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  "id": 56465,
  "title": "Can I use pre-trained open source image recognition models?",
  "url": "/competitions/avito-demand-prediction/discussion/56465",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2018-05-10T03:56:13.961517700Z",
  "votes": 2,
  "comment_count": 1,
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  "content": "<p>Hi, I am new to Kaggle competitions, and did not find an answer to this question in the competition rules. The question is, can I use existing pre-trained open source models (that I did not create)? For example, the VGG models, which were released under Creative Commons Attribution License?</p>\n\n<p><a href=\"http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~vgg/research/very_deep/\">http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~vgg/research/very_deep/</a></p>\n\n<p>Thanks!</p>",
  "messages": [
    {
      "id": "326621",
      "postDate": "05/10/2018 03:56:13",
      "content": "<p>Hi, I am new to Kaggle competitions, and did not find an answer to this question in the competition rules. The question is, can I use existing pre-trained open source models (that I did not create)? For example, the VGG models, which were released under Creative Commons Attribution License?</p>\n\n<p><a href=\"http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~vgg/research/very_deep/\">http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~vgg/research/very_deep/</a></p>\n\n<p>Thanks!</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Hi, I am new to Kaggle competitions, and did not find an answer to this question in the competition rules. The question is, can I use existing pre-trained open source models (that I did not create)? For example, the VGG models, which were released under Creative Commons Attribution License?\n\nhttp://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~vgg/research/very_deep/\n\nThanks!",
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    {
      "id": "326802",
      "postDate": "05/10/2018 11:09:44",
      "content": "<p>Sure. Just make a reference in the <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/c/avito-demand-prediction/discussion/55897\">Offial External Datathread</a></p>\n\n<p>VGG is also covered in the keras.applications and is already referenced by myself.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Sure. Just make a reference in the [Offial External Datathread][1]\n\nVGG is also covered in the keras.applications and is already referenced by myself.\n  [1]: https://www.kaggle.com/c/avito-demand-prediction/discussion/55897",
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  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 326802,
      "author_name": "christofhenkel",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "05/10/2018 11:09:44",
      "content": "<p>Sure. Just make a reference in the <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/c/avito-demand-prediction/discussion/55897\">Offial External Datathread</a></p>\n\n<p>VGG is also covered in the keras.applications and is already referenced by myself.</p>",
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    "326621": "Hi, I am new to Kaggle competitions, and did not find an answer to this question in the competition rules. The question is, can I use existing pre-trained open source models (that I did not create)? For example, the VGG models, which were released under Creative Commons Attribution License?\n\nhttp://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~vgg/research/very_deep/\n\nThanks!",
    "326802": "Sure. Just make a reference in the [Offial External Datathread][1]\n\nVGG is also covered in the keras.applications and is already referenced by myself.\n  [1]: https://www.kaggle.com/c/avito-demand-prediction/discussion/55897"
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