論文「Blazing the trails before beating the path: Sample-efficient Monte-Carlo planning」紹介スライドです。NIPS2016読み会@PFN(2017/1/19) https://connpass.com/event/47580/ にて。
Safe and Efficient Off-Policy Reinforcement Learningmooopan
This document summarizes the Retrace(λ) reinforcement learning algorithm presented by Remi Munos, Thomas Stepleton, Anna Harutyunyan and Marc G. Bellemare. Retrace(λ) is an off-policy multi-step reinforcement learning algorithm that is safe (converges for any policy), efficient (makes best use of samples when policies are close), and has lower variance than importance sampling. Empirical results on Atari 2600 games show Retrace(λ) outperforms one-step Q-learning and existing multi-step methods.
Improving Variational Inference with Inverse Autoregressive FlowTatsuya Shirakawa
This slide was created for NIPS 2016 study meetup.
IAF and other related researches are briefly explained.
paper:
Diederik P. Kingma et al., "Improving Variational Inference with Inverse Autoregressive Flow", 2016
https://papers.nips.cc/paper/6581-improving-variational-autoencoders-with-inverse-autoregressive-flow
Matineh Shaker, Artificial Intelligence Scientist, Bonsai at MLconf SF 2017MLconf
This document discusses deep reinforcement learning and concept network reinforcement learning. It begins with an introduction to reinforcement learning concepts like Markov decision processes and value-based methods. It then describes Concept-Network Reinforcement Learning which decomposes complex tasks into high-level concepts or actions. This allows composing existing solutions to sub-problems without retraining. The document provides examples of using concept networks for lunar lander and robot pick-and-place tasks. It concludes by discussing how concept networks can improve sample efficiency, especially for sparse reward problems.
Tamara G. Kolda, Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, Sandia National Lab...MLconf
Tensor Decomposition: A Mathematical Tool for Data Analysis:
Tensors are multiway arrays, and tensor decompositions are powerful tools for data analysis. In this talk, we demonstrate the wide-ranging utility of the canonical polyadic (CP) tensor decomposition with examples in neuroscience and chemical detection. The CP model is extremely useful for interpretation, as we show with an example in neuroscience. However, it can be difficult to fit to real data for a variety of reasons. We present a novel randomized method for fitting the CP decomposition to dense data that is more scalable and robust than the standard techniques. We further consider the modeling assumptions for fitting tensor decompositions to data and explain alternative strategies for different statistical scenarios, resulting in a _generalized_ CP tensor decomposition.
Bio: Tamara G. Kolda is a member of the Data Science and Cyber Analytics Department at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, CA. Her research is generally in the area of computational science and data analysis, with specialties in multilinear algebra and tensor decompositions, graph models and algorithms, data mining, optimization, nonlinear solvers, parallel computing and the design of scientific software. She has received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), been named a Distinguished Scientist of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). She was the winner of an R&D100 award and three best paper prizes at international conferences. She is currently a member of the SIAM Board of Trustees and serves as associate editor for both the SIAM J. Scientific Computing and the SIAM J. Matrix Analysis and Applications.
InfoGAN: Interpretable Representation Learning by Information Maximizing Gen...Shuhei Yoshida
Unsupervised learning of disentangled representations was the goal. The approach was to use GANs and maximize the mutual information between generated images and input codes. This led to the benefit of obtaining interpretable representations without supervision and at substantial additional costs.
Sergei Vassilvitskii, Research Scientist, Google at MLconf NYC - 4/15/16MLconf
The document discusses new techniques for improving the k-means clustering algorithm. It begins by describing the standard k-means algorithm and Lloyd's method. It then discusses issues with random initialization for k-means. It proposes using furthest point initialization (k-means++) as an improvement. The document also discusses parallelizing k-means initialization (k-means||) and using nearest neighbor data structures to speed up assigning points to clusters, which allows k-means to scale to many clusters. Experimental results show these techniques provide faster and higher quality clustering compared to standard k-means.
Safe and Efficient Off-Policy Reinforcement Learningmooopan
This document summarizes the Retrace(λ) reinforcement learning algorithm presented by Remi Munos, Thomas Stepleton, Anna Harutyunyan and Marc G. Bellemare. Retrace(λ) is an off-policy multi-step reinforcement learning algorithm that is safe (converges for any policy), efficient (makes best use of samples when policies are close), and has lower variance than importance sampling. Empirical results on Atari 2600 games show Retrace(λ) outperforms one-step Q-learning and existing multi-step methods.
Improving Variational Inference with Inverse Autoregressive FlowTatsuya Shirakawa
This slide was created for NIPS 2016 study meetup.
IAF and other related researches are briefly explained.
paper:
Diederik P. Kingma et al., "Improving Variational Inference with Inverse Autoregressive Flow", 2016
https://papers.nips.cc/paper/6581-improving-variational-autoencoders-with-inverse-autoregressive-flow
Matineh Shaker, Artificial Intelligence Scientist, Bonsai at MLconf SF 2017MLconf
This document discusses deep reinforcement learning and concept network reinforcement learning. It begins with an introduction to reinforcement learning concepts like Markov decision processes and value-based methods. It then describes Concept-Network Reinforcement Learning which decomposes complex tasks into high-level concepts or actions. This allows composing existing solutions to sub-problems without retraining. The document provides examples of using concept networks for lunar lander and robot pick-and-place tasks. It concludes by discussing how concept networks can improve sample efficiency, especially for sparse reward problems.
