Gradient descent or its variants are popular in training neural networks. However, in deep Q-learning with neural network approximation, a type of reinforcement learning, gradient descent (also known as Residual Gradient (RG)) is barely used to solve Bellman residual minimization problem. On the contrary, Temporal Difference (TD), an incomplete gradient descent method prevails. In this work, we perform extensive experiments to show that TD outperforms RG, that is, when the training leads to a small Bellman residual error, the solution found by TD has a better policy and is more robust against the perturbation of neural network parameters. We further use experiments to reveal a key difference between reinforcement learning and supervised learning, that is, a small Bellman residual error can correspond to a bad policy in reinforcement learning while the test loss function in supervised learning is a standard index to indicate the performance. We also empirically examine that the missing term in TD is a key reason why RG performs badly. Our work shows that the performance of a deep Q-learning solution is closely related to the training dynamics and how an incomplete gradient descent method can find a good policy is interesting for future study.

A growing number of Americans are seeing their job security erode in the face of automation and it's undermining their health, according to a new study. The report, conducted by three Ball State University researchers with the school's Center for Business and Economic Research, shows that a 10 percentage point increase in automation risk increases average per-county costs related to medical expenses and lost productivity. "People who live and work in areas where automation is taking place are sickened by the thought of losing their jobs and having no way of providing for themselves or their families," said Michael Hicks, the center's director, who helped conduct the research. Costs associated with an increase in poor or fair health rise by $24 million to $174 million, costs related to increased physical distress rise by $6 million to $40 million and costs linked to mental distress increase by $7 million to $47 million. "This should give us pause about thinking through the benefits and costs of these technologies," Hicks said.

When self learning ML or DL, I have found there are a tonne of amazing courses. However, many inevitably get bogged down in the math, and the equations, and other gibberish. Not all of us intend to do research, some of us just want to have fun, and build some badass projects along the way. So, here are some courses available on the internet that teach you the pure code you need to get started with deep learning, and hopefully build some projects along the way. They are also useful if you have gained great theoretical knowledge, and would like to supplement it with great practice.

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The phenomenon of data distribution evolving over time has been observed in a range of applications, calling for the need for adaptive learning algorithms. We thus study the problem of supervised gradual domain adaptation, where labeled data from shifting distributions are available to the learner along the trajectory, and we aim to learn a classifier on a target data distribution of interest. Under this setting, we provide the first generalization upper bound on the learning error under mild assumptions. Our results are algorithm agnostic, general for a range of loss functions, and only depend linearly on the averaged learning error across the trajectory. This shows significant improvement compared to the previous upper bound for unsupervised gradual domain adaptation, where the learning error on the target domain depends exponentially on the initial error on the source domain. Compared with the offline setting of learning from multiple domains, our results also suggest the potential benefits of the temporal structure among different domains in adapting to the target one. Empirically, our theoretical results imply that learning proper representations across the domains will effectively mitigate learning errors. Motivated by these theoretical insights, we propose a min-max learning objective to learn the representation and classifier simultaneously. Experimental results on both semi-synthetic and large-scale real datasets corroborate our findings and demonstrate the effectiveness of our objectives.

This paper notes a simple connection between synthetic control and online learning. Specifically, we recognize synthetic control as an instance of Follow-The-Leader (FTL). Standard results in online convex optimization then imply that, even when outcomes are chosen by an adversary, synthetic control predictions of counterfactual outcomes for the treated unit perform almost as well as an oracle weighted average of control units' outcomes. Synthetic control on differenced data performs almost as well as oracle weighted difference-in-differences, potentially making it an attractive choice in practice. We argue that this observation further supports the use of synthetic control estimators in comparative case studies.