From awd at cs.cmu.edu Fri Jul 1 09:18:19 2022 From: awd at cs.cmu.edu (Artur Dubrawski) Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2022 09:18:19 -0400 Subject: REEMINDER: Second session of "Safe and Pleasant ML": Today 4:30-6pm In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: See you there Cheers, Artur PS We had our weekly walk yesterday so there will be no organized walk today On Fri, Jun 24, 2022 at 9:40 AM Artur Dubrawski wrote: > Team, > > Today we will have a "ML equalizer" session in which I will talk about > some basic concepts of survival in the Machine Learning research and > applications world. It will be primarily targeting our largest-than-ever > cohort of summer interns, who come from various backgrounds to work with us > at the Lab on various ML or ML-related projects. > > But everyone is welcome. In particular if you are a relatively new member > of our team and in the process of immersing yourself into the ways of > thinking about ML and AI, you could find attending this meeting quite > useful. > > Topics I am thinking about covering today: > * Basic ML tasks > * Challenge of overfitting and how to mitigate the risk of it > * Challenges caused by random data and how to mitigate them > * Empirical evaluation of classifiers: ROC, McNemar's test > > Let me know if you think we should adjust that menu or if we should cover > more topics. > We may arrange more sessions like this over the summer, and I will be > happy to share the floor with willing volunteer speakers as well. > > This will be a hybrid meeting in NSH 3305 and on zoom (Meeting ID: > 94267966836 Passcode: 960534). > I plan to join in person. > > We expect to be done by or before 6pm, right in time for the walk in the > park. > > For those of us who would like to participate in the walk, please note > that this time we will be meeting in front of Newell-Simon Hall at 6pm, > instead of our usual starting spot. > > Cheers > Artur > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From awd at cs.cmu.edu Fri Jul 1 14:47:59 2022 From: awd at cs.cmu.edu (Artur Dubrawski) Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2022 14:47:59 -0400 Subject: REMINDER: Second session of "Safe and Pleasant ML": Today 4:30-6pm In-Reply-To: References:

Message-ID: BTW, on the menu for today: Randomization testing of significance, bootstrapping, ROC and McNemar's tests. Enjoy! Artur On Fri, Jul 1, 2022 at 9:18 AM Artur Dubrawski wrote: > See you there > > Cheers, > Artur > > PS We had our weekly walk yesterday so there will be no organized walk > today > > On Fri, Jun 24, 2022 at 9:40 AM Artur Dubrawski wrote: > >> Team, >> >> Today we will have a "ML equalizer" session in which I will talk about >> some basic concepts of survival in the Machine Learning research and >> applications world. It will be primarily targeting our largest-than-ever >> cohort of summer interns, who come from various backgrounds to work with us >> at the Lab on various ML or ML-related projects. >> >> But everyone is welcome. In particular if you are a relatively new member >> of our team and in the process of immersing yourself into the ways of >> thinking about ML and AI, you could find attending this meeting quite >> useful. >> >> Topics I am thinking about covering today: >> * Basic ML tasks >> * Challenge of overfitting and how to mitigate the risk of it >> * Challenges caused by random data and how to mitigate them >> * Empirical evaluation of classifiers: ROC, McNemar's test >> >> Let me know if you think we should adjust that menu or if we should cover >> more topics. >> We may arrange more sessions like this over the summer, and I will be >> happy to share the floor with willing volunteer speakers as well. >> >> This will be a hybrid meeting in NSH 3305 and on zoom (Meeting ID: >> 94267966836 Passcode: 960534). >> I plan to join in person. >> >> We expect to be done by or before 6pm, right in time for the walk in the >> park. >> >> For those of us who would like to participate in the walk, please note >> that this time we will be meeting in front of Newell-Simon Hall at 6pm, >> instead of our usual starting spot. >> >> Cheers >> Artur >> > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From predragp at andrew.cmu.edu Wed Jul 6 18:19:21 2022 From: predragp at andrew.cmu.edu (Predrag Punosevac) Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2022 00:19:21 +0200 Subject: LDAP credential not working LOP2 In-Reply-To: References:

Message-ID: Just rebooted. Now, it works as expected. Predrag On Wed, Jul 6, 2022, 9:42 PM Predrag Punosevac wrote: > lop2 is acting out but you have a designated workstation so I don't > understand why do you need lop2. > > Your workstation is your personal shell gateway as long as OpenVPN works > as provisioned. > > If you need a common shell gateway use > > lop2.auton.cs.cmu.edu > > On Wed, Jul 6, 2022, 8:31 PM Roman Kaufman > wrote: > >> Hello Predrag! >> >> I just came back from vacation and my ssh keys seem to be missing from >> lop2. When I attempt to login, my LDAP password is also being rejected. >> >> Anything I missed that can help me fix this? >> >> Appreciate your time! >> Roman >> > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Slides from this and previous meetings are available at https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1wd2DHkDBIgWzBjwiDFr0FWRVVESfhhEg (I'd like to give Dr. Gisolfi credit for coming up with the apt title of the above directory) (So please let him know if you have any trouble accessing it :P ) Cheers, Artur > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From awd at cs.cmu.edu Fri Jul 8 11:49:14 2022 From: awd at cs.cmu.edu (Artur Dubrawski) Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2022 11:49:14 -0400 Subject: Auton Lab Walk in the Park: TODAY, 6pm, start: front of NSH In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Team, The weather forecast has improved enough for us to go for a walk this evening. Let's meet in front of NSH at 6pm. Cheers Artur -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Message-ID: I found one recent paper that surveys a few methods and looks like a decent starting point. 2021 Handwritten Kazakh and Russian (HKR) database for text recognition https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11042-021-11399-6 In that paper, they survey a few methods for OCR and suggest this performs the best in their experiments -- Attention-Based Fully Gated CNN-BGRU for Russian Handwritten Text: https://www.mdpi.com/2313-433X/6/12/141 The HKR Data https://github.com/abdoelsayed2016/HKR_Dataset Other datasets that may be relevant if needed https://github.com/GregVial/CoMNIST https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/constantinwerner/cyrillic-handwriting-dataset - Nick On Wed, Jul 13, 2022 at 8:07 AM Predrag Punosevac wrote: > Are you looking for an OCR scanner, a softer recognition, or a human who > can read Cyrillic alphabet letters? Which Cyrillic alphabet are you > interested in? Russian, Bulgarian, Serbian or something else. They are not > 100% isomorphic due to the difference in phonetics and legacy reasons. > > Predrag > > On Wed, Jul 13, 2022, 7:49 AM Artur Dubrawski wrote: > >> Team, >> >> I need guidance regarding OCR capabilities, particularly for the Cirrylic >> alphabet lettering. If we can read forms filled with handwritten text from >> images or scans, we could create a societally important research >> opportunity, expanding our impact in healthcare. >> >> Let me know your thoughts please. >> >> Cheers >> Artur >> >> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bapoczos at cs.cmu.edu Wed Jul 13 22:15:52 2022 From: bapoczos at cs.cmu.edu (Barnabas Poczos) Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2022 22:15:52 -0400 Subject: URGENT request for information In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Artur, My student, Hai Pham (cc-ed), created an OCR system that worked pretty well. We mostly used it for handwritten text, but it can also be used for typed text. It needs to be trained though on a dataset. We used a few CMU undergrads who gladly created training data for us. Please find the paper about this system attached. Best, Barnabas ====================== Barnabas Poczos, PhD Associate Professor Machine Learning Department Carnegie Mellon University On Wed, Jul 13, 2022 at 7:49 AM Artur Dubrawski wrote: > > Team, > > I need guidance regarding OCR capabilities, particularly for the Cirrylic alphabet lettering. If we can read forms filled with handwritten text from images or scans, we could create a societally important research opportunity, expanding our impact in healthcare. > > Let me know your thoughts please. > > Cheers > Artur > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Please find the paper about this system attached. Best, Barnabas ====================== Barnabas Poczos, PhD Associate Professor Machine Learning Department Carnegie Mellon University On Wed, Jul 13, 2022 at 7:49 AM Artur Dubrawski > wrote: Team, I need guidance regarding OCR capabilities, particularly for the Cirrylic alphabet lettering. If we can read forms filled with handwritten text from images or scans, we could create a societally important research opportunity, expanding