Tamara G. Kolda, Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, Sandia National Lab...MLconf
Tensor Decomposition: A Mathematical Tool for Data Analysis:
Tensors are multiway arrays, and tensor decompositions are powerful tools for data analysis. In this talk, we demonstrate the wide-ranging utility of the canonical polyadic (CP) tensor decomposition with examples in neuroscience and chemical detection. The CP model is extremely useful for interpretation, as we show with an example in neuroscience. However, it can be difficult to fit to real data for a variety of reasons. We present a novel randomized method for fitting the CP decomposition to dense data that is more scalable and robust than the standard techniques. We further consider the modeling assumptions for fitting tensor decompositions to data and explain alternative strategies for different statistical scenarios, resulting in a _generalized_ CP tensor decomposition.
Bio: Tamara G. Kolda is a member of the Data Science and Cyber Analytics Department at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, CA. Her research is generally in the area of computational science and data analysis, with specialties in multilinear algebra and tensor decompositions, graph models and algorithms, data mining, optimization, nonlinear solvers, parallel computing and the design of scientific software. She has received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), been named a Distinguished Scientist of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). She was the winner of an R&D100 award and three best paper prizes at international conferences. She is currently a member of the SIAM Board of Trustees and serves as associate editor for both the SIAM J. Scientific Computing and the SIAM J. Matrix Analysis and Applications.
InfoGAN: Interpretable Representation Learning by Information Maximizing Gen...Shuhei Yoshida
Unsupervised learning of disentangled representations was the goal. The approach was to use GANs and maximize the mutual information between generated images and input codes. This led to the benefit of obtaining interpretable representations without supervision and at substantial additional costs.
Sergei Vassilvitskii, Research Scientist, Google at MLconf NYC - 4/15/16MLconf
The document discusses new techniques for improving the k-means clustering algorithm. It begins by describing the standard k-means algorithm and Lloyd's method. It then discusses issues with random initialization for k-means. It proposes using furthest point initialization (k-means++) as an improvement. The document also discusses parallelizing k-means initialization (k-means||) and using nearest neighbor data structures to speed up assigning points to clusters, which allows k-means to scale to many clusters. Experimental results show these techniques provide faster and higher quality clustering compared to standard k-means.
This presentation is for introducing google DeepMind's DeepDPG algorithm to my colleagues.
I tried my best to make it easy to be understood...
Comment is always welcome :)
hiddenmaze91.blogspot.com
- Leslie Smith discusses their research into optimizing learning rates for training neural networks. They developed cyclical learning rates which vary the learning rate between a minimum and maximum value during training. This allows networks to train faster with larger learning rates.
- Smith applied a technique called "super-convergence" which starts with a small learning rate and increases it to a large maximum, enabling very fast training. They developed a "1cycle" learning rate schedule that applies one cycle of this.
- Smith's learning rate optimization techniques helped teams win competitions like DAWNBench and Kaggle challenges by enabling fast training of models. Smith's research also showed that weight decay optimization is important and decaying it over time can improve large
Classifying Multi-Variate Time Series at Scale:
Characterizing and understanding the runtime behavior of large scale Big Data production systems is extremely important. Typical systems consist of hundreds to thousands of machines in a cluster with hundreds of terabytes of storage costing millions of dollars, solving problems that are business critical. By instrumenting each running process, and measuring their resource utilization including CPU, Memory, I/O, network etc., as time series it is possible to understand and characterize the workload on these massive clusters. Each time series is a series consisting of tens to tens of thousands of data points that must be ingested and then classified. At Pepperdata, our instrumentation of the clusters collects over three hundred metrics from each task every five seconds resulting in millions of data points per hour. At this scale the data are equivalent to the biggest IOT data sets in the world. Our objective is to classify the collection of time series into a set of classes that represent different work load types. Or phrased differently, our problem is essentially the problem of classifying multivariate time series.
In this talk, we propose a unique, off-the-shelf approach to classifying time series that achieves near best-in-class accuracy for univariate series and generalizes to multivariate time series. Our technique maps each time series to a Grammian Angular Difference Field (GADF), interprets that as an image, uses Google’s pre-trained CNN (trained on Inception v3) to map the GADF images into a 2048-dimensional vector space and then uses a small MLP with two hidden layers, with fifty nodes in each layer, and a softmax output to achieve the final classification. Our work is not domain specific – a fact proven by our achieving competitive accuracies with published results on the univariate UCR data set as well as the multivariate UCI data set.
Bio: Before joining Pepperdata, Ash was executive chairman for Marianas Labs, a deep learning startup sold in December 2015. Prior to that he was CEO for Graphite Systems, a big data storage startup that was sold to EMC DSSD in August 2015. Munshi also served as CTO of Yahoo, as a CEO of both public and private companies, and is on the board of several technology startups.
Dual Learning for Machine Translation (NIPS 2016)Toru Fujino
The paper introduces a dual learning algorithm that utilizes monolingual data to improve neural machine translation. The algorithm trains two translation models in both directions simultaneously. Experimental results show that when trained with only 10% of parallel data, the dual learning model achieves comparable results to baseline models trained on 100% of data. The dual learning mechanism also outperforms baselines when trained on full data and can help address the lack of large parallel corpora.
Hyperparameter optimization with approximate gradientFabian Pedregosa
This document discusses hyperparameter optimization using approximate gradients. It introduces the problem of optimizing hyperparameters along with model parameters. While model parameters can be estimated from data, hyperparameters require methods like cross-validation. The document proposes using approximate gradients to optimize hyperparameters more efficiently than costly methods like grid search. It derives the gradient of the objective with respect to hyperparameters and presents an algorithm called HOAG that approximates this gradient using inexact solutions. The document analyzes HOAG's convergence and provides experimental results comparing it to other hyperparameter optimization methods.
