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Deep Learning: GANs and Variational Autoencoders

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Free Coupon Discount - Deep Learning: GANs and Variational Autoencoders, Generative Adversarial Networks and Variational Autoencoders in Python, Theano, and Tensorflow Created by Lazy Programmer Inc. Students also bought Natural Language Processing with Deep Learning in Python Advanced AI: Deep Reinforcement Learning in Python Deep Learning: Advanced Computer Vision (GANs, SSD, More!) Ensemble Machine Learning in Python: Random Forest, AdaBoost Cutting-Edge AI: Deep Reinforcement Learning in Python Deep Learning: Advanced NLP and RNNs Preview this Udemy Course GET COUPON CODE Description Variational autoencoders and GANs have been 2 of the most interesting developments in deep learning and machine learning recently. Yann LeCun, a deep learning pioneer, has said that the most important development in recent years has been adversarial training, referring to GANs. GAN stands for generative adversarial network, where 2 neural networks compete with each other. Unsupervised learning means we're not trying to map input data to targets, we're just trying to learn the structure of that input data. Once we've learned that structure, we can do some pretty cool things.


Python REST APIs with Flask, Docker, MongoDB, and AWS DevOps

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You can now learn Python coding with RESTful API's using the Flask framework. In this Python Flask training course, you will have a deeper knowledge and understanding of core elements of web development using Python, along with the understanding of how to use MongoDB, Docker, and Tensor flow. With this course's classes, you will learn and develop the knowledge on how to plan, build, set up and deploy a RESTful API to an Amazon EC2 instance. You will also discover how to build a machine-learning API using Tensorflow for image recognition. Get to know and make use of a NoSQL (MongoDB) database.


Restricted Boltzmann Machine and Deep Belief Network: Tutorial and Survey

arXiv.org Machine Learning

This is a tutorial and survey paper on Boltzmann Machine (BM), Restricted Boltzmann Machine (RBM), and Deep Belief Network (DBN). We start with the required background on probabilistic graphical models, Markov random field, Gibbs sampling, statistical physics, Ising model, and the Hopfield network. Then, we introduce the structures of BM and RBM. The conditional distributions of visible and hidden variables, Gibbs sampling in RBM for generating variables, training BM and RBM by maximum likelihood estimation, and contrastive divergence are explained. Then, we discuss different possible discrete and continuous distributions for the variables. We introduce conditional RBM and how it is trained. Finally, we explain deep belief network as a stack of RBM models. This paper on Boltzmann machines can be useful in various fields including data science, statistics, neural computation, and statistical physics.


The Graph Neural Networking Challenge: A Worldwide Competition for Education in AI/ML for Networks

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

During the last decade, Machine Learning (ML) has increasingly become a hot topic in the field of Computer Networks and is expected to be gradually adopted for a plethora of control, monitoring and management tasks in real-world deployments. This poses the need to count on new generations of students, researchers and practitioners with a solid background in ML applied to networks. During 2020, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has organized the "ITU AI/ML in 5G challenge'', an open global competition that has introduced to a broad audience some of the current main challenges in ML for networks. This large-scale initiative has gathered 23 different challenges proposed by network operators, equipment manufacturers and academia, and has attracted a total of 1300+ participants from 60+ countries. This paper narrates our experience organizing one of the proposed challenges: the "Graph Neural Networking Challenge 2020''. We describe the problem presented to participants, the tools and resources provided, some organization aspects and participation statistics, an outline of the top-3 awarded solutions, and a summary with some lessons learned during all this journey. As a result, this challenge leaves a curated set of educational resources openly available to anyone interested in the topic.


My Two EdTech Adventures

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I have been thinking a little about the impact of the digital technologies on education, it has been significant and with the advent pandemic ubiquitous. I am interested in NLProc (Natural Language Processing) and have been pondering it's applications in pedagogy and education a little. These brought back some memories of what can loosely be considered my Edtech Adventures. Around 2007, digital lessons, whether power point presentations or the interactive programs that had to be paid for started becoming part of our school's teaching plans. I am not sure if they helped the teachers teach better, nonetheless their presence in the lesson plans increased.


