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Predictive coding is an influential theory of cortical function which posits that the principal computation the brain performs, which underlies both perception and learning, is the minimization of prediction errors. While motivated by high-level notions of variational inference, detailed neurophysiological models of cortical microcircuits which can implements its computations have been developed. Moreover, under certain conditions, predictive coding has been shown to approximate the backpropagation of error algorithm, and thus provides a relatively biologically plausible credit-assignment mechanism for training deep networks. However, standard implementations of the algorithm still involve potentially neurally implausible features such as identical forward and backward weights, backward nonlinear derivatives, and 1-1 error unit connectivity. In this paper, we show that these features are not integral to the algorithm and can be removed either directly or through learning additional sets of parameters with Hebbian update rules without noticeable harm to learning performance. Our work thus relaxes current constraints on potential microcircuit designs and hopefully opens up new regions of the design-space for neuromorphic implementations of predictive coding.

Machine learning is one area that cannot succeed without data. Traditionally, machine learning frameworks read it from CSV files or similar data sources. This brings an interesting set of challenges because in most cases the data is stored in databases, not simple raw files. It takes time and effort to move data from one format to another. Additionally, one needs to write some code (usually python) to prepare the data just like the ML framework expects it.

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Emerging edge intelligence applications require the server to continuously retrain and update deep neural networks deployed on remote edge nodes in order to leverage newly collected data samples. Unfortunately, it may be impossible in practice to continuously send fully updated weights to these edge nodes due to the highly constrained communication resource. In this paper, we propose the weight-wise deep partial updating paradigm, which smartly selects only a subset of weights to update at each server-to-edge communication round, while achieving a similar performance compared to full updating. Our method is established through analytically upper-bounding the loss difference between partial updating and full updating, and only updates the weights which make the largest contributions to the upper bound. Extensive experimental results demonstrate the efficacy of our partial updating methodology which achieves a high inference accuracy while updating a rather small number of weights.

Kel Guerin is the Founder & CTO of READY Robotics, creators of the world's first universal operating system for industrial automation, READY Robotics helps all manufacturers solve their labor challenges, boost output, improve quality, reduce costs, and augment their workforce through automation. What initially attracted you to robotics? I was interested in robots from an early age – I remember a particular book printed in the 80s I read as a kid that showed a bunch of fanciful images of what robots would be like. I also loved movies like Forbidden Planet and the original Lost in Space that showed robots as these helpful devices. I also understood from reading about robots like Dante 1 (a volcano explorer) and the robots we sent to Chernobyl and 3 Mile Island how important these devices were for tasks hazardous to people.

This article was published as a part of the Data Science Blogathon. Fastai is a popular open-source library used for learning and practicing machine learning and deep learning. Jeremy Howard and Rachel Thomas founded fast.ai with the objective of making deep learning more accessible. All the exhaustive resources such as courses, software, and research papers available in fast.ai In August 2020, fastai_v2 was released that promises to be much faster, and more flexible to implement deep learning frameworks.

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We have recently shared introductory courses from Amazon's recently-launched Machine Learning University initiative, courses focusing on both computer vision (CV) and natural language processing (NLP). These courses assume no previous knowledge of the topics, and are based on short video lectures and corresponding Python notebooks. But what if you are not interested in the specialized paths of either CV or NLP? What if you would like to gain an understanding of applying machine learning to more traditional datasets? If this remark resembles you, Accelerated Tabular Data from Amazon's Machine Learning University might be a good place to start.

The editors at Solutions Review have compiled this list of the best machine learning courses and online training to consider for 2020. Description: This course provides a broad introduction to machine learning, datamining, and statistical pattern recognition. Topics include: (i) Supervised learning (parametric/non-parametric algorithms, support vector machines, kernels, neural networks). Description: In this non-technical course, you'll learn everything you've been too afraid to ask about machine learning. Hands-on exercises will help you get past the jargon and learn how this exciting technology powers everything from self-driving cars to your personal Amazon shopping suggestions.