Month: September 2018

Classical MLGithub ProjectsMachine Learning
September 18, 2018 Post a Comment

Gaussian Mixture Models

In this project we explore the Gaussian Mixture models. GMMs are universal approximators. This means that any probability density can be approximated to arbitrary precision using mixture of gaussian densities. We saw a glimpse of it in our Hypothesis Testing II project. GMMs are go-to models for unsupervised learning schemes and one of my favorite ML models. In fact, they utilize (usually) EM algorithm, which is an iterative method of estimating statistical parameters similar to and I belive, on par with, backpropagations in Neural nets. In this...

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Computer VisionDeep LearningGithub Projects
September 14, 2018 Post a Comment

Conv Nets I

This project implements CNN class using the tensorflow library. I compare the accuracies gained by the ConvPool layers to the ANN architectures of the ANN-tensorflow repo. We find that adding only 2 ConvPool layers before the ANN architecture does automated feature engineering and significantly increases the classification accuracies as compared to the ANN only architectures....