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<p>ScaleDown is an open-source framework and community that provides free training and mentorship as well as fosters collaboration and innovation in TinyML.</p><p><strong>What is TinyML?</strong></p><p>TinyML devices like Arduinos are resource-constrained. This means that they are usually small, battery-powered, and have low computation power and memory. Deploying neural networks on such devices is difficult due to how large they are in terms of their memory footprint and the number of operations needed to execute them. So we need to optimize and scale down neural networks to deploy them. This machine learning paradigm is known as TinyML. It is estimated that there will be more than 60 billion IoT devices worldwide by 2035. Many of them will be equipped with TinyML capabilities.</p><strong>Why is Learning TinyML Hard?</strong><strong><br></strong><p>However, there is a wide gap in the community for learning resources and tools to help beginners and early career professionals learn about TinyML, experiment, and make products to build a portfolio to get jobs. To help people better understand this field, we do community work like hosting workshops, study groups, and talks. We also create free learning resources like books and courses.</p><p>There are many TinyML optimization algorithms, but the tools landscape is fragmented with each framework supporting different algorithms and only on specific model types. Moreover, they only support a few algorithms and not the latest, better-performing algorithms. This makes these tools less accessible to disadvantaged groups who may not have access to those software or hardware. Moreover, they are not easy for beginners to learn. Scaledown is bridging that gap by building a framework that can take models trained in any framework, optimize them using the latest algorithms, and then deploy them to TinyML devices. </p><p>Finally, we help grow the field by doing research and giving opportunities for collaboration within the community.<strong><em> Link:</em></strong><a href="https://scaledown-team.github.io/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><strong><em> https://scaledown-team.github.io/</em></strong></a></p><p><strong>What will the workshop cover?</strong></p><p>In this talk, we will cover the two pillars of education and the framework at ScaleDown. Along with these pillars, we have also started a “Hardware Library” in Singapore, from where people can borrow hardware that they want to work with and then return them for different hardware when they are done. This will help people build a portfolio of projects with multiple hardware and tools that they can then leverage to get career or internship opportunities. </p><p>Our blogs, books, and study groups will help you learn TinyML. The hardware library will help you build your first project using the framework. After implementing your projects, you can write about your experience and help grow the community by teaching others. In this way, Education will feed into the Framework.</p><p>The audience will learn how to implement the ScaleDown framework in a few lines of code and also check out our easy-to-do projects! </p><p>Join us through this workshop to see ScaleDown in action and learn how you can be a part of our open-source initiative</p>
