Hi, this is my question:
There are different types of machine learning systems and algorithms besides neural networks. Are other learning systems used in the TinyML landscape?
Thanks!
Hi, I would like to raise two questions that could be discussed in the AMA tomorrow. I am still attending the course 3 of TinyML, so chances are that these questions are already addressed later in the course. Anyway, thereâs no harm in asking
The first is in the KWS application, how about having more than one word in the same keyword? (i.e. âOk Googleâ or âHey Siriâ). What are the challenges to bear in mind in doing so? One of the first things that comes to my mind is that the spectrogram would have to be bigger and therefore the number of slices would need to be adapted accordingly.
I am really interested in designing a system with this multi-keyword structure since, apart from creating a more personalized system, we could afford to squeeze the threshold so that the model wonât fall into a False Negative easily and in turn, we could improve even more the accuracy.
The second question is regarding sensor fusion. Would it be possible to perform two different tasks on the same device? Considering that âsupposedlyâ in terms of memory we could cram two models together plus the two different buffers of input data, will we need two interpreters for each inference? I imagine that one alternative would be to make a âbungleâ by running each model in a different device and get the resulting solution on a third one, but I am intrigued by the possibility of giving it a try.
Two questions have crossed my mind, apologies if they are covered late in course 2 or in course 3.
Is it ever practical for the distributed TinyML devices to act as data collection agents to collect/pre-process data points that they are responding to and send it back to a central site for use a future training data?
Is it possible to to create âsyntheticâ training data? E.g. creating random images/sonograms that represent âunknownsâ. Could this address over-fitting?
Hello everyone, here are some of the questions I would like to be discussed in the AMA . I am at the midpoint of course 3 as of now so please ignore if these questions are already addressed in the later section of course 3.
I remember Prof. Vijay stating the MFCC calculation algorithm used in mc implementation for KWS was simple and there are other algorithms available that produce better results. I was wondering while training the model in collab do we use the simple algorithm and train the model or use the other better ones and train. Does training with one algorithm affects the accuracy if we use a different one while inferring (for words that sound similar).
In the VWW application, I was playing around with the inference part and I noticed if I hold a phone screen containing my pic in front of the camera I was getting a positive result. Intuitively it makes sense ( as the camera module is taking the picture before inference and cannot differentiate between a physically available person vs a person in a picture ). I was wondering if there is any way to address this issue as I believe it is a disadvantage in security-related applications (eg automatic door ).
This is a general question, we have touched upon supervised, semisupervised and unsupervised learning through these courses using neural networks it would be great if we discuss other TIny ML technique implementations (for eg decision trees) and also Reinforcement Learning . If there are any specific challenges to implement I would love to hear experts discuss these challenges.
Thank you, Looking forward to the session and hope to learn from the interesting discussions.
Are you planning more courses related to TinyML on edX in the immediate future?
Recently received email from Backyard Brains about your partnership with them to use applications of TinyML. Can you share what is this partnership is going to be and are you planning new course with them? Is it open to everyone?
Hey @PNFoley, thanks for dropping a note here. We didnât get to answer this question but in Course 4 we will be getting into this sort of topic talking about how to get multiple agents together. We will talk about federated learning and TinyML as a service. Stay tuned for that.
Very good question. I encourage you to watch the below video.
Dr. KrstuloviÄ from Audio Analytic explains about how to think about collecting âsynthetic dataâ. He explains some of the pitfalls of that sort of data collection. It is a wonderful lecture, encourage you to attend â it is quite engaging cause he plays the different real / synthetic sounds etc.
Thank you @vjreddi and all those involved in the TinyML courses for the excellent Q&A today. It was very informative and I am glad I was able to attend. It was very cool to put names to faces and to get to meet the many team members who have helped put all of this together.
Yes, in another two/three months (Iâd estimate ideally over summer), we will be releasing the Advanced TinyML. Right now, our focus is on helping you all deploy TinyML. We very much want to see you learn how to program in TensorFlow Lite Micro and deploy the models and support your overall learning and experience.
The backyard brain activity is to help inspire youth about TinyML via internships. We are also working with them on helping teachers learn how to teach tinyML to their students/classes etc.
We are increasingly starting to focus on how we empower others to teach tinyML. This is in part why @brian_plancher has been working hard on making all our materials public â so that others can take the seed material we provide and improve and teach it in their own customized way. Stay tuned for more about this.
Thanks @vjreddi. It will be helpful if google can plan for TensorFlow lite for Micro professional certification exam similar to TensorFlow professional certification currently we have.
We will be posting the video later today or tomorrow, stay tuned!
Since this was the first one, we introduced the team etc. In future AMAs, I expect we can get more technical or more focused on answering questions. There were so many questions