our impact in healthcare. Let me know your thoughts please. Cheers Artur <2008.08148.pdf> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From predragp at andrew.cmu.edu Thu Jul 14 22:13:21 2022 From: predragp at andrew.cmu.edu (Predrag Punosevac) Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2022 22:13:21 -0400 Subject: bash.autonlab.org rebuilt Message-ID: Dear Autonians, The shell gateway bash.autonlab.org was physically rebuilt by Piotr Bartosiewicz while I was on my PTO. I finally got a chance to put some final touches to it. It appears 100% usable and stable based on my tests. I did turn 2FA on. That leaves lion.auton.cs.cmu.edu as the only shell gateway available to the Lab members without Lab maintained workstations whose AndrewIDs are not matching Auton Lab user IDs due to the legacy reasons. Best, Predrag -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From awd at cs.cmu.edu Fri Jul 15 14:48:44 2022 From: awd at cs.cmu.edu (Artur Dubrawski) Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2022 14:48:44 -0400 Subject: "Safe and Pleasant ML": this Friday 4:30-6pm In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: We are continuing today, 4:30pm, NSH 3305 and zoom. Artur On Thu, Jul 7, 2022 at 6:32 PM Artur Dubrawski wrote: > We will continue our introduction to safe and pleasant machine > learning tomorrow as scheduled. > This time, we will talk about bootstrapping, finish the coverage of ROC > methodology, and briefly talk about McNemar's tests and classifier > calibration. > > Slides from this and previous meetings are available at > https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1wd2DHkDBIgWzBjwiDFr0FWRVVESfhhEg > > (I'd like to give Dr. Gisolfi credit for coming up with the apt title of > the above directory) > (So please let him know if you have any trouble accessing it :P ) > > Cheers, > Artur > >> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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They have identical specs to the gpu24 and gpu25 i.e. 128 threads, 512 GB of RAM and the most importantly 8xRTX A6000 cards. Kudos to Dr. Dubrawski. He spent 105K of his hard obtained grant money for this purchase. Best, Predrag -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From predragp at andrew.cmu.edu Fri Jul 15 22:19:42 2022 From: predragp at andrew.cmu.edu (Predrag Punosevac) Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2022 22:19:42 -0400 Subject: serious lab etiquette violations Message-ID: Dear Autonians, I was forced today to reboot multiple gpu nodes due to the serious lab etiquette violations. Some of you still don't know how to redirect python cashing to your scratch directories and are trashing /tmp folder. Several servers had full scratch directories. Those should be regularly pruned as they are meant to be temporary storage space. There is no guarantee that anything stored on them will be there tomorrow. 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Complex, physical systems degrade over time, and continued maintenance is required to ensure their peak performance. Upkeep of well-engineered systems is often straightforward, yet significant challenges lie in knowing when and what to maintain. Traditional approaches to managing maintenance activities rely on scheduled or condition-based approaches. Artificial Intelligence-driven Predictive Maintenance (AI-PMx) paradigm complements them with the ability to forecast needs into the future, reducing monetary and logistical burden of ownership, boosting operational safety, and reducing system down-time due to unexpected failures. This symposium aims to bring together researchers and practitioners across academia, industry, and government in order to discuss challenges, approaches, and needs in the field of AI-driven PMx, as well as fuel collaborative efforts which will accelerate the progress of adopting AI across entire organizations that maintain critical systems. Important Dates Submission deadline: Aug 27, 2022 Notification of Acceptance: Sep 11, 2022 Final versions due: Sep 22, 2022 We anticipate publishing accepted papers in a properly indexed venue. Please share among your colleagues. We are looking forward to a great event this fall! