Announcing GPdotNET v5 and related Book


After one year of writing and coding, finally I  can announce my two big achievements which are related to each other:

1. The fifth version of my open source project – genetic programming tool, and

2. The book:, published by IGI-GLobal.

Along the book, I was developing GPdotNET application which is explained in Chapter 5. Actually the Chapter 5 described in depth all aspects of the application, with real world examples.

As can be seen GPdotNET v5 is completely rewritten application, with new logo and GUI. As Introduction of the application I have prepared several videos on youtube with quick explanation how to use some of the main modules in GPdotNET.

Using ANNdotNET – GUI tool to create CNTK based model for Iris data set


In this tutorial we are going to create and train Iris model using ANNdotNET.  ANNdotNET is windows application for creating and training CNTK based models without leaving GUI.

All procedures from downloading the data set, to exporting model, can be achieved in 6 steps.

1. Step: Download the data set file from

2. Step: Open ANNdotNET application. Press New command, select Project 1 tree item and rename the project  into Iris Data Set.

2. Step: Select Data Command from Model Preparation ribbon group, Click File button from Import experimenal data dialog and select the recently downloaded file. Check Comma check box and press Import Data button.

3. Steps: Double click on Scaling for each column, and select MinMax normalization option from the popup ComboBox list. Double click on Type for the output column, and select Category, and 1:N for encoding. More information how to prepare data for ML you can find at /2018/03/01/data-preparation-tool-for-machine-learning/

4. Steps: Once the data is prepared Click Create Model Command and Model Settings panel is shown. Setup parameters as shown on the image below and click Run command.

5. Steps: Once the model is trained you can evaluate model by selecting Evaluate Command. Depending on the model type (regression, Binary or Multi class classification) The appropriate Evaluation dialog appears. Since this is multi class classification model, the Confusion matrix is shows, with micro and macron performance parameters.

6. Steps: For further analysis you can export model to Excel, or into ONNX. Also you can save the project which can later be opened and retrained again.

Note: Currently ANNdotNET is in alpha version, and more feature will come in near future.