Dueling network architectures for deep reinforcement learningTaehoon Kim
1. The document proposes a dueling network architecture for deep reinforcement learning that separately estimates state value and state-dependent action advantages without extra supervision.
2. It introduces a dueling deep Q-network that uses a single network with two streams - one that produces a state value and the other that produces state-dependent action advantages, which are then combined to estimate the state-action value function.
3. Experiments on Atari games show that the dueling network outperforms traditional deep Q-networks, achieving better performance in both random starts and starts from human demonstrations.
This document discusses machine learning and K-means clustering. It provides an overview of the K-means algorithm, including random initialization of clusters, cluster assignment and moving centroid steps. It also discusses choosing the number of clusters, evaluating and visualizing K-means clustering, and some applications of clustering like image analysis and market segmentation. The document is attributed to Andrew Ng and references his lecture slides on machine learning and K-means clustering.
Tutorial on Theory and Application of Generative Adversarial NetworksMLReview
Description
Generative adversarial network (GAN) has recently emerged as a promising generative modeling approach. It consists of a generative network and a discriminative network. Through the competition between the two networks, it learns to model the data distribution. In addition to modeling the image/video distribution in computer vision problems, the framework finds use in defining visual concept using examples. To a large extent, it eliminates the need of hand-crafting objective functions for various computer vision problems. In this tutorial, we will present an overview of generative adversarial network research. We will cover several recent theoretical studies as well as training techniques and will also cover several vision applications of generative adversarial networks.
1118_Seminar_Continuous_Deep Q-Learning with Model based accelerationHye-min Ahn
The document summarizes a research paper titled "Continuous Deep Q-Learning with Model-based Acceleration" presented at ICML 2016. It proposes a method that incorporates advantages of both model-free and model-based reinforcement learning. The method uses deep Q-learning with normalized advantage functions to learn a parameterized Q-function for continuous state-action spaces. It accelerates the learning process by using trajectory optimization from an imagined model to generate exploratory behaviors during data collection.
Dr. Erin LeDell, Machine Learning Scientist, H2O.ai at MLconf SEA - 5/20/16MLconf
Multi-algorithm Ensemble Learning at Scale: Software, Hardware and Algorithmic Approaches: Multi-algorithm ensemble machine learning methods are often used when the true prediction function is not easily approximated by a single algorithm. The Super Learner algorithm, also known as stacking, combines multiple, typically diverse, base learning algorithms into a single, powerful prediction function through a secondary learning process called metalearning. Although ensemble methods offer superior performance over their singleton counterparts, there is an implicit computational cost to ensembles, as it requires training and cross-validating multiple base learning algorithms.
We will demonstrate a variety of software- and hardware-based approaches that lead to more scalable ensemble learning software, including a highly scalable implementation of stacking called “H2O Ensemble”, built on top of the open source, distributed machine learning platform, H2O. H2O Ensemble scales across multi-node clusters and allows the user to create ensembles of deep neural networks, Gradient Boosting Machines, Random Forest, and others. As for algorithm-based approaches, we will present two algorithmic modifications to the original stacking algorithm that further reduce computation time — Subsemble algorithm and the Online Super Learner algorithm. This talk will also include benchmarks of the implementations of these new stacking variants.
Breaking the Nonsmooth Barrier: A Scalable Parallel Method for Composite Opti...Fabian Pedregosa
The document proposes a new parallel method called Proximal Asynchronous Stochastic Gradient Average (ProxASAGA) for solving composite optimization problems. ProxASAGA extends SAGA to handle nonsmooth objectives using proximal operators, and runs asynchronously in parallel without locks. It is shown to converge at the same linear rate as the sequential algorithm theoretically, and achieves speedups of 6-12x on a 20-core machine in practice on large datasets, with greater speedups on sparser problems as predicted by theory.
This document discusses speaker diarization, which is the process of segmenting an audio stream into homogeneous segments according to speaker identity. It covers feature extraction methods like MFCCs, segmentation using Bayesian Information Criteria to compare Gaussian mixture models, and clustering algorithms like k-means and hierarchical agglomerative clustering. Dendrogram visualizations are used to identify natural speaker clusters. The overall goal is to partition audio recordings of discussions or debates into homogeneous segments to attribute speech segments to individual speakers.
This document provides an overview of deep deterministic policy gradient (DDPG), which combines aspects of DQN and policy gradient methods to enable deep reinforcement learning with continuous action spaces. It summarizes DQN and its limitations for continuous domains. It then explains policy gradient methods like REINFORCE, actor-critic, and deterministic policy gradient (DPG) that can handle continuous action spaces. DDPG adopts key elements of DQN like experience replay and target networks, and models the policy as a deterministic function like DPG, to apply deep reinforcement learning to complex continuous control tasks.
Data science involves extracting insights from large volumes of data. It is an interdisciplinary field that uses techniques from statistics, machine learning, and other domains. The document provides examples of classification algorithms like k-nearest neighbors, naive Bayes, and perceptrons that are commonly used in data science to build models for tasks like spam filtering or sentiment analysis. It also discusses clustering, frequent pattern mining, and other machine learning concepts.
This document discusses k-means clustering and different initialization methods. K-means clustering partitions objects into k clusters based on their attributes, with objects in the same cluster being similar and objects in different clusters being dissimilar. The initialization method affects the clustering result and number of iterations, with better initialization methods leading to fewer iterations. The document compares random, Forgy, MacQueen, and Kaufman initialization methods.
