Layoff has always been the first step companies take in order to cut down cost amid an economic turmoil. And this COVID-19 pandemic has made millions of people unemployed, including data scientists and analytics professionals. Keeping business sustainable is a critical priority for any company right now, and in order to keep their finances stable as well as to reinvest in automation, many of them are taking layoffs as a resort for their business continuity. In fact, according to data, this coronavirus lockdown has made a record-high unemployment rate of 27.1% in India. In another recent report, it has been noted that the new claims for unemployment benefits in the US have raised to 281,000 by March 2020, which is the highest since 2017.

For a lot of higher-level courses in Machine Learning and Data Science, you find you need to freshen up on the basics in mathematics -- stuff you may have studied before in school or university, but which was taught in another context, or not very intuitively, such that you struggle to relate it to how it's used in Computer Science. This specialization aims to bridge that gap, getting you up to speed in the underlying mathematics, building an intuitive understanding, and relating it to Machine Learning and Data Science. TIP: most of Coursera's courses and specializations have the option to audit them. You won't get a certificate, but you'll access most of the resources of the course--something I personally found more than enough. At the moment of enrolling, just select the option to audit the course.

Timed Practice Exam is coming soon! New reference architecture section with hands-on lab that demonstrates how to build a data lake solution using AWS Services and the best practices: 2020 AWS S3 Data Lake Architecture. This topic covers essential services and how they work together for a cohesive solution. AWS Artificial Intelligence material is now live! Within a few minutes, you will learn about algorithms for sophisticated facial recognition systems, sentiment analysis, conversational interfaces with speech and text and much more.

In this paper, we propose an AI-FML robotic agent for student learning behavior ontology construction which can be applied in English speaking and listening domain. The AI-FML robotic agent with the ontology contains the perception intelligence, computational intelligence, and cognition intelligence for analyzing student learning behavior. In addition, there are three intelligent agents, including a perception agent, a computational agent, and a cognition agent in the AI-FML robotic agent. We deploy the perception agent and the cognition agent on the robot Kebbi Air. Moreover, the computational agent with the Deep Neural Network (DNN) model is performed in the cloud and can communicate with the perception agent and cognition agent via the Internet. The proposed AI-FML robotic agent is applied in Taiwan and tested in Japan. The experimental results show that the agents can be utilized in the human and machine co-learning model for the future education.

Online metric learning has been widely exploited for large-scale data classification due to the low computational cost. However, amongst online practical scenarios where the features are evolving (e.g., some features are vanished and some new features are augmented), most metric learning models cannot be successfully applied into these scenarios although they can tackle the evolving instances efficiently. To address the challenge, we propose a new online Evolving Metric Learning (EML) model for incremental and decremental features, which can handle the instance and feature evolutions simultaneously by incorporating with a smoothed Wasserstein metric distance. Specifically, our model contains two essential stages: the Transforming stage (T-stage) and the Inheriting stage (I-stage). For the T-stage, we propose to extract important information from vanished features while neglecting non-informative knowledge, and forward it into survived features by transforming them into a low-rank discriminative metric space. It further explores the intrinsic low-rank structure of heterogeneous samples to reduce the computation and memory burden especially for highly-dimensional large-scale data. For the I-stage, we inherit the metric performance of survived features from the T-stage and then expand to include the augmented new features. Moreover, the smoothed Wasserstein distance is utilized to characterize the similarity relations among the complex and heterogeneous data, since the evolving features in the different stages are not strictly aligned. In addition to tackling the challenges in one-shot case, we also extend our model into multi-shot scenario. After deriving an efficient optimization method for both T-stage and I-stage, extensive experiments on several benchmark datasets verify the superiority of our model.

We study many-class few-shot (MCFS) problem in both supervised learning and meta-learning settings. Compared to the well-studied many-class many-shot and few-class few-shot problems, the MCFS problem commonly occurs in practical applications but has been rarely studied in previous literature. It brings new challenges of distinguishing between many classes given only a few training samples per class. In this paper, we leverage the class hierarchy as a prior knowledge to train a coarse-to-fine classifier that can produce accurate predictions for MCFS problem in both settings. The propose model, "memory-augmented hierarchical-classification network (MahiNet)", performs coarse-to-fine classification where each coarse class can cover multiple fine classes. Since it is challenging to directly distinguish a variety of fine classes given few-shot data per class, MahiNet starts from learning a classifier over coarse-classes with more training data whose labels are much cheaper to obtain. The coarse classifier reduces the searching range over the fine classes and thus alleviates the challenges from "many classes". On architecture, MahiNet firstly deploys a convolutional neural network (CNN) to extract features. It then integrates a memory-augmented attention module and a multi-layer perceptron (MLP) together to produce the probabilities over coarse and fine classes. While the MLP extends the linear classifier, the attention module extends the KNN classifier, both together targeting the "few-shot" problem. We design several training strategies of MahiNet for supervised learning and meta-learning. In addition, we propose two novel benchmark datasets "mcfsImageNet" and "mcfsOmniglot" specially designed for MCFS problem. In experiments, we show that MahiNet outperforms several state-of-the-art models on MCFS problems in both supervised learning and meta-learning.

Iterative machine teaching is a method for selecting an optimal teaching example that enables a student to efficiently learn a target concept at each iteration. Existing studies on iterative machine teaching are based on supervised machine learning and assume that there are teachers who know the true answers of all teaching examples. In this study, we consider an unsupervised case where such teachers do not exist; that is, we cannot access the true answer of any teaching example. Students are given a teaching example at each iteration, but there is no guarantee if the corresponding label is correct. Recent studies on crowdsourcing have developed methods for estimating the true answers from crowdsourcing responses. In this study, we apply these to iterative machine teaching for estimating the true labels of teaching examples along with student models that are used for teaching. Our method supports the collaborative learning of students without teachers. The experimental results show that the teaching performance of our method is particularly effective for low-level students in particular.

If you are looking to start your career in machine learning then this is the course for you. This is a course designed in such a way that you will learn all the concepts of machine learning right from basic to advanced levels. For the code explained in each lecture, you can find a GitHub link in the resources section. IF YOU FIND THIS FREE UDEMY COURSE " Machine Learning " USEFUL AND HELPFUL PLEASE GO AHEAD SHARE THE KNOWLEDGE WITH YOUR FRIENDS WHILE THE COURSE IS STILL AVAILABLE

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