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Hands-On Meta Learning with Python

By : Sudharsan Ravichandiran
Book Image

Hands-On Meta Learning with Python

By: Sudharsan Ravichandiran

Overview of this book

Meta learning is an exciting research trend in machine learning, which enables a model to understand the learning process. Unlike other ML paradigms, with meta learning you can learn from small datasets faster. Hands-On Meta Learning with Python starts by explaining the fundamentals of meta learning and helps you understand the concept of learning to learn. You will delve into various one-shot learning algorithms, like siamese, prototypical, relation and memory-augmented networks by implementing them in TensorFlow and Keras. As you make your way through the book, you will dive into state-of-the-art meta learning algorithms such as MAML, Reptile, and CAML. You will then explore how to learn quickly with Meta-SGD and discover how you can perform unsupervised learning using meta learning with CACTUs. In the concluding chapters, you will work through recent trends in meta learning such as adversarial meta learning, task agnostic meta learning, and meta imitation learning. By the end of this book, you will be familiar with state-of-the-art meta learning algorithms and able to enable human-like cognition for your machine learning models.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Title Page
Dedication
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Building an audio recognition model using siamese networks


In the last tutorial, we saw how to use siamese networks to recognize a face. Now we will see how to use siamese networks to recognize audio. We will train our network to differentiate between the sound of a dog and the sound of a cat. The dataset of cat and dog audio can be downloaded from here: https://www.kaggle.com/mmoreaux/audio-cats-and-dogs#cats_dogs.zip.

Once we have downloaded the data, we fragment our data into three folders: Dogs, Sub_dogs, and Cats. In Dogs and Sub_dogs, we place the dog's barking audio and in the Cats folder, we place the cat's audio. The objective of our network is to recognize whether the audio is a dog's barking or some different sound. As we know, for a siamese network, we need to feed input as a pair; we select an audio from the Dogs and Sub_dogs folders and mark them as a genuine pair and we select an audio from the Dogs and Cats folders and mark them as an imposite pair. That is, (dogs, subdogs...