Melanie Warrick, Deep Learning Engineer, Skymind.io at MLconf SF - 11/13/15MLconf
Attention Neural Net Model Fundamentals: Neural networks have regained popularity over the last decade because they are demonstrating real world value in different applications (e.g. targeted advertising, recommender engines, Siri, self driving cars, facial recognition). Several model types are currently explored in the field with recurrent neural networks (RNN) and convolution neural networks (CNN) taking the top focus. The attention model, a recently developed RNN variant, has started to play a larger role in both natural language processing and image analysis research.
This talk will cover the fundamentals of the attention model structure and how its applied to visual and speech analysis. I will provide an overview of the model functionality and math including a high-level differentiation between soft and hard types. The goal is to give you enough of an understanding of what the model is, how it works and where to apply it.
Conditional Image Generation with PixelCNN Decoderssuga93
The document summarizes research on conditional image generation using PixelCNN decoders. It discusses how PixelCNNs sequentially predict pixel values rather than the whole image at once. Previous work used PixelRNNs, but these were slow to train. The proposed approach uses a Gated PixelCNN that removes blind spots in the receptive field by combining horizontal and vertical feature maps. It also conditions PixelCNN layers on class labels or embeddings to generate conditional images. Experimental results show the Gated PixelCNN outperforms PixelCNN and achieves performance close to PixelRNN on CIFAR-10 and ImageNet, while training faster. It can also generate portraits conditioned on embeddings of people.
This presentation is for introducing google DeepMind's DeepDPG algorithm to my colleagues.
I tried my best to make it easy to be understood...
Comment is always welcome :)
hiddenmaze91.blogspot.com
- Leslie Smith discusses their research into optimizing learning rates for training neural networks. They developed cyclical learning rates which vary the learning rate between a minimum and maximum value during training. This allows networks to train faster with larger learning rates.
- Smith applied a technique called "super-convergence" which starts with a small learning rate and increases it to a large maximum, enabling very fast training. They developed a "1cycle" learning rate schedule that applies one cycle of this.
- Smith's learning rate optimization techniques helped teams win competitions like DAWNBench and Kaggle challenges by enabling fast training of models. Smith's research also showed that weight decay optimization is important and decaying it over time can improve large
Classifying Multi-Variate Time Series at Scale:
Characterizing and understanding the runtime behavior of large scale Big Data production systems is extremely important. Typical systems consist of hundreds to thousands of machines in a cluster with hundreds of terabytes of storage costing millions of dollars, solving problems that are business critical. By instrumenting each running process, and measuring their resource utilization including CPU, Memory, I/O, network etc., as time series it is possible to understand and characterize the workload on these massive clusters. Each time series is a series consisting of tens to tens of thousands of data points that must be ingested and then classified. At Pepperdata, our instrumentation of the clusters collects over three hundred metrics from each task every five seconds resulting in millions of data points per hour. At this scale the data are equivalent to the biggest IOT data sets in the world. Our objective is to classify the collection of time series into a set of classes that represent different work load types. Or phrased differently, our problem is essentially the problem of classifying multivariate time series.
In this talk, we propose a unique, off-the-shelf approach to classifying time series that achieves near best-in-class accuracy for univariate series and generalizes to multivariate time series. Our technique maps each time series to a Grammian Angular Difference Field (GADF), interprets that as an image, uses Google’s pre-trained CNN (trained on Inception v3) to map the GADF images into a 2048-dimensional vector space and then uses a small MLP with two hidden layers, with fifty nodes in each layer, and a softmax output to achieve the final classification. Our work is not domain specific – a fact proven by our achieving competitive accuracies with published results on the univariate UCR data set as well as the multivariate UCI data set.
Bio: Before joining Pepperdata, Ash was executive chairman for Marianas Labs, a deep learning startup sold in December 2015. Prior to that he was CEO for Graphite Systems, a big data storage startup that was sold to EMC DSSD in August 2015. Munshi also served as CTO of Yahoo, as a CEO of both public and private companies, and is on the board of several technology startups.
Dual Learning for Machine Translation (NIPS 2016)Toru Fujino
The paper introduces a dual learning algorithm that utilizes monolingual data to improve neural machine translation. The algorithm trains two translation models in both directions simultaneously. Experimental results show that when trained with only 10% of parallel data, the dual learning model achieves comparable results to baseline models trained on 100% of data. The dual learning mechanism also outperforms baselines when trained on full data and can help address the lack of large parallel corpora.
Hyperparameter optimization with approximate gradientFabian Pedregosa
This document discusses hyperparameter optimization using approximate gradients. It introduces the problem of optimizing hyperparameters along with model parameters. While model parameters can be estimated from data, hyperparameters require methods like cross-validation. The document proposes using approximate gradients to optimize hyperparameters more efficiently than costly methods like grid search. It derives the gradient of the objective with respect to hyperparameters and presents an algorithm called HOAG that approximates this gradient using inexact solutions. The document analyzes HOAG's convergence and provides experimental results comparing it to other hyperparameter optimization methods.
Dueling network architectures for deep reinforcement learningTaehoon Kim
1. The document proposes a dueling network architecture for deep reinforcement learning that separately estimates state value and state-dependent action advantages without extra supervision.
2. It introduces a dueling deep Q-network that uses a single network with two streams - one that produces a state value and the other that produces state-dependent action advantages, which are then combined to estimate the state-action value function.
3. Experiments on Atari games show that the dueling network outperforms traditional deep Q-networks, achieving better performance in both random starts and starts from human demonstrations.
