829 research outputs found
Ed-Fed: A generic federated learning framework with resource-aware client selection for edge devices
Federated learning (FL) has evolved as a prominent method for edge devices to
cooperatively create a unified prediction model while securing their sensitive
training data local to the device. Despite the existence of numerous research
frameworks for simulating FL algorithms, they do not facilitate comprehensive
deployment for automatic speech recognition tasks on heterogeneous edge
devices. This is where Ed-Fed, a comprehensive and generic FL framework, comes
in as a foundation for future practical FL system research. We also propose a
novel resource-aware client selection algorithm to optimise the waiting time in
the FL settings. We show that our approach can handle the straggler devices and
dynamically set the training time for the selected devices in a round. Our
evaluation has shown that the proposed approach significantly optimises waiting
time in FL compared to conventional random client selection methods
Hybrid-SD (H_SD): A new hybrid evaluation metric for automatic speech recognition tasks
Many studies have examined the shortcomings of word error rate (WER) as an
evaluation metric for automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems, particularly
when used for spoken language understanding tasks such as intent recognition
and dialogue systems. In this paper, we propose Hybrid-SD (H_SD), a new hybrid
evaluation metric for ASR systems that takes into account both semantic
correctness and error rate. To generate sentence dissimilarity scores (SD), we
built a fast and lightweight SNanoBERT model using distillation techniques. Our
experiments show that the SNanoBERT model is 25.9x smaller and 38.8x faster
than SRoBERTa while achieving comparable results on well-known benchmarks.
Hence, making it suitable for deploying with ASR models on edge devices. We
also show that H_SD correlates more strongly with downstream tasks such as
intent recognition and named-entity recognition (NER)
PreMa: Predictive Maintenance of Solenoid Valve in Real-Time at Embedded Edge-Level
In industrial process automation, sensors (pressure, temperature, etc.),
controllers, and actuators (solenoid valves, electro-mechanical relays, circuit
breakers, motors, etc.) make sure that production lines are working under the
pre-defined conditions. When these systems malfunction or sometimes completely
fail, alerts have to be generated in real-time to make sure not only production
quality is not compromised but also safety of humans and equipment is assured.
In this work, we describe the construction of a smart and real-time edge-based
electronic product called PreMa, which is basically a sensor for monitoring the
health of a Solenoid Valve (SV). PreMa is compact, low power, easy to install,
and cost effective. It has data fidelity and measurement accuracy comparable to
signals captured using high end equipment. The smart solenoid sensor runs
TinyML, a compact version of TensorFlow (a.k.a. TFLite) machine learning
framework. While fault detection inferencing is in-situ, model training uses
mobile phones to accomplish the `on-device' training. Our product evaluation
shows that the sensor is able to differentiate between the distinct types of
faults. These faults include: (a) Spool stuck (b) Spring failure and (c) Under
voltage. Furthermore, the product provides maintenance personnel, the remaining
useful life (RUL) of the SV. The RUL provides assistance to decide valve
replacement or otherwise. We perform an extensive evaluation on optimizing
metrics related to performance of the entire system (i.e. embedded platform and
the neural network model). The proposed implementation is such that, given any
electro-mechanical actuator with similar transient response to that of the SV,
the system is capable of condition monitoring, hence presenting a first of its
kind generic infrastructure
Interaction of Oleate Molecules on Sillimanite and Garnet minerals.
Adsorption of oleate on sillimanite and garnet was studied using electrokinetic measurements. Both the systems exhibit a characteristic shift in iep by increasing the concentration of oleate in solution. This shift in iep has been quantified in terms of specific interaction between the surface sites and oleate molecules. The shift in iep was estimated separately for both the systems using the equation derived on the basis of electrical double layer theory. The specific free energy of adsorption was
estimated to be 7.94 kcal/mole for sillimanite-oleate system and 7.49 kcal/mole for gamet-oleate system
MobileASR: A resource-aware on-device learning framework for user voice personalization applications on mobile phones
We describe a comprehensive methodology for developing user-voice
personalized automatic speech recognition (ASR) models by effectively training
models on mobile phones, allowing user data and models to be stored and used
locally. To achieve this, we propose a resource-aware sub-model-based training
approach that considers the RAM, and battery capabilities of mobile phones. By
considering the evaluation metric and resource constraints of the mobile
phones, we are able to perform efficient training and halt the process
accordingly. To simulate real users, we use speakers with various accents. The
entire on-device training and evaluation framework was then tested on various
mobile phones across brands. We show that fine-tuning the models and selecting
the right hyperparameter values is a trade-off between the lowest achievable
performance metric, on-device training time, and memory consumption. Overall,
our methodology offers a comprehensive solution for developing personalized ASR
models while leveraging the capabilities of mobile phones, and balancing the
need for accuracy with resource constraints.Comment: Accepted in AIMLSystems 202
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