Re: [Scikit-learn-general] Sprinting at PyCon US 2012 in Santa Clara in March.

2011-12-07 Thread Olivier Grisel
Excellent, That makes us 5 people interested on the same topic, I think this is going to be a great sprint. -- Olivier -- Cloud Services Checklist: Pricing and Packaging Optimization This white paper is intended to

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] Specify rather than learn sparse coding dictionary?

2011-12-07 Thread Olivier Grisel
2011/12/7 Gael Varoquaux gael.varoqu...@normalesup.org: On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 10:26:04AM -0500, Ian Goodfellow wrote: I agree with David that it seems like the optimizer is broken, but I disagree that the problem is the termination criterion. There should not be any NaNs anywhere in the

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] Specify rather than learn sparse coding dictionary?

2011-12-07 Thread Gael Varoquaux
On Wed, Dec 07, 2011 at 09:35:05AM +0100, Olivier Grisel wrote: How about I address these issues in the pull request I opened earlier today? +1, also make it possible to expose the ability to up the max_iter of LARS from the sparse_encode API as reported by Ian. +1. I just remember

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] Specify rather than learn sparse coding dictionary?

2011-12-07 Thread Olivier Grisel
2011/12/7 Gael Varoquaux gael.varoqu...@normalesup.org: On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 07:43:26PM -0500, David Warde-Farley wrote: I think that scaling by n_samples makes sense in the supervised learning context (we often do the equivalent thing where we take the mean, rather than the sum, over the

[Scikit-learn-general] Instabilities in CD Lasso solver Was: Specify rather than learn sparse coding dictionary?

2011-12-07 Thread Gael Varoquaux
On Wed, Dec 07, 2011 at 09:38:32AM +0100, Olivier Grisel wrote: Can people confirm that some other solvers (e.g. GLMnet) do not have the same problem? In which case, we need to figure out how they do it. Are we still talking about the Lasso with Coordinate Descent Yes. Would be great to

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] Instabilities in CD Lasso solver Was: Specify rather than learn sparse coding dictionary?

2011-12-07 Thread Virgile Fritsch
Virgile? I thought that you had almost isolated a simple test case. Not really, I could have the graph_lasso crash but I was using a configuration in which my n_features-dimensional observations actually lied in a (n_features - 1)-dimensional subspace. Currently, I am using the graph_lasso to

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] Sprinting at PyCon US 2012 in Santa Clara in March.

2011-12-07 Thread Timmy Wilson
I would love to sit in, and learn, and contribute where i can. Probably won't have time for this during the sprint -- but i want to throw it out there: The importance of locality in many manifold learning algos them good candidates for distribution. On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 3:22 AM, Olivier

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] Sprinting at PyCon US 2012 in Santa Clara in March.

2011-12-07 Thread Olivier Grisel
2011/12/7 Timmy Wilson tim...@smarttypes.org: I would love to sit in, and learn, and contribute where i can. Probably won't have time for this during the sprint -- but i want to throw it out there: The importance of locality in many manifold learning algos them good candidates for

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] Image denoising example

2011-12-07 Thread Vlad Niculae
I think I know what happened here. An upstream change in scipy removed scipy.lena() and left only scipy.misc.lena(). I wonder if this affects other examples as well. I will try to check and patch this soon. Vlad On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 1:38 PM, Gael Varoquaux gael.varoqu...@normalesup.org

[Scikit-learn-general] RuntimeError: Factor is exactly singular

2011-12-07 Thread Timmy Wilson
I get the following error when running Hessian-based LLE:: /home/timmyt/projects/smarttypes/smarttypes/scripts/reduce_twitter_graph.py in module() 32 print Passed our little test: following %s users! % len(tmp_followies) 33 --- 34 results = reduce_graph(adjacency_matrix,