This document discusses machine learning and K-means clustering. It provides an overview of the K-means algorithm, including random initialization of clusters, cluster assignment and moving centroid steps. It also discusses choosing the number of clusters, evaluating and visualizing K-means clustering, and some applications of clustering like image analysis and market segmentation. The document is attributed to Andrew Ng and references his lecture slides on machine learning and K-means clustering.
Tutorial on Theory and Application of Generative Adversarial NetworksMLReview
Description
Generative adversarial network (GAN) has recently emerged as a promising generative modeling approach. It consists of a generative network and a discriminative network. Through the competition between the two networks, it learns to model the data distribution. In addition to modeling the image/video distribution in computer vision problems, the framework finds use in defining visual concept using examples. To a large extent, it eliminates the need of hand-crafting objective functions for various computer vision problems. In this tutorial, we will present an overview of generative adversarial network research. We will cover several recent theoretical studies as well as training techniques and will also cover several vision applications of generative adversarial networks.
1118_Seminar_Continuous_Deep Q-Learning with Model based accelerationHye-min Ahn
The document summarizes a research paper titled "Continuous Deep Q-Learning with Model-based Acceleration" presented at ICML 2016. It proposes a method that incorporates advantages of both model-free and model-based reinforcement learning. The method uses deep Q-learning with normalized advantage functions to learn a parameterized Q-function for continuous state-action spaces. It accelerates the learning process by using trajectory optimization from an imagined model to generate exploratory behaviors during data collection.
Dr. Erin LeDell, Machine Learning Scientist, H2O.ai at MLconf SEA - 5/20/16MLconf
Multi-algorithm Ensemble Learning at Scale: Software, Hardware and Algorithmic Approaches: Multi-algorithm ensemble machine learning methods are often used when the true prediction function is not easily approximated by a single algorithm. The Super Learner algorithm, also known as stacking, combines multiple, typically diverse, base learning algorithms into a single, powerful prediction function through a secondary learning process called metalearning. Although ensemble methods offer superior performance over their singleton counterparts, there is an implicit computational cost to ensembles, as it requires training and cross-validating multiple base learning algorithms.
We will demonstrate a variety of software- and hardware-based approaches that lead to more scalable ensemble learning software, including a highly scalable implementation of stacking called “H2O Ensemble”, built on top of the open source, distributed machine learning platform, H2O. H2O Ensemble scales across multi-node clusters and allows the user to create ensembles of deep neural networks, Gradient Boosting Machines, Random Forest, and others. As for algorithm-based approaches, we will present two algorithmic modifications to the original stacking algorithm that further reduce computation time — Subsemble algorithm and the Online Super Learner algorithm. This talk will also include benchmarks of the implementations of these new stacking variants.
Breaking the Nonsmooth Barrier: A Scalable Parallel Method for Composite Opti...Fabian Pedregosa
The document proposes a new parallel method called Proximal Asynchronous Stochastic Gradient Average (ProxASAGA) for solving composite optimization problems. ProxASAGA extends SAGA to handle nonsmooth objectives using proximal operators, and runs asynchronously in parallel without locks. It is shown to converge at the same linear rate as the sequential algorithm theoretically, and achieves speedups of 6-12x on a 20-core machine in practice on large datasets, with greater speedups on sparser problems as predicted by theory.
This document discusses speaker diarization, which is the process of segmenting an audio stream into homogeneous segments according to speaker identity. It covers feature extraction methods like MFCCs, segmentation using Bayesian Information Criteria to compare Gaussian mixture models, and clustering algorithms like k-means and hierarchical agglomerative clustering. Dendrogram visualizations are used to identify natural speaker clusters. The overall goal is to partition audio recordings of discussions or debates into homogeneous segments to attribute speech segments to individual speakers.
This document provides an overview of deep deterministic policy gradient (DDPG), which combines aspects of DQN and policy gradient methods to enable deep reinforcement learning with continuous action spaces. It summarizes DQN and its limitations for continuous domains. It then explains policy gradient methods like REINFORCE, actor-critic, and deterministic policy gradient (DPG) that can handle continuous action spaces. DDPG adopts key elements of DQN like experience replay and target networks, and models the policy as a deterministic function like DPG, to apply deep reinforcement learning to complex continuous control tasks.
Data science involves extracting insights from large volumes of data. It is an interdisciplinary field that uses techniques from statistics, machine learning, and other domains. The document provides examples of classification algorithms like k-nearest neighbors, naive Bayes, and perceptrons that are commonly used in data science to build models for tasks like spam filtering or sentiment analysis. It also discusses clustering, frequent pattern mining, and other machine learning concepts.
This document discusses k-means clustering and different initialization methods. K-means clustering partitions objects into k clusters based on their attributes, with objects in the same cluster being similar and objects in different clusters being dissimilar. The initialization method affects the clustering result and number of iterations, with better initialization methods leading to fewer iterations. The document compares random, Forgy, MacQueen, and Kaufman initialization methods.
Melanie Warrick, Deep Learning Engineer, Skymind.io at MLconf SF - 11/13/15MLconf
Attention Neural Net Model Fundamentals: Neural networks have regained popularity over the last decade because they are demonstrating real world value in different applications (e.g. targeted advertising, recommender engines, Siri, self driving cars, facial recognition). Several model types are currently explored in the field with recurrent neural networks (RNN) and convolution neural networks (CNN) taking the top focus. The attention model, a recently developed RNN variant, has started to play a larger role in both natural language processing and image analysis research.