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From awd at cs.cmu.edu Wed Jul 20 11:57:07 2022 From: awd at cs.cmu.edu (Artur Dubrawski) Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2022 11:57:07 -0400 Subject: PLEASE help with marketing: AAAI Fall Symposium on AI4PMx In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I am sorry there were typos with the dates in the blurb, the correct dates are 17-19 Nov. I've corrected the text below. Artur On Wed, Jul 20, 2022 at 11:35 AM Artur Dubrawski wrote: > Team, > > Can you please use your networks and channels to spread the word about > this Auton Lab organized conference. We want to attract a large number of > good paper submissions, the due date is a bit more than a month away. > > Thanks! > Artur and Nick > > PS Can we have it mentioned on the Auton Lab twitter and linked in sites > as well as on our website please? > > --- > > We are excited to announce the AAAI Fall Symposium > on AI for Predictive > Maintenance (AI-PMx). > The symposium will be held in Arlington, Virginia on November 17-19, 2022. > > Complex, physical systems degrade over time, and continued maintenance is > required to ensure their peak performance. Upkeep of well-engineered > systems is often straightforward, yet significant challenges lie in knowing > when and what to maintain. Traditional approaches to managing maintenance > activities rely on scheduled or condition-based approaches. Artificial > Intelligence-driven Predictive Maintenance (AI-PMx) paradigm complements > them with the ability to forecast needs into the future, reducing monetary > and logistical burden of ownership, boosting operational safety, and > reducing system down-time due to unexpected failures. > > This symposium aims to bring together researchers and practitioners across > academia, industry, and government in order to discuss challenges, > approaches, and needs in the field of AI-driven PMx, as well as fuel > collaborative efforts which will accelerate the progress of adopting AI > across entire organizations that maintain critical systems. > > Important Dates > > Submission deadline: Aug 27, 2022 > > Notification of Acceptance: Sep 11, 2022 > > Final versions due: Sep 22, 2022 > > We anticipate publishing accepted papers in a properly indexed venue. > > > Please share among your colleagues. 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Cheers, Artur On Fri, Jul 22, 2022 at 11:16 AM Anisa Callis wrote: > Thank you I look forward to hearing if there is anyone who may be able to > provide some help. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jul 21, 2022, at 3:46 PM, John Dolan wrote: > > ? > @Anisa: I am thinking someone in the Auton Lab may be able to help you out. > > @Artur: Anisa is working with Jack Mostow on applying the multi-arm bandit > algorithm to comparison of the educational effectiveness of different > versions of RoboTutor. Is there anyone in Auton Lab who might be > willing/able to give her some guidance on getting it coded up? > > Thanks very much, > John > > On Thu, Jul 21, 2022 at 1:55 PM Anisa Callis > wrote: > >> I am using python. I would someone who knows how to code the multi-arm >> bandit algorithms based of given data. >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On Jul 21, 2022, at 1:27 PM, John Dolan wrote: >> >> ? >> Hi Anisa, >> >> Are you looking for someone who understands multi-armed bandits or >> someone who understands how to write software? And what language are you >> using? >> >> Best, >> john >> >> On Thu, Jul 21, 2022 at 10:58 AM Anisa Callis >> wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> For my RISS project, I am coding using a multi-armed bandit algorithm >>> and I am having some trouble. I know what the code is supposed to do >>> conceptually but I am struggling with the execution I was wondering if you >>> or someone you know might be able to provide me with some help? >>> Sent from my iPhone >> >> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Cheers Artur On Fri, Jul 15, 2022 at 2:48 PM Artur Dubrawski wrote: > We are continuing today, 4:30pm, NSH 3305 and zoom. > > Artur > > On Thu, Jul 7, 2022 at 6:32 PM Artur Dubrawski wrote: > >> We will continue our introduction to safe and pleasant machine >> learning tomorrow as scheduled. >> This time, we will talk about bootstrapping, finish the coverage of ROC >> methodology, and briefly talk about McNemar's tests and classifier >> calibration. >> >> Slides from this and previous meetings are available at >> https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1wd2DHkDBIgWzBjwiDFr0FWRVVESfhhEg >> >> (I'd like to give Dr. Gisolfi credit for coming up with the apt title of >> the above directory) >> (So please let him know if you have any trouble accessing it :P ) >> >> Cheers, >> Artur >> >>> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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We also feature results from the first Learn-to-Race Autonomous Racing Virtual Challenge, which received over 