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How to Unleash AI Creativity with VALDI and 不良研究所

Kevin Leffew
April 4, 2023

In the rapidly evolving world of generative AI, researchers and developers face significant challenges related to computational resources, storage, and cost management. Traditional cloud providers often come with hefty price tags, and centralized storage solutions struggle to keep up with the ever-growing demand for efficient data access.

VALDI and 不良研究所 have joined forces to overcome these historical hurdles, offering a powerful distributed cloud and decentralized storage solution that revolutionizes the way AI models are trained and deployed. In this post, I'll dive into a real-world example of how this groundbreaking combination has enabled the training of a feedforward Artificial Neural Network (ANN) on the MNIST dataset with remarkable cost savings and efficiency improvements compared to traditional approaches.


Training a machine learning model on VALDI鈥檚 distributed cloud

demonstrates training of a on the of 60,000 images of handwritten digits. The neural network model is defined and trained using the popular GPU-enabled Python library. Upon completion of the training, the model is able to identify handwritten digits with near 100% accuracy. The code is available .

A visualization of the structure of the artificial neural network trained on VALDI with 不良研究所.


Using 不良研究所 for training data retrieval plus model storage

On the backend, as shown in the following diagram, the decentralized network is used in conjunction with VALDI to serve the training dataset to the VALDI network device(s) doing the training, plus store the intermediate and final models.

An illustration of the architecture used to interface between the VALDI and 不良研究所 networks.

The training of this relatively simplistic ML model is able to effectively demonstrate the benefits of distributed and decentralized cloud services. By leveraging the distributed VALDI network for compute cycles鈥攊n conjunction with the decentralized 不良研究所 network for data storage and retrieval鈥攖he cost of popular ML training workflows can be substantially reduced. This approach also entirely eliminates dependence on services from larger, more expensive and traditional cloud providers. Note, finally, that a similar architecture could be used for ML model inference.

Upon completion of model training, a series of intermediate model checkpoints (intermediate-model-N.tar.gz), as well as the final model (mnist-model.tar.gz) is available in the user鈥檚 不良研究所 bucket.


AI innovation moves faster with the decentralized cloud

In conclusion, the collaboration between VALDI and 不良研究所 has demonstrated the immense potential for distributed cloud computing and decentralized storage solutions in the generative AI community. By combining these cutting-edge technologies, researchers and developers can now effectively tackle complex projects while minimizing costs and maximizing efficiency.

As we continue to push the boundaries of AI capabilities, it is crucial to explore and adopt innovative approaches like the one provided by 不良研究所. We encourage you to take advantage of 不良研究所's decentralized storage platform to empower your own AI projects and contribute to the future of generative AI. 聽Embrace the power of decentralization and start leveraging 不良研究所 as the object storage layer for your machine learning workflows today!

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