Fusion AI: The Multimodal Machine Learning Revolution

Introduction

Unlock the next frontier of artificial intelligence with our intensive Multimodal Machine Learning training course, a deep dive into the technology that allows AI to perceive and comprehend the world more like humans do. This program is designed to bridge the gap between different data types—such as text, images, audio, and video—by teaching you how to build models that can process, integrate, and find meaningful relationships between them. You will move beyond single-modality models to master the core principles of multimodal AI, a crucial skill for developing more robust, context-aware, and powerful applications that drive true innovation.

This course is your gateway to building sophisticated systems that can understand the world through diverse inputs. Our hands-on approach will equip you with the practical skills needed to tackle complex, real-world problems, from creating models that can generate images from text descriptions to building intelligent systems for autonomous vehicles. By the end of this course, you will be a proficient "fusion engineer," capable of designing and implementing state-of-the-art multimodal models that will shape the future of AI.

Duration

5 days

Target Audience

This course is intended for machine learning engineers, data scientists, AI researchers, and graduate students with a solid foundation in deep learning, including experience with convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and recurrent neural networks (RNNs), as well as proficiency in Python and a deep learning framework like PyTorch or TensorFlow.

Course Objectives

  1. Understand the fundamental principles and challenges of multimodal machine learning.
  2. Master the different strategies for combining and integrating data from multiple modalities.
  3. Implement and train models for various multimodal tasks, such as image captioning and visual question answering.
  4. Leverage state-of-the-art pre-trained multimodal models like CLIP and ViLT.
  5. Design effective architectures for multimodal fusion.
  6. Apply multimodal techniques to real-world applications across various domains.
  7. Address common challenges, including data heterogeneity and alignment issues.
  8. Evaluate the performance of multimodal models using appropriate metrics.
  9. Explore ethical considerations and potential biases in multimodal AI systems.
  10. Develop a comprehensive understanding of the current research landscape and future directions in the field.

Course Modules

Module 1: Foundations of Multimodal ML

  • Introduction to modalities and their characteristics (vision, text, audio).
  • The core challenges of multimodal learning: representation, fusion, and alignment.
  • Types of multimodal tasks: joint representation, translation, and generation.
  • Review of essential unimodal models (CNNs for images, Transformers for text).
  • Setting up the necessary development environment.

Module 2: Multimodal Representations

  • Joint representations and their use cases.
  • Coordinated representations and metric learning.
  • Introduction to multimodal embedding spaces.
  • Techniques for creating shared embedding spaces.
  • Hands-on lab: building a simple cross-modal retrieval system.

Module 3: Early Fusion & Its Applications

  • Early fusion strategy: concatenating data before a model's input.
  • Advantages and disadvantages of early fusion.
  • Applications in sentiment analysis from text and audio.
  • Implementing an early fusion model for a simple classification task.
  • Using PyTorch or TensorFlow to build and train the model.

Module 4: Late Fusion & Decision-Level Integration

  • Late fusion strategy: combining predictions from unimodal models.
  • Methods for late fusion: simple voting, weighted averaging, and more complex models.
  • Advantages of late fusion, such as modularity and fault tolerance.
  • Implementing a late fusion model for a classification task.
  • Comparing the performance of early vs. late fusion.

Module 5: Intermediate Fusion & Attention Mechanisms

  • Intermediate fusion: combining features at different layers of the network.
  • Attention mechanisms in multimodal contexts.
  • Cross-attention for different modalities.
  • Visual attention for focusing on specific image regions.
  • Hands-on lab: building a cross-attention model for image and text.

Module 6: Image and Language Models

  • Image captioning as a sequence-to-sequence problem.
  • Visual Question Answering (VQA): answering questions about images.
  • Using CNNs and LSTMs for image captioning.
  • Introduction to the CLIP model.
  • Practical project: creating an image captioning model.

Module 7: The Transformer Era for Multimodality

  • Multimodal Transformers and their architecture.
  • Vision Transformer (ViT) and its role in visual tasks.
  • Pre-training strategies for multimodal Transformers.
  • The rise of models like ViLT and BEiT.
  • Case study: fine-tuning a pre-trained multimodal Transformer.

Module 8: Multimodal Applications in Robotics

  • Robot perception with multimodal data (camera, LiDAR, audio).
  • Multimodal reinforcement learning.
  • Using multimodal inputs for robot navigation and manipulation.
  • Sensor fusion techniques for robotics.
  • Understanding and addressing real-world challenges like sensor noise.

Module 9: Multimodal Data for Healthcare

  • Integrating medical images (X-rays, MRIs) with patient records.
  • Multimodal models for diagnosis and prognosis.
  • Analyzing patient symptoms (text) and vital signs (numerical data).
  • Ethical considerations and data privacy in healthcare AI.
  • Case study: building a multimodal diagnostic tool.

Module 10: Multimodal Generative AI

  • Text-to-image generation: from VAEs and GANs to Diffusion Models.
  • The DALL-E and Stable Diffusion models.
  • Text-to-video and text-to-audio generation.
  • The role of large language models (LLMs) in generation.
  • Hands-on lab: generating images from text prompts.

Module 11: Speech, Audio, and Text Integration

  • Speech recognition and emotion detection.
  • Audio-visual speech recognition.
  • Integrating sound with visual data.
  • Building models for multimodal sentiment analysis.
  • Project: analyzing sentiment from both video and audio data.

Module 12: Real-World Multimodal Systems

  • Creating a conversational AI system that uses visual and text cues.
  • Building a semantic search engine for images and videos.
  • Content moderation with multimodal data.
  • E-commerce applications: product recommendations with images and reviews.
  • Case study: a multimodal system for fraud detection.

Module 13: Evaluation & Ethical Considerations

  • Metrics for evaluating multimodal models.
  • Understanding and mitigating bias in multimodal datasets.
  • Fairness, accountability, and transparency in AI.
  • Discussing the societal impact of multimodal systems.
  • Adversarial attacks on multimodal models.

Module 14: Practical Implementation & Deployment

  • Best practices for data collection and cleaning for multimodal tasks.
  • Using cloud services (e.g., AWS, GCP) for training large models.
  • Model optimization and serving.
  • Containerizing and deploying a multimodal model in a production environment.
  • Troubleshooting common deployment issues.

CERTIFICATION

  • Upon successful completion of this training, participants will be issued with Macskills Training and Development Institute Certificate

TRAINING VENUE

  • Training will be held at Macskills Training Centre. We also tailor make the training upon request at different locations across the world.

AIRPORT PICK UP AND ACCOMMODATION

  • Airport Pick Up is provided by the institute. Accommodation is arranged upon request

TERMS OF PAYMENT

Payment should be made to Macskills Development Institute bank account before the start of the training and receipts sent to info@macskillsdevelopment.com

For More Details call: +254-114-087-180

 

 

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