Choosing the right model in deep learning

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There are a lot of options for architectures. Based on the flexibility of deployment, you can choose the model. Remember that convolution is smaller and slower, but dense layers are bigger and faster. There is a trade-off between size, runtime, and accuracy. It is advisable to test out all the architectures before the final decision. Some models may work better than others, based on the application. You can reduce the input size to make the inference faster. Architectures can be selected based on the metrics as described in the following section.

 

Tackling the underfitting and overfitting scenarios

The model may be sometimes too big or too small for the problem. This could be classified as underfitting or overfitting, respectively. Underfitting happens when the model is too small and can be measured when training accuracy is less. Overfitting happens when the model is too big and there is a large gap between training and testing accuracies. Underfitting can be solved by the following methods:

  • Getting more data
  • Trying out a bigger model
  • If the data is small, try transfer learning techniques or do data augmentation

Overfitting can be solved by the following methods:

  • Regularizing using techniques such as dropout and batch normalization
  • Augmenting the dataset

Always watch out for loss. The loss should be decreasing over iterations. If the loss is not decreasing, it signals that training has stopped. One solution is to try out a different optimizer. Class imbalance can be dealt with by weighting the loss function. Always use TensorBoard to watch the summaries. It is difficult to estimate how much data is needed. This section is the best lesson on training any deep learning models. Next, we will cover some application-specific guidance.

 

 

 

Gender and age detection from face

Applications may require gender and age detection from a face. The face image can be obtained by face detectors. The cropped images of faces can be supplied as training data, and the similar cropped face should be given for inference. Based on the required inference time, OpenCV, or CNN face detectors can be selected. For training, Inception or ResNet can be used. If the required inference time is much less because it is a video, it’s better to use three convolutions followed by two fully connected layers. Note that there is usually a huge class imbalance in age datasets, hence using a different metric like precision and recall will be helpful.

 

Fine-tuning apparel models

Fine-tuning of apparel models is a good choice. Having multiple softmax layers that classify attributes will be useful here. The attributes could be a pattern, color, and so on.

 

 

Brand safety

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