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What is Bayes Theorem? - Machine Learning Interview Questions - DataMites

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Bayes theorem in basis for many machine learning algorithm, P(c/x) P(x/c)*P(c)/P(x) Popularly used #Naive #Bayes Machine Learning algorithm is used for Text classification. One of the common question is "What is Bayes Theorem?" watch this video to understand this question and how to explain in the interview. If you are looking for Course Details please visit: https://datamites.com/ You can learn business statistics, tableau, deep learning, data mining etc,..


CMU's Zoë Rover Shows Robots Can Find Subterranean Organisms - News - Carnegie Mellon University

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An autonomous rover named Zoë, designed and built by Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute, drilled into the soil of Chile's Atacama Desert in 2013 and discovered unusual, highly specialized microbes. The NASA-funded mission demonstrated how robots might someday find life on Mars. The astrobiology mission was led by the Robotics Institute and the SETI Institute to test technologies for searching for life underground. The microbial analyses of the soil samples recovered by Zoë were published Feb. 28 in the journal Frontiers of Microbiology. Zoë was equipped with a one-meter drill that recovered samples several times each day.


Japanese AI Writes Novel, Passes First Round for Literary Prize Digital Trends

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The novel is actually called The Day A Computer Writes A Novel, or "Konpyuta ga shosetsu wo kaku hi" in Japanese. The meta-narrative wasn't enough to win first prize at the third Nikkei Hoshi Shinichi Literary Award ceremony, but it did come close. Officially, the novel was written by a very human team that led the AI program's development. Hitoshi Matsubara and his team at Future University Hakodate in Japan selected words and sentences, and set parameters for construction before letting the AI "write" the novel autonomously. One of the team's two submissions to the competition made it past the first round of screening, despite a blind reading policy that prevents judges from knowing whether an AI was involved in the writing process.


China Is Catching Up to the US on Artificial Intelligence Research

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Surveillance cameras are common in China, collecting data on residents. Researchers, companies and countries around the world are racing to explore--and exploit--the possibilities of artificial intelligence technology.


Why Statistics Is Important For Mastering AI/ML Skills

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One of the biggest challenges that corporates, particularly recruiters face is finding the right talent and skill sets for artificial intelligence and machine learning-related jobs in India. With scores of engineering and other STEM institutes mushrooming across the country, the quality of education has taken a toll with these colleges churning out graduates who are not industry ready. According to a recent study, of the 10-12 million fresh graduates joining the workforce each year, only 45% are digitally literate. However, despite the gloomy state of affair, the Indian analytics startup is currently estimated to be $2.71 billion annually in revenues and it just in 2018, 16,000 freshers were added to analytics workforce in India. With the market estimated to grow by leaps and bounds, Indian students are particularly keen on securing their seat in the AI/ML bandwagon which is ready to hit the market with full throttle.



Artist Style Transfer Via Quadratic Potential

arXiv.org Machine Learning

In this paper we address the problem of artist style transfer where the painting style of a given artist is applied on a real world photograph. We train our neural networks in adversarial setting via recently introduced quadratic potential divergence for stable learning process. To further improve the quality of generated artist stylized images we also integrate some of the recently introduced deep learning techniques in our method. To our best knowledge this is the first attempt towards artist style transfer via quadratic potential divergence. We provide some stylized image samples in the supplementary material. The source code for experimentation was written in PyTorch and is available online in my GitHub repository.


Inertial Block Mirror Descent Method for Non-Convex Non-Smooth Optimization

arXiv.org Machine Learning

In this paper, we propose inertial versions of block coordinate descent methods for solving non-convex non-smooth composite optimization problems. We use the general framework of Bregman distance functions to compute the proximal maps. Our method not only allows using two different extrapolation points to evaluate gradients and adding the inertial force, but also takes advantage of randomly picking the block of variables to update. Moreover, our method does not require a restarting step, and as such, it is not a monotonically decreasing method. To prove the convergence of the whole generated sequence to a critical point, we modify the convergence proof recipe of Bolte, Sabach and Teboulle (Proximal alternating linearized minimization for non-convex and non-smooth problems, Math. Prog. 146(1):459--494, 2014), and combine it with auxiliary functions. We deploy the proposed methods to solve non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) problems and show that they compete favourably with the state-of-the-art NMF algorithms.


Probabilistic Modeling for Novelty Detection with Applications to Fraud Identification

arXiv.org Machine Learning

Novelty detection is the unsupervised problem of identifying anomalies in test data which significantly differ from the training set. Novelty detection is one of the classic challenges in Machine Learning and a core component of several research areas such as fraud detection, intrusion detection, medical diagnosis, data cleaning, and fault prevention. While numerous algorithms were designed to address this problem, most methods are only suitable to model continuous numerical data. Tackling datasets composed of mixed-type features, such as numerical and categorical data, or temporal datasets describing discrete event sequences is a challenging task. In addition to the supported data types, the key criteria for efficient novelty detection methods are the ability to accurately dissociate novelties from nominal samples, the interpretability, the scalability and the robustness to anomalies located in the training data. In this thesis, we investigate novel ways to tackle these issues. In particular, we propose (i) an experimental comparison of novelty detection methods for mixed-type data (ii) an experimental comparison of novelty detection methods for sequence data, (iii) a probabilistic nonparametric novelty detection method for mixed-type data based on Dirichlet process mixtures and exponential-family distributions and (iv) an autoencoder-based novelty detection model with encoder/decoder modelled as deep Gaussian processes.


Generative Adversarial Nets for Robust Scatter Estimation: A Proper Scoring Rule Perspective

arXiv.org Machine Learning

Robust scatter estimation is a fundamental task in statistics. The recent discovery on the connection between robust estimation and generative adversarial nets (GANs) by Gao et al. (2018) suggests that it is possible to compute depth-like robust estimators using similar techniques that optimize GANs. In this paper, we introduce a general learning via classification framework based on the notion of proper scoring rules. This framework allows us to understand both matrix depth function and various GANs through the lens of variational approximations of $f$-divergences induced by proper scoring rules. We then propose a new class of robust scatter estimators in this framework by carefully constructing discriminators with appropriate neural network structures. These estimators are proved to achieve the minimax rate of scatter estimation under Huber's contamination model. Our numerical results demonstrate its good performance under various settings against competitors in the literature.