This talk will cover the fundamentals of the attention model structure and how its applied to visual and speech analysis. I will provide an overview of the model functionality and math including a high-level differentiation between soft and hard types. The goal is to give you enough of an understanding of what the model is, how it works and where to apply it.
Conditional Image Generation with PixelCNN Decoderssuga93
The document summarizes research on conditional image generation using PixelCNN decoders. It discusses how PixelCNNs sequentially predict pixel values rather than the whole image at once. Previous work used PixelRNNs, but these were slow to train. The proposed approach uses a Gated PixelCNN that removes blind spots in the receptive field by combining horizontal and vertical feature maps. It also conditions PixelCNN layers on class labels or embeddings to generate conditional images. Experimental results show the Gated PixelCNN outperforms PixelCNN and achieves performance close to PixelRNN on CIFAR-10 and ImageNet, while training faster. It can also generate portraits conditioned on embeddings of people.
Interaction Networks for Learning about Objects, Relations and PhysicsKen Kuroki
For my presentation for a reading group. I have not in any way contributed this study, which is done by the researchers named on the first slide.
https://papers.nips.cc/paper/6418-interaction-networks-for-learning-about-objects-relations-and-physics
Value Iteration Networks is a machine learning method for robot path planning that can operate in new environments not seen during training. It works by predicting optimal actions through learning reward values for each state and propagating rewards to determine the sum of future rewards. The method was shown to be effective for planning in grid maps and continuous control tasks, and was even applied to navigation of Wikipedia links.
Introduction of “Fairness in Learning: Classic and Contextual Bandits”Kazuto Fukuchi
1. The document discusses fairness constraints in contextual bandit problems and classic bandit problems.
2. It shows that for classic bandits, Θ(k^3) rounds are necessary and sufficient to achieve a non-trivial regret under fairness constraints.
3. For contextual bandits, it establishes a tight relationship between achieving fairness and Knows What it Knows (KWIK) learning, where KWIK learnability implies the existence of fair learning algorithms.
Fast and Probvably Seedings for k-MeansKimikazu Kato
The document proposes a new MCMC-based algorithm for initializing centroids in k-means clustering that does not assume a specific distribution of the input data, unlike previous work. It uses rejection sampling to emulate the distribution and select initial centroids that are widely scattered. The algorithm is proven mathematically to converge. Experimental results on synthetic and real-world datasets show it performs well with a good trade-off of accuracy and speed compared to existing techniques.
The document summarizes the paper "Matching Networks for One Shot Learning". It discusses one-shot learning, where a classifier can learn new concepts from only one or a few examples. It introduces matching networks, a new approach that trains an end-to-end nearest neighbor classifier for one-shot learning tasks. The matching networks architecture uses an attention mechanism to compare a test example to a small support set and achieve state-of-the-art one-shot accuracy on Omniglot and other datasets. The document provides background on one-shot learning challenges and related work on siamese networks, memory augmented neural networks, and attention mechanisms.
This document provides an introduction to genetic algorithms and their applications in VLSI design and automation. It discusses the fundamentals of genetic algorithms including genetic representation, selection, crossover and mutation operators. Examples are provided for simple function optimization and the traveling salesman problem. The document also discusses applications of genetic algorithms for VLSI design problems such as partitioning, placement, routing, technology mapping and automatic test pattern generation. It provides details on genetic algorithm parameters and compares genetic algorithms to traditional optimization methods.
Artificial Intelligence Course: Linear models ananth
In this presentation we present the linear models: Regression and Classification. We illustrate with several examples. Concepts such as underfitting (Bias) and overfitting (Variance) are presented. Linear models can be used as stand alone classifiers for simple cases and they are essential building blocks as a part of larger deep learning networks
This document discusses algorithms and their analysis. It defines an algorithm as a finite sequence of unambiguous instructions that terminate in a finite amount of time. It discusses areas of study like algorithm design techniques, analysis of time and space complexity, testing and validation. Common algorithm complexities like constant, logarithmic, linear, quadratic and exponential are explained. Performance analysis techniques like asymptotic analysis and amortized analysis using aggregate analysis, accounting method and potential method are also summarized.
STUDY ON PROJECT MANAGEMENT THROUGH GENETIC ALGORITHMAvay Minni
This document describes using a genetic algorithm to solve resource constrained project scheduling problems. It begins with an introduction explaining that planning and scheduling projects involves managing many possible solutions and resource allocations. It then provides sections on genetic algorithms, the basic genetic algorithm process, and why genetic algorithms are suitable for this type of optimization problem. The document outlines the general formulation of resource constrained project scheduling as a linear programming problem and provides an example problem scenario. It includes flowcharts and discusses implementing the proposed genetic algorithm solution methodology.
This document outlines a course on data structures and algorithms. It includes the following topics: asymptotic and algorithm analysis, complexity analysis, abstract lists and implementations, arrays, linked lists, stacks, queues, trees, graphs, sorting algorithms, minimum spanning trees, hashing, and more. The course objectives are to enable students to understand various ways to organize data, understand algorithms to manipulate data, use analyses to compare data structures and algorithms, and select relevant structures and algorithms for problems. The document also lists reference books and provides outlines on defining algorithms, analyzing time/space complexity, and asymptotic notations.
DutchMLSchool 2022 - History and Developments in MLBigML, Inc
History and Present Developments in Machine Learning, by Tom Dietterich, Emeritus Professor of computer science at Oregon State University and Chief Scientist at BigML.
*Machine Learning School in The Netherlands 2022.
