



Machine Learning
Understanding Machine Learning


About Presenter Katharine Beaumont
Writer and editor for Voxxed, interviewer for Devoxx and Voxxed Days, developer for fun :-)
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Perpetual student, wandering into software development from maths, science, publishing, politics, law...


Developer / Mathematician / Writer / Speaker - Voxxed


About Presenter James Weaver
Java Champion, JavaOne Rockstar, plays well with others, etc :-)


@JavaFXpert
Author of several Java/JavaFX/RaspPi books

Developer Advocate & International Speaker for Pivotal

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You are cordially invited to ...
From introductory video in Machine Learning course (Stanford University & Coursera) taught by Andrew Ng.


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Self-driving cars
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Generating image descriptions


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Supervised Learning

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Supervised learning regression problem


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Unsupervised Learning

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Unsupervised learning finds structure in unlabeled data


(e.g. market segment discovery, and social network analysis)
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Reinforcement Learning

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AlphaGo is a recent reinforcement learning success story


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Supervised Learning

(Let's dive in now)
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Supervised learning regression problem


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Supervised learning classification problem

(using the classic Iris flower data set)


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Visualizing Iris dataset with TensorFlow tool
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Lab Exercise:

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- Select the Circle dataset icon and only the X1 & X2 features.
- Using a total of six neurons allocated among any number of hidden layers, modify the hyperparameters in such a way that minimizes the number of Epochs required to make the Test loss and Training loss each <= 0.009
- Tweet screenshot with your lowest Epochs result using #MachineLearningExposed and presenters' Twitter IDs
Practice tuning neural network hyperparameters
Is Optimizing your Neural Network a Dark Art ?

Excellent article by Preetham V V on neural networks and choosing hyperparameters
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Convolutional neural networks
Recognizing images
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Convolutional neural network architecture
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[by Adit Deshpande]
Peeking into a convolutional neural network

http://scs.ryerson.ca/~aharley/vis/ [by Adam Harley]
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Time series prediction with neural networks

What is happening? What is most likely to happen next?
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This is a job for a Recurrent Neural Network
What is happening? What is most likely to happen next?
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Music composition with an RNN

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Predicting the most likely next note


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Playing a duet with neural networks

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Playing a duet with neural networks

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Unsupervised Learning

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(Let's dive in now)
Using unsupervised learning to map artworks

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Reinforcement Learning

(Let's dive in now)
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Using BURLAP for Reinforcement Learning


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Learning to Navigate a Grid World with Q-Learning


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Rules of this Grid World


- Agent may move left, right, up, or down (actions)
- Reward is 0 for each move
- Reward is 5 for reaching top right corner (terminal state)
- Agent can't move into a wall or off-grid
- Agent doesn't have a model of the grid world. It must discover as it interacts.
Challenge: Given that there is only one state that gives a reward, how can the agent work out what actions will get it to the reward?
(AKA the credit assignment problem)
Goal of an episode is to maximize total reward
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This Grid World's MDP (Markov Decision Process)


In this example, all actions are deterministic
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Agent learns optimal policy from interactions with the environment (s, a, r, s')


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Through the Eyes of a Self-Driving Tesla
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Summary of links

Andrew Ng video:
https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning/lecture/zcAuT/welcome-to-machine-learning
Iris flower dataset:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iris_flower_data_set
Visual neural net server:
http://github.com/JavaFXpert/visual-neural-net-server
Visual neural net client:
http://github.com/JavaFXpert/ng2-spring-websocket-client
Deep Learning for Java: http://deeplearning4j.org
Spring initializr: http://start.spring.io
A.I Duet application: http://aiexperiments.withgoogle.com/ai-duet/view/
Self driving car video: https://vimeo.com/192179727
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Machine Learning
Introduction to Machine Learning


Machine Learning Exposed: Understanding Machine Learning
By javafxpert
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Shedding light on machine learning, being gentle with the math.
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