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Since the dawn of civilization, humans have tried to understand the nature of intelligence. With the advent of computers, there have been attempts to emulate human intelligence using computer algorithms - a field that was dubbed'Artificial Intelligence' or'AI' by the computer scientist John McCarthy in 1956 and has recently enjoyed an explosion of popularity. Many efforts in AI research have focused on the study and replication of what is considered the hallmark of human cognition, such as playing intelligent games, the faculty of language, visual perception, and creativity. While at the time of writing we have multiple successful takes at the above - computers nowadays play chess and Go better than any human, can translate English into Chinese without a dictionary, automatically drive a car in a crowded city, and generate poetry and art that wins artistic competitions - it is fair to say that we still do not have a full understanding of what human-like or'general' intelligence entails and how to replicate it.

There are three types of common machine learning approaches: 1) supervised learning, where a learning system learns a latent map based on labeled examples, 2) unsupervised learning, where a learning system establishes a model for data distribution based on unlabeled examples, and 3) Reinforcement Learning, where a decision-making system is trained to make optimal decisions. From the designer's point-of-view, all kinds of learning are supervised by a loss function. The sources of supervision must be defined by humans. One way to do this is by the loss function. In supervised learning, the ground truth label is provided.

"How big is the universe?" asks Alicia Nash as her face beamed with curiosity and allure. I know because all the data indicates it's infinite," answers John Forbes Nash Jr. with confidence even though there is no evidence to support his statement. "I don't; I just believe it," he says with a rather innocent smile. Though Ron Howard's A Beautiful Mind focused loosely on Nobel prize winner John Forbes Nash's battle with schizophrenia, it did point to his unique ability to see patterns where no patterns exist. He viewed the world in a different light, and that was all he needed to make his mark in history. NICE Actimize is a software company that helps its customers in combating financial crimes.

The growing energy and performance costs of deep learning have driven the community to reduce the size of neural networks by selectively pruning components. Similarly to their biological counterparts, sparse networks generalize just as well, if not better than, the original dense networks. Sparsity can reduce the memory footprint of regular networks to fit mobile devices, as well as shorten training time for ever growing networks. In this paper, we survey prior work on sparsity in deep learning and provide an extensive tutorial of sparsification for both inference and training. We describe approaches to remove and add elements of neural networks, different training strategies to achieve model sparsity, and mechanisms to exploit sparsity in practice. Our work distills ideas from more than 300 research papers and provides guidance to practitioners who wish to utilize sparsity today, as well as to researchers whose goal is to push the frontier forward. We include the necessary background on mathematical methods in sparsification, describe phenomena such as early structure adaptation, the intricate relations between sparsity and the training process, and show techniques for achieving acceleration on real hardware. We also define a metric of pruned parameter efficiency that could serve as a baseline for comparison of different sparse networks. We close by speculating on how sparsity can improve future workloads and outline major open problems in the field.

Sanjeev is a recipient of the 40 Under 40 Data Scientists award, at the Machine Learning Dev Summit for his research in autonomous tech.

Although Machine Learning and AI is becoming more and more accessible, knowing the math behind the algorithms makes you a better practitioner. Lots of people have math anxiety, which deters them from the mathematical background of the field. In this post, we collected books that help you overcome math anxiety and pick up enough math to understand and appreciate the mathematical background of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. If you are looking for a one-stop-shop for learning the math behind Machine Learning, Mathematics for Machine Learning by Deisenroth et al. is the ideal book for you! However, this book assumes that its readers are familiar with integrals, derivatives, and geometric vectors.

Of course as an introductory book, we can only leave it at that: an introductory book. For the mathematically trained, they may cure the curiosity this text generates with other texts designed with mathematical analysis in mind. For the enthusiast with less mathematical-background, or one who is not interested in the mathematics but simply the practice of Bayesian methods, this text should be sufficient and entertaining. The choice of PyMC as the probabilistic programming language is two-fold. As of this writing, there is currently no central resource for examples and explanations in the PyMC universe.

Of course as an introductory book, we can only leave it at that: an introductory book. For the mathematically trained, they may cure the curiosity this text generates with other texts designed with mathematical analysis in mind. For the enthusiast with less mathematical background, or one who is not interested in the mathematics but simply the practice of Bayesian methods, this text should be sufficient and entertaining. The choice of PyMC as the probabilistic programming language is two-fold. As of this writing, there is currently no central resource for examples and explanations in the PyMC universe.