Is there an ensemble technique package for unsupervised learning in R?
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View ArticleNon-linear least squares and machine learning
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View ArticleEnsemble learning with multiple feature sets: what is it called?
In a learning task (web page classification), I have used 3 classifiers on a training set. Namely,*classifier 1 uses feature set A (extracted with feature_extractor_A), eg. using features from HTML...
View ArticleNeural Nets: how do hidden units and sigmoids approximate nonlinear functions?
Just learning about neural nets and haven't really seen how/if the hidden units with sigmoid activation functions lead to the approximation of arbitrary nonlinear functions.Any intuition or proof is...
View ArticleDocument representation for information retrieval systems
Hi everyone, I am trying to figure out which is the best document representation for an information retrieval (IR) system. There are two popular options at the state-of-the-art: (1) BOW (Bag Of Words),...
View ArticleQuality score for MC PageRank approximation
Hey people, I'm implementing a Monte Carlo PageRank approximation. I want to measure it's accuracy when compared to the "true" scores that power iteration gets. So I have two probability distribution...
View ArticleWhat is the current state of artificial creativity?
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View ArticleAskML: Machine Learning and Cloud Cover Forecasting
We have a 300 x 300 element data set that represents some geographic area, where each element/pixel is about 1km on a side. Each element holds one of two values: clear or cloud. The data is represented...
View ArticleI've done a comparison of Mini Batch & Elkan's k-Means
I've made this a text post since it seems submitting to your own blog is a no no. Its been a little sparse in here, so I figured I would submit some of my own investigation into Mini Batch k-Means and...
View ArticleDarwin: framework for machine learning and computer vision research and...
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View ArticleEntry level jobs in Machine Learning?
Hi all,I'm wondering what an entry level job for an ML career would look like. Embarrassingly, I actually have a Master's in ML, but I know I'm not qualified to tackle the ML jobs listed on...
View ArticleResearchers say AI prescribes better treatment than doctors
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View ArticleAligning new sentence pairs with the Berkeley Aligner
I'm trying to use the Aligner (unsupervised) to align Korean and English sentences. I see that when I run the aligner on the example data, it does the "test" step on the example test corpus. Based on...
View ArticleBackpropagation neural network: choosing the number of input neurons and...
So I'm building a 3-layer backprop neural network to help me transform a feature vector input of roughly 50 elements into a score from 0 - 100. EDIT - should mention I plan on having at least 1000...
View ArticleThe secret of the big guys: K-means clustering + a linear model = good results
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View ArticleThesis: Linking tweets to events
Hi,I'm a CS student majoring in ML and I'm searching for some thesis topic for next year.One idea I have is to try to find methods to automatically link certain tweets to certain events (people...
View ArticleSuggestions for online courses in machine learning, AI and/or mathematical...
My workplace (a history research institute) is asking me to submit right away (as in, today) a list of courses that I might like to take. I am a research technician with lots of programming experience...
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