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They announced, in the talk, that this is all done locally on the phone. The phone will have a database of, iirc, 10,000 songs locally.

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Ah! Then I'm sure they have some way of making the data needed much smaller than I thought it could be!

They only need to store (and occasionally update) the kernel parameters for the trained deep neural net. Very small indeed.

how small, what technology is that?

I don't do neural nets, but if I had to crudely estimate... 10,000 songs (the outputs) * 16 layers * 16 parameters per node * 4 for the bytes per float = 10MB + a DB of song/artist names.

I'm probably underestimating the parameters per node, and overestimating the size of the layers closer to the input. Further, it's more likely structured as an LSTM than a convolutional network, since sound is a streaming source.

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