Deep Learning
What is deep learning? Everything you need to know ZDNet
Here's how it's related to artificial intelligence, how it works and why it matters. Deep learning is a subset of machine learning, which itself falls within the field of artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence is the study of how to build machines capable of carrying out tasks that would typically require human intelligence. That rather loose definition means that AI encompasses many fields of research, from genetic algorithms to expert systems, and provides scope for arguments over what constitutes AI. Within the field of AI research, machine learning has enjoyed remarkable success in recent years -- allowing computers to surpass or come close to matching human performance in areas ranging from facial recognition to speech and language recognition. Machine learning is the process of teaching a computer to carry out a task, rather than programming it how to carry that task out step by step. At the end of training, a machine-learning system will be able to make accurate predictions when given data.
Deep Learning: Going Deeper toward Meaningful Patterns in Complex Data
In a previous blog post, we addressed how machine learning is becoming ever more useful in cybersecurity and introduced some basic terms, techniques, and workflows that are essential for those who work in machine learning. Although traditional machine learning methods are already successful for many problems, their success often depends on choosing and extracting the right features from a dataset, which can be hard for complex data. For instance, what kinds of features might be useful, or possible to extract, in all the photographs on Google Images, all the tweets on Twitter, all the sounds of a spoken language, or all the positions in the board game Go? This post introduces deep learning, a popular and quickly-growing subfield of machine learning that has had great success on problems about these datasets, and on many other problems where picking the right features for the job is hard or impossible. A mathematical description of a dataset, with certain properties that can be adjusted to make the description more accurately represent the data, is called a model.
Deep Learning With Python Tutorial For Beginners - 2018 - DataFlair
Today, we will see Deep Learning with Python Tutorial. Deep Learning, a Machine Learning method that has taken the world by awe with its capabilities. In this Deep Learning Tutorial Python, we will discuss the meaning of Deep Learning With Python. Also, we will learn why we call it Deep Learning. Moreover, this Python Deep learning Tutorial will go through artificial neural networks and Deep Neural Networks, along with deep learning applications.
What if AI is coming for jobs faster than we thought?
In May 2018, Tipsy the Robot bartender nearly brought the bars and restaurants of Las Vegas to a grinding halt. Tipsy is an automated mixologist who slings bespoke cocktails, obviating human hands for the same task. Servers still bring the beverages to patrons at tables, although the tipplers have placed their orders via tablets. Fears of a future awash with thousands of Tipsies were a top concern of the 38,000-member Culinary Union. In response, the union nearly went on strike.
A Domain Guided CNN Architecture for Predicting Age from Structural Brain Images
Sturmfels, Pascal, Rutherford, Saige, Angstadt, Mike, Peterson, Mark, Sripada, Chandra, Wiens, Jenna
Given the wide success of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) applied to natural images, researchers have begun to apply them to neuroimaging data. To date, however, exploration of novel CNN architectures tailored to neuroimaging data has been limited. Several recent works fail to leverage the 3D structure of the brain, instead treating the brain as a set of independent 2D slices. Approaches that do utilize 3D convolutions rely on architectures developed for object recognition tasks in natural 2D images. Such architectures make assumptions about the input that may not hold for neuroimaging. For example, existing architectures assume that patterns in the brain exhibit translation invariance. However, a pattern in the brain may have different meaning depending on where in the brain it is located. There is a need to explore novel architectures that are tailored to brain images. We present two simple modifications to existing CNN architectures based on brain image structure. Applied to the task of brain age prediction, our network achieves a mean absolute error (MAE) of 1.4 years and trains 30% faster than a CNN baseline that achieves a MAE of 1.6 years. Our results suggest that lessons learned from developing models on natural images may not directly transfer to neuroimaging tasks. Instead, there remains a large space of unexplored questions regarding model development in this area, whose answers may differ from conventional wisdom.
