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TensorFlow 2.x Essentials - 2021 Course

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TensorFlow 2.x is now one of the hottest demands in the Data Science market. Because of its customization, ability to handle big data, speed, development of machine learning, deep learning, and probabilistic models and model customization (research and development) make it has huge applications in the industries in the current world. This course covers modelling techniques using TensorFlow 2.x. We start with programming in TensorFlow 2.x which is the essential skill required and then we will do the necessary pre-processing to huge data. Then throughout the course, we will work on building a custom regression model using a gradient descent algorithm in TensorFlow.


A Complete Data Science Roadmap in 2021

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If you want to learn data science from scratch, the first thing you need to do is learn how to code. Pick a programming language (either Python or R), and start learning. I suggest starting out with Python because it is more widely used than R. It is also more general and highly flexible, and you will be able to make the transition to different domains (data analytics, web development) if you have Python knowledge. This DataCamp course will take you through exercises and teach you how to code in Python. What will you learn in this course?


How to Become a Data Scientist (Step-By-Step) in 2020

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Data science is one of the most buzzed about fields right now, and data scientists are in extreme demand. And with good reason -- data scientists are doing everything from creating self-driving cars to automatically captioning images. Given all the interesting applications, it makes sense that data science is a very sought-after career. Data science is applied in many field, including in developing self-driving cars. If you're reading this post, I'm assuming that you'd like to learn how to become a data scientist.


Laplace's Demon: A Seminar Series about Bayesian Machine Learning at Scale - Criteo AI Lab

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Machine learning is changing the world we live in at a break neck pace. From image recognition and generation, to the deployment of recommender systems, it seems to be breaking new ground constantly and influencing almost every aspect of our lives. In ths seminar series we ask distinguished speakers to comment on what role Bayesian statistics and Bayesian machine learning have in this rapidly changing landscape. Do we need to optimally process information or borrow strength in the big data era? Are philosophical concepts such as coherence and the likelihood principle relevant when you are running a large scale recommender system?


How to Develop a Weighted Average Ensemble With Python

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Weighted average ensembles assume that some models in the ensemble have more skill than others and give them more contribution when making predictions. The weighted average or weighted sum ensemble is an extension over voting ensembles that assume all models are equally skillful and make the same proportional contribution to predictions made by the ensemble. Each model is assigned a fixed weight that is multiplied by the prediction made by the model and used in the sum or average prediction calculation. The challenge of this type of ensemble is how to calculate, assign, or search for model weights that result in performance that is better than any contributing model and an ensemble that uses equal model weights. In this tutorial, you will discover how to develop Weighted Average Ensembles for classification and regression. How to Develop a Weighted Average Ensemble With Python Photo by Alaina McDavid, some rights reserved.


DSC Webinar Series: Data, Analytics and Decision-making: A Neuroscience POV

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This special 30-minute interactive Data Science Central webinar includes a series of audience games and experiments that explore the relationship between people and data through the neuroscience of human perception, memory, decision making, and narrative. Watch to gain a clear understanding of how people make decisions and experience their world to help uncover the best ways to guide analytics functions and set an agenda for a data-driven culture within your own organization, through a series of practical, real-world examples.


Dive into Deep Learning

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Just a few years ago, there were no legions of deep learning scientists developing intelligent products and services at major companies and startups. When the youngest among us (the authors) entered the field, machine learning did not command headlines in daily newspapers. Our parents had no idea what machine learning was, let alone why we might prefer it to a career in medicine or law. Machine learning was a forward-looking academic discipline with a narrow set of real-world applications. And those applications, e.g., speech recognition and computer vision, required so much domain knowledge that they were often regarded as separate areas entirely for which machine learning was one small component. Neural networks then, the antecedents of the deep learning models that we focus on in this book, were regarded as outmoded tools. In just the past five years, deep learning has taken the world by surprise, driving rapid progress in fields as diverse as computer vision, natural language processing, automatic speech recognition, reinforcement learning, and statistical modeling. With these advances in hand, we can now build cars that drive themselves with more autonomy than ever before (and less autonomy than some companies might have you believe), smart reply systems that automatically draft the most mundane emails, helping people dig out from oppressively large inboxes, and software agents that dominate the worldʼs best humans at board games like Go, a feat once thought to be decades away. Already, these tools exert ever-wider impacts on industry and society, changing the way movies are made, diseases are diagnosed, and playing a growing role in basic sciences--from astrophysics to biology.


Nested Variational Inference

arXiv.org Machine Learning

We develop nested variational inference (NVI), a family of methods that learn proposals for nested importance samplers by minimizing an forward or reverse KL divergence at each level of nesting. NVI is applicable to many commonly-used importance sampling strategies and provides a mechanism for learning intermediate densities, which can serve as heuristics to guide the sampler. Our experiments apply NVI to (a) sample from a multimodal distribution using a learned annealing path (b) learn heuristics that approximate the likelihood of future observations in a hidden Markov model and (c) to perform amortized inference in hierarchical deep generative models. We observe that optimizing nested objectives leads to improved sample quality in terms of log average weight and effective sample size.


Querying in the Age of Graph Databases and Knowledge Graphs

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Graphs have become the best way we know of representing knowledge. The computing community has investigated and developed the support for managing graphs by means of digital technology. Graph databases and knowledge graphs surface as the most successful solutions to this program. This tutorial will provide a conceptual map of the data management tasks underlying these developments, paying particular attention to data models and query languages for graphs.


Cogment: Open Source Framework For Distributed Multi-actor Training, Deployment & Operations

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Involving humans directly for the benefit of AI agents' training is getting traction thanks to several advances in reinforcement learning and human-in-the-loop learning. Humans can provide rewards to the agent, demonstrate tasks, design a curriculum, or act in the environment, but these benefits also come with architectural, functional design and engineering complexities. We present Cogment, a unifying open-source framework that introduces an actor formalism to support a variety of humans-agents collaboration typologies and training approaches. It is also scalable out of the box thanks to a distributed micro service architecture, and offers solutions to the aforementioned complexities.