Deep Learning

The Patterson Consulting team carries a co-writer of Oreilly's Deep Learning book as well as Phds in the space. We can advise, implement, and support your deep learning ideas.

Long Short-Term Memory Networks (LSTMs)

LSTM Unit Recurrent neural networks and Long short-term memory networks (LSTMs) have been shown to model sequence data effectively. A recurrent neural network can be thought of as multiple copies of the same network each passing a message to a successor.

LSTMs have specific gates, different than a normal artificial neuron in a multi-layer perceptron, that have the following properties:

Input gate protects from irrelevant input
Forget gate helps the unit forget previous memory contents
Output gate exposes the contents of the memory cell (or not) at the output time of the LSTM unit

We often will recommend applying LSTM networks to data that is sequential in natural, such as:

Web session data for users travesing a web site
Smart grid sensor data
Mesh network sensor data
Financial transaction data

LSTMs are adept at handling sequences with a single or multiple columns of data per timestep.

Convolutional Neural Networks

Deep learning exploded onto the tech scene in the mid-2000's with large advances in the area of computer vision. Convolutional neural networks are the current state of the art for image modeling in the computer vision space.

convolutional neural network activation volume

We can help operationalize convolutional models within your infrastructure and applications. Patterson Consulting specializes in integration convolutional networks such as YOLO for object detection within image data. We can help with such tasks as making sure your keras / python models are properly integrated into Java applications for better IT support and management.