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Tokyo firm using AI to successfully predict questions on certification exams - The Mainichi

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A company operating a website on how to prepare for qualification examinations is using artificial intelligence (AI) to successfully predict questions on such tests. Tokyo-based Sight Visit Inc. correctly picked 57 out of 95 questions -- about 60% -- that went on the multiple choice section of the preliminary test for the state bar examination in May. One of the questions that the company correctly predicted is a true-or-false one that stated: "When deciding to involve an expert commissioner when preparing to hold oral proceedings to hear explanations based on their expert knowledge, the opinions of the concerned parties must be heard." Sight Visit deems that it has been successful when its predictions for both questions and their answer options are totally, or almost, correct. The preliminary test for the state bar exam comprises multiple choice and description-type sections.


Local 'Artificial Intelligence For Business' Course To Be Held In September

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The past 10 years wouldn't have been possible without you. Information technology and software services company Softclick Investments is hosting an Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Business course from the 24th of September to 26 October at Batanai Gardens. The course is supposed to provide "practical, comprehensive training that enables participants to immediately and effectively partake in enterprise AI projects." The courses require no technical background and will be open to all "executives and professionals from all functions across all industries." At the end of the course, participants will earn a certificate.


Time Series Analysis in Python 2019 Coupons ME

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Created by 365 Careers 5.5 hours on-demand video course This course will teach you the practical skills that would allow you to land a job as a quantitative finance analyst, a data analyst or a data scientist. In no time, you will acquire the fundamental skills that will enable you to perform complicated time series analysis directly applicable in practice. This course is exactly what you need to comprehend time series once and for all. Not only that, but you will also get a ton of additional materials โ€“ notebooks files, course notes, quiz questions, and many, many exercises โ€“ everything is included.


Meta-Transfer Learning through Hard Tasks

arXiv.org Machine Learning

Meta-learning has been proposed as a framework to address the challenging few-shot learning setting. The key idea is to leverage a large number of similar few-shot tasks in order to learn how to adapt a base-learner to a new task for which only a few labeled samples are available. As deep neural networks (DNNs) tend to overfit using a few samples only, typical meta-learning models use shallow neural networks, thus limiting its effectiveness. In order to achieve top performance, some recent works tried to use the DNNs pre-trained on large-scale datasets but mostly in straight-forward manners, e.g., (1) taking their weights as a warm start of meta-training, and (2) freezing their convolutional layers as the feature extractor of base-learners. In this paper, we propose a novel approach called meta-transfer learning (MTL) which learns to transfer the weights of a deep NN for few-shot learning tasks. Specifically, meta refers to training multiple tasks, and transfer is achieved by learning scaling and shifting functions of DNN weights for each task. In addition, we introduce the hard task (HT) meta-batch scheme as an effective learning curriculum that further boosts the learning efficiency of MTL. We conduct few-shot learning experiments and report top performance for five-class few-shot recognition tasks on three challenging benchmarks: miniImageNet, tieredImageNet and Fewshot-CIFAR100 (FC100). Extensive comparisons to related works validate that our MTL approach trained with the proposed HT meta-batch scheme achieves top performance. An ablation study also shows that both components contribute to fast convergence and high accuracy.


Self-Paced Contextual Reinforcement Learning

arXiv.org Machine Learning

Generalization and adaptation of learned skills to novel situations is a core requirement for intelligent autonomous robots. Although contextual reinforcement learning provides a principled framework for learning and generalization of behaviors across related tasks, it generally relies on uninformed sampling of environments from an unknown, uncontrolled context distribution, thus missing the benefits of structured, sequential learning. We introduce a novel relative entropy reinforcement learning algorithm that gives the agent the freedom to control the intermediate task distribution, allowing for its gradual progression towards the target context distribution. Empirical evaluation shows that the proposed curriculum learning scheme drastically improves sample efficiency and enables learning in scenarios with both broad and sharp target context distributions in which classical approaches perform sub-optimally.


Dynamic Self-training Framework for Graph Convolutional Networks

arXiv.org Machine Learning

Graph neural networks (GNN) such as GCN, GAT, MoNet have achieved state-of-the-art results on semi-supervised learning on graphs. However, when the number of labeled nodes is very small, the performances of GNNs downgrade dramatically. Self-training has proved to be effective for resolving this issue, however, the performance of self-trained GCN is still inferior to that of G2G and DGI for many settings. Moreover, additional model complexity make it more difficult to tune the hyper-parameters and do model selection. We argue that the power of self-training is still not fully explored for the node classification task. In this paper, we propose a unified end-to-end self-training framework called \emph{Dynamic Self-traning}, which generalizes and simplifies prior work. A simple instantiation of the framework based on GCN is provided and empirical results show that our framework outperforms all previous methods including GNNs, embedding based method and self-trained GCNs by a noticeable margin. Moreover, compared with standard self-training, hyper-parameter tuning for our framework is easier.


Generalized Inner Loop Meta-Learning

arXiv.org Machine Learning

In this paper, we give a formalization of this shared pattern, which we call G IMLI, prove its general requirements, and derive a general-purpose algorithm for implementing similar approaches. Based on this analysis and algorithm, we describe a library of our design, higher, which we share with the community to assist and enable future research into these kinds of meta-learning approaches. We end the paper by showcasing the practical applications of this framework and library through illustrative experiments and ablation studies which they facilitate. 1 I NTRODUCTION Although it is by no means a new subfield of machine learning research (see e.g. Schmidhuber, 1987; Bengio, 2000; Hochreiter et al., 2001), there has recently been a surge of interest in meta-learning (e.g. This is due to the methods meta-learning provides, amongst other things, for producing models that perform well beyond the confines of a single task, outside the constraints of a static dataset, or simply with greater data efficiency or sample complexity. Due to the wealth of options in what could be considered "meta-" to a learning problem, the term itself may have been used with some degree of underspecification. However, it turns out that many meta-learning approaches, in particular in the recent literature, follow the pattern of optimizing the "meta-parameters" of the training process by nesting one or more inner loops in an outer training loop. Such nesting enables training a model for several steps, evaluating it, calculating or approximating the gradients of that evaluation with respect to the meta-parameters, and subsequently updating these meta-parameters.


Ajay Ramaseshan's answer to When can one say that he or she has machine learning skills? - Quora

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Leaders - These are the likes of Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Yandex, Amazon etc. they develop ML libraries in languages like Python/C and export it to the world. They also read the latest research papers, extend new research, and push the frontier of ML. Working here is quite challenging because you need to be well versed with the theory of ML and also have good programming and software engineering skills. Followers - These are companies that use analytics to solve real life problems for e.g. in finance, loan prediction, or self driving cars, or retail analytics, or insurance propensity modelling, music recommendation etc. for these kind of roles, the emphasis is more on integrating the ML part with the product. You don't need to write a classifier code from scratch, but use existing libraries that the Leader companies create.


Artificial Intelligence-Based eLearning Platform - eLearning Industry

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An AI-based eLearning platform is a machine/system that possesses the ability to perform different tasks requiring human intelligence. It maintains the ability to create solutions to human-related problems, like speech recognition, translations involving different languages, decision making, and much more. Even in our mobile devices, an Artificial Intelligence engine is incorporated to help with studying our patterns in order to create likely suggestions during texting. Even though the AI-based eLearning platform hasn't become a standard learning approach amidst most learning organizations, there's a need for it. Although Artificial Intelligence is not of much use, it's on the way to making a positive contribution toward the effectiveness of eLearning training.