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word2vec algorithm
Lectures · 85 · 1 · 11 Jan '21
Hello, I'm afraid I don't understand the word2vec algorithm. For the positive sampling do we jus…
Previous Year's Course Notes on Graphical Models
Lectures · 87 · 2 · 11 Jan '21
Greetings, Would it be possible for us to access previous year's course notes on graphical model…
function (matrix) convexity
Lectures · 66 · 1 · 11 Jan '21
Hi, I am a bit confused as to how convexity is defined with respect to 2 matrices Z,W. Even just…
loss function and sgd
Lectures · 101 · 3 · 11 Jan '21
Hello, I remember in the labs sometimes emphasis was placed on how to implement SGD based on the…
Data augmentation
Lectures · 73 · 2 · 11 Jan '21
In lecture 9b (Data augmentation for neural networks), is the rotation of the numbers here (Data au…
gans loss functions
Lectures · 124 · 3 · 10 Jan '21
Hello, I am a bit lost trying to understand the different formulation used to describe GANS. In …
Questions about GAN Objective
Lectures · 197 · 4 · 10 Jan '21
Greetings, I have 3 questions related to the GAN training objective (in lecture notes 12a, page …
Alternating GAN algorithm
Lectures · 154 · 5 · 10 Jan '21
Hello there ! I have some troubles with the formulation of the parameter updates to train the gene…
Closed form solution for MAE ost finction
Lectures · 68 · 2 · 10 Jan '21
Hello, Can someone please help with the derivation of the close form solution for the 1 paramete…
MLE for Laplace distribution
Lectures · 39 · 1 · 10 Jan '21
Can someone show me how to do the MLE for Laplace distribution? Thanks in advance
Computational cost
Lectures · 168 · 4 · 9 Jan '21
If the cost to compute \( \mathbf{e}\) is $$ O(N*D) + O(N) $$ and the cost to compute \(…
Representation power
Lectures · 143 · 3 · 8 Jan '21
Dear TAs, I'm struggling to understand why on a bounded domain, neural nets can **not** approxim…
generalization error bounds
Lectures · 63 · 1 · 8 Jan '21
Hi! I am having difficulty grasping the steps taken in 'a little thought' to obtain expression s…
exponential family- invertibility of link function
Lectures · 63 · 1 · 8 Jan '21
Hello, in al the examples investigated we saw a one to one relationship between E[phi(y)] and et…
minibatch implementation
Lectures · 73 · 3 · 8 Jan '21
Good evening, Looking online I find different ways to implement minibatch GD. Some select B rand…
bias-variance decomposition: what exactly is variance
Lectures · 66 · 1 · 8 Jan '21
hi, In bias-variance decomposition derivation I understand that the bias term is a measure of th…
Maximum log likelihood ?
Lectures · 100 · 2 · 7 Jan '21
Dear TAs, I'm struggling to understand where the log comes from. Is this the maximum likeli…
log of count for co-occurence matrix
Lectures · 112 · 3 · 7 Jan '21
Hello, If we used log(#occurence) then the sparse count matrix will have lots of undefined log(0…
Why does adding w*sgn(w) subject perturbed data to upper bound of max norm (epsilon)?
Lectures · 54 · 1 · 7 Jan '21
In the paper describing the fast gradient sign method, the authors explain why adversarial samples …
soft clustering
Lectures · 104 · 3 · 6 Jan '21
Hello, I am having a hard time understanding what the color gradient represents on the graph fro…