Instructional Material
Towards Multi-spatiotemporal-scale Generalized PDE Modeling
Gupta, Jayesh K., Brandstetter, Johannes
Partial differential equations (PDEs) are central to describing complex physical system simulations. Their expensive solution techniques have led to an increased interest in deep neural network based surrogates. However, the practical utility of training such surrogates is contingent on their ability to model complex multi-scale spatio-temporal phenomena. Various neural network architectures have been proposed to target such phenomena, most notably Fourier Neural Operators (FNOs), which give a natural handle over local & global spatial information via parameterization of different Fourier modes, and U-Nets which treat local and global information via downsampling and upsampling paths. However, generalizing across different equation parameters or time-scales still remains a challenge. In this work, we make a comprehensive comparison between various FNO, ResNet, and U-Net like approaches to fluid mechanics problems in both vorticity-stream and velocity function form. For U-Nets, we transfer recent architectural improvements from computer vision, most notably from object segmentation and generative modeling. We further analyze the design considerations for using FNO layers to improve performance of U-Net architectures without major degradation of computational cost. Finally, we show promising results on generalization to different PDE parameters and time-scales with a single surrogate model. Source code for our PyTorch benchmark framework is available at https://github.com/microsoft/pdearena.
Region Embedding with Intra and Inter-View Contrastive Learning
Zhang, Liang, Long, Cheng, Cong, Gao
Unsupervised region representation learning aims to extract dense and effective features from unlabeled urban data. While some efforts have been made for solving this problem based on multiple views, existing methods are still insufficient in extracting representations in a view and/or incorporating representations from different views. Motivated by the success of contrastive learning for representation learning, we propose to leverage it for multi-view region representation learning and design a model called ReMVC (Region Embedding with Multi-View Contrastive Learning) by following two guidelines: i) comparing a region with others within each view for effective representation extraction and ii) comparing a region with itself across different views for cross-view information sharing. We design the intra-view contrastive learning module which helps to learn distinguished region embeddings and the inter-view contrastive learning module which serves as a soft co-regularizer to constrain the embedding parameters and transfer knowledge across multi-views. We exploit the learned region embeddings in two downstream tasks named land usage clustering and region popularity prediction. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our model achieves impressive improvements compared with seven state-of-the-art baseline methods, and the margins are over 30% in the land usage clustering task.
Coursera Deep Learning Specialization Review in 2022
Coursera Deep Learning Specialization provides an introduction to DL methods for computer vision applications for practitioners who are familiar with the basics of DL. You will discover a breakdown and review of the convolutional neural networks course taught by Andrew Ng on deep learning specialization. It does not focus too much on math and does not include any code. After finishing the specialization you will know how to build models for photo classification, object detection, face recognition, and more. Instructors patiently explain the requisite math and programming concepts in a carefully planned order for learners who could be rusty in math/coding.
7 Best TensorFlow Courses To Learn Online [2022 NOV]
For deep learning and artificial intelligence, Tensorflow is the most popular library built by Google. Many AI and Machine Learning companies choose it over other libraries to achieve their goals. To put it simply, if you want to do Deep Learning, you'll need Tensorflow. Therefore, I have created this list of the best TensorFlow courses for developers who want to learn this machine learning library and deep learning framework. I have also created a detailed comparison between TensorFlow and Keras, if you want to check it out, you can check it out here.
Statistics with R Specialization Coursera Review 2022
This course is about the discussion of sampling and exploring data, as well as basic probability theory and Bayes' rule. A variety of exploratory data analysis techniques will be covered, including numeric summary statistics and basic data visualization. The concepts and techniques you will find in this course will serve as building blocks for the inference and modeling courses in the Specialization.
Understanding Medical Image Classification part1(Artificial Intelligence)
Abstract: Training deep learning models on medical datasets that perform well for all classes is a challenging task. It is often the case that a suboptimal performance is obtained on some classes due to the natural class imbalance issue that comes with medical data. An effective way to tackle this problem is by using targeted active learning, where we iteratively add data points to the training data that belong to the rare classes. However, existing active learning methods are ineffective in targeting rare classes in medical datasets. In this work, we propose Clinical (targeted aCtive Learning for ImbalaNced medICal imAge cLassification) a framework that uses submodular mutual information functions as acquisition functions to mine critical data points from rare classes.
Towards Data-Driven Offline Simulations for Online Reinforcement Learning
Tang, Shengpu, Frujeri, Felipe Vieira, Misra, Dipendra, Lamb, Alex, Langford, John, Mineiro, Paul, Kochman, Sebastian
Modern decision-making systems, from robots to web recommendation engines, are expected to adapt: to user preferences, changing circumstances or even new tasks. Yet, it is still uncommon to deploy a dynamically learning agent (rather than a fixed policy) to a production system, as it's perceived as unsafe. Using historical data to reason about learning algorithms, similar to offline policy evaluation (OPE) applied to fixed policies, could help practitioners evaluate and ultimately deploy such adaptive agents to production. In this work, we formalize offline learner simulation (OLS) for reinforcement learning (RL) and propose a novel evaluation protocol that measures both fidelity and efficiency of the simulation. For environments with complex high-dimensional observations, we propose a semi-parametric approach that leverages recent advances in latent state discovery in order to achieve accurate and efficient offline simulations. In preliminary experiments, we show the advantage of our approach compared to fully non-parametric baselines.