Learning the principal eigenfunctions of an integral operator defined by a kernel and a data distribution is at the core of many machine learning problems. Traditional nonparametric solutions based on the Nystr{\"o}m formula suffer from scalability issues. Recent work has resorted to a parametric approach, i.e., training neural networks to approximate the eigenfunctions. However, the existing method relies on an expensive orthogonalization step and is difficult to implement. We show that these problems can be fixed by using a new series of objective functions that generalizes the EigenGame~\citep{gemp2020eigengame} to function space. We test our method on a variety of supervised and unsupervised learning problems and show it provides accurate approximations to the eigenfunctions of polynomial, radial basis, neural network Gaussian process, and neural tangent kernels. Finally, we demonstrate our method can scale up linearised Laplace approximation of deep neural networks to modern image classification datasets through approximating the Gauss-Newton matrix. Code is available at \url{https://github.com/thudzj/neuraleigenfunction}.

Weak Supervision (WS) techniques allow users to efficiently create large training datasets by programmatically labeling data with heuristic sources of supervision. While the success of WS relies heavily on the provided labeling heuristics, the process of how these heuristics are created in practice has remained under-explored. In this work, we formalize the development process of labeling heuristics as an interactive procedure, built around the existing workflow where users draw ideas from a selected set of development data for designing the heuristic sources. With the formalism, we study two core problems of how to strategically select the development data to guide users in efficiently creating informative heuristics, and how to exploit the information within the development process to contextualize and better learn from the resultant heuristics. Building upon two novel methodologies that effectively tackle the respective problems considered, we present Nemo, an end-to-end interactive system that improves the overall productivity of WS learning pipeline by an average 20% (and up to 47% in one task) compared to the prevailing WS approach.

Pastor and activist John Amanchukwu criticized the Wake County School Board for pushing diversity initiatives while academic scores suffer. Several private schools in New York City are not only requiring students to learn about "anti-racism," but are now requiring parents to do the same. The New York Post reviewed documents from five private schools in New York City and found that several are instituting "optional" and required "anti-racism" and "diversity, equity and inclusion" trainings for parents, not just students. At The Brearley School, an all-girls prep school, "parents are expected to attend two diversity, equity, inclusion and antiracism (DEIA) workshops per school year," according to an application for admission. Additionally, perspective parents are required to write a 500-word essay which explains their commitment to the issues of "diversity, equity, inclusion and antiracism."

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In this advanced course on deep reinforcement learning, you will learn how to implement policy gradient, actor critic, deep deterministic policy gradient (DDPG), twin delayed deep deterministic policy gradient (TD3), and soft actor critic (SAC) algorithms in a variety of challenging environments from the Open AI gym. There will be a strong focus on dealing with environments with continuous action spaces, which is of particular interest for those looking to do research into robotic control with deep reinforcement learning. Rather than being a course that spoon feeds the student, here you are going to learn to read deep reinforcement learning research papers on your own, and implement them from scratch. You will learn a repeatable framework for quickly implementing the algorithms in advanced research papers. Mastering the content in this course will be a quantum leap in your capabilities as an artificial intelligence engineer, and will put you in a league of your own among students who are reliant on others to break down complex ideas for them.

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To further strengthen our commitment to providing industry-leading coverage of data technology, VentureBeat is excited to welcome Andrew Brust and Tony Baer as regular contributors. Confidential computing focuses on potentially revolutionary technology, in terms of impact on data security. In confidential computing, data remains encrypted, not just at rest and in transit, but also in use, allowing analytics and machine learning (ML) to be performed on the data, while maintaining its confidentiality. The capability to encrypt data in use opens up a massive range of possible real-world scenarios, and it has major implications and potential benefits for the future of data security. VentureBeat spoke with Raluca Ada Popa about her research and work in developing practical solutions for confidential computing.

This note shares a final recap of my series of notes on the different topics from Andrew Ng's Machine Learning course. I hope that these notes help to make machine learning more accessible and create greater collective intuition around machine learning. What are the types of Machine Learning? ML is when a computer program is able to learn without being programmed explicitly, which is often illustrated as getting better at a task as it gains more experience according to a measure of performance. ML can be bucketed as either (1) "supervised learning" where it learns from the "right answers" (e.g., regression or classification), or (2) "unsupervised learning" where there are no "right answers" given, but the model finds structure or patterns in the data (e.g., clustering).

Grammatical Error Correction (GEC) has been broadly applied in automatic correction and proofreading system recently. However, it is still immature in Chinese GEC due to limited high-quality data from native speakers in terms of category and scale. In this paper, we present FCGEC, a fine-grained corpus to detect, identify and correct the grammatical errors. FCGEC is a human-annotated corpus with multiple references, consisting of 41,340 sentences collected mainly from multi-choice questions in public school Chinese examinations. Furthermore, we propose a Switch-Tagger-Generator (STG) baseline model to correct the grammatical errors in low-resource settings. Compared to other GEC benchmark models, experimental results illustrate that STG outperforms them on our FCGEC. However, there exists a significant gap between benchmark models and humans that encourages future models to bridge it.