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Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) in Practice - CouponED

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Deep learning is one of the most recent and advanced topics in machine learning, with several applications in many fields. It shows promising results in many areas, from computer vision to drug discovery and stock market prediction. There are many books and articles in deep learning that discuss its algorithms, theories, and applications. Also, because of its capabilities and potentials in solving different problems by deploying different data types, many researchers and people who are not in computer science or related fields are interested in learning and using deep learning architectures in their projects. This course gives you some fundamentals of artificial neural networks and deep learning and then has focused on Generative Adversarial Network and its applications with some coding examples to understand the concepts better.


The ethics of artificial intelligence

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Maura R. Grossman, JD, Ph.D., is a Research Professor in the Cheriton School of Computer Science, an Adjunct Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, and an affiliate faculty member of the Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence. She is also Principal at Maura Grossman Law, an eDiscovery law and consulting firm in Buffalo, New York. Maura is best known for her work on technology-assisted review, a supervised machine learning approach that she and her colleague, Computer Science Professor Gordon V. Cormack, developed to expedite review of documents in high-stakes litigation. She teaches Artificial Intelligence: Law, Ethics, and Policy, a course for graduate computer science students at Waterloo and upper-class law students at Osgoode, as well as the ethics workshop required of all students in the master's programs in artificial intelligence and data science at Waterloo. Artificial intelligence is an umbrella term first used at a conference in Dartmouth in 1956.


8 Terms You Should Know about Bayesian Neural Network

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From the previous article, we know that Bayesian Neural Network would treat the model weights and outputs as variables. Instead of finding a set of optimal estimates, we are fitting the probability distributions for them. But the problem is "How can we know what their distributions look like?" To answer this, you have to learn what prior, posterior, and Bayes' theorem are. In the following, we will use an example for illustration.


La veille de la cybersécurité

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How many times have you taken yet another online course on machine learning or read yet another paper on a new emerging topic, to be up-to-date in this crazy fast-paced AI/ML world -- only to keep feeling like an ML engineer impostor? These three personal tips can help you overcome the classic (and common) impostor syndrome behind every emerging ML engineer who wants to be better at what you do. When I first applied to Toptal, I wanted to become both a freelancer and a "real ML engineer" at the same time. Before that, I worked as a Machine Learning engineer at Nordeus, a top mobile gaming company famous for having Mourinho's face on its flagship game: TopEleven. My Machine Learning adventure at Nordeus consisted of designing and implementing an intelligent system to help the customer support team resolve player issues faster.


10 Best Machine Learning Courses Online for Beginners

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Do you want to learn Machine Learning and looking for the Best Machine Learning Courses Online for Beginners?… If yes, then this article is for you. In this article, you will find the 10 best machine learning courses online for beginners. So, give your few minutes to this article and find out the best machine learning course online for beginners. Now without any further ado, let's get started- This is one of the Best Online Courses for Machine Learning Beginners.


Making machine learning more useful to high-stakes decision makers

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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that one in seven children in the United States experienced abuse or neglect in the past year. Child protective services agencies around the nation receive a high number of reports each year (about 4.4 million in 2019) of alleged neglect or abuse. With so many cases, some agencies are implementing machine learning models to help child welfare specialists screen cases and determine which to recommend for further investigation. But these models don't do any good if the humans they are intended to help don't understand or trust their outputs. Researchers at MIT and elsewhere launched a research project to identify and tackle machine learning usability challenges in child welfare screening.


Making machine learning more useful to high-stakes decision makers

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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that one in seven children in the United States experienced abuse or neglect in the past year. Child protective services agencies around the nation receive a high number of reports each year (about 4.4 million in 2019) of alleged neglect or abuse. With so many cases, some agencies are implementing machine learning models to help child welfare specialists screen cases and determine which to recommend for further investigation. But these models don't do any good if the humans they are intended to help don't understand or trust their outputs. Researchers at MIT and elsewhere launched a research project to identify and tackle machine learning usability challenges in child welfare screening.


Exploiting Cross-Modal Prediction and Relation Consistency for Semi-Supervised Image Captioning

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

The task of image captioning aims to generate captions directly from images via the automatically learned cross-modal generator. To build a well-performing generator, existing approaches usually need a large number of described images, which requires a huge effects on manual labeling. However, in real-world applications, a more general scenario is that we only have limited amount of described images and a large number of undescribed images. Therefore, a resulting challenge is how to effectively combine the undescribed images into the learning of cross-modal generator. To solve this problem, we propose a novel image captioning method by exploiting the Cross-modal Prediction and Relation Consistency (CPRC), which aims to utilize the raw image input to constrain the generated sentence in the commonly semantic space. In detail, considering that the heterogeneous gap between modalities always leads to the supervision difficulty of using the global embedding directly, CPRC turns to transform both the raw image and corresponding generated sentence into the shared semantic space, and measure the generated sentence from two aspects: 1) Prediction consistency. CPRC utilizes the prediction of raw image as soft label to distill useful supervision for the generated sentence, rather than employing the traditional pseudo labeling; 2) Relation consistency. CPRC develops a novel relation consistency between augmented images and corresponding generated sentences to retain the important relational knowledge. In result, CPRC supervises the generated sentence from both the informativeness and representativeness perspectives, and can reasonably use the undescribed images to learn a more effective generator under the semi-supervised scenario.


Adaptive Conformal Inference Under Distribution Shift

arXiv.org Machine Learning

We develop methods for forming prediction sets in an online setting where the data generating distribution is allowed to vary over time in an unknown fashion. Our framework builds on ideas from conformal inference to provide a general wrapper that can be combined with any black box method that produces point predictions of the unseen label or estimated quantiles of its distribution. While previous conformal inference methods rely on the assumption that the data points are exchangeable, our adaptive approach provably achieves the desired coverage frequency over long-time intervals irrespective of the true data generating process. We accomplish this by modelling the distribution shift as a learning problem in a single parameter whose optimal value is varying over time and must be continuously re-estimated. We test our method, adaptive conformal inference, on two real world datasets and find that its predictions are robust to visible and significant distribution shifts.


Doubly Robust Interval Estimation for Optimal Policy Evaluation in Online Learning

arXiv.org Machine Learning

Evaluating the performance of an ongoing policy plays a vital role in many areas such as medicine and economics, to provide crucial instruction on the early-stop of the online experiment and timely feedback from the environment. Policy evaluation in online learning thus attracts increasing attention by inferring the mean outcome of the optimal policy (i.e., the value) in real-time. Yet, such a problem is particularly challenging due to the dependent data generated in the online environment, the unknown optimal policy, and the complex exploration and exploitation trade-off in the adaptive experiment. In this paper, we aim to overcome these difficulties in policy evaluation for online learning. We explicitly derive the probability of exploration that quantifies the probability of exploring the non-optimal actions under commonly used bandit algorithms. We use this probability to conduct valid inference on the online conditional mean estimator under each action and develop the doubly robust interval estimation (DREAM) method to infer the value under the estimated optimal policy in online learning. The proposed value estimator provides double protection on the consistency and is asymptotically normal with a Wald-type confidence interval provided. Extensive simulations and real data applications are conducted to demonstrate the empirical validity of the proposed DREAM method.