ADASS 2022

Humberto Farias Aroca

I am a researcher at the Chilean Virtual Observatory (ChiVO) and the Universidad Técnica Federico Santa Maria (UTFSM). My master's degree is in Information Technology from UTFSM. Currently, I am completing my PhD at the same university. During my professional career, I have been involved in and led teams focused on the application of machine learning models to solve problems in a variety of disciplinary areas. This includes implementing the solutions in a production environment as well. In addition, I am certified in data science by NVIDIA. Astroinformatics, deep learning, data science, and Tensor Methods in Machine Learning are some of my research interests.


Session

11-02
19:45
15min
Energy-efficient Deep Learning model for detecting and classifying galaxies
Humberto Farias Aroca

A Computer vision models based on deep learning are used in a wide variety of image processing pipelines in astronomy. Due to the volume and complexity of data that will be generated, modern astronomy is already undergoing a paradigm shift. New scientific megaprojects such as Vera Rubin, SKA, or E-ELT have created engineering challenges that have made it necessary to develop new techniques and models that take into account the nature of the data they will process. As deep learning architectures are known to function in a state where there are many more parameters than training examples, this requirement is directly related to the design of the model architecture. When considering the volume of astronomical data, this type of architecture has a high energy cost in several areas. The speeding up of convolutional neural networks can be achieved through a variety of techniques and approaches. Nevertheless, reducing computational power, memory, and energy consumption while maintaining model performance always entails a trade-off. An energy-efficient object detection model is presented here for morphological classification and galaxy location. In this presentation, we will present a number of techniques, including results demonstrating that tensor and running methods applied to the architecture's backbone yield a powerful model that approaches the results of the current SOTA. However, the most significant contribution is a 40% reduction in the number of parameters and a 30% reduction in energy consumption.

ADASS Conference Room 1