Statistical Learning
Deep Learning Foundation : Linear Regression and Statistics
Free Coupon Discount - Deep Learning Foundation: Linear Regression and Statistics, Learn linear regression from scratch, Statistics, R-Squared, VIF, Gradient descent, Data Science Deep Learning in Python Created by Jay Shankar Bhatt Students also bought Build a Data Analysis Library from Scratch in Python Building Machine Learning Web Apps with Python DataScience-Stats,MachineLearning,NLP-Python-R-BigData-Spark COVID-19 Data Science Urban Epidemic Modelling in Python Getting Started with Python Web Scraping Data Visualization with Python and Matplotlib Preview this Udemy Course GET COUPON CODE Description Hi Everyone welcome to new course which is created to sharpen your linear regression and statistical basics. In this course I have explained hypothesis testing, Unbiased estimators, Statistical test, Gradient descent. End of the course you will be able to code your own regression algorithm from scratch.
Gradient Descent and the Normal Equation for Linear Regression with Practical Implemetation inโฆ
When I started my machine learning journey, math was something that always intrigued me and still does. I for one believe that libraries such as scikit learn have indeed done wonders for us when it comes to implementing the algorithms but without an understanding of the maths that goes into making the algorithm, we are bound to make mistakes on complicated problems. In this article, I will be going over the math behind Gradient Descent and the derivation behind the Normal linear Equation and then implementing them both on a dataset to get my coefficients. When i was getting started with Linear Regression and trying to get an understanding of the different ways to calculate the coefficients, The Normal Equation was by far my most favorite method to find coefficients but where does this equation come from? Well, let us take a look.
Decision Boundary in Machine Learning
The general goal of a classification model is to find a decision boundary. The purpose of the decision boundaries is to identify those regions of the input class space that corresponds to each class. In this article, I will take you through the concept of decision boundary in machine learning. To explain the concept of decision boundaries in machine learning, I will first create a Logistic Regression model. So now let's import some libraries and get started with the task: I will use the iris dataset to fit a Linear Regression model.
Machine Learning Algorithms
Arthur Samuel (1959): "Field of study that gives computers the ability to learn without being explicitly programmed". Tom Mitchel (1997): "A computer program is said to learn if its performance at a task T, as measured by a performance P, improves with experience E". Selecting a right machine-learning algorithm depends on several factors, including the data size, quality and nature of data. Choosing the right algorithm is both a combination of business need, specification, experimentation and time available. Here we will explore different machine learning algorithms. In supervised learning, we provide a known dataset that includes inputs and desired outputs.
Machine Learning Panel Data Regressions with an Application to Nowcasting Price Earnings Ratios
Babii, Andrii, Ball, Ryan T., Ghysels, Eric, Striaukas, Jonas
This paper introduces structured machine learning regressions for prediction and nowcasting with panel data consisting of series sampled at different frequencies. Motivated by the empirical problem of predicting corporate earnings for a large cross-section of firms with macroeconomic, financial, and news time series sampled at different frequencies, we focus on the sparse-group LASSO regularization. This type of regularization can take advantage of the mixed frequency time series panel data structures and we find that it empirically outperforms the unstructured machine learning methods. We obtain oracle inequalities for the pooled and fixed effects sparse-group LASSO panel data estimators recognizing that financial and economic data exhibit heavier than Gaussian tails. To that end, we leverage on a novel Fuk-Nagaev concentration inequality for panel data consisting of heavy-tailed $\tau$-mixing processes which may be of independent interest in other high-dimensional panel data settings.
Mime: Mimicking Centralized Stochastic Algorithms in Federated Learning
Karimireddy, Sai Praneeth, Jaggi, Martin, Kale, Satyen, Mohri, Mehryar, Reddi, Sashank J., Stich, Sebastian U., Suresh, Ananda Theertha
Federated learning is a challenging optimization problem due to the heterogeneity of the data across different clients. Such heterogeneity has been observed to induce client drift and significantly degrade the performance of algorithms designed for this setting. In contrast, centralized learning with centrally collected data does not experience such drift, and has seen great empirical and theoretical progress with innovations such as momentum, adaptivity, etc. In this work, we propose a general framework Mime which mitigates client-drift and adapts arbitrary centralized optimization algorithms (e.g.\ SGD, Adam, etc.) to federated learning. Mime uses a combination of control-variates and server-level statistics (e.g. momentum) at every client-update step to ensure that each local update mimics that of the centralized method. Our thorough theoretical and empirical analyses strongly establish Mime's superiority over other baselines.
