In order to get the framework up and running it is only necessary to clone the latest version of the repository:

git clone https://github.com/DIVA-DIA/DeepDIVA.git

Run the script:

bash setup_environment.sh

Reload your environment variables from .bashrc with: source ~/.bashrc

Test the correctness of the procecdure

To verify the correctness of the procecdure you can run a small experiment. Activate the DeepDIVA python environment:

source activate deepdiva

Download the MNIST dataset:

python util/data/get_a_dataset.py --dataset mnist --output-folder toy_dataset

Train a simple Convolutional Neural Network on the MNIST dataset using the command:

python template/RunMe.py --output-folder log --dataset-folder toy_dataset/MNIST --lr 0.1 --ignoregit --no-cuda