Title
SINGA: Putting Deep Learning in the Hands of Multimedia Users
Abstract
Recently, deep learning techniques have enjoyed success in various multimedia applications, such as image classification and multi-modal data analysis. Two key factors behind deep learning's remarkable achievement are the immense computing power and the availability of massive training datasets, which enable us to train large models to capture complex regularities of the data. There are two challenges to overcome before deep learning can be widely adopted in multimedia and other applications. One is usability, namely the implementation of different models and training algorithms must be done by non-experts without much effort. The other is scalability, that is the deep learning system must be able to provision for a huge demand of computing resources for training large models with massive datasets. To address these two challenges, in this paper, we design a distributed deep learning platform called SINGA which has an intuitive programming model and good scalability. Our experience with developing and training deep learning models for real-life multimedia applications in SINGA shows that the platform is both usable and scalable.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1145/2733373.2806232
ACM Multimedia
Keywords
Field
DocType
Deep learning,Multimedia application,Distributed training
USable,Programming paradigm,Computer science,Usability,Artificial intelligence,Deep learning,Contextual image classification,Multimedia,Scalability
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
18
0.77
30
Authors
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Wei Wang133832.88
Gang Chen271275.60
Tien Tuan Anh Dinh321219.13
Jinyang Gao415016.49
Beng Chin Ooi578731076.70
Kian-Lee Tan66962776.65
Sheng Wang75310.14