Neural Importance Sampling
Mรผller, Thomas, McWilliams, Brian, Rousselle, Fabrice, Gross, Markus, Novรกk, Jan
We propose to use deep neural networks for generating samples in Monte Carlo integration. Our work is based on non-linear independent component analysis, which we extend in numerous ways to improve performance and enable its application to integration problems. First, we introduce piecewise-polynomial coupling transforms that greatly increase the modeling power of individual coupling layers. Second, we propose to preprocess the inputs of neural networks using one-blob encoding, which stimulates localization of computation and improves inference. Third, we derive a gradient-descent-based optimization for the KL and the $\chi^2$ divergence for the specific application of Monte Carlo integration with stochastic estimates of the target distribution. Our approach enables fast and accurate inference and efficient sample generation independent of the dimensionality of the integration domain. We demonstrate the benefits of our approach for generating natural images and in two applications to light-transport simulation. First, we show how to learn joint path-sampling densities in primary sample space and how to importance sample multi-dimensional path prefixes thereof. Second, we use our technique to extract conditional directional densities driven by the triple product of the rendering equation, and leverage them for path guiding. In all applications, our approach yields on-par or higher performance at equal sample count than competing techniques.
Neural Network Encapsulation
Li, Hongyang, Guo, Xiaoyang, Dai, Bo, Ouyang, Wanli, Wang, Xiaogang
A capsule is a collection of neurons which represents different variants of a pattern in the network. The routing scheme ensures only certain capsules which resemble lower counterparts in the higher layer should be activated. However, the computational complexity becomes a bottleneck for scaling up to larger networks, as lower capsules need to correspond to each and every higher capsule. To resolve this limitation, we approximate the routing process with two branches: a master branch which collects primary information from its direct contact in the lower layer and an aide branch that replenishes master based on pattern variants encoded in other lower capsules. Compared with previous iterative and unsupervised routing scheme, these two branches are communicated in a fast, supervised and one-time pass fashion. The complexity and runtime of the model are therefore decreased by a large margin. Motivated by the routing to make higher capsule have agreement with lower capsule, we extend the mechanism as a compensation for the rapid loss of information in nearby layers. We devise a feedback agreement unit to send back higher capsules as feedback. It could be regarded as an additional regularization to the network. The feedback agreement is achieved by comparing the optimal transport divergence between two distributions (lower and higher capsules). Such an add-on witnesses a unanimous gain in both capsule and vanilla networks. Our proposed EncapNet performs favorably better against previous state-of-the-arts on CIFAR10/100, SVHN and a subset of ImageNet.
A small team of student AI coders beats Google's machine-learning code
Students from Fast.ai, a small organization that runs free machine-learning courses online, just created an AI algorithm that outperforms code from Google's researchers, according to an important benchmark. Fast.ai's success is important because it sometimes seems as if only those with huge resources can do advanced AI research. Fast.ai consists of part-time students keen to try their hand at machine learning--and perhaps transition into a career in data science. It rents access to computers in Amazon's cloud. But Fast.ai's team built an algorithm that beats Google's code, as measured using a benchmark called DAWNBench, from researchers at Stanford.
Emotion Recognition and Sentiment Analysis Market to Reach $3.8 Billion by 2025
Significant advances have been made during the past few years in the ability of artificial intelligence (AI) systems to recognize and analyze human emotion and sentiment, owing in large part to accelerated access to data (primarily social media feeds and digital video), cheaper compute power, and evolving deep learning capabilities combined with natural language processing (NLP) and computer vision. According to a new report from Tractica, these trends are beginning to drive growth in the market for sentiment and emotion analysis software. Tractica forecasts that worldwide revenue from sentiment and emotion analysis software will increase from $123 million in 2017 to $3.8 billion by 2025. The market intelligence firm anticipates that this growth will be driven by several key industries including retail, advertising, business services, healthcare, and gaming. According to Tractica's analysis, the top use case categories for sentiment and emotion analysis will be as follows: "A better understanding of human emotion will help AI technology create more empathetic customer and healthcare experiences, drive our cars, enhance teaching methods, and figure out ways to build better products that meet our needs," says principal analyst Mark Beccue.
Reinforcement Learning: The Business Use Case, Part 1
The whirl of reinforcement learning started with the advent of AlphaGo by DeepMind, the AI system built to play the game Go. Since then, various companies have invested a great deal of time, energy, and research, and today reinforcement learning is one of the hot topics within Deep Learning. That said, most businesses are struggling to find use cases for reinforcement learning or ways to encompass it within their business logic. So far, it's been studied only in risk-free, observed, environments that are easy to simulate, which means that industries like finance, health, insurance, tech-consultancies are reluctant to risk their own money to explore its applications. What's more, the aspect of "risk factoring" within reinforcement learning puts a high strain on systems.