Questions tagged [machine-learning]
Questions about computer algorithms that automatically discover patterns in data and make good decisions based on them.
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Random Forest - Conditional Permutation Importance
I've been looking for the most unbiased algorithm to find out the feature importances in random forests if there are correlations among the input features.
Besides the most commonly preferred ...
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Help with understanding why we need an expectation in the loss
I am reading the paper SV2P - Stochastic Varaiational Video Prediction (https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.11252). In it the authors use the loss shown in the image:
Why do we need expectation in the ...
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How to print a multi class ROC plot? [closed]
I am making classifier of 4 classes and I need to print the ROC graph of it. I have the metrics (TP, FP, TN, FN), now I am using this link to print ROC -
https://scikit-learn.org/stable/auto_examples/...
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What do we mean by “spectral domain” in the context of graphs?
What do we mean by the spectral domain in the context of graphs? For example, I have heard that graph convolutions are easiest to define in the spectral domain. When it comes to the word "spectral", I ...
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Algorithm suggestion for ticket routing system using Machine Learning
Background info
I'm a beginner in ML, let me start there. I'm trying to implement an intelligent system that can route a ticket (in a ticketing system), to the appropriate place based on a few ...
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Condensed Nearest Neighbor Explanation
I have a question regarding the Condensed Nearest Neighbors algorithm from ...
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How to go about designing a quiz that changes difficulty based on user performance?
I thought about using a machine learning algorithm to learn the performance patterns of the quiz taker and model the next quiz based on how he/she performed. So each question will have a difficulty ...
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Are fully connected layers required for convnets?
I have a reinforcement learning model I'm trying to create for a grid based game. One of the features of the game is that the game board can get bigger mid game, although I know this is a problem that ...
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k-means clustered data: how to label newly incoming data
I have a data set with labels that were produced by a $k$-means clustering
algorithm. Now there is some data (with the same data structure) from another
source and I wonder what is the most sensible ...
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point clouds in machine learning
What is the purpose of point clouds in machine learning?
Consider the following suggestion:
Say I have a table (per year) of records (such as days) each of which is made of n real numbers such as ...
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how does bagof features work in MATLAB? [closed]
I tried to use machine learnign in matlab using bagoffeatures to captures features and teach the code betwee two types of plots. However, bagofFeatures could not detect ant features.
this is my plot:
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For linear equation Ax=b, why can't there be more than but less than infinitely many solutions for a particular b? [migrated]
I am new to deep learning. I am reading the book by Ian Goodfellow called "Deep Learning". I am in chapter 1 about Linear Algebra. There in the section called Linear Dependence and Span they say that ...
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Is there any Boosting algorithm with closed-form solutions?
My goal is to formulate the learning and generalization phases of any Boosting algorithm as a matrix-vector operation.
Through Google, I found a good pdf (*) describing several boosting algorithms ...
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PCA collision - finding matrix with different numbers that reduced with PCA to same numbers
I want to find matrix X 2*2:
a1 b1
a2 b2
a1!=a2
b1!=b2
so that after im applying PCA on that with number of prinicpal compoments 1
i wish to get matrix 2*1:
c
c
i want to find collision
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What does “Temporal extent” mean?
I am reading Long-term Temporal Convolutions for Action Recognition and under the Section 3.1, I read this:
To investigate the impact of long-term temporal convolutions, we here study network ...
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How do we fix area of detectors in object detection?
I have gone through various articles on medium and also some from other sites trying to understand SSD. I am able to figure out most of the things from articles except this one.
They always say that ...
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Is the preprocessing process using the tfidf vectorizer really useful for model learning?
I am a student who is studying machine running alone.
As far as I know, the Tf-idf Vectorizer is a function that combines the Count Vectorizer and the Tf-idf Transformer.
I was wondering if the Tf-idf ...
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Is it still transfer learning if you consider input as well as output? (neural networks)
I'm new to the CS stack exchange, so a fond hello to you all!
I joined since I have a question I've been curious about. I have recently been running some experiments in transfer learning - ...
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Single Layer Perceptron vs Multi Layer Perceptron
Why the single layer perceptron has a linear activation function while the Multi Layer Perceptron has a non-linear activation function ?
What is the potential of the Multi Layer Perceptron respect of ...
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Practicality of Algebraic Machine Learning Methods [closed]
Last year this article was released detailing a method of high level machine learning using methods found from abstract algebra, with seemingly amazing results and claims.
However, since then I have ...
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Can the test set of attributes be a subset of the training set's attributes?
I'm currently writing an application for a trick-based card game, where agents are assigned points based on the accuracy of their predictions of how many hands they're going to win. The number of ...
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What is the practical limit to how many object classes you can detect with Faster RCNN?
I am trying to follow this tutorial where the Faster-RCNN-Inception-V2-COCO model from TensorFlow's model zoo is used to detect playing cards. I was wondering what is the practical limit to the number ...
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what does this phrase mean: “train a policy network”
I am familiar with the basics (and perhaps a substantial amount of basics) of imitation learning and reinforcement learning. In IL (imitation), we take demonstrations from an assumed expert, which we ...
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Why do mainstream speech models no longer require a personalized training step?
Back in the Windows XP era, when setting up Windows OS-built-in speech/dictation, I had to speak out a bunch of programmed-in text samples to the speech-to-text engine to personalize my voice profile.
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How to add important events as input in neural network?
I'm quite new to neural networks so I apologize if this question is too basic/doesn't really make sense.
I have a financial time series dataset and I have a binary variable which is 0 if no important ...
