Hi Issam. Thank you for your interest. Have you looked at the MLP and RBM pull requests that are currently open? How would your project relate to those?
A real problem is that we don't want to replicate theano and rather have a somewhat "black box" algorithm that people can apply.... Cheers, Andy On 04/18/2013 06:07 PM, Issam wrote: > Hi scikit, > > Here I am proposing to work on deep learning topic for GSOC 2013. Deep > learning is a relatively new research area that is progressing fast > with a lot of potential for contributions. It involves an intersting > idea by trying to imitate the brain, as it uses many levels (hidden > layers) of processing. Where the levels are at decreasing order of > abstractions! > > In this project, I'm planning to work on each step carefully, first I > look into "Deep Boltzmann machines", then "Deep belief networks","Deep > auto-encoders", "Stacked denoising auto-encoders", and more. I could > create a complete plan for this, once I get your feedback :) > > I have been involved in quite a number of machine learning projects, > from dealing with imbalanced datasets (software quality prediction), to > XML classification, from recognizing gender out of handwriting, to > breast cancer prediction using mammograms. I'm in my second semester as > a graduate student (MSc), and machine learning is my research area. My > thesis would involve deep learning, which i will apply on bioinformatics > and face recognition. > > I would be more than happy to work with a mentor on this! > > Thank you! > > Best regards, > --Issam Laradji > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Precog is a next-generation analytics platform capable of advanced > analytics on semi-structured data. The platform includes APIs for building > apps and a phenomenal toolset for data science. Developers can use > our toolset for easy data analysis & visualization. Get a free account! > http://www2.precog.com/precogplatform/slashdotnewsletter > _______________________________________________ > Scikit-learn-general mailing list > Scikit-learn-general@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scikit-learn-general ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Precog is a next-generation analytics platform capable of advanced analytics on semi-structured data. The platform includes APIs for building apps and a phenomenal toolset for data science. Developers can use our toolset for easy data analysis & visualization. Get a free account! http://www2.precog.com/precogplatform/slashdotnewsletter _______________________________________________ Scikit-learn-general mailing list Scikit-learn-general@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scikit-learn-general
