Hey Abhinav, (cc shogun-list, please always include them in such emails) thanks for getting in touch and welcome to Shogun! Your background is totally suited to the projects you mention, so make sure to apply.
Rather than implementing a new algorithm, start with a small patch and send a pull request. you can then move to something that is closer to your planned project. All this is described on our "getting involved" guide and the ideas page - but do get back to me if these pages are unclear. Please note that the fundamental ML Algorithms project is likely to receive a lot of applications. Also have a look on the other projects we offer and consider having a fallback. Looking forward to your contribution, Lea On 2 Mar 2016, at 12:08, Heiko Strathmann <[email protected]> wrote: > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Abhinav Moudgil <[email protected]> > Date: 2016-03-01 20:24 GMT+00:00 > Subject: Getting introduced & contributing to Shogun > To: [email protected], [email protected] > > > Hi, > > I am Abhinav Moudgil, 3rd year undergraduate from International Institute of > Information Technology, Hyderabad (IIIT-H), currently pursuing research in > the field of machine learning and data mining. > > In past, I have taken up courses like Statistical Methods in AI, Computer > Vision, Artificial Neural Networks, Machine Learning (coursera) and Deep > Learning online course offered by Google on Udacity. I am comfortable with > Python, C/C++ (with STL) and MATLAB. > > I went through the idea list of GSoC '16 and found these project ideas > interesting: > Fundamental Machine Learning Algorithms > Hip Deep Learning > I have worked on a similar project before where I implemented a 3 layer > perceptron neural network of configuration 64-32-2 from scratch for > recognising hand-written digits in MATLAB. I am well versed with various > machine learning and pattern recognition techniques like SVM, Neural > Networks, PCA, LDA, Decision Trees, Random Forests, Logistic Regression etc. > > I'd like to start contributing to Shogun. So, should I start with > implementation of new simple algorithm like Ho-Kashyap gradient descent, > kernel PCA etc. and send a pull request? It would be great if you could > elaborate your views further on above mentioned project ideas and help me in > getting started. > > Regards, > Abhinav Moudgil >
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