TensorFlowJS vs IBM Watson

[Niño Ross Rodriguez]

Hello everyone, 

Im fairly new to the world of machine learning and been playing with the available tools out there.  I am impressed with both IBM Watson and TensorFlow.  However, when I trained IBM Watson, it not only produced the model faster, it was really accurate.  On the other hand, when I trained TensorFlow with the same set of data, it not only took a long time (well maybe because I was just using my own machine) but it was totally erroneous.  

Any ideas why?  Or tips on how to improve training?

[Shanqing Cai]

Is IBM Watson's training browser-based? From what I know, it isn't: it is backed by server-side compute resources. TensorFlow.js performs training in the client-side browser (assuming you are not using the Node.JS binding of TensorFlow.js), which is a resource restricted environment. So it may not be a fair comparison.

[Niño Ross Rodriguez]

Lets paint a scenario:

4 folders containing 100 images each.  One went to IBM Watson for training using NodeJS, the other set went through TensorFlow using the process from the Scavenger Hunt demo (https://github.com/google/emoji-scavenger-hunt).  

IBM Watson is all API based so it was pretty straight forward.  Upload to their system and wait.

TensorFlow on the other hand, I used python to train the same set of images and just used my own computer (MacBook 2015 edition maybe).

Can we assume that IBM Watson might be backed up with a good server farm and algorithm better than tensorflow thus creating a faster and more accurate result? From my initial testing of a Dandelion turned out to be a Thistle

[Stan Bileschi]

A fairer comparison to Watson here would probably be against cloud automl vision API:

[Niño Ross Rodriguez]

Yes but cloud vision doesn't let you train your own image classifier

[Stan Bileschi]

Hrm, I guess you are right.  I had it confused with cloud AutoML, which is only in Alpha.

https://cloud.google.com/automl/

On Fri, Jun 1, 2018 at 5:54 PM, Niño Ross Rodriguez <onin...@gmail.com> wrote:

Yes but cloud vision doesn't let you train your own image classifier

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