Reinforcement learning is a computational approach for learning through interaction without an explicit teacher. An agent takes actions in various states and receives rewards, allowing it to learn relationships between situations and optimal actions. The goal is to learn a policy that maximizes long-term rewards by balancing exploitation of current knowledge with exploration of new actions. Methods like Q-learning use value function approximation and experience replay in deep neural networks to scale to complex problems with large state spaces like video games. Temporal difference learning combines the advantages of Monte Carlo and dynamic programming by bootstrapping values from current estimates rather than waiting for full episodes.
The document provides details of a final presentation on artificial intelligence using metaheuristic strategies. It outlines the project goal of building a generic problem solver using genetic algorithms. It describes implementing test problems like the traveling salesman problem and applications to stock market investments and AI for computer games. The document discusses the genetic algorithm framework created, background on genetic algorithms, and results for the test problems showing the genetic algorithm finding optimal or near-optimal solutions.
The document describes work optimizing HIV intervention programs. It discusses:
- HIV prevalence and burden globally and in sub-Saharan Africa
- Common HIV interventions like ART, VMMC, PrEP, and their costs
- The motivation to optimize intervention spending to minimize HIV's effects within a given budget
- Using an epidemic model (EMOD) to simulate populations over time and evaluate intervention parameters and their costs and effects in DALYs
- Developing a framework to find the optimal intervention allocation that minimizes DALYs for a given budget by evaluating parameters with EMOD and surrogate models.
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It is based on the work we do at dataloop.ai and its customers.
Deep Convolutional GANs - meaning of latent spaceHansol Kang
DCGAN은 GAN에 단순히 conv net을 적용했을 뿐만 아니라, latent space에서도 의미를 찾음.
DCGAN 논문 리뷰 및 PyTorch 기반의 구현.
VAE 세미나 이슈 사항에 대한 리뷰.
my github : https://github.com/messy-snail/GAN_PyTorch
[참고]
https://github.com/znxlwm/pytorch-MNIST-CelebA-GAN-DCGAN
https://github.com/taeoh-kim/Pytorch_DCGAN
Radford, Alec, Luke Metz, and Soumith Chintala. "Unsupervised representation learning with deep convolutional generative adversarial networks." arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.06434 (2015).
The document summarizes an Analytics Vidhya meetup event. It discusses that the meetups will occur once a month, with the next one on May 24th. It aims to provide networking and learning around data science, big data, machine learning and IoT. It introduces the volunteer organizers and outlines the agenda, which includes an introduction, discussing the model building lifecycle, data exploration techniques, and modeling techniques like logistic regression, decision trees, random forests, and SVMs. It provides details on practicing these techniques by predicting survival on the Titanic dataset.
Artificial Neural Networks have been very successfully used in several machine learning applications. They are often the building blocks when building deep learning systems. We discuss the hypothesis, training with backpropagation, update methods, regularization techniques.
Genetic algorithms are ideal for optimization problems with large search spaces and few feasible solutions. They are adaptive heuristic search algorithms inspired by Darwinian evolution, using techniques like selection of the fittest solutions, crossover of solution features, and random mutation over generations to evolve improved solutions. Key steps include initializing a population, evaluating fitness, selecting parents, applying genetic operators, and repeating until termination criteria are met. Parameter tuning, such as population size and mutation rate, affects performance but is challenging.
Scaling out logistic regression with SparkBarak Gitsis
This document discusses scaling out logistic regression with Apache Spark. It describes the need to classify a large number of websites using machine learning. Several approaches to logistic regression were tried, including a single machine Java implementation and moving to Spark for better scalability. Spark's L-BFGS algorithm was chosen for its out of the box distributed logistic regression solution. Challenges implementing logistic regression at large scale are discussed, such as overfitting and regularization. Methods used to address these challenges include L2 regularization, cross-validation to select the regularization parameter, and extensions made to Spark's LBFGS implementation.
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This document discusses an AI assistant named YuriCat on Github and Twitter. It provides its creation year as 1990 and age as 15. It then lists its top 5 skills as AI, with the 5th being PONANZA. The document suggests the assistant has over 80 repositories on Github and over 200 followers on Twitter. It calculates its total experience points as 1000 based on experience points gained from years of experience and number of followers. The conclusion is that while the assistant has improved over time, there is still room for improvement to become a truly helpful AI.
5th LF Energy Power Grid Model Meet-up SlidesDanBrown980551
5th Power Grid Model Meet-up
It is with great pleasure that we extend to you an invitation to the 5th Power Grid Model Meet-up, scheduled for 6th June 2024. This event will adopt a hybrid format, allowing participants to join us either through an online Mircosoft Teams session or in person at TU/e located at Den Dolech 2, Eindhoven, Netherlands. The meet-up will be hosted by Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), a research university specializing in engineering science & technology.
Power Grid Model
The global energy transition is placing new and unprecedented demands on Distribution System Operators (DSOs). Alongside upgrades to grid capacity, processes such as digitization, capacity optimization, and congestion management are becoming vital for delivering reliable services.
Power Grid Model is an open source project from Linux Foundation Energy and provides a calculation engine that is increasingly essential for DSOs. It offers a standards-based foundation enabling real-time power systems analysis, simulations of electrical power grids, and sophisticated what-if analysis. In addition, it enables in-depth studies and analysis of the electrical power grid’s behavior and performance. This comprehensive model incorporates essential factors such as power generation capacity, electrical losses, voltage levels, power flows, and system stability.
Power Grid Model is currently being applied in a wide variety of use cases, including grid planning, expansion, reliability, and congestion studies. It can also help in analyzing the impact of renewable energy integration, assessing the effects of disturbances or faults, and developing strategies for grid control and optimization.