20,100 views, 437 active participants, 46 teams, and 733 model submissions ? from 88+ unique institutions, in 58+ different countries. Keynote talks will be delivered by esteemed faculty, scientists, and engineers from all across the autonomous driving space, highlighting such topics as: learning strategies for autonomous systems (e.g., self-supervision, meta-learning, game theory), learning alongside unstable dynamics, rewards and safety-rule design, sensor fusion, and real-world vehicle development. Dr. Jeff Schneider will be presenting in the workshop as well. Ways to engage: - Visit our website for the latest information: https://learn-to-race.org/workshop-sl4ad-icml2022/ - Listen in on the workshop proceedings (please do not share outside of this group. I'm sharing only in our group for access without registration): https://zoom.us/j/94158203095?pwd=b0lXZytSR1ZmRmRFUmszb3lMVDFQQT09 - Attend poster sessions via Gathertown: https://app.gather.town/app/wLuHBtWDuNBoHgun/SL4AD%2022 Looking forward to seeing you there! Sincerely, SL4AD @ ICML 2022 Chairs: Dr. Jonathan Francis (Bosch Research + CMU), Hitesh Arora (Amazon Scout), Dr. Bingqing Chen (Bosch Research), Dr. Xinshuo Weng (NVIDIA Research), Siddha Ganju (NVIDIA), Manoj Bhat (Amazon), Daniel Omeiza (Oxford), Prof. Jean Oh (CMU), Prof. Eric Nyberg (CMU), Prof. Sylvia Herbert (UCSD), and Dr. Li Erran Li (Amazon + Columbia) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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We envision this hybrid workshop bringing > together researchers and industry practitioners from different AI subfields > to work towards safer and more robust autonomous driving technology. > > We also feature results from the first Learn-to-Race Autonomous Racing > Virtual Challenge, which received over 20,100 views, 437 active > participants, 46 teams, and 733 model submissions ? from 88+ unique > institutions, in 58+ different countries. > > Keynote talks will be delivered by esteemed faculty, scientists, and > engineers from all across the autonomous driving space, highlighting such > topics as: learning strategies for autonomous systems (e.g., > self-supervision, meta-learning, game theory), learning alongside unstable > dynamics, rewards and safety-rule design, sensor fusion, and real-world > vehicle development. > Dr. Jeff Schneider will be presenting in the workshop as well. > > Ways to engage: > - Visit our website for the latest information: > https://learn-to-race.org/workshop-sl4ad-icml2022/ > - Listen in on the workshop proceedings (please do not share outside of > this group. I'm sharing only in our group for access without registration): > https://zoom.us/j/94158203095?pwd=b0lXZytSR1ZmRmRFUmszb3lMVDFQQT09 > - Attend poster sessions via Gathertown: > https://app.gather.town/app/wLuHBtWDuNBoHgun/SL4AD%2022 > > Looking forward to seeing you there! > > Sincerely, > SL4AD @ ICML 2022 Chairs: > Dr. Jonathan Francis (Bosch Research + CMU), Hitesh Arora (Amazon Scout), > Dr. Bingqing Chen (Bosch Research), Dr. Xinshuo Weng (NVIDIA Research), > Siddha Ganju (NVIDIA), Manoj Bhat (Amazon), Daniel Omeiza (Oxford), Prof. > Jean Oh (CMU), Prof. Eric Nyberg (CMU), Prof. Sylvia Herbert (UCSD), and > Dr. Li Erran Li (Amazon + Columbia) > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From awd at cs.cmu.edu Fri Jul 22 13:49:56 2022 From: awd at cs.cmu.edu (Artur Dubrawski) Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2022 13:49:56 -0400 Subject: Auton Lab Walk in the Park: TODAY, 6pm, start: front of NSH In-Reply-To: References:

Message-ID: Team, if you are interested please join the walking group at the NSH entryway. 6pm. Cheers, Artur On Fri, Jul 15, 2022 at 4:02 PM Artur Dubrawski wrote: > Team, i will not be able to join the walk today, but whomever is free and > willing to keep our new tradition going, please do! > > Cheers > Artur > > On Fri, Jul 8, 2022, 11:49 AM Artur Dubrawski wrote: > >> Team, >> >> The weather forecast has improved enough for us to go for a walk this >> evening. >> >> Let's meet in front of NSH at 6pm. >> >> Cheers >> Artur >> > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From predragp at andrew.cmu.edu Thu Jul 28 17:32:35 2022 From: predragp at andrew.cmu.edu (Predrag Punosevac) Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2022 17:32:35 -0400 Subject: Main file server trashed! Message-ID: Hi Autonians, Over the past day and a half I became aware of many issues with our cluster. People can't log because their ssh public keys are not loaded, Carla was bronken, ipython is broken, TensorFlow etc. All those things have one thing in