Deep Learning Guides, Tutorials, Research, and Use-Cases

How to Determine the Optimal Learning Rate of Your Neural Network

Deep Learning Modeling Neural Networkposted by April Miller April 25, 2022

One of the biggest challenges in building a deep learning model is choosing the right hyper-parameters. If the hyper-parameters aren’t ideal, the network may not be able to produce optimal results or development could be far more challenging. Perhaps the most difficult parameter to determine is... Read more

Google AI Introduces New DeepCTRL Method to Train Models

Deep Learning Modeling Googleposted by April Miller April 11, 2022

In early 2022, Google AI began releasing details about an exciting new method for training deep neural networks: DeepCTRL. Google’s AI team found a way to control rule strength and accuracy in deep neural networks, allowing for improvements in some crucial AI applications. DeepCTRL is more... Read more

Matrices and Their Connection to Graphs

Blogs from ODSC Speakers Deep Learning Modeling East 2022posted by ODSC Community April 4, 2022

Editor’s Note: Eric is a speaker for ODSC East 2022. Be sure to check out his talk, “Network Analysis Made Simple,” there! Graphs, also known as networks, are ubiquitous in our world. But did you know that graphs are also related to matrices and linear algebra?... Read more

Getting Started with Vector-Based Search

Deep Learning Modeling East 2022posted by ODSC Community March 16, 2022

Editor’s note: Laura is a speaker for ODSC East 2022. Be sure to check out her talk, “Vector Database Workshop Using Weaviate,” to learn more about vector-based search! Traditional search engines perform a keyword-based search. Such search engines return results that contain an exact match or... Read more

Repo of the Week: Instant Neural Graphics Primitives

Deep Learning Modeling Neural Networks Repo of the Weekposted by ODSC Team March 12, 2022

A team of researchers from NVIDIA including Thomas Muller, Alex Evans, Christoph Schied, and Alexander Keller, demonstrated a new method that should enable the efficient use of artificial neural networks for rendering computer graphics. Rendering is a notoriously slow process so this is a significant development... Read more

Higher-level PyTorch APIs: A short introduction to PyTorch Lightning

Deep Learning Modeling PyTorch PyTorch Lightningposted by ODSC Community March 7, 2022

In recent years, the PyTorch community developed several different libraries and APIs on top of PyTorch. PyTorch Lightning (Lightning for short) is one of them, and it makes training deep neural networks simpler by removing much of the boilerplate code. However, while Lightning’s focus lies in... Read more

Benchmarking a Computer Vision Deep Learning Pipeline with Distributed Computing

Blogs from ODSC Speakers Deep Learning Modeling Computer Vision East 2022posted by ODSC Community March 4, 2022

Editor’s Note: Jennifer is a speaker for ODSC East 2022. Be sure to check out her talk, “Creating a Benchmark for a Large-Scale Image Captioning Pipeline,” to learn more about computer vision deep learning there! Computer vision has an essential role in solving some of the... Read more

TensorFlow for Computer Vision – Transfer Learning Made Easy

Deep Learning Modeling TensorFlow Transfer Learningposted by Dario Radečić March 4, 2022

Writing neural network model architectures from scratch involves a lot of guesswork. How many layers? How many nodes per layer? What activation function to use? Regularization? You won’t run out of questions any time soon. Transfer learning takes a different approach. Instead of starting from scratch,... Read more

Melting Pot and the Reverse-Engineering Approach to Multi-Agent Artificial General Intelligence

Blogs from ODSC Speakers Deep Learning Modeling deepmind East 2022 Melting Pot Reinforcement Learningposted by ODSC Community February 15, 2022

Editor’s Note: Joel is a speaker for ODSC East 2022. Be sure to check out his talk, “Scalable Evaluation of Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning with Melting Pot,” there! Homo sapiens are a funny species. Along most of the traditionally studied domains of intelligence, we do not outshine... Read more

Recap of the First ODSC Ai+ Deep Learning Bootcamp Session

Deep Learning Modeling AI Plusposted by ODSC Team February 10, 2022

We recently finished our first session of Jon Krohn’s Deep Learning Bootcamp, and we’re already excited for part 2. Here are a few highlights from the session, some thoughts from attendees, and what to expect from part 2 and beyond. Session 1 Recap: How Deep Learning... Read more