model-zoo VS AlphaZero.jl

If your task is limited to isolated words or words that are separated by spaces, you can reverse the [CMU Pronouncing Dictionary](www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/cmudict). In a programmatic environment with a dictionary/hash map, you will need to have the values be an extensible list of some sort to account for homophones. You could also train an ML model to convert phonemes to graphemes, like reversing this neural network model.

You can also do some deep learning in Julia if you like. Flux.jl is Julia's deep learning library, and they have a model zoo of easy to follow working examples as a good starting point.

Secondly, flux.train! computes epochs automatically and is designed to take the entire data set. If you want to use the DataLoader, I think you probably need to write a custom training loop. It's not that complicated thankfully. The model zoo has some nice examples like: https://github.com/FluxML/model-zoo/blob/master/vision/mlp_mnist/mlp_mnist.jl

Check out the Flux.jl model zoo: https://github.com/FluxML/model-zoo#examples-listing

Could using something like AlphaZero.jl make it more efficient?

https://github.com/jonathan-laurent/AlphaZero.jl

As a researcher in machine learning, I wanted to explore applications of Deepmind’s AlphaZero algorithm beyond board games (such as in automated theorem proving or chemical synthesis).

However, I noticed that existing open-source implementations of AlphaZero mostly consisted in complex C++ codebases that are highly specialized for specific games (eg. Leela Zero and LC0). Accessible Python implementations could be found but they were usually too slow to do anything useful on limited computing power.

Seeing this, I built AlphaZero.jl: https://github.com/jonathan-laurent/AlphaZero.jl

AlphaZero.jl is written in Julia and it is consistently one to two orders of magnitude faster than competing Python alternatives, while being equally simple and flexible. I just released a new version a few days ago with many new features (support for distributed computing, support for arbitrary MDPs...).

If you are a student, a researcher or a hacker curious about AlphaZero, please consider having a look!