In my earlier post, I covered what Federated Learning is at a broad level. Here, I will walk you through how to set up your own Federated Learning based model using a framework called Flower. We will look at a cross-device and asynchronous design. This is very similar to GBoard…

Our Use Case: was to generate key phrases (bi-grams or tri-grams) from reviews instead of generating 1 word topics. 1 word topics do not give a wholistic view of what is being talked about a product in the market but a phrase helps us understand more about whether the words…

How the pandemic made me reflect upon my way of living. — After my college, I had been working in a high paying software job for 4 years but was extremely unhappy. (And did not even realise it till I was forced to be alone with my thoughts 24*7.) My first couple of years as a new working professional was fun. I…

ResNets or Residual Networks was introduced by Kaiming He, Xiangyu Zhang, Shaoqin Ren, Jian Sun of the Microsoft Research team (Link to the paper). It solved the degradation problem when neural networks are too deep by introducing skip connections or shortcut connections. The Degradation Problem — When a model gets…

instead of blocking it away… It took me a long time and a lot of courage to come face to face with my past and even more to accept it and write about it. Lately I have been getting nightmares about a little girl in a beautiful cinderella dress. The…

Let us start by understanding Q Learning and then extend it to Soft Q Learning. What is Q-Learning? Q Learning is one of the most popular RL algorithm that is used to solve Markov Decision Processes. In an RL environment, in a state, the RL agent takes an action. This…

I was born and brought up in Bihar, India, which has the lowest literacy rate in India. It stands at 70% with a population of 99 million people. And the literacy rate for females is at 50%. The day I was born, the first remark from my neighbor was —…

What is life’s higher purpose? Is it to solve a problem and reach a destination or Is it the thrill of the journey and letting the destination pan out as you go through Life’s journey making each decision in the best way you can. We have all grown up listening…

I was given the opportunity to attend Grace Hopper Celebration this year. Virtually!!!. I have attended GHC in the past and did not know what to expect from a virtual celebration. vGHC was impeccably organised with opportunities to talk to recruiters and companies 1:1 or attend sponsor halls in a…