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Meeting Minutes from CellStrat AI Lab session on Saturday 28th Dec 2019 at Bengaluru
- January 2, 2020
- Posted by: vsinghal
- Category: Reinforcement Learning Speech Applications
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The last meetup of Year 2019 at the CellStrat AI Lab saw incredible presentations by our AI Lab Members.
First Sujith Kamath presented a superb session on Speech Recognition accompanied by a demo. Speech to Text Recognition is the buzz of the day. Though this area started 7 decades back, it has come to limelight now.
This session discussed the basics of Sound Signal including Amplitude, Wavelength, Cycle, Frequency, time-domain vs frequency-domain etc. Then Sujith covered how an Analog signal is converted to Digital by sampling at a certain sampling rate. He reviewed the Python libraries used for Audio to Digital Signal conversion.
The digitized signal is processed with a Convolutional network to recognize speech. He also explained how this model can run on live steams on AWS Cloud or Apache Kafka and Spark.
Next came an extensive session on Reinforcement Learning by Salim Ansari. The topic of Salim’s presentation was “Model-free Learning with Monte Carlo and Temporal-Difference Methods“. Dynamic Programming is an RL technique which falls under model-based RL. Salim’s session was focussed on Model-free learning which includes MC and TD techniques. The emphasis was on introducing the various methods used in RL for evaluating a given Tabular Policy. Monte Carlo methods require only experience, sample sequences of states, actions and rewards from actual or simulated interaction with the environment. Problem solving is based on averaging sample returns.
TD Learning is a combination of Monte Carlo and Dynamic Programming ideas. Like Monte Carlo methods, TD methods can learn directly from raw experience without a model of the environment’s dynamics. Like DP, TD methods update estimates based in part on other learned estimates, without waiting for a final outcome (they bootstrap).
CellStrat AI Lab continues to be an AI trailblazer in India with deep presentations every week. To explore our AI Lab and learn about our world-class AI/ML training programs, attend our AI Lab meetup in Bengaluru this Saturday 4th Jan 2020 :-
BLR AI Lab meetup :-
Register : https://www.meetup.com/Disrupt-4-0/events/qqmxlrybccbgb/
Topic : Quantum Computing (Quantum ML), Object Detector from Scratch
Date : Saturday 4th Jan 2020, 10:30 AM – 5 PM
Presenters : Niraj Kale, Shreeyash Pawar
See you this weekend for the AI Lab session ! Let’s put India on the global AI map, together !
Questions ? Call me at +91-9742800566 !
Best Regards,
Vivek Singhal
Co-Founder & Chief Data Scientist, CellStrat
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