32.zip and mingw64_dll.zip.

Download both of the Zip files, and first extract the OpenBLAS Zip to a globally accessible location on your hard disk. (I would suggest a location such as C:\Dev_Tools\openblas\).
Then, extract the mingw Zip, and copy it's contents to the bin directory of your extracted OpenBLAS directory. e.g. If you extracted OpenBLAS to C:\Dev_Tools\openblas\, then copy the contents (3 DLL files) of mingw to C:\Dev_Tools\openblas\bin\.
i.e.: The extracted openblas\bin will have the libopenblas.dll in it. When you extract mingw, it will have 3 more DLLs - libgcc_s_seh-1.dll, libgfortran-3.dll, libquadmath-0.dll. Copy those to openblas\bin also.

Then, add the openblas\bin directory to your system path.

Finally, edit (or create) your .theanorc file with the following settings: (assuming you extracted OpenBLAS to C:\Dev_Tools\openblas\)
Note: If you don't already have a .theanorc file, create a file named .theanorc in the home directory of your user account, e.g. C:\Users\<your user>\.theanorc

 [global]  
 floatX = float32  
 device = cpu  
   
 [blas]  
 ldflags=-LC:\Dev_Tools\openblas\bin -lopenblas  

Now, run your Keras/Theano program and see whether Theano picks up OpenBLAS.


Related Links:
http://www.openblas.net/

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