Pete Warden — Practical Applications of TinyML

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English - October 21, 2021 12:00 - 53 minutes - 49.2 MB
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Pete is the Technical Lead of the TensorFlow Micro team, which works on deep learning for mobile and embedded devices.

Lukas and Pete talk about hacking a Raspberry Pi to run AlexNet, the power and size constraints of embedded devices, and techniques to reduce model size. Pete also explains real world applications of TensorFlow Lite Micro and shares what it's been like to work on TensorFlow from the beginning.

The complete show notes (transcript and links) can be found here: http://wandb.me/gd-pete-warden

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Timestamps:

0:00 Intro

1:23 Hacking a Raspberry Pi to run neural nets

13:50 Model and hardware architectures

18:56 Training a magic wand

21:47 Raspberry Pi vs Arduino

27:51 Reducing model size

33:29 Training on the edge

39:47 What it's like to work on TensorFlow

47:45 Improving datasets and model deployment

53:05 Outro

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