README.md

OnDeviceTrain

Train Neural Network on mobile devices

Our goal

1. Amount of data is small: Pretrained model + few shot learning: the training data in devices is small.
2. Explore more data types: Currently only using images as input. Support machine translation etc.
3. Moving from algorithm to application: Write a mobile application with on device training.

Motivations for On-Device Training

1. Customization: Customized model weights for each device
2. Economy: No data transmission overhead.
3. Privacy: Data does not leave devices

Constraints of On-Device Training

1. Memory Limit: Total Memory = Parameter Memory + Gradient Memory + Layer Activations Memory.
2. Speed Limit (FLOPS): Not a hard limit. We don’t need training to be finished in real-time.
3. Energy/Battery Limit: Not a hard limit. We can limit training to be only executed during charging.

Papers for reference

1. i-RevNet: Deep Invertible Networks

2. The Reversible Residual Network: Backpropagation Without Storing Activations

3. Sample Efficient Adaptive Text-To-Speech

4. Wavenet: A Generative Model For Raw Audio

5. Low-Memory Neural Network Training: A Technical Report

6. Weight Standardization, Training with Batch Size 1

Useful Resources

1. The library deeplearning4j: https://github.com/deeplearning4j/deeplearning4j

2. PyTorch code for i-revnet: https://github.com/jhjacobsen/pytorch-i-revnet

3. Tensorflow code for revnet: https://github.com/renmengye/revnet-public

4. Deep neural networks for voice conversion (voice style transfer) in Tensorflow: https://github.com/andabi/deep-voice-conversion

5. Surface Inspection defect detection dataset: https://github.com/abin24/Surface-Inspection-defect-detection-dataset

6. Lumber grading dataset (image tagging): http://www.ee.oulu.fi/~olli/Projects/Lumber.Grading.html

7. A blog about Training on the device: https://machinethink.net/blog/training-on-device/