Extrapolating false alarm rates in automatic speaker verification
Sholokhov, Alexey, Kinnunen, Tomi, Vestman, Ville, Lee, Kong Aik
Automatic speaker verification (ASV) vendors and corpus In this study we improve upon the generative model presented providers would both benefit from tools to reliably extrapolate in [3]. Despite demonstrating expected overall trends, performance metrics for large speaker populations without collecting the predicted false alarm rates were substantially overestimated, new speakers. We address false alarm rate extrapolation particularly at high ASV thresholds (proxies of high-security under a worst-case model whereby an adversary identifies the applications). To tackle this shortcoming, we propose a discriminative closest impostor for a given target speaker from a large population.
A novel residual whitening based training to avoid overfitting
Ramakrishnan, Anand, Jackson, Warren B., Evans, Kent
In this paper we demonstrate that training models to minimize the autocorrelation of the residuals as an additional penalty prevents overfitting of the machine learning models. We use different problem extrapolative testing sets, and invoking decorrelation objective functions, we create models which can predict more complex systems. The models are interpretable, extrapolative, data-efficient, and capture predictable but complex non-stochastic behavior such as unmodeled degrees of freedom and systemic measurement noise. We apply this improved modeling paradigm to several simulated systems and an actual physical system in the context of system identification. Several ways of composing domain models with neural models are examined for time series, boosting, bagging, and auto-encoding on various systems of varying complexity and non-linearity. Although this work is preliminary, we show that the ability to combine models is a very promising direction for neural modeling. Modeling has been used for many years to explain, predict, and control the real world. Traditional models include science/math equations, algorithms, simulations, parametric models which capture domain knowledge, and interpolative models such as cubic splines or polynomial least squares among others which do not have explanatory value but can interpolate between known values well.
A Novel Community Detection Based Genetic Algorithm for Feature Selection
Rostami, Mehrdad, Berahmand, Kamal, Forouzandeh, Saman
The selection of features is an essential data preprocessing stage in data mining. The core principle of feature selection seems to be to pick a subset of possible features by excluding features with almost no predictive information as well as highly associated redundant features. In the past several years, a variety of meta-heuristic methods were introduced to eliminate redundant and irrelevant features as much as possible from high-dimensional datasets. Among the main disadvantages of present meta-heuristic based approaches is that they are often neglecting the correlation between a set of selected features. In this article, for the purpose of feature selection, the authors propose a genetic algorithm based on community detection, which functions in three steps. The feature similarities are calculated in the first step. The features are classified by community detection algorithms into clusters throughout the second step. In the third step, features are picked by a genetic algorithm with a new community-based repair operation. Nine benchmark classification problems were analyzed in terms of the performance of the presented approach. Also, the authors have compared the efficiency of the proposed approach with the findings from four available algorithms for feature selection. The findings indicate that the new approach continuously yields improved classification accuracy.
A Fully Bayesian Gradient-Free Supervised Dimension Reduction Method using Gaussian Processes
Gautier, Raphael, Pandita, Piyush, Ghosh, Sayan, Mavris, Dimitri
Modern day engineering problems are ubiquitously characterized by sophisticated computer codes that map parameters or inputs to an underlying physical process. In other situations, experimental setups are used to model the physical process in a laboratory, ensuring high precision while being costly in materials and logistics. In both scenarios, only limited amount of data can be generated by querying the expensive information source at a finite number of inputs or designs. This problem is compounded further in the presence of a high-dimensional input space. State-of-the-art parameter space dimension reduction methods, such as active subspace, aim to identify a subspace of the original input space that is sufficient to explain the output response. These methods are restricted by their reliance on gradient evaluations or copious data, making them inadequate to expensive problems without direct access to gradients. The proposed methodology is gradient-free and fully Bayesian, as it quantifies uncertainty in both the low-dimensional subspace and the surrogate model parameters. This enables a full quantification of epistemic uncertainty and robustness to limited data availability. It is validated on multiple datasets from engineering and science and compared to two other state-of-the-art methods based on four aspects: a) recovery of the active subspace, b) deterministic prediction accuracy, c) probabilistic prediction accuracy, and d) training time. The comparison shows that the proposed method improves the active subspace recovery and predictive accuracy, in both the deterministic and probabilistic sense, when only few model observations are available for training, at the cost of increased training time.