The key aspect in solving ML problems in telecom industry lies in continuous data collection and evaluation from different categories of customers and networks so as to track and dive into varying performance metrics. The KPIs form the basis of network monitoring helping network/telecom operators to automatically add and scale network resources. Such smart automated systems are built with the objective of increasing customer engagement through enhanced customer experience and tracking customer behavior anomaly with timely detection and correction. Further the system is designed to scale and serve current LTE, 4G and upcoming 5G networks with minimal non-effective cell site visits and quick identification of Root Cause Analysis (RCA).

Network congestion has remained an ever-increasing problem. Operators have attempted a variety of strategies to match the network demand capacity with existing infrastructure, as the cost of deploying additional network capacities is expensive. To keep the cost under control, operators apply control measures to attempt to allocate bandwidth fairly among users and throttle the bandwidth of users that consume excessive bandwidth. This approach had limited success. Alternatively, techniques that utilize extra bandwidth for quality of experience (QOE) efficiency by over-provisioning the network has proved to be ineffective and inefficient due to lack of proper estimation.

The evolution of 5G networks, would lead manufacturers and telecom operators to use high-data transfer rates, wide network coverage, low latency to build smart factories using automation, artificial intelligence and Internet of Things (IoT). The application of advanced data science and AI can provide better predictive insights to improve network capacity-planning accuracy. Better network provisioning would yield better network utilization for both next-generation networks based on 5G technology and current LTE and 4G networks. Further AI models can be designed to link application throughput with network performance, prompting users to plan their daily usage based on their current location and total monthly budget.

In this talk, we will understand the current challenges in the telecom industry, the need for an AIOPS platform, and the mission held by telecom operators, communication service providers across the world for designing such AI frameworks, platforms, and best practices. We will see how increasing operator collaborations are helping to create, deploy and produce AI platforms for different AI use-cases. We will study one industrial use-case (with code) based on real-time field research to predict network capacity. In this respect, we will investigate how deep learning networks can be used to train large volumes of data at scale (millions of network cells), and how its use can help the upcoming 5G networks. We will also examine an end-to-end pipeline of hosting the scalable framework on Google Cloud. As data volume is huge and data needs to be stored in highly secured systems, we build our high-performing system with extra security features that can process millions of request in an order of few mili-secs. As the session highlights parameters and metrics in creating a LSTM based neural network, it also discusses the challenges and some of the key aspects involved in designing and scaling the system.

20+ products. Millions of active customers. Insane amount of data and complex domain. Come join me in this talk to know the journey we at Gojek took to predict which of our products a user is most likely to use next.

A major problem we faced, as a company, was targeting our customers with promos and vouchers that were relevant to them. We developed a generalized model that takes into account the transaction history of users and gives a ranked list of our services that they are most likely to use next. From here on, we are able to determine the vouchers that we can target these customers with.

In this talk, I will be talking about how we used recommendation engines to solve this problem, the challenges we faced during the time and the impact it had on our conversion rates. I will also be talking about the different iterations we went through and how our problem statement evolved as we were solving the problem.

How do I know when to trust AI,and when not to?

Who goes to jail if a self driving car kills someone tomorrow?

Do you know scientists say people will believe anything,repeated enough

Designing AI systems is also an exercise in critical thinking because an AI is only as good as its creator.This talk is for discussions like these,and more.

With the exponential increase in computing power available, several AI algorithms that were mere papers written decades ago have become implementable. For a data scientist, it is very tempting to use the most sophisticated algorithm available. But given that its applicability has moved beyond academia and out into the business world, are numbers alone sufficient? Putting context to AI, or XAI (explainable AI) takes the black box out of AI to enhance human-computer interaction. This talk shall revolve around the interpret-ability-complexity trade-off, challenges, drivers and caveats of the XAI paradigm, and an intuitive demo of translating inner workings of an ML algorithm into human understandable formats to achieve more business buy-ins.

Prepare to be amused and enthralled at the same time.

Reinforcement learning helped Google's "AlphaGo" beat the world's best Go player. Have you wondered if you too can train a program to play a simple game?

Reinforcement learning is a simple yet powerful technique that is driving many applications, from recommender systems to autonomous vehicles. It is best suited to handle situations where the behavior of the system cannot be described in simple rules. For example, a trained reinforcement learning agent can understand the scene on the road and drive the car like a human. In supply chain management, RL agents can make decisions on inventory ordering.

In this talk, I will demonstrate how to train a RL agent to a) cross a maze and b) play a game of Tic-Tac-Toe against an intelligent opponent c) act as a warehouse manager and learn inventory ordering; with the help of plain python code. As you participate in this talk, you will master the basics of reinforcement learning and acquire the skills to train your own dragon.

Beyond predictions, some ML models provide rules to identify actionable sub-populations in support-confidence-lift paradigm. Along with making the models interpretable, rules make it easy for stakeholders to decide on the plan of action. We discuss rule-based models in production, rule-based ensembles, anchors using R package: tidyrules.