Abstract: 

This is a very hands on introduction to LSTMs in Keras and TensorFlow. We will build a language classifier, generator and a translating sequence to sequence model. We will talk about debugging models and explore various related architectures like GRUs, Bidirectional LSTMs, etc. to see how well they work.

Bio: 

Lukas Biewald is a co-founder and CEO of Weights and Biases which builds performance and visualization tools for machine learning teams and practitioners. Lukas also founded Figure Eight (formerly CrowdFlower) — a human in the loop platform transforms unstructured text, image, audio, and video data into customized high quality training data. — which he co-founded in December 2007 with Chris Van Pelt. Prior to co-founding Weights and Biases and CrowdFlower, Biewald was a Senior Scientist and Manager within the Ranking and Management Team at Powerset, a natural language search technology company later acquired by Microsoft. From 2005 to 2006, Lukas also led the Search Relevance Team for Yahoo! Japan.