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EasyRec: An easy-to-use, extendable and efficient framework for building industrial recommendation systems
Cheng, Mengli, Gao, Yue, Liu, Guoqiang, Jin, HongSheng, Zhang, Xiaowen
Our EasyRec framework is superior in the following aspects: first, EasyRec adopts a modular and pluggable design pattern to reduce the efforts to build custom models; second, EasyRec implements hyper-parameter optimization and feature selection algorithms to improve model performance automatically; third, EasyRec applies online learning to fast adapt to the ever-changing data distribution.
On Extending Amdahl's law to Learn Computer Performance
Poolla, Chaitanya, Saxena, Rahul
The problem of learning parallel computer performance is investigated in the context of multicore processors. Given a fixed workload, the effect of varying system configuration on performance is sought. Conventionally, the performance speedup due to a single resource enhancement is formulated using Amdahl's law. However, in case of multiple configurable resources the conventional formulation results in several disconnected speedup equations that cannot be combined together to determine the overall speedup. To solve this problem, we propose to (1) extend Amdahl's law to accommodate multiple configurable resources into the overall speedup equation, and (2) transform the speedup equation into a multivariable regression problem suitable for machine learning. Using experimental data from fifty-eight tests spanning two benchmarks (SPECCPU 2017 and PCMark 10) and four hardware platforms (Intel Xeon 8180M, AMD EPYC 7702P, Intel CoffeeLake 8700K, and AMD Ryzen 3900X), analytical models are developed and cross-validated. Findings indicate that in most cases, the models result in an average cross-validated accuracy higher than 95%, thereby validating the proposed extension of Amdahl's law. The proposed methodology enables rapid generation of multivariable analytical models to support future industrial development, optimization, and simulation needs.
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Autodidact's path to AI/Machine Learning (part 2)
In the first part of the Autodidacts path to a MSc level in AI/Machine Learning, using UCL's MSc as a lighthouse to guide us through the rough waters of building a Machine Learning MSc curriculum, we had a look at some of the most established and helpful resources for a beginning ML engineer. Moving on to the second part of our attempt to build a curriculum for the autodidact enthusiast of Machine Learning, we will dive into one of the hot topics during the past decade. This is no other than Deep Learning. Although technically a sub-category of Machine Learning, Deep Learning has evolved into its own paradigm and has earned the title of'one of the pillars of ML' and for good reasons. The past decade has seen a huge number of successful applications and technological advancements that utilise Deep Learning.
Understanding reality through algorithms
Although Fernanda De La Torre still has several years left in her graduate studies, she's already dreaming big when it comes to what the future has in store for her. "I dream of opening up a school one day where I could bring this world of understanding of cognition and perception into places that would never have contact with this," she says. It's that kind of ambitious thinking that's gotten De La Torre, a doctoral student in MIT's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, to this point. A recent recipient of the prestigious Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans, De La Torre has found at MIT a supportive, creative research environment that's allowed her to delve into the cutting-edge science of artificial intelligence. But she's still driven by an innate curiosity about human imagination and a desire to bring that knowledge to the communities in which she grew up.
AI, Opacity, and Personal Autonomy
Advancements in machine learning have fuelled the popularity of using AI decision algorithms in procedures such as bail hearings (Feller et al. 2016), medical diagnoses (Rajkomar et al. 2018; Esteva et al. 2019) and recruitment (Heilweil 2019, Van Esch et al. 2019). Academic articles (Floridi et al. 2018), policy texts (HLEG 2019), and popularizing books (O'Neill 2016, Eubanks 2018) alike warn that such algorithms tend to be _opaque_: they do not provide explanations for their outcomes. Building on a causal account of transparency and opacity as well as recent work on the value of causal explanation (Lombrozo 2011, Hitchcock 2012), I formulate a moral concern for opaque algorithms that is yet to receive a systematic treatment in the literature: when such algorithms are used in life-changing decisions, they can obstruct us from effectively shaping our lives according to our goals and preferences, thus undermining our autonomy. I argue that this concern deserves closer attention as it furnishes the call for transparency in algorithmic decision-making with both new tools and new challenges.
Capacity dependent analysis for functional online learning algorithms
Guo, Xin, Guo, Zheng-Chu, Shi, Lei
This article provides convergence analysis of online stochastic gradient descent algorithms for functional linear models. Adopting the characterizations of the slope function regularity, the kernel space capacity, and the capacity of the sampling process covariance operator, significant improvement on the convergence rates is achieved. Both prediction problems and estimation problems are studied, where we show that capacity assumption can alleviate the saturation of the convergence rate as the regularity of the target function increases. We show that with properly selected kernel, capacity assumptions can fully compensate for the regularity assumptions for prediction problems (but not for estimation problems). This demonstrates the significant difference between the prediction problems and the estimation problems in functional data analysis.
Annotation Error Detection: Analyzing the Past and Present for a More Coherent Future
Klie, Jan-Christoph, Webber, Bonnie, Gurevych, Iryna
Annotated data is an essential ingredient in natural language processing for training and evaluating machine learning models. It is therefore very desirable for the annotations to be of high quality. Recent work, however, has shown that several popular datasets contain a surprising amount of annotation errors or inconsistencies. To alleviate this issue, many methods for annotation error detection have been devised over the years. While researchers show that their approaches work well on their newly introduced datasets, they rarely compare their methods to previous work or on the same datasets. This raises strong concerns on methods' general performance and makes it difficult to asses their strengths and weaknesses. We therefore reimplement 18 methods for detecting potential annotation errors and evaluate them on 9 English datasets for text classification as well as token and span labeling. In addition, we define a uniform evaluation setup including a new formalization of the annotation error detection task, evaluation protocol and general best practices. To facilitate future research and reproducibility, we release our datasets and implementations in an easy-to-use and open source software package.
4 AI Trends That Will Shape Up India's Tech Landscape
We're seeing life-changing advancements in various aspects of our professional and personal lives as AI becomes more integrated into our daily lives From using voice assistants like Alexa and Siri to unlocking our mobile phones using face recognition, we're using the technology more frequently than we think Technology has progressed to model and algorithm-based machine learning, with an emphasis on perception, reasoning, and generalisation. Artificial intelligence (AI) has benefited a variety of industries in recent years and will continue to do so in the future. AI has fuelled the development of numerous advancements, including the Internet of Things (IoT), robotics, analytics, and voice assistants! We're seeing life-changing advancements in various aspects of our professional and personal lives as AI becomes more integrated into our daily lives. From using voice assistants like Alexa and Siri to unlocking our mobile phones using face recognition, we're using the technology more frequently than we think. We see AI's capabilities every day, whether it's on social media when we see a personalised feed, running a Google search about the latest movie we watched and finding the best match for our search even before we finish typing, and much more.
Python Projects with Source Code - Practice Top Projects in Python - DataFlair
Looking to build a career in Python? Want to improve your resume with multiple personal projects on it? Then this blog of Python projects with source code is for you. You earlier read about the top 5 data science projects; now, we bring you 12 projects implementing data science with Python. In this blog, you'll find the entire code to all the projects.