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Batch sizing for convolution neural networks — powers of 2 or powers of primes?
The conventional wisdom for convolution neural networks (CNNs) is to make the batch size a power of 2 because of hardware utilization/optimizations done in the convolution layers.
A similar logic ...
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Is a linear classifier convex?
Is the optimization of a linear classifier convex?
Is there any local optima or saddle points for a linear classifier?
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How does neural net complexity relate to other complexity measures?
In neural networks, "weight regularization" is often used as a so called "complexity penalty" in order to make sure that the network generalizes better from training data.
Similarly, in "program ...
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What is the relationship between pairwise loss and centroid loss?
What is the relationship between pairwise loss and centroid loss? Under what conditions you would expect them to give similar behavior? Under what conditions would they give different behavior?
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How to compute the sample update error?
In the book Reinforcement Learning An Introduction，Chapter 8.5，there is an example that compares the efficiency of expected and sample updates:
According to the author, "In this case, sample updates ...
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OR functions and SQ-Learning
Anyone can describe or give a reference which has a clear description and detailed proof of the SQ-Learning algorithm for the OR class of Boolean functions?
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How can I represent the following mathematically? (Eigenfaces reconstrcution)
I got the following from a web site:
The feature vectors represent each image as a linear combination of
the eigenfaces defined by the coefficients in the feature vector; if
we multiply each ...
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Card dealing problem with constraints (blacklisting),
A friend of mine and I are trying to teach a bot play a card game (bela)
We are using monte carlo tree search (MCTS) to estimate the probability of winning hand in regards to multiple possible (!...
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(OCR ) How to Recognise Handwritten fractional numbers using Neural networks
I want to be able to recognise handwritten math numbers using images of the numbers , i was able to do create a ANN model for recognising simple decimal numbers , but i have no idea on how to ...
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Help needed for understanding proof of No Regret Multi Armed Bandit Algorithm
I was reading Elad Hazan's book on Online Convex Optimization(http://ocobook.cs.princeton.edu/OCObook.pdf) and am facing difficulty understanding the proof given for the No regret algorithm for MAB (...
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Do data points mean Eigenfaces in higher dimensional space?
I saw the following animation at making sense of PCA
, which shows blue data points.
I am reading a paper on Eigenfaces which says that:
"a typical image of size 256 by 256 becomes a vector of ...
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Machine learning for VLSI floorplanning tool
I have an educational assignment to make an VLSI floor-planning tool.
Can I use machine learning in some part of the algorithm? For example, I was reading the book Algorithms for VLSI Physical Design ...
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What is the difference in SMO algorithm for SVM and SMO for one class?
Please let know if this is not the correct forum to ask this question. If not can anyone please tell where can I ask this question?
I am trying to understand the difference between the paper :
https:/...
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Problem with Understanding “correlated attributes into a set of values of uncorrelated attributes” in PCA
I am studying PCA. I have a problem in understanding the following concept:
What is meant by transforming "correlated attributes into a set of values of uncorrelated attributes" in Principal ...
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Is there an equivalent of “control flow” in deep learning systems?
Traditional programs work significantly through control flow. I know that there are simple algorithms that have no control flow at all (i.e. they just perform a fixed sequence of executions), but I ...
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Looking for a specific type of ADMM iterates
For a $k-$dimensional optimization variable $b \in \mathbb{R}^k$ say the objective is given as, $$f(b) = \langle b, v \rangle + \langle b , Ab \rangle + \lambda \Vert b \Vert_1$$
for some parameter ...
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Show that the Laplace smoothing for bigrams is a valid probability distribution
If we consider any smoothing technique like laplace or delta smoothing. Intuitively we can see that the we are stealing from sequences with non zero probablity and re distribute to sequences with zero ...
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Proof of perceptron convergence theorem for ZERO threshold?
The generalized perceptron convergence theorem is for a defined threshold T.
When you do the maths it all comes to an upper bound and a lower bound.
The lower bound looks like this!
Therefore
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Checking if a kernel is valid
The kernel is $K(x,z) = \sum_{i=1}^D (x_i+z_i)$
My approach was trying to express $K = \phi(x)^T\phi(z) = (x_1 x_2 ... x_D \quad 1 1 ...1)(1 1 ...1\quad z_1 z_2 ... z_D )^T$ where $\phi$ is 2Dx1 ...
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Is Artificial General Intelligence possible with our current machine learning models? [closed]
In other words, is artificial human level intelligence not possible yet just because of limitations in processing power and amount of data required to train the models? Or we don't have the knowledge ...
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Applications of signed permutations to machine learning
Are there some applications of signed permutations to machine learning? I searched on google and only found one paper. Thank you very much.
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Matching/finding mathematical plot images
I'm trying to come up with a method to match a given mathematical plot against a database of other plots. To make it more specific: plots are generated in R as PNG and might have different dimensions. ...
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Why doesn't this derivation of the margin in a SVM give the correct result?
I'm trying to derive the optimization objective for an SVM (namely $1/\|w\|$), but I'm running into a little trouble. I've already read this question, which has certainly offered a lot of insight into ...
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The notion of PAC in approximation algorithms
In computational machine learning, the notion of Probably Approximately Correct means that (generally speaking) we can find (or "learn") with a high probability a function which has "low error".
Is ...
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Choose the best classifier to predict the label of strings of a regular language
I have to tackle this problem:
I have some strings that are my training set. These strings belong to a regular language corresponding to a deterministic finite automata (hidden namely I don't now it, ...
