A New Deep Learning Optimizer called Ranger with Less Wright - 005
Description
In this episode, we interview Less Wright, who has set 13 records on the fast.ai leaderboard, and we talk about one of his tricks is using cutting-edge optimizers, he also developed one, which is called Ranger. He talks also about different strategies of using Deep Learning optimizers, it is worth to take those into consideration. We also tested Ranger and in our case, it also outperformed Adam/RAdam variants. Co-host is Levente Szabados.
Less' LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/less-wright-22b59017/
Ranger's article: https://medium.com/@lessw/how-we-beat-the-fastai-leaderboard-score-by-19-77-a-cbb2338fab5c
Less' medium articles: https://medium.com/@lessw
His article about Mixnet he mentions: https://medium.com/@lessw/meet-mixnet-google-brains-new-state-of-the-art-mobile-ai-architecture-bd6c37abfa3a
His Github: https://github.com/lessw2020
Co-Host: Levente Szabados
https://www.linkedin.com/in/levente-szabados-76334728/
---General Info---
Podcast's Website: http://machinelearningcafe.org/
Host's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/miklostoth/
Email of the host: miklos@machinelearningcafe.org
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Music is from https://filmmusic.io, intro first part is by Miklos Toth and some free garage band loops. :) intro second part: "Aces High" by Kevin MacLeod, outro "Acid Trumpet" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com), License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
United States
