The free labor argument isn&#x27;t particularly compelling in this case. Academic researchers focus on publishing their results in papers, and published neural network architectures are comparatively trivial to port between software platforms.<p>Even when code is published, it&#x27;s a few hours work to copy a (say) Torch based architecture to TensorFlow - indeed most platforms import (and export?) Caffe-style (ProtoBuf based) model descriptions.