The fundamental mathematical tools needed to understand machine learning include linear algebra, analytic geometry, matrix decompositions, vector calculus, optimization, probability and statistics. These topics are traditionally taught in disparate courses, making it hard for data science or computer science students, or professionals, to efficiently learn the mathematics. It uses these concepts to derive four central machine learning methods: linear regression, principal component analysis, Gaussian mixture models and support vector machines. For students and others with a mathematical background, these derivations provide a starting point to machine learning texts. For those learning the mathematics for the first time, the methods help build intuition and practical experience with applying mathematical concepts.

Wikipedia tells us that Machine learning is, "a field of computer science that gives computers the ability to learn without being explicitly programmed." It goes on to say, "machine learning explores the study and construction of algorithms that can learn from and make predictions on data -- such algorithms overcome following strictly static program instructions by making data-driven predictions or decisions, through building a model from sample inputs." What does it mean to learn from inputs without being explicitly programmed? Let us consider a classical machine learning problem: spam filtering. Imagine that we know nothing about machine learning, but are tasked with determining whether an email consists of spam or not.

Most Machine Learning systems that are deployed in the world today learn from human feedback. For example, a self-driving car can understand a stop sign because humans have manually labeled 1,000s of examples of stop signs in videos taken from cars. Those labeled examples are what teaches the algorithms deployed in the cars to automatically identify the stop signs. However, most Machine Learning courses focus almost exclusively on the algorithms, not the Human-Computer Interaction part of the systems. This can leave a big knowledge gap for Data Scientists working in real-world Machine Learning, where they will spend more time on data management than on building algorithms.

Much is heard about making the learning process more personalized with the help of all recent technological developments. Artificial Intelligence is seen as one of the most promising means to enhance, or even revolutionize education. The Artificial Intelligence Market in the US Education Sector report, for example, expects AI in the US education to grow by 47.5% from 2017–2021. Sure enough, personalization might be the Holy Grail of educators, but it remains only one side and one aspect of the educational process. Let's look at the new AI-driven education from the perspective of democratization of the learning process.

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Many recent works have discussed the propensity, or lack thereof, for emergent languages to exhibit properties of natural languages. A favorite in the literature is learning compositionality. We note that most of those works have focused on communicative bandwidth as being of primary importance. While important, it is not the only contributing factor. In this paper, we investigate the learning biases that affect the efficacy and compositionality of emergent languages. Our foremost contribution is to explore how capacity of a neural network impacts its ability to learn a compositional language. We additionally introduce a set of evaluation metrics with which we analyze the learned languages. Our hypothesis is that there should be a specific range of model capacity and channel bandwidth that induces compositional structure in the resulting language and consequently encourages systematic generalization. While we empirically see evidence for the bottom of this range, we curiously do not find evidence for the top part of the range and believe that this is an open question for the community.

The importance of automated Facial Emotion Recognition (FER) grows the more common human-machine interactions become, which will only continue to increase dramatically with time. A common method to describe human sentiment or feeling is the categorical model the `7 basic emotions', consisting of `Angry', `Disgust', `Fear', `Happiness', `Sadness', `Surprise' and `Neutral'. The `Emotion Recognition in the Wild' (EmotiW) competition is now in its 7th year and has become the standard benchmark for measuring FER performance. The focus of this paper is the EmotiW sub-challenge of classifying videos in the `Acted Facial Expression in the Wild' (AFEW) dataset, consisting of both visual and audio modalities, into one of the above classes. Machine learning has exploded as a research topic in recent years, with advancements in `Deep Learning' a key part of this. Although Deep Learning techniques have been widely applied to the FER task by entrants in previous years, this paper has two main contributions: (i) to apply the latest `state-of-the-art' visual and temporal networks and (ii) exploring various methods of fusing features extracted from the visual and audio elements to enrich the information available to the final model making the prediction. There are a number of complex issues that arise when trying to classify emotions for `in-the-wild' video sequences, which the above two approaches attempt to directly address. There are some positive findings when comparing the results of this paper to past submissions, indicating that further research into the proposed methods and fine-tuning of the models deployed, could result in another step forwards in the field of automated FER.

Human beings are able to master a variety of knowledge and skills with ongoing learning. By contrast, dramatic performance degradation is observed when new tasks are added to an existing neural network model. This phenomenon, termed as \emph{Catastrophic Forgetting}, is one of the major roadblocks that prevent deep neural networks from achieving human-level artificial intelligence. Several research efforts, e.g. \emph{Lifelong} or \emph{Continual} learning algorithms, have been proposed to tackle this problem. However, they either suffer from an accumulating drop in performance as the task sequence grows longer, or require to store an excessive amount of model parameters for historical memory, or cannot obtain competitive performance on the new tasks. In this paper, we focus on the incremental multi-task image classification scenario. Inspired by the learning process of human students, where they usually decompose complex tasks into easier goals, we propose an adversarial feature alignment method to avoid catastrophic forgetting. In our design, both the low-level visual features and high-level semantic features serve as soft targets and guide the training process in multiple stages, which provide sufficient supervised information of the old tasks and help to reduce forgetting. Due to the knowledge distillation and regularization phenomenons, the proposed method gains even better performance than finetuning on the new tasks, which makes it stand out from other methods. Extensive experiments in several typical lifelong learning scenarios demonstrate that our method outperforms the state-of-the-art methods in both accuracies on new tasks and performance preservation on old tasks.

Algorithmic machine teaching studies the interaction between a teacher and a learner where the teacher selects labeled examples aiming at teaching a target hypothesis. In a quest to lower teaching complexity and to achieve more natural teacher-learner interactions, several teaching models and complexity measures have been proposed for both the batch settings (e.g., worst-case, recursive, preference-based, and non-clashing models) as well as the sequential settings (e.g., local preference-based model). To better understand the connections between these different batch and sequential models, we develop a novel framework which captures the teaching process via preference functions $\Sigma$. In our framework, each function $\sigma \in \Sigma$ induces a teacher-learner pair with teaching complexity as $\TD(\sigma)$. We show that the above-mentioned teaching models are equivalent to specific types/families of preference functions in our framework. This equivalence, in turn, allows us to study the differences between two important teaching models, namely $\sigma$ functions inducing the strongest batch (i.e., non-clashing) model and $\sigma$ functions inducing a weak sequential (i.e., local preference-based) model. Finally, we identify preference functions inducing a novel family of sequential models with teaching complexity linear in the VC dimension of the hypothesis class: this is in contrast to the best known complexity result for the batch models which is quadratic in the VC dimension.

This paper proposes SplitSGD, a new stochastic optimization algorithm with a dynamic learning rate selection rule. This procedure decreases the learning rate for better adaptation to the local geometry of the objective function whenever a stationary phase is detected, that is, the iterates are likely to bounce around a vicinity of a local minimum. The detection is performed by splitting the single thread into two and using the inner products of the gradients from the two threads as a measure of stationarity. This learning rate selection is provably valid, robust to initial parameters, easy-to-implement, and essentially does not incur additional computational cost. Finally, we illustrate the robust convergence properties of SplitSGD through extensive experiments.