Instructional Material
At the Intersection of Deep Sequential Model Framework and State-space Model Framework: Study on Option Pricing
Ding, Ziyang, Mukherjee, Sayan
Inference and forecast problems of the nonlinear dynamical system have arisen in a variety of contexts. Reservoir computing and deep sequential models, on the one hand, have demonstrated efficient, robust, and superior performance in modeling simple and chaotic dynamical systems. However, their innate deterministic feature has partially detracted their robustness to noisy system, and their inability to offer uncertainty measurement has also been an insufficiency of the framework. On the other hand, the traditional state-space model framework is robust to noise. It also carries measured uncertainty, forming a just-right complement to the reservoir computing and deep sequential model framework. We propose the unscented reservoir smoother, a model that unifies both deep sequential and state-space models to achieve both frameworks' superiorities. Evaluated in the option pricing setting on top of noisy datasets, URS strikes highly competitive forecasting accuracy, especially those of longer-term, and uncertainty measurement. Further extensions and implications on URS are also discussed to generalize a full integration of both frameworks.
Developing Future Human-Centered Smart Cities: Critical Analysis of Smart City Security, Interpretability, and Ethical Challenges
Ahmad, Kashif, Maabreh, Majdi, Ghaly, Mohamed, Khan, Khalil, Qadir, Junaid, Al-Fuqaha, Ala
As we make tremendous advances in machine learning and artificial intelligence technosciences, there is a renewed understanding in the AI community that we must ensure that humans being are at the center of our deliberations so that we don't end in technology-induced dystopias. As strongly argued by Green in his book Smart Enough City, the incorporation of technology in city environs does not automatically translate into prosperity, wellbeing, urban livability, or social justice. There is a great need to deliberate on the future of the cities worth living and designing. There are philosophical and ethical questions involved along with various challenges that relate to the security, safety, and interpretability of AI algorithms that will form the technological bedrock of future cities. Several research institutes on human centered AI have been established at top international universities. Globally there are calls for technology to be made more humane and human-compatible. For example, Stuart Russell has a book called Human Compatible AI. The Center for Humane Technology advocates for regulators and technology companies to avoid business models and product features that contribute to social problems such as extremism, polarization, misinformation, and Internet addiction. In this paper, we analyze and explore key challenges including security, robustness, interpretability, and ethical challenges to a successful deployment of AI or ML in human-centric applications, with a particular emphasis on the convergence of these challenges. We provide a detailed review of existing literature on these key challenges and analyze how one of these challenges may lead to others or help in solving other challenges. The paper also advises on the current limitations, pitfalls, and future directions of research in these domains, and how it can fill the current gaps and lead to better solutions.
Learning how to approve updates to machine learning algorithms in non-stationary settings
Machine learning algorithms in healthcare have the potential to continually learn from real-world data generated during healthcare delivery and adapt to dataset shifts. As such, the FDA is looking to design policies that can autonomously approve modifications to machine learning algorithms while maintaining or improving the safety and effectiveness of the deployed models. However, selecting a fixed approval strategy, a priori, can be difficult because its performance depends on the stationarity of the data and the quality of the proposed modifications. To this end, we investigate a learning-to-approve approach (L2A) that uses accumulating monitoring data to learn how to approve modifications. L2A defines a family of strategies that vary in their "optimism''---where more optimistic policies have faster approval rates---and searches over this family using an exponentially weighted average forecaster. To control the cumulative risk of the deployed model, we give L2A the option to abstain from making a prediction and incur some fixed abstention cost instead. We derive bounds on the average risk of the model deployed by L2A, assuming the distributional shifts are smooth. In simulation studies and empirical analyses, L2A tailors the level of optimism for each problem-setting: It learns to abstain when performance drops are common and approve beneficial modifications quickly when the distribution is stable.
Data Science 2020 : Complete Data Science & Machine Learning
Data Science and Machine Learning are the hottest skills in demand but challenging to learn. Did you wish that there was one course for Data Science and Machine Learning that covers everything from Math for Machine Learning, Advance Statistics for Data Science, Data Processing, Machine Learning A-Z, Deep learning and more? Well, you have come to the right place. This Data Science and Machine Learning course has 11 projects, 250 lectures, more than 25 hours of content, one Kaggle competition project with top 1 percentile score, code templates and various quizzes. Today Data Science and Machine Learning is used in almost all the industries, including automobile, banking, healthcare, media, telecom and others.
Data Science Workshop 101
You will learn Predictive Analytics using Python, Machine Learning, Data Visualization, Big Data, etc. This workshop will help you to become a better Data Analyst, Data Scientist, Data Engineer, Product Analyst, Machine Learning Engineer, Decision Scientist and anyone who are in Engineers, Marketing & Sales Professionals, Freshers, Domain Experts, Software & IT Professionals, Medical or Biology Owners can take this program for their benefits. Participants will get Workshop Certification & a 6-month subscription on the Datacamp Platform.
Top 40 Voice AI Influencers to Follow on Twitter
The voice-first community on social media continues to grow almost as quickly as the adoption of voice AI technology itself. In 2018, we identified 15 voice AI influencers to follow on Twitter and heard from a lot of our readers on how much they loved the list--an inspiring mix of engineers, entrepreneurs, academics, linguists and journalists. Two years later, we're updating our list to include 40 experts we recommend you follow to keep up with the latest in voice AI news, trends, predictions, and successes. As we are all in planning mode for 2021, we thought this would be a good time to publish a new list to help inspire you. If you know someone who should be included in our next list, please let us know.)
2021 Natural Language Processing in Python for Beginners
Welcome to KGP Talkie's Natural Language Processing (NLP) course. It is designed to give you a complete understanding of Text Processing and Mining with the use of State-of-the-Art NLP algorithms in Python. We will learn Spacy in detail and we will also explore the uses of NLP in real-life. This course covers the basics of NLP to advance topics like word2vec, GloVe, Deep Learning for NLP like CNN, ANN, and LSTM. I will also show you how you can optimize your ML code by using various tools of sklean in python.
How to Develop a Least Squares Generative Adversarial Network (LSGAN) in Keras
The Least Squares Generative Adversarial Network, or LSGAN for short, is an extension to the GAN architecture that addresses the problem of vanishing gradients and loss saturation. It is motivated by the desire to provide a signal to the generator about fake samples that are far from the discriminator model's decision boundary for classifying them as real or fake. The further the generated images are from the decision boundary, the larger the error signal provided to the generator, encouraging the generation of more realistic images. The LSGAN can be implemented with a minor change to the output layer of the discriminator layer and the adoption of the least squares, or L2, loss function. In this tutorial, you will discover how to develop a least squares generative adversarial network.