tinyML EMEA – Jan Jongboom: From the cloud to the edge: reverse-engineering and downsizing…

From the cloud to the edge: reverse-engineering and downsizing a black box ML algorithm
Jan Jongboom
Co-founder and CTO
Edge Impulse

We talk a lot about new model types, new silicon, and greenfield applications – but what if a customer already has an ML model that they want to improve on and scale down? And what if this model is a complete black box, licensed from a third party; and the customer doesn’t own any of the data or labels? And, to make matters even more complex, the model was trained on clinically validated data – costing at least a million dollars to replicate.
Join us for a tale of reverse-engineering a black box sleep stage prediction algorithm, doing complex data collection on a budget, and how to move compute from the cloud to the edge –here to enable wake-up on light sleep, a new feature that’s impossible to do with their black box algorithm – adding new functionality to a device that’s already on the market.

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