In this episode, we interview Less Wright, who has set 13 records on the fast.ai leaderboard, and we talk about one of his tricks is using cutting-edge optimizers, he also developed one, which is called Ranger. He talks also about different strategies of using Deep Learning optimizers, it is worth to take those into consideration. We also tested Ranger and in our case, it also outperformed Adam/RAdam variants. Co-host is Levente Szabados.

Less' LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/less-wright-22b59017/

Ranger's article: https://medium.com/@lessw/how-we-beat-the-fastai-leaderboard-score-by-19-77-a-cbb2338fab5c

Less' medium articles: https://medium.com/@lessw His article about Mixnet he mentions: https://medium.com/@lessw/meet-mixnet-google-brains-new-state-of-the-art-mobile-ai-architecture-bd6c37abfa3a

His Github: https://github.com/lessw2020

Co-Host: Levente Szabados https://www.linkedin.com/in/levente-szabados-76334728/

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Podcast's Website: http://machinelearningcafe.org/ Host's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/miklostoth/ Email of the host: [email protected]

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