Instructional Material
Genetic Algorithm (GA) Introduction with Example Code
This tutorial will be diving into genetic algorithms in detail and explaining their implementation in Python. We will also explore the different methods involved in each step diagrammatically. As always, we are including code for reproducibility purposes. We have split the code when required while exploring the different steps involved during our implementation. Make sure to check the full implementation from this tutorial on either Google Colab or Github.
The 30 Best Deep Learning Courses on Udemy for 2021
The editors at Solutions Review have compiled this list of the best deep learning courses on Udemy to consider if you're looking to grow your skills. Deep learning is a class of machine learning algorithms that uses multiple layers to progressively extract higher-level features from the raw input. Based on artificial neural networks and representation learning, deep learning can be supervised, semi-supervised or unsupervised. Deep learning models are commonly based on convolutional neural networks but can also include propositional f formulas or latent variables organized by layer. With this in mind, we've compiled this list of the best deep learning courses on Udemy if you're looking to grow your skills for work or play.
Spatial Data Analysis with Earth Engine Python and Colab
Description Do you want to access satellite sensors using Earth Engine Python API and Google Colab? Do you want to learn the spatial data science on the cloud? Do you want to become a geospatial data scientist? I will provide you with hands-on training with example data, sample scripts, and real-world applications. By taking this course, you be able to install Anaconda and Jupyter Notebook.
Google Professional Data Engineer Exam
The need for data engineers is constantly growing and certified data engineers are some of the top paid certified professionals. Data engineers have a wide range of skills including the ability to design systems to ingest large volumes of data, store data cost-effectively, and efficiently process and analyze data with tools ranging from reporting and visualization to machine learning. Earning a Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer certification demonstrates you have the knowledge and skills to build, tune, and monitor high performance data engineering systems. This PT is designed and developed by the author of the official Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer exam guide and a data architect with over 20 years of experience in databases, data architecture, and machine learning. This PT to ensure you understand how to ingest data, create a data processing pipelines in Cloud Dataflow, deploy relational databases, design highly performant Bigtable, BigQuery, and Cloud Spanner databases, query Firestore databases, and create a Spark and Hadoop cluster using Cloud Dataproc.
Artificial intelligence is infiltrating higher ed, from admissions to grading
Students newly accepted by colleges and universities this spring are being deluged by emails and texts in the hope that they will put down their deposits and enroll. If they have questions about deadlines, financial aid and even where to eat on campus, they can get instant answers. The messages are friendly and informative. Artificial intelligence, or AI, is being used to shoot off these seemingly personal appeals and deliver pre-written information through chatbots and text personas meant to mimic human banter. It can help a university or college by boosting early deposit rates while cutting down on expensive and time-consuming calls to stretched admissions staffs.
How Bayesian Should Bayesian Optimisation Be?
De Ath, George, Everson, Richard, Fieldsend, Jonathan
Bayesian optimisation (BO) uses probabilistic surrogate models - usually Gaussian processes (GPs) - for the optimisation of expensive black-box functions. At each BO iteration, the GP hyperparameters are fit to previously-evaluated data by maximising the marginal likelihood. However, this fails to account for uncertainty in the hyperparameters themselves, leading to overconfident model predictions. This uncertainty can be accounted for by taking the Bayesian approach of marginalising out the model hyperparameters. We investigate whether a fully-Bayesian treatment of the Gaussian process hyperparameters in BO (FBBO) leads to improved optimisation performance. Since an analytic approach is intractable, we compare FBBO using three approximate inference schemes to the maximum likelihood approach, using the Expected Improvement (EI) and Upper Confidence Bound (UCB) acquisition functions paired with ARD and isotropic Matern kernels, across 15 well-known benchmark problems for 4 observational noise settings. FBBO using EI with an ARD kernel leads to the best performance in the noise-free setting, with much less difference between combinations of BO components when the noise is increased. FBBO leads to over-exploration with UCB, but is not detrimental with EI. Therefore, we recommend that FBBO using EI with an ARD kernel as the default choice for BO.
RL-IoT: Towards IoT Interoperability via Reinforcement Learning
Milan, Giulia, Vassio, Luca, Drago, Idilio, Mellia, Marco
Our life is getting filled by Internet of Things (IoT) devices. These devices often rely on closed or poorly documented protocols, with unknown formats and semantics. Learning how to interact with such devices in an autonomous manner is key for interoperability and automatic verification of their capabilities. In this paper, we propose RL-IoT -- a system that explores how to automatically interact with possibly unknown IoT devices. We leverage reinforcement learning (RL) to understand the semantics of protocol messages and to control the device to reach a given goal, while minimizing the number of interactions. We assume only to know a database of possible IoT protocol messages, whose semantics are however unknown. RL-IoT exchanges messages with the target IoT device, learning those commands that are useful to reach the given goal. Our results show that RL-IoT is able to solve simple and complex tasks. With properly tuned parameters, RL-IoT learns how to perform actions with the target device, a Yeelight smart bulb for our case study, completing non-trivial patterns with as few as 400 interactions. RL-IoT opens the opportunity to use RL to automatically explore how to interact with IoT protocols with limited information, and paving the road for interoperable systems.
Graph Learning: A Survey
Xia, Feng, Sun, Ke, Yu, Shuo, Aziz, Abdul, Wan, Liangtian, Pan, Shirui, Liu, Huan
Graphs are widely used as a popular representation of the network structure of connected data. Graph data can be found in a broad spectrum of application domains such as social systems, ecosystems, biological networks, knowledge graphs, and information systems. With the continuous penetration of artificial intelligence technologies, graph learning (i.e., machine learning on graphs) is gaining attention from both researchers and practitioners. Graph learning proves effective for many tasks, such as classification, link prediction, and matching. Generally, graph learning methods extract relevant features of graphs by taking advantage of machine learning algorithms. In this survey, we present a comprehensive overview on the state-of-the-art of graph learning. Special attention is paid to four categories of existing graph learning methods, including graph signal processing, matrix factorization, random walk, and deep learning. Major models and algorithms under these categories are reviewed respectively. We examine graph learning applications in areas such as text, images, science, knowledge graphs, and combinatorial optimization. In addition, we discuss several promising research directions in this field.
NLP - Natural Language Processing with Python
Welcome to the best Natural Language Processing course on the internet! This course is designed to be your complete online resource for learning how to use Natural Language Processing with the Python programming language. In the course we will cover everything you need to learn in order to become a world class practitioner of NLP with Python. We'll start off with the basics, learning how to open and work with text and PDF files with Python, as well as learning how to use regular expressions to search for custom patterns inside of text files. Afterwards we will begin with the basics of Natural Language Processing, utilizing the Natural Language Toolkit library for Python, as well as the state of the art Spacy library for ultra fast tokenization, parsing, entity recognition, and lemmatization of text.
Introduction to Vision AI
Introduction to Vision AI Understand Vision AI concepts, technologies, use cases and solution components computer vision is one of the hottest subfields of artificial intelligence and machine learning, given its wide variety of applications and tremendous ... This course is divided into multiple sections. Section 1 provides an introduction to the course including course outline, audience, expected outcome, and authors for the course. In section 2, we will describe what is a Vision AI and how it is being used in classifying and cataloging various image and videos. We will cover key concepts behind Vision VI and its 5 complexity levels' In section 3, we will take a series of use cases in four different categories like In Section 5, we will cover first good example of Vision AI for analyzing Payment protection Plan to interpret payroll forms. US Government released more than 1 trillion dollars to support small businesses economically impacted by COVID.