Instructional Material
A Gentle Introduction to Multiple-Model Machine Learning
An ensemble learning method involves combining the predictions from multiple contributing models. Nevertheless, not all techniques that make use of multiple machine learning models are ensemble learning algorithms. It is common to divide a prediction problem into subproblems. For example, some problems naturally subdivide into independent but related subproblems and a machine learning model can be prepared for each. It is less clear whether these represent examples of ensemble learning, although we might distinguish these methods from ensembles given the inability for a contributing ensemble member to produce a solution (however weakly) to the overall prediction problem.
How to Implement Deep Neural Networks for Radar Image Classification
Radar-based recognition and localization of people and things in the home environment has certain advantages over computer vision, including increased user privacy, low power consumption, zero-light operation and more sensor flexible placement. Shallow machine learning techniques such as Support Vector Machines and Logistic Regression can be used to classify images from radar, and in my previous work, Teaching Radar to Understand the Home and Using Stochastic Gradient Descent to Train Linear Classifiers I shared how to apply some of these methods. In this article, you will learn how to develop Deep Neural Networks (DNN)and train them to classify objects in radar images. In addition, you will learn how to use a Semi-Supervised Generative Adversarial Network (SGAN) [1] that only needs a small number of labeled data to train a DNN classifier. This is important in dealing with radar data sets because of the dearth of large training sets, in contrast to those available for camera-based images (e.g., ImageNet) which has helped to make computer vision ubiquitous.
Deployment of Machine Learning Models in Production
Are you ready to kickstart your Advanced NLP course? Are you ready to deploy your machine learning models in production at AWS? You will learn each and every steps on how to build and deploy your ML model on a robust and secure server at AWS. Prior knowledge of python and Data Science is assumed. If you are AN absolute beginner in Data Science, please do not take this course. This course is made for medium or advanced level of Data Scientist.
Machine Learning Engineering for Production (MLOps) Specialization
Design an ML production system end-to-end: project scoping, data needs, modeling strategies, and deployment requirements. Establish a model baseline, address concept drift, and prototype how to develop, deploy, and continuously improve a productionized ML application. The Machine Learning Engineering for Production (MLOps) Specialization covers how to conceptualize, build, and maintain integrated systems that continuously operate in production. In striking contrast with standard machine learning modeling, production systems need to handle relentless evolving data. Moreover, the production system must run non-stop at the minimum cost while producing the maximum performance.
Real-Time Cognitive Evaluation of Online Learners through Automatically Generated Questions
Gala, Ritu, Vijayaraghavan, Revathi, Nikam, Valmik, Kiwelekar, Arvind
With the increased adoption of E-learning platforms, keeping online learners engaged throughout a lesson is challenging. One approach to tackle this challenge is to probe learn-ers periodically by asking questions. The paper presents an approach to generate questions from a given video lecture automatically. The generated questions are aimed to evaluate learners' lower-level cognitive abilities. The approach automatically extracts text from video lectures to generates wh-kinds of questions. When learners respond with an answer, the proposed approach further evaluates the response and provides feedback. Besides enhancing learner's engagement, this approach's main benefits are that it frees instructors from design-ing questions to check the comprehension of a topic. Thus, instructors can spend this time productively on other activities.
Under the Hood of Modern Machine and Deep Learning
In this chapter, we investigate whether unique, optimal decision boundaries can be found. In order to do so, we first have to revisit several fundamental mathematical principles. Regularization is a mathematical tool, which allows us to find unique solutions even for highly ill-posed problems. In order to use this trick, we review norms and how they can be used to steer regression problems. Rosenblatt's Perceptron and Multi-Layer Perceptrons which are also called Artificial Neural Networks inherently suffer from this ill-posedness.
Can We Apply Tests for Consciousness to Artificial Intelligence?
In Walter Bradley Center director Robert J. Marks's second podcast with philosopher Angus Menuge, where the big topic is the perennial "Hard Problem of consciousness, they established that one of the implications of quantum mechanics is that consciousness is a "thing"; it exists in its own right. How can we apply that finding to claims for artificial intelligence? This portion begins at 25:33 min. A partial transcript, Show Notes, and Additional Resources follow. Robert J. Marks (pictured): Here is the big AI question: I know that I am conscious.
Machine Learning with Imbalanced Data
Welcome to Machine Learning with Imbalanced Datasets. In this course, you will learn multiple techniques which you can use with imbalanced datasets to improve the performance of your machine learning models. If you are working with imbalanced datasets right now and want to improve the performance of your models, or you simply want to learn more about how to tackle data imbalance, this course will show you how. We'll take you step-by-step through engaging video tutorials and teach you everything you need to know about working with imbalanced datasets. Throughout this comprehensive course, we cover almost every available methodology to work with imbalanced datasets, discussing their logic, their implementation in Python, their advantages and shortcomings, and the considerations to have when using the technique.