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Unsupervised Algorithms in Machine Learning

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One of the most useful areas in machine learning is discovering hidden patterns from unlabeled data. Add the fundamentals of this in-demand skill to your Data Science toolkit. In this course, we will learn selected unsupervised learning methods for dimensionality reduction, clustering, and learning latent features. We will also focus on real-world applications such as recommender systems with hands-on examples of product recommendation algorithms. Prior coding or scripting knowledge is required.


Minimax Optimal Online Imitation Learning via Replay Estimation

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Online imitation learning is the problem of how best to mimic expert demonstrations, given access to the environment or an accurate simulator. Prior work has shown that in the infinite sample regime, exact moment matching achieves value equivalence to the expert policy. However, in the finite sample regime, even if one has no optimization error, empirical variance can lead to a performance gap that scales with $H^2 / N$ for behavioral cloning and $H / \sqrt{N}$ for online moment matching, where $H$ is the horizon and $N$ is the size of the expert dataset. We introduce the technique of replay estimation to reduce this empirical variance: by repeatedly executing cached expert actions in a stochastic simulator, we compute a smoother expert visitation distribution estimate to match. In the presence of general function approximation, we prove a meta theorem reducing the performance gap of our approach to the parameter estimation error for offline classification (i.e. learning the expert policy). In the tabular setting or with linear function approximation, our meta theorem shows that the performance gap incurred by our approach achieves the optimal $\widetilde{O} \left( \min({H^{3/2}} / {N}, {H} / {\sqrt{N}} \right)$ dependency, under significantly weaker assumptions compared to prior work. We implement multiple instantiations of our approach on several continuous control tasks and find that we are able to significantly improve policy performance across a variety of dataset sizes.


Iris Flower Classification Step-by-Step Tutorial

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This is my first post and this post is for an absolute beginner. If you are stuck somewhere in this tutorial then don't worry about that. This post is just for you to make you familiar with the machine learning process, In the upcoming series of posts, we will discuss in-depth about the concepts. In this post, you will make your first machine learning project (step-by-step) in Python. This post is 1 day of the "10 days of machine learning project" post series.


Simplify deploying YOLOv5 to using new OctoML CLI

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Follow along with our new YOLOv5 deployment tutorial to power your next object detection application. Or, watch this tutorial video by Smitha Kolan on how to deploy YOLOV5 in under 15 minutes using the OctoML CLI. Today, we are excited to announce the results of our collaboration with Ultralytics to deploy the YOLOv5 models to over 100 CPU and GPU hardware targets in AWS, Azure and GCP. Our engineering work with Ultralytics unlocks the ability to deploy YOLOv5 models on hardware from Intel, NVIDIA, Arm and AWS, with minimal effort and cost. In this blog, I'll show you how simple it is to achieve hardware independence and cost savings across multiple clouds.


tradingsignalsbot โ€“ tradingsignalsbot

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Take advantage of our advanced trading signal bots that learn and improve their accuracy with every trade. TRADING SIGNALS BOT (TSB) integrates trading alerts from numerous premium trading bots and detects those with the highest probability of success in the market. To make access more decentralized, the development team has worked on linking the $TSB token contract code with the premium version of the bot. You will learn technical analysis, fundamental analysis, risk management, control of emotions and much more. TSB is a trading signals bots ecosystem that integrates trading alerts from numerous premium trading bots and detects those with the highest probability of success in the market.


Prototyping Vehicle Control Applications Using the CAT Vehicle Simulator

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

This paper demonstrates the integration model-based design approaches or vehicle control, with validation in a freely available open-source simulator. Continued interest in autonomous vehicles and their deployment is driven by the potential benefits of their use. However, it can be challenging to transition new theoretical approaches into unknown simulation environments. Thus, it is critical for experts from other fields, whose insights may be necessary to continue to advance autonomy, to be able to create control applications with the potential to transition to practice. In this article, we will explain how to use the CAT Vehicle simulator and ROS packages to create and test vehicle controllers. The methodology of developing the control system in this article takes the approach of model-based design using Simulink, and the ROS Toolbox, followed by code generation to create a standalone C++ ROS node. Such ROS nodes can be integrated through roslaunch in the CAT Vehicle ROS package.


Data Visualization tools, Austral language, Feature Engineering

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In today's newsletter, we'll cover a range of topics. You will learn about Data visualization tools, feature engineering, Hadoop tech companies, Data Science History, AI for software dev, Austral language, New deep learning language, DevOps and career scope of Data analyst and other useful tools. We hope you enjoy it! Data visualizations are everywhere today. From creating a visual representation of data points to impress potential investors, report on progress, or even visualize concepts for customer segments, data visualizations are a valuable tool in a variety of settings.


Program teaches US Air Force personnel the fundamentals of AI

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A new academic program developed at MIT aims to teach U.S. Air and Space Forces personnel to understand and utilize artificial intelligence technologies. In a recent peer-reviewed study, the program researchers found that this approach was effective and well-received by employees with diverse backgrounds and professional roles. The project, which was funded by the Department of the Air Forceโ€“MIT Artificial Intelligence Accelerator, seeks to contribute to AI educational research, specifically regarding ways to maximize learning outcomes at scale for people from a variety of educational backgrounds. Experts in MIT Open Learning built a curriculum for three general types of military personnel -- leaders, developers, and users -- utilizing existing MIT educational materials and resources. They also created new, more experimental courses that were targeted at Air and Space Forces leaders.


UK launches new AI Standards Hub for the development of AI best practices

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In January 2022, DLA Piper reported on an announcement of a new initiative, as part of the UK's National AI Strategy, to shape the way organisations and regulators develop technical standards for artificial intelligence ("AI"). The initiative, the AI Standards Hub ("Hub"), was highlighted as a collaborative effort between the Alan Turing Institute, the British Standards Institution, and the National Physical Laboratory, in partnership with the UK Government, to lead the way in developing standards that could be used across all sectors and jurisdictions. On 12 October, in their latest update, the Alan Turing Institute announced that the hard work of the collaborators was finally complete and that the Hub was ready for interaction. While still early in its use, the Hub already contains an array of resources that will allow its users to understand and help shape the role of standards in the development of AI and best practices. The primary goal of the Hub is to advance trustworthy and responsible AI through a focus on standards that can be used as part of governance and innovation tools and mechanisms.


Step-by-Step Tutorial: Liver Segmentation on CT Scans using TensorFlow

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We create a custom data generator class, called NiiDataGenerator, that inherits from the built-in tf.keras.utils.Sequence class. This allows for easy loading of data for training and testing of a deep learning model in batches. The class takes four arguments in the constructor: image_filenames, mask_filenames, batch_size, and image_size. These are the paths to the image files, corresponding mask files, the batch size, and the desired image size, respectively. The class then implements the two required methods of the Sequence class: __len__() and __getitem__().