Codes for An Accelerated Block Coordinate Descent (BCD) Algorithm for Training Deep Neural Networks
For the BCD algorithms, MATLAB is used. Use MATLAB R2017a or later versions.
For the back propagation algorithms, Python (Jupyter Notebook) is used. Use TensorFlow 1.4 or later versions since Keras is included as a module in native TensorFlow 1.4 or later.
Two common datasets are used: MNIST and CIFAR-10
Download the CIFAR-10 dataset from: https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~kriz/cifar.html