ML@GT Seminar and Guest Speaker for CS 7643 Deep Learning
Title: TF-Slim: A Lightweight Library for Defining, Training and Evaluating Complex Models in TensorFlow
Speaker: Nathan Silberman
Date/Time: Thursday Sep 7 2017, 4:30 pm – 5:45 pm Location: Clough 144
Abstract: TF-Slim is a TensorFlow-based library with various components. These include modules for easily defining neural network models with few lines of code, routines for training and evaluating such models in a highly distributed fashion and utilities for creating efficient data loading pipelines. Additionally, the TF-Slim Image Models library provides many commonly used networks (ResNet, Inception, VGG, etc) that make replicating results and creating new networks using existing components simple and straightforward. I will discuss some of the design choices and constraints that guided our development process as well as several high-impact projects in the medical domain that utilize most or all components of the TF-Slim library.
Bio: Nathan Silberman is the Lead Deep Learning Scientist at 4Catalyzer where he works on a variety of healthcare related projects. His machine learning interests include semantic segmentation, detection and reinforcement learning and how to best apply these areas to high-impact areas in the medical world. Prior to joining 4Catalyzer, Nathan was a researcher at Google where among various projects, he co-wrote TensorFlow-Slim, which is now a major component of the TensorFlow library. Nathan received his Ph.D. in 2015 from New York University under Rob Fergus and David Sontag.
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