因工作交接需要, 要将caffe使用方法及整体结构描述清楚。 鉴于也有同学问过我相关内容, 决定在本文中写个简单的tutorial, 方便大家参考。 
本文简单的讲几个事情:
Caffe能做什么?
为什么选择caffe?
环境:
$ lsb_release -a 
Distributor ID: Ubuntu 
Description:    Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS 
Release:    12.04 
Codename:   precise
$ cat /proc/version 
Linux version 3.2.0-29-generic (buildd@allspice) (gcc version 4.6.3 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.3-1ubuntu5) ) #46-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jul 27 17:03:23 UTC 2012
Vim + Taglist + Cscope
整体结构:
定义CAFFE为caffe跟目录,caffe的核心代码都在$CAFFE/src/caffe 下,主要有以下部分:net, blob, layer, solver.
net.cpp:  
net定义网络, 整个网络中含有很多layers, net.cpp负责计算整个网络在训练中的forward, backward过程, 即计算forward/backward 时各layer的gradient。
layers:  
在$CAFFE/src/caffe/layers中的层,在protobuffer (.proto文件中定义message类型,.prototxt或.binaryproto文件中定义message的值) 中调用时包含属性name, type(data/conv/pool…), connection structure (input blobs and output blobs),layer-specific parameters(如conv层的kernel大小)。定义一个layer需要定义其setup, forward 和backward过程。
blob.cpp:  
net中的数据和求导结果通过4维的blob传递。一个layer有很多blobs, e.g, 
slover.cpp:  
结合loss,用gradient更新weights。主要函数:  
Init(), 
Solve(), 
ComputeUpdateValue(),  
Snapshot(), Restore(),//快照(拷贝)与恢复 网络state 
Test();
 
在solver.cpp中有3中solver,即3个类:AdaGradSolver, SGDSolver和NesterovSolver可供选择。
 
关于loss,可以同时有多个loss,可以加regularization(L1/L2);
Protocol buffer:
上面已经将过, protocol buffer在 .proto文件中定义message类型,.prototxt或.binaryproto文件中定义message的值;
Caffe 
Caffe的所有message定义在$CAFFE/src/caffe/proto/caffe.proto中。
Experiment 
在实验中,主要用到两个protocol buffer: solver的和model的,分别定义solver参数(学习率啥的)和model结构(网络结构)。
 
技巧:
训练基本流程:
在python中训练:  
Document & Examples: https://github.com/BVLC/caffe/pull/1733 
核心code:
Debug:
经典文献: 
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Caffe —— Deep learning in Practice
原文地址:http://blog.csdn.net/abcjennifer/article/details/46424949