Hello Rohan,

thanks for the update.

> Presently, I am going through the codes of mlpack. I had a basic idea of
> template meta-programming , hence I am comfortable with the codes. I will try 
> to
> implement the Policy gradient method soon. However I request you to mention if
> there are any issues which can be resolved now.

Sounds good, we do our best to add more issues over the next weeks, that are
project related and are helpful to get familiar with the codebase.

Thanks,
Marcus

> On 17. Feb 2018, at 08:05, Rohan Raj <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hello Marcus,
> 
> I sincerely appreciate your quick respnse.
> 
> I would like to mention that I have used CNN in various of my projects. These 
> can easily be found in my github <https://github.com/luffy1996> page. At 
> UIUC, I used my network on top of pretrained alex network. Hence, I have had 
> the flavour of working with CNN before. I sincerely believe that CNN will 
> have positive impact in the problem being discussed.  This has already been 
> shown in various atari games which were trained from pixels.
> 
> I do understand that the working basics of different packages differ 
> significantly . I have experienced this before as I have worked on 
> tensorflow, theano and caffe in past. However what I find is that, the logic 
> behind the implementation is essentially the same. All machine learning 
> packages have been designed to implement the theory of deep learning/machine 
> learning , which is essentially the same. Hence I believe that mlpack is not 
> much different from theano theoretically.
> 
> Presently, I am going through the codes of mlpack. I had a basic idea of 
> template meta-programming , hence I am comfortable with the codes. I will try 
> to implement the Policy gradient method soon. However I request you to 
> mention if there are any issues which can be resolved now.
> 
> I would also like to mention that I go by the name of luffy1996  
> <https://github.com/luffy1996>in the irc channel.
> ᐧ
> 
> Rohan Raj
> Department of Chemical Engineering
> Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
> Assam , India
> Phone : +91 8723990557, +91 8651776581
> 
> ᐧ
> 
> Rohan Raj
> Department of Chemical Engineering
> Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
> Assam , India
> Phone : +91 8723990557, +91 8651776581
> 
> 
> 
> On 17 February 2018 at 11:59, Rohan Raj <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> Hello Marcus,
> 
> I sincerely appreciate your quick respnse.
> 
> I would like to mention that I have used CNN in various of my projects. These 
> can easily be found in my github <https://github.com/luffy1996> page. At 
> UIUC, I used my network on top of pretrained alex network. Hence, I have had 
> the flavour of working with CNN before. I sincerely believe that CNN will 
> have positive impact in the problem being discussed.  This has already been 
> shown in various atari games which were trained from pixels.
> 
> I do understand that the working basics of different packages differ 
> significantly . I have experienced this before as I have worked on 
> tensorflow, theano and caffe in past. However what I find is that, the logic 
> behind the implementation is essentially the same. All machine learning 
> packages have been designed to implement the theory of deep learning/machine 
> learning , which is essentially the same. Hence I believe that mlpack is not 
> much different from theano theoretically.
> 
> Presently, I am going through the codes of mlpack. I had a basic idea of 
> template meta-programming , hence I am comfortable with the codes. I will try 
> to implement the Policy gradient method soon. However I request you to 
> mention if there are any issues which can be resolved now.
> 
> I would also like to mention that I go by the name of luffy1996  
> <https://github.com/luffy1996>in the irc channel.
> ᐧ
> 
> Rohan Raj
> Department of Chemical Engineering
> Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
> Assam , India
> Phone : +91 8723990557, +91 8651776581
> 
> 
> 
> On 16 February 2018 at 17:18, Marcus Edel <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> Hello Rohan,
> 
> thanks for getting in touch.
> 
>> I have a good knowledge in neural networks and deep learning.Previous 
>> summer, I
>> did my summer internship at Beckmann Institute, UIUC (University of Illinois 
>> at
>> Urbana-Champaign), USA on deep learning in cancer imaging.
> 
> That sounds really interesting, would be awesome if Deep learning would have 
> an
> positive impact on this important problem, I think you used some CNN flavor in
> your experiments?
> 
>> Previous semester , I took Computer Vision using machine learning course at 
>> my
>> college. I proposed a transfer learning architecture for semantic 
>> segmentation
>> in deep learning as a semester project. The codes can be found here.
> 
> This looks really interesting as well, note Theano is somewhat different from
> what we usally do at mlpack.
> 
>> Presently I am going through the code structure of mlpack. I am comfortable 
>> with
>> the software because I have good background in C++. Since there are none 
>> tickets
>> open presently, I am currently following Marcus's suggestion to go through 
>> the
>> code base and try to improve the codes. I will be grateful to any member who
>> would like to provide any suggestions.
> 
> Another idea is to implement a simple RL method like (stochastic) Policy
> Gradients and test it on the existing environments, but don't feel obligated.
> 
> Let me know if I should clarify anything.
> 
> Thanks,
> Marcus
> 
> 
>> On 16. Feb 2018, at 07:29, Rohan Raj <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> 
>> Hello Everyone,
>> 
>> I am Rohan Raj , a pre-final year undergraduate student from IIT Guwahati.
>> 
>> I am doing my undergraduate research in artificial intelligence , focusing 
>> in deep reinforcement learning. Recently, I have submitted my research work, 
>> 'Weighted Experience Replay for Independent Q Learning in Multi-Agent 
>> Reinforcement Learning' , in ICML 2018 . 
>> 
>> I have a good knowledge in neural networks and deep learning.Previous 
>> summer, I did my summer internship at Beckmann Institute, UIUC (University 
>> of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), USA on deep learning in cancer imaging.
>> 
>> Previous semester , I took Computer Vision using machine learning course at 
>> my college. I proposed a transfer learning architecture for semantic 
>> segmentation in deep learning as a semester project. The codes can be found 
>> here <https://github.com/luffy1996/transfer-learning-semantic-segmentation>. 
>>   
>> 
>> My blogs are regularly followed by various researchers in the world. You may 
>> like to read my introductory blogs on LSTMs 
>> <https://rohanrajblogs.blogspot.in/2016/12/writing-simple-lstm-model-on-keras.html>
>>  and supercomputer param isham 
>> <https://rohanrajblogs.blogspot.in/2017/01/supercomputer-param-ishan.html>.
>> 
>> I have been through the idea list and I am interested in working in 
>> reinforcement learning module. I have sufficient knowledge of DDQN networks 
>> and actor-critic networks. I have fairly good understanding of the PPO 
>> algorithms.
>> 
>> Presently I am going through the code structure of mlpack. I am comfortable 
>> with the software because I have good background in C++. Since there are 
>> none tickets open presently, I am currently following Marcus's suggestion to 
>> go through the code base and try to improve the codes. I will be grateful to 
>> any member who would like to provide any suggestions. 
>> 
>> You may want to have a look at my resume, which is attached with this email.
>> 
>> Thank You,
>> Rohan Raj
>> Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
>> Assam , India
>> Phone : +91 8723990557.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> ᐧ
>> <rohanraj_IIT_Guwahati_.pdf>
> 
> 
> 

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