Questions tagged [machine-learning]
Machine learning, a branch of artificial intelligence, is the science of getting computer systems to meaningfully act without being explicitly programmed by human.
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Python OSS alternatives for Matlab Neural Network Toolbox. Any intercomparisons?
I'd like to be independent of commercial software for my scientific work. I find a dependence an commercial packages such as Matlab and its toolboxes unsatisfactory, because I do not know if I will ...
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Seeking a free symbolic regression software
Now that Formulize / Eureqa started charging $2500 a year for using it and having crippled the trial version, does anyone know of any replacements that can do similar things like find an equation ...
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Calculating Lagrange coefficients for SVM in Python
I'm trying to write a full SVM implementation in Python and I have a few issues computing the Lagrange coefficients.
First let me rephrase what I understand from the algorithm to make sure I'm on the ...
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Learning parameters of noise and filter coefficients from data where data and noise both have Gaussian distributions
Assume $X$ and $N$ are two sets of vectors (observations) from two different normal distributions, where $X$ represents clean data and $N$ represents noise; and $A$ a projection matrix of a filter. ...
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Support Vector Machines as Neural Nets?
This is more of a conceptual question.
I have learned about Neural Nets, and I have some clue as to how Support Vector Machines work. I read somewhere however that given the appropriate kernel (is ...
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Logistic regression with Python
I am trying to code up logistic regression in Python using the SciPy fmin_bfgs function, but am running into some issues. I wrote functions for the logistic (...
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Optimization of a blackbox function
Let's say that we have an objective function $f(\mathbf x,\mathbf y)$ which has the parameters $\mathbf x=[x_1\ldots x_n]$ and $\mathbf y=[y_1\ldots y_n]$. Here, $\mathbf y$ is a blackbox variable ...
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