common (NFS). People can't log into the system because their ssh-keys are not read. ipython is storing config files into SQLite database which most of you don't bother to put into the scratch directory. Those databases are now corrupted. The same is with Carla. TensorFlow has similar issues if left on NFS (that is why we have local scratch directories). I don't want to name the names but some of you put a very high read/write load onto the file server hosting your home directories. The server is very powerful and the network is 10Gb but it is not unbreakable. I am long enough with the lab to know how to sandbox home directories. Unlike data and project folders which will have to be rebuilt due to the misuse of public space, this time around the damage is localized to NFS daemon crash. Those of you who have done this reading and writing can try to stop processes (they might be a zombie process by now). Otherwise, I will have to reboot the main file server but also all computing nodes and workstations (to clear stale NFS file handles). That will not happen today. That will also not happen before I take a note of offenders and suspend those user accounts.. I am a bit hesitant to give a link to the new Wiki as I am not sure if all of you have the access https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ho7t48EES4AUYeBsMSh7BcpFCwGh1t_n FYI the website and the Wiki have been migrated last Friday to the new location. However, I was only involved in the demolition part so I don't have much info beyond the above link. Most Kind Regards, Predrag Punosevac -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From awd at cs.cmu.edu Fri Jul 29 11:52:57 2022 From: awd at cs.cmu.edu (Artur Dubrawski) Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2022 11:52:57 -0400 Subject: TODAY IN NSH 4119 [Re: "Safe and Pleasant ML": this Friday 4:30-6pm] In-Reply-To: References:

Message-ID: We will continue Session 2 topics today. Note the room change: today we will be in NSH 4119 (and on zoom). Artur On Fri, Jul 22, 2022 at 11:44 AM Artur Dubrawski wrote: > We will continue into Session 2 today, contents of which include: > * The elusive concept of ?perfect data? and getting our real-world data > closer to perfection > * Basic feature selection algorithms > * Feature reduction with Principal Components Analysis (PCA) > - Additional uses of PCA > - Related techniques > * Feature reduction with Autoencoders (AE) > * Folding data with Multi-Dimensional Scaling (MDS) > * Unfolding data with ?Kernel trick? > * A quick look at preparing textual data for ML > > We will probably not be able to cover everything in one seating, so expect > the session to be continued in the next meetings. > > Cheers > Artur > > On Fri, Jul 15, 2022 at 2:48 PM Artur Dubrawski wrote: > >> We are continuing today, 4:30pm, NSH 3305 and zoom. >> >> Artur >> >> On Thu, Jul 7, 2022 at 6:32 PM Artur Dubrawski wrote: >> >>> We will continue our introduction to safe and pleasant machine >>> learning tomorrow as scheduled. >>> This time, we will talk about bootstrapping, finish the coverage of ROC >>> methodology, and briefly talk about McNemar's tests and classifier >>> calibration. >>> >>> Slides from this and previous meetings are available at >>> https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1wd2DHkDBIgWzBjwiDFr0FWRVVESfhhEg >>> >>> (I'd like to give Dr. Gisolfi credit for coming up with the apt title of >>> the above directory) >>> (So please let him know if you have any trouble accessing it :P ) >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Artur >>> >>>> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From awd at cs.cmu.edu Fri Jul 29 11:53:53 2022 From: awd at cs.cmu.edu (Artur Dubrawski) Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2022 11:53:53 -0400 Subject: Auton Lab Walk in the Park: TODAY, 6pm, start: front of NSH In-Reply-To: References:

Message-ID: the usual deal for tonight, see you then and there! On Fri, Jul 22, 2022 at 1:49 PM Artur Dubrawski wrote: > Team, if you are interested please join the walking group at the NSH > entryway. > > 6pm. > > Cheers, > Artur > > On Fri, Jul 15, 2022 at 4:02 PM Artur Dubrawski wrote: > >> Team, i will not be able to join the walk today, but whomever is free and >> willing to keep our new tradition going, please do! >> >> Cheers >> Artur >> >> On Fri, Jul 8, 2022, 11:49 AM Artur Dubrawski wrote: >> >>> Team, >>> >>> The weather forecast has improved enough for us to go for a walk this >>> evening. >>> >>> Let's meet in front of NSH at 6pm. >>> >>> Cheers >>> Artur >>> >> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: