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Tensorflow with Quantopian

If I have neural network based algorithm already built can I test it here?

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@Myron Leskiv Quantopian currently does not support the Tensorflow package. There are only specific modules which can be imported on the platform. If your algo relies on this module then one cannot test it on Quantopian. There are other ML modules which are supported. Check out the list of which are supported in algos here and in research notebooks here.

You may also want to look at a three part post which steps through implementing ML on Quantopian. The first in that series of posts can be found here https://www.quantopian.com/posts/machine-learning-on-quantopian.

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Thank you! Can you please tell me where can I test it?

Hi!

Does Quantopian plan to support Tensorflow in the future?

Edit: I will be happy and willing to contribute to help adding Tensorflow to Quantopian :)

@Myron Leskiv -- if your already-built TensorFlow algorithm can export daily position weights in a CSV format, you can import that into Quantopian using the fetch_csv() feature and use Quantopian simply for the backtester. I have done this. Just be careful not to introduce look-ahead bias. Also, be aware that Quantopian will forward-fill CSV data, so if a position weight drops to 0 the next day, be sure the CSV contains a row for that.

Thank you!