.. _Aaron Tuor: http://sw.cs.wwu.edu/~tuora/aarontuor/
.. _Brian Hutchinson: http://fw.cs.wwu.edu/~hutchib2/
.. _David Palzer: https://cse.wwu.edu/computer-science/palzerd

.. paper links

.. _Batch Normalization Accelerating Deep Network Training by Reducing Internal Covariate Shift: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1502.03167v3.pdf
.. _Neural Networks and Deep Learning: http://natureofcode.com/book/chapter-10-neural-networks/
.. _Using Neural Nets to Recognize Handwritten Digits: http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com/chap1.html
.. _Dropout A Simple Way to Prevent Neural Networks from Overfitting: https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~hinton/absps/JMLRdropout.pdf
.. _Training Very Deep Networks: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1507.06228v2.pdf
.. _Deep Residual Learning for Image Recognition: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1512.03385v1.pdf

.. convolutional nets

.. _Tensorflow Deep MNIST for Experts: https://www.tensorflow.org/versions/r0.7/tutorials/mnist/pros/index.html
.. _Tensorflow Convolutional Neural Networks: https://www.tensorflow.org/versions/r0.7/tutorials/deep_cnn/index.html#convolutional-neural-networks
.. _ImageNet Classification with Deep Convolutional Neural Networks: http://papers.nips.cc/paper/4824-imagenet-classification-with-deep-convolutional-neural-networks.pdf
.. _skflow/examples/text_classification_character_cnn.py: https://github.com/tensorflow/skflow/blob/master/examples/text_classification_character_cnn.py
.. _skflow/examples/text_classification_cnn.py: https://github.com/tensorflow/skflow/blob/master/examples/text_classification_cnn.py
.. _Character-level Convolutional Networks for Text Classification: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1509.01626v2.pdf

.. tensorflow/skflow links for use in docs

.. _Tensorflow: https://www.tensorflow.org/
.. _tensorflow: https://www.tensorflow.org/
.. _tensorflow's: https://www.tensorflow.org/
.. _variable_scope: https://www.tensorflow.org/versions/r0.7/how_tos/variable_scope/index.html
.. _Tensor: https://www.tensorflow.org/versions/r0.7/api_docs/python/framework.html#Tensor
.. _tensor: https://www.tensorflow.org/versions/r0.7/api_docs/python/framework.html#Tensor
.. _tensors: https://www.tensorflow.org/versions/r0.7/api_docs/python/framework.html#Tensor
.. _skflow: https://github.com/tensorflow/skflow
.. _placeholder: https://www.tensorflow.org/versions/r0.7/api_docs/python/io_ops.html#placeholders
.. _Placeholder: https://www.tensorflow.org/versions/r0.7/api_docs/python/io_ops.html#placeholders
.. _embedding_lookup: https://www.tensorflow.org/versions/r0.7/api_docs/python/nn.html#embeddings
.. _dnn_ops.py: https://github.com/tensorflow/skflow/blob/master/skflow/ops/dnn_ops.py
.. _rnn_cell.py: https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/master/tensorflow/python/ops/rnn_cell.py
.. _nn.py: https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/master/tensorflow/python/ops/nn.py
.. _batch_norm_ops.py: https://github.com/tensorflow/skflow/blob/master/skflow/ops/batch_norm_ops.py
.. _dropout_ops.py: https://github.com/tensorflow/skflow/blob/master/skflow/ops/dropout_ops.py
.. _Efficient BackProp: http://yann.lecun.com/exdb/publis/pdf/lecun-98b.pdf
.. _Tensor Decompositions and Applications: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1655230

generic_model
=============

A general purpose model builder equipped with generic train, and predict functions which takes parameters for
optimization strategy, mini-batch, etc...

.. automodule:: generic_model
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