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##The eighth edition of The Fifth Elephant will be held in Bangalore on 25 and 26 July. A thousand data scientists, ML engineers, data engineers and analysts will gather at the NIMHANS Convention Centre in Bangalore to discuss:

  1. Model management, including data cleaning, instrumentation and productionizing data science.
  2. Bad data and case studies of failure in building data products.
  3. Identifying and handling fraud + data security at scale
  4. Applications of data science in agriculture, media and marketing, supply chain, geo-location, SaaS and e-commerce.
  5. Feature engineering and ML platforms.
  6. What it takes to create data-driven cultures in organizations of different scales.

##Highlights:

1. Meet Peter Wang, co-founder of Anaconda Inc, and learn about why data privacy is the first step towards robust data management; the journey of building Anaconda; and Anaconda in enterprise.
2. Talk to the Fulfillment and Supply Group (FSG) team from Flipkart, and learn about their work with platform engineering where ground truths are the source of data.
3. Attend tutorials on Deep Learning with RedisAI; TransmorgifyAI, Salesforce’s open source AutoML.
4. Discuss interesting problems to solve with data science in agriculture, SaaS perspective on multi-tenancy in Machine Learning (with the Freshworks team), bias in intent classification and recommendations.
5. Meet data science, data engineering and product teams from sponsoring companies to understand how they are handling data and leveraging intelligence from data to solve interesting problems.

##Why you should attend?

  1. Network with peers and practitioners from the data ecosystem
  2. Share approaches to solving expensive problems such as cleanliness of training data, model management and versioning data
  3. Demo your ideas in the demo session
  4. Join Birds of Feather (BOF) sessions to have productive discussions on focussed topics. Or, start your own Birds of Feather (BOF) session.

##Full schedule published here: https://hasgeek.com/fifthelephant/2019/schedule

##Contact details:
For more information about The Fifth Elephant, sponsorships, or any other information call +91-7676332020 or email info@hasgeek.com

#Sponsors:

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Email sales@hasgeek.com for bulk ticket purchases, and sponsoring 2019 edition of JSFoo:VueDay.

JSFoo:VueDay 2019 sponsors:

#Platinum Sponsor

Anatta

#Community Sponsors

Salesforce Ericsson freshworks
databricks

#Exhibition Sponsors

Sapient Atlassian GO-JEK
Bayer

#Bronze Sponsor

Sumologic Walmart Labs Atlan
Simpl Great Learning

#Community Sponsors

Elastic Anaconda Aruba Networks

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The Fifth Elephant - known as one of the best data science and Machine Learning conference in Asia - has transitioned into a year-round forum for conversations about data and ML engineering; data science in production; data security and privacy practices. more

Vikram Vij

@vikramvij

Exploring the un-conventional: End to End learning architectures for automatic speech recognition

Submitted Mar 17, 2019

Speech recognition is a challenging area, where accuracies have risen dramatically with the use of deep learning over the last decade, but there are still many areas of improvement. We start with the basics of speech recognition and the design of a conventional speech recognition system, comprising of acoustic modeling, language modeling, lexicon (pronunciation model) and decoder. To improve the accuracy of speech recognition and to reduce the size of the model (especially for edge computing based On-device speech recognition), new architectures are emerging. In a conventional speech recognition system, the acoustic and language model are trained separately, on different datasets. With End-to-End ASR, we can develop a single neural network which jointly learns the acoustic model, lexicon and language model components together. E2E ASR can potentially help reduce the model size by up to 18 times and also improve the accuracy (word error rate) by up to 15 %. This is based on the Listen-Attend-Spell end-to-end architecture, augmented with CTC loss, label smoothing and scheduled sampling techniques. This architecture results in increasing accuracy and reducing model size by up to 18 times with no out of vocabulary words. We can get multi-lingual and multi-dialect models with are simpler and smaller in size. A few shortcomings are the lack of streaming (online) speech recognition and handling of rare or proper nouns which can be solved by techniques such as contextual Listen-Attend-Spell, Language Model Fusion, Online attention to support real-time streaming output, personalization/biasing through a context encoder, and adaptation based on auxiliary network / multi-task learning. We go into the motivation and approach behind each of these techniques, which may also be applicable to other deep learning based systems.

Outline

We challenge the status quo in automatic speech recognition technology to achieve breakthrough results using end to end speech recognition. The talk summarizes the latest research in this area.

Speaker bio

Dr. Vikram Vij received a Ph.D. and Master’s degree from the University of California Berkeley in Computer Science, an M.B.A. degree from Santa Clara University and a B.Tech. degree from IIT Kanpur in Electronics. He has over 26 years of industrial experience in multiple technical domains from Databases, Storage & File Systems, Embedded systems, Intelligent Services and IoT. Vikram has worked at Samsung since 2004 and is currently working as Sr. Vice President and Voice Intelligence R&D Team Head at Samsung R&D Institute in Bangalore. His current focus is on building the World’s Best Voice Intelligence Experience for Mobiles and other Samsung appliances. Dr. Vij is also driving the growth of AI Centre of Excellence at Samsung Bangalore.

Slides

https://drive.google.com/file/d/11WNqde4BDkT9z0AMhdwJzW1FYaP9KtRi/view?usp=drivesdk

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Make a submission

Accepting submissions till 15 Jun 2019, 01:00 PM

NIMHANS Convention Centre, Bengaluru

Hosted by

The Fifth Elephant - known as one of the best data science and Machine Learning conference in Asia - has transitioned into a year-round forum for conversations about data and ML engineering; data science in production; data security and privacy practices. more