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How to start learning Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
Below you'll see a rundown of Artificial Intelligence Resources to Learn, how to start in Artificial Intelligence in Easy steps: This course gives the basics of Artificial Intelligence (AI), and apply them. Object intelligent agents to resolve real world problems including, search, games, machine learning, logic, and constraint satisfaction problems.
Artificial Intelligence III - Deep Learning in Java
This course is about deep learning fundamentals and convolutional neural networks. Convolutional neural networks are one of the most successful deep learning approaches: self-driving cars rely heavily on this algorithm. First you will learn about densly connected neural networks and its problems. The next chapter are about convolutional neural networks: theory as well as implementation in Java with the deeplearning4j library. The last chapters are about recurrent neural networks and the applications!
How to Fix Vanishing Gradients Using the Rectified Linear Activation Function
The vanishing gradients problem is one example of unstable behavior that you may encounter when training a deep neural network. It describes the situation where a deep multilayer feed-forward network or a recurrent neural network is unable to propagate useful gradient information from the output end of the model back to the layers near the input end of the model. The result is the general inability of models with many layers to learn on a given dataset or to prematurely converge to a poor solution. Many fixes and workarounds have been proposed and investigated, such as alternate weight initialization schemes, unsupervised pre-training, layer-wise training, and variations on gradient descent. Perhaps the most common change is the use of the rectified linear activation function that has become the new default, instead of the hyperbolic tangent activation function that was the default through the late 1990s and 2000s. In this tutorial, you will discover how to diagnose a vanishing gradient problem when training a neural network model and how to fix it using an alternate activation function and weight initialization scheme.
Learn how to put AI to work at Think 2019 - Watson
Are you looking to build your AI skills, meet some of the brightest minds in deep learning and actually see how these technologies can be applied to business? Then be sure to register for Think 2019. For the first time ever, Think 2019 will be held in San Francisco. Join us February 12-15 to get a deeper dive into Watson technology and see how companies are putting AI to work. How Mercedes Answers Car Manual Queries with Watson When was the last time you read your car's user manual?
On the Global Convergence of Imitation Learning: A Case for Linear Quadratic Regulator
Cai, Qi, Hong, Mingyi, Chen, Yongxin, Wang, Zhaoran
Imitation learning is a paradigm that learns from expert demonstration to perform a task. The most straightforward approach of imitation learning is behavioral cloning (Pomerleau, 1991), which learns from expert trajectories to predict the expert action at any state. Despite its simplicity, behavioral cloning ignores the accumulation of prediction error over time. Consequently, although the learned policy closely resembles the expert policy at a given point in time, their trajectories may diverge in the long term. To remedy the issue of error accumulation, inverse reinforcement learning(Russell, 1998; Ng and Russell, 2000; Abbeel and Ng, 2004; Ratliff et al., 2006; Ziebart et al., 2008; Ho and Ermon, 2016) jointly learns a reward function and the corresponding optimal policy, such that the expected cumulative
Development of Mobile-Interfaced Machine Learning-Based Predictive Models for Improving Students Performance in Programming Courses
Fagbola, Temitayo Matthew, Adeyanju, Ibrahim Adepoju, Olaniyan, Olatayo, Esan, Adebimpe, Omodunbi, Bolaji, Oloyede, Ayodele, Egbetola, Funmilola
Student performance modelling (SPM) is a critical step to assessing and improving students performances in their learning discourse. However, most existing SPM are based on statistical approaches, which on one hand are based on probability, depicting that results are based on estimation; and on the other hand, actual influences of hidden factors that are peculiar to students, lecturers, learning environment and the family, together with their overall effect on student performance have not been exhaustively investigated. In this paper, Student Performance Models (SPM) for improving students performance in programming courses were developed using M5P Decision Tree (MDT) and Linear Regression Classifier (LRC). The data used was gathered using a structured questionnaire from 295 students in 200 and 300 levels of study who offered Web programming, C or JAVA at Federal University, Oye-Ekiti, Nigeria between 2012 and 2016. Hidden factors that are significant to students performance in programming were identified. The relevant data gathered, normalized, coded and prepared as variable and factor datasets, and fed into the MDT algorithm and LRC to develop the predictive models. The evaluation results obtained indicate that the variable-based LRC produced the best model in terms of MAE, RMSE, RAE and the RRSE having yielded the least values in all the evaluations conducted. Further results obtained established the strong significance of attitude of students and lecturers, fearful perception of students, erratic power supply, university facilities, student health and students attendance to the performance of students in programming courses. The variable-based LRC model presented in this paper could provide baseline information about students performance thereby offering better decision making towards improving teaching/learning outcomes in programming courses.
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Cloud OnBoard is a free, instructor-led training event, that will provide you with a technical introduction to the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Through a combination of presentations and technical demonstrations, you will learn how to get started with virtual machines, containers, applications, big data, and machine learning.
AI Platform Service to Coach Startups
GREENLIGHT, Business coaching firm, launches a new Artificial Intelligence (AI) simulator product to train startup founders how to overcome obstacles to be sustainable and profitable. The product was code-named "Crucible". A team of Artificial Intelligence (AI) tech developers, gaming experts, and serial entrepreneurs brought their domain expertise into a continuous learning platform and designed crucible product. A proprietary Smart Start framework from Greenlight is ued for assessing and scoring managerial competency and further improving capability with targeted action plans and simulating successful outcomes. Crucible was tested with startups from Columbia University and several candidates competing in the IBM Watson AI XPRIZE.
Demystifying Crucial Statistics in Python
If you have little experience in applying machine learning algorithm, you would have discovered that it does not require any knowledge of Statistics as a prerequisite. However, knowing some statistics can be beneficial to understand machine learning technically as well intuitively. Knowing some statistics will eventually be required when you want to start validating your results and interpreting them. After all, when there is data, there are statistics. Like Mathematics is the language of Science. Statistics is one of a kind language for Data Science and Machine Learning. Statistics is a field of mathematics with lots of theories and findings. However, there are various concepts, tools, techniques, and notations are taken from this field to make machine learning what it is today. You can use descriptive statistical methods to help transform observations into useful information that you will be able to understand and share with others.