Reinforced Imitation Learning by Free Energy Principle

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Reinforcement Learning (RL) requires a large amount of exploration especially in sparse-reward settings. Imitation Learning (IL) can learn from expert demonstrations without exploration, but it never exceeds the expert's performance and is also vulnerable to distributional shift between demonstration and execution. In this paper, we radically unify RL and IL based on Free Energy Principle (FEP). FEP is a unified Bayesian theory of the brain that explains perception, action and model learning by a common fundamental principle. We present a theoretical extension of FEP and derive an algorithm in which an agent learns the world model that internalizes expert demonstrations and at the same time uses the model to infer the current and future states and actions that maximize rewards. The algorithm thus reduces exploration costs by partially imitating experts as well as maximizing its return in a seamless way, resulting in a higher performance than the suboptimal expert. Our experimental results show that this approach is promising in visual control tasks especially in sparse-reward environments.


A Survey of Monte Carlo Methods for Parameter Estimation

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Statistical signal processing applications usually require the estimation of some parameters of interest given a set of observed data. These estimates are typically obtained either by solving a multi-variate optimization problem, as in the maximum likelihood (ML) or maximum a posteriori (MAP) estimators, or by performing a multi-dimensional integration, as in the minimum mean squared error (MMSE) estimators. Unfortunately, analytical expressions for these estimators cannot be found in most real-world applications, and the Monte Carlo (MC) methodology is one feasible approach. MC methods proceed by drawing random samples, either from the desired distribution or from a simpler one, and using them to compute consistent estimators. The most important families of MC algorithms are Markov chain MC (MCMC) and importance sampling (IS). On the one hand, MCMC methods draw samples from a proposal density, building then an ergodic Markov chain whose stationary distribution is the desired distribution by accepting or rejecting those candidate samples as the new state of the chain. On the other hand, IS techniques draw samples from a simple proposal density, and then assign them suitable weights that measure their quality in some appropriate way. In this paper, we perform a thorough review of MC methods for the estimation of static parameters in signal processing applications. A historical note on the development of MC schemes is also provided, followed by the basic MC method and a brief description of the rejection sampling (RS) algorithm, as well as three sections describing many of the most relevant MCMC and IS algorithms, and their combined use.


Making Friends with Machine Learning

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Making Friends with Machine Learning was an internal-only Google course specially created to inspire beginners and amuse experts.* It is one of Google's best-loved educational offerings of all time. Curious to know what's in there? The course is designed to give everyone -- no matter your role -- the tools you need for effective participation in machine learning for solving business problems and for being a good citizen in an increasingly AI-fueled world. MFML is perfect for humans of all stripes; it focuses on conceptual understanding (rather than the mathematical and programming details) and guides you through the ideas that form the basis of successful approaches to machine learning. It has something for everyone!


Is the Democratization of AI Good?

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In the modern age of education, almost anyone with an internet connection can learn anything they want to. This is also true for learning AI, and now, anyone with the requisite background has the opportunity to learn AI and build AI programs. When I say "democratization," I mean the easy access to AI education and learning, and more importantly, the easy access to building scalable AI applications. In an article I wrote earlier this summer, I discussed my personal experience with AI ethics and how I paid little regard to the implications of my work. I have always heard that the democratization of any sort of learning is beneficial, which I generally agree with.


8 Projects To Kickstart Your MLOps Journey In 2021

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MLOps follows a set of practices to deploy and maintain machine learning models in production efficiently and reliably. While the data science team has a deep understanding of the data, the operations team holds the business acumen. MLOps combines the expertise of each team, leveraging both data and operations skill sets to enhance ML efficiency. According to the Algorithmia report, nearly 22 percent of companies have had ML models in production for one to two years. With practice, MLOps professionals can enhance their skills, and develop a solid pipeline for developing machine learning models.