modern c++ style neural network libraries?

Question

Looking for neuronal network libraries (providing the basic multi-layer-perceptron with back-propagation and possibly teachers) i did find only libraries which seem to come from the 1990s and don't use more modern approaches (stl etc.) or small student projects.

Did i miss libraries that you know about?

update:
Support for mnist would be nice but is not necessary.
I can also search myself - it'd be interesting to hear about libraries others found very usable.

Answer 1

There are some:

• http://pybrain.org for Python
• http://shark-project.sourceforge.net/ for C++
• http://wiki.github.com/alexgraves/RNNLIB for recurrent neural networks
• http://mloss.org if that's not enough for you

However, software engineering quality is not that high compared to say e.g. web frameworks. It's mostly researchers working on those, and they tend to have very tight deadlines. ;)

Answer 2

Many libraries exist on SourceForge: (apply filter to c/c++ lang)
http://sourceforge.net/search/?words=neural&type_of_search=soft

To name a few:

• FANN: written in C, has C++ bindings. actively developed
• Libann: written in C++ in an object oriented manner using STL
• NNFpp: a port of NNF to C++
• Lightweight Neural Network++