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Linear Algebra is usually a prerequisite of machine learning. However, one doesn't need to know all the concepts in linear algebra. In this course, I have compiled together all the important linear algebra concepts that are most frequently used in machine learning. This is the content I taught at Polytechnique Montreal as a refresher on linear algebra for machine learning. Understanding these concepts will help you navigate through an introductory course in machine learning.

Deep learning is a domain of machine learning that is algorithmically designed to function similar to how the human brain works. You have neurons that are individually operating units/functions that pass information (just some numbers) from the previous layer (of neurons) to the next layer. This article is a refresher article and is not intended to teach you deep learning fully. If you are a newbie, I recommend going through Udacity's free course on Introduction to Deep Learning (Pytorch). Ok so, we all know deep learning consists of these units called perceptrons.

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Experience replay (ER) improves the data efficiency of off-policy reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms by allowing an agent to store and reuse its past experiences in a replay buffer. While many techniques have been proposed to enhance ER by biasing how experiences are sampled from the buffer, thus far they have not considered strategies for refreshing experiences inside the buffer. In this work, we introduce Lucid Dreaming for Experience Replay (LiDER), a conceptually new framework that allows replay experiences to be refreshed by leveraging the agent's current policy. LiDER 1) moves an agent back to a past state; 2) lets the agent try following its current policy to execute different actions---as if the agent were "dreaming" about the past, but is aware of the situation and can control the dream to encounter new experiences; and 3) stores and reuses the new experience if it turned out better than what the agent previously experienced, i.e., to refresh its memories. LiDER is designed to be easily incorporated into off-policy, multi-worker RL algorithms that use ER; we present in this work a case study of applying LiDER to an actor-critic based algorithm. Results show LiDER consistently improves performance over the baseline in four Atari 2600 games. Our open-source implementation of LiDER and the data used to generate all plots in this paper are available at github.com/duyunshu/lucid-dreaming-for-exp-replay.

Well since most of us tend to forget(In case of those already who already implemented ML algorithms) the various library functions and end up writing code for pre-existing functions using sheer logic which is a waste of both time and energy, in such times it becomes essential if one understands the nuances of the Library being used efficiently. So Numpy being one of the essential libraries for Machine Learning requires an article of its own. Since understanding Numpy is the starting point of Data Pre-processing and later on implementing ML Algorithms, So you can be someone who is about to learn Machine Learning in the near future or has just begun and wants to get a more Hands on experience in learning Numpy for ML. But my main focus while writing this article is for it to serve as a quick refresher to Numpy for those who have had experience with the library but need a swift recap. Numpy is a library for the Python programming language, adding support for large, multi-dimensional arrays and matrices, along with a large collection of high-level mathematical functions to operate on these arrays. Moreover Numpy forms the foundation of the Machine Learning stack.

Reading news on the creative use of AI (Artificial Intelligence) in our ever day lives, whether it be healthcare, agriculture or finance, it is fascinating to see the diversity and complexity that AI represents across industries and subject-matter areas that we could not even think about. While there are numerous common interests and priorities across industries and policy areas, there is a lack of uniformity about what it is meant by "AI." In the most generic and basic sense, AI is a field of study that broadly asks the question: "Can machines process information in a way similar to a human?" The field is a dynamic and technical subject-matter area that encapsulates a seemingly endless list of technologies, techniques and competing points of view. Popular press is often -- and correctly -- derided for coverage that relies on hyperbolic and platitudinal language that obfuscates what the technology is actually capable of.

When the mini-batch mean (µB) and mini-batch standard deviation (σB) diverge from the mean and standard deviation over the entire training set too often, BatchNorm breaks. Remember that at inference time we use the moving averages of µB and σB (as an estimate of the statistics of the entire training set) to do the normalization step. Naturally, if your means and standard deviations during training and testing are different, so are your activations and you can't be surprised if your results are different (read worse), too. This can happen when your mini-batch samples are non-i.i.d.

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