Fast ML UK tutorial

Europe/London
LT2 (Imperial)

LT2

Imperial

Jonathon Mark Langford (Imperial College (GB)), Lauri Antti Olavi Laatu (Imperial College (GB))
Description

We are hosting a one-day Fast Machine Learning (Fast ML) tutorial at Imperial College London on 27th March, aimed at UK students and early-career researchers (ECRs) interested in ML for real-time scientific applications. In this tutorial, participants will learn how to convert standard ML algorithms for FPGA synthesis using the hls4ml library, and explore the trade-offs between model accuracy and FPGA resource usage/latency. We will then introduce quantization-aware training techniques that help maintain model performance while minimizing resource consumption.

In the afternoon session, we will explore more complex architectures (e.g. transformers) and demonstrate the practical steps required for FPGA synthesis with the aim to showcase the build process on a real FPGA device. Participation is in-person only, and registration closes on 19th March so that we can finalise numbers for refreshments.

Participants
  • Ayham Yousif
  • Bakhtiar Zadeh
  • Bardia Zadeh
  • EDWIN GARCIA
  • Emma Claraso Batllori
  • Geoffrey Pugsley
  • Giacomo Fedi
  • Guhesh Kumaran
  • Harsh Rathee
  • Hugh Sparks
  • James Gibbon
  • Jonathon Mark Langford
  • Kai Hong Law
  • Leo Rozanov
  • Luke Wivell
  • Matthew Ward
  • Nabir Mamnun
  • Nadia Cooper
  • Paolo Bassani
  • Paul Krueper
  • Rishi Siddani
  • Ruijie Chen
  • Ryan Schmitz
  • Sam Bennett
  • Shiyu Chen
  • Thomas Walker
  • Tim Marley
  • Vishnu Nair
  • Wen Song
  • Yufei Yang
  • Yuyang Sun
    • 09:30 10:00
      Coffee 30m
    • 10:00 12:30
      Morning session
      • 10:00
        Introductory slides 30m
        Speaker: Jonathon Mark Langford (Imperial College (GB))
      • 10:30
        Part 1: online event classification @ LHC 1h
        Speaker: Jonathon Mark Langford (Imperial College (GB))
      • 11:30
        Part 2: Quantization-aware training with HGQ 1h
        Speaker: Jonathon Mark Langford (Imperial College (GB))
    • 12:30 14:00
      Lunch 1h 30m
    • 14:00 16:30
      Afternoon session
      • 14:00
        Part 3: advanced architectures (CNN) 1h
        Speaker: Lauri Antti Olavi Laatu (Imperial College (GB))
      • 15:00
        Coffee 30m
      • 15:30
        Part 4: advanced architectures (transformers, GNN) 1h