What to expect
For the upcoming meetup we are organizing, we have an exciting lineup of activities planned:
-Insightful presentations covering two practical applications of the Power Grid Model.
-An update on the latest advancements in Power Grid -Model technology during the first and second quarters of 2024.
-An interactive brainstorming session to discuss and propose new feature requests.
-An opportunity to connect with fellow Power Grid Model enthusiasts and users.
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Read Taking AI to the Next Level in Manufacturing to gain insights on AI adoption in the manufacturing industry, such as:
1. How quickly AI is being implemented in manufacturing.
2. Which barriers stand in the way of AI adoption.
3. How data quality and governance form the backbone of AI.
4. Organizational processes and structures that may inhibit effective AI adoption.
6. Ideas and approaches to help build your organization's AI strategy.
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At this talk we will discuss DDoS protection tools and best practices, discuss network architectures and what AWS has to offer. Also, we will look into one of the largest DDoS attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure that happened in February 2022. We'll see, what techniques helped to keep the web resources available for Ukrainians and how AWS improved DDoS protection for all customers based on Ukraine experience
The Microsoft 365 Migration Tutorial For Beginner.pptxoperationspcvita
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Speaker:
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Paper Link: https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/257
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I develop the Ruby programming language, RubyGems, and Bundler, which are package managers for Ruby. Today, I will introduce how to enhance the security of your application using open-source software (OSS) examples from Ruby and RubyGems.
The first topic is CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures). I have published CVEs many times. But what exactly is a CVE? I'll provide a basic understanding of CVEs and explain how to detect and handle vulnerabilities in OSS.
Next, let's discuss package managers. Package managers play a critical role in the OSS ecosystem. I'll explain how to manage library dependencies in your application.
I'll share insights into how the Ruby and RubyGems core team works to keep our ecosystem safe. By the end of this talk, you'll have a better understanding of how to safeguard your code.
How to Interpret Trends in the Kalyan Rajdhani Mix Chart.pdfChart Kalyan
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1. BLAZING THE TRAILS BEFORE
BEATING THE PATH:
SAMPLE-EFFICIENT MONTE-
CARLO PLANNING
KATSUKI OHTO
@NIPS2016-YOMI
2017/1/19
2. INTRODUCED PAPER
• Blazing the trails before beating the path:
Sample - efficient Monte-Carlo planning
(JB. Grill, M. Valko and R. Munos)
• NIPS 2016 accepted paper (poster session)
• Abstract starts with “You are a robot…”
• http://papers.nips.cc/paper/6253-blazing-the-trails-before-
beating-the-path-sample-efficient-monte-carlo-planning
3. TRAILBLAZER
• Nested-fashion Monte-Carlo Planning Algorithm
• Problem settings:
MDP (contains MAX nodes and AVG nodes)
Actions per each state : Finite
State transition candidates : Finite or Infinite
• Strong theoretical guarantee
MAX
AVG
4. AIM
• Input : an MDP (Markov Decision Process)
(discount factor 𝛾, maximum number of valid actions 𝐾),
𝜀 (> 0), 𝛿 (0 < 𝛿 < 1)
• Output : estimated value 𝜇 𝜀,𝛿 of current state 𝑠0
• Aim : Get good estimation of real value 𝒱[𝑠0] of current state
such as
ℙ 𝜇 𝜀,𝛿 − 𝒱 𝑠0 > 𝜀 ≤ 𝛿
( ℙ ∙ means probability of ∙ )
with the minimum number of calls to the generative model (state transition function)
5. 1 PLAYER TREE MODEL
IN STOCHASTIC ENVIRONMENT
• Each MAX node means an
opportunity to decide action
• Each AVG node means
stochastic state transition
MAX
AVG
6. ALGORITHM OVERVIEW
• Global Initialization
set 𝜂, 𝜆 as global value
set 𝑚 as an argument of
root node
• Recursive algorithm
log(𝜂/𝛾)
7. ALGORITHM OVERVIEW 2
• In both MAX nodes and AVG nodes,
arguments are
𝑚 (desired branching factor)
and
𝜀 (admissible estimation error)
• If 𝑚 is large, we can search many children, but we need much time
(dilemma)
• If 𝜀 is small, we can search deeply, but we need much time (dilemma)
8. ALGORITHM
FOR AVG NODES
• Input : 𝑚 and 𝜀
• Output : estimated value
• If admissible error 𝜀 is large, ignore
successive reward
• Fill 𝑚 transition samples
(and store immediate reward)
• search all of 𝑚 sampled next states
• return averaged immediate reward +
estimated successive reward
9. ALGORITHM
FOR MAX NODES
• Input : 𝑚 and 𝜀
• Output : estimated value
• Fill candidate action pool ℒ by all valid actions
• U is a value like standard error of estimation
• Search candidate actions repeatedly until
“Only 1 action left” or “Error might be small”
• If “Error might be small”
then return estimated value of best action
else
search best action 1 more time carefully
10. SAMPLE COMPLEXITY OF TRAILBLAER
• Sample Complexity is a measure of performance of algorithm
• If N (the number of next states) is finite,
(
1
𝜀
)
max(2,
log 𝑁𝜅
log
1
𝛾
+𝑜 1 )
on condition that 𝜅 ∈ 1, 𝐾 (in detail in
the paper)
else
(
1
𝜀
)2+𝑑
on condition that 𝑑 is a measure of difficulty to identify near-
optimal nodes