Designing Machine Learning Systems: A Summary

[v.1.0] (05/08/2023): Post published! Chip Huyen, a Vietnamese writer, computer scientist, and co-founder of Claypot AI, has an impressive background as a lecturer at Stanford and as a machine learning engineer at NVIDIA, Snorkel AI, Netflix, and Primer. I have been an avid reader of Chip’s books since her best-selling works in Vietnam, which inspired me to pursue my study-abroad journey in the U.S. Her latest book, published in June 2022, offers invaluable insights and practical advice on building reliable machine learning systems....

May 8, 2023 · 10 min · Minh T. Nguyen

Multi-Task Learning for Image Classification

[v.1.0] (03/20/2023): Post published! During a recent interview with a Data Science Lead at a digital agriculture tech company, I had the opportunity to delve into the machine learning team’s exciting project. The team was utilizing multi-task learning (MTL) to deploy models to farming hardware, which piqued my interest and prompted me to explore this approach combined with deep learning. In particular, I wanted to investigate the effectiveness of MTL on vision transformers (ViT) and deep residual networks (ResNet-152)....

March 20, 2023 · 9 min · Minh T. Nguyen