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Deep Learning has established itself to be a common occurrence in the business lexicon. The unprecedented success of deep learning in recent years can be attributed to: abundance of data, availability of gargantuan compute capabilities offered by GPUs, and adoption of open-source philosophy by the researchers and indus…

2019-09-30abs ↗pdf ↗

NIMFA is an open-source Python library that provides a unified interface to nonnegative matrix factorization algorithms. It includes implementations of state-of-the-art factorization methods, initialization approaches, and quality scoring. It supports both dense and sparse matrix representation. NIMFA's component-based…

2018-08-06abs ↗pdf ↗

In this paper we present CatBoost, a new open-sourced gradient boosting library that successfully handles categorical features and outperforms existing publicly available implementations of gradient boosting in terms of quality on a set of popular publicly available datasets. The library has a GPU implementation of lea…

2018-10-24abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper describes a distributed MapReduce implementation of the minimum Redundancy Maximum Relevance algorithm, a popular feature selection method in bioinformatics and network inference problems. The proposed approach handles both tall/narrow and wide/short datasets. We further provide an open source implementation…

2017-09-07abs ↗pdf ↗

advertorch is a toolbox for adversarial robustness research. It contains various implementations for attacks, defenses and robust training methods. advertorch is built on PyTorch (Paszke et al., 2017), and leverages the advantages of the dynamic computational graph to provide concise and efficient reference implementat…

2019-02-20abs ↗pdf ↗

We report on an open-source implementation for distributed function minimization on top of Apache Spark by using gradient and quasi-Newton methods. We show-case it with an application to Optimal Transport and some scalability tests on classification and regression problems.

2019-09-17abs ↗pdf ↗

Investigates numerical issues in GP interpolation parameter estimation.

problem Numerical issues in maximum likelihood parameter estimation for Gaussian process interpolation.
method Investigates and proposes strategies to improve open-source software implementations.
result Improves reliability and reproducibility of studies relying on GP implementations.

Given a collection of categorical data, we want to find the parameters of a Dirichlet distribution which maximizes the likelihood of that data. Newton's method is typically used for this purpose but current implementations require reading through the entire dataset on each iteration. In this paper, we propose a modific…

2014-05-01abs ↗pdf ↗

Uncertainty Toolbox aids in assessing and improving uncertainty quantification in machine learning.

problem Disparate evaluation metrics and implementations hinder direct comparison of uncertainty quantification results.
method Provides an open-source Python library for assessing, visualizing, and improving uncertainty quantification.
result Facilitates more accurate and comparable uncertainty quantification across different works.

Neural Turing Machines (NTMs) are an instance of Memory Augmented Neural Networks, a new class of recurrent neural networks which decouple computation from memory by introducing an external memory unit. NTMs have demonstrated superior performance over Long Short-Term Memory Cells in several sequence learning tasks. A n…

2018-07-23abs ↗pdf ↗

metric-learn is an open source Python package implementing supervised and weakly-supervised distance metric learning algorithms. As part of scikit-learn-contrib, it provides a unified interface compatible with scikit-learn which allows to easily perform cross-validation, model selection, and pipelining with other machi…

2019-08-13abs ↗pdf ↗

TensorNetwork is an open source library for implementing tensor network algorithms. Tensor networks are sparse data structures originally designed for simulating quantum many-body physics, but are currently also applied in a number of other research areas, including machine learning. We demonstrate the use of the API w…

2019-05-03abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper simplifies ANS for statisticians, making it easier to use.

problem Statisticians struggle to understand ANS and its versatility.
method Present ANS from a latent variable model perspective and guide step-by-step implementation.
result Made ANS more accessible for statisticians through a Python implementation and library.

ML4Chem offers a user-friendly platform for developing and deploying machine learning models in chemistry.

problem Developing and deploying machine learning models in chemistry and materials science.
method User-experience design, six core building blocks: data, featurization, models, model optimization, inference, and visualization.
result Ease of use and functionality of the atomistic module for neural networks and kernel ridge regression.

We introduce \texttt{pycobra}, a Python library devoted to ensemble learning (regression and classification) and visualisation. Its main assets are the implementation of several ensemble learning algorithms, a flexible and generic interface to compare and blend any existing machine learning algorithm available in Pytho…

2017-04-25abs ↗pdf ↗

Scoping review and benchmarking of synthetic EHR data generation methods.

problem Creating realistic synthetic electronic health records for research and training.
method Conducted a scoping review and benchmarked seven methods on open-source EHR datasets.
result GAN-based methods excel in fidelity and utility, while rule-based methods excel in privacy protection.

TorchBeast is a platform for reinforcement learning (RL) research in PyTorch. It implements a version of the popular IMPALA algorithm for fast, asynchronous, parallel training of RL agents. Additionally, TorchBeast has simplicity as an explicit design goal: We provide both a pure-Python implementation ("MonoBeast") as …

2019-10-08abs ↗pdf ↗

We provide an online RLHF workflow for large language models.

problem Lack of online RLHF workflow for large language models.
method Construct preference models using open-source datasets, approximate human feedback, and implement online iterative RLHF.
result Our LLM achieves state-of-the-art performance on various benchmarks.

Unified framework improves deep multi-view clustering by addressing self-supervision and contrastive alignment issues.

problem Variations in self-supervision-based methods for deep multi-view clustering.
method Unified DeepMVC framework that includes recent methods and leverages self-supervision and contrastive alignment.
result Contrastive alignment negatively impacts cluster separability, especially with many views.

This work benchmarks MARL algorithms in cooperative tasks.

problem Lack of evaluation tasks and criteria for comparing MARL algorithms.
method Systematic evaluation of three MARL algorithm classes in diverse cooperative tasks.
result Insights into the effectiveness of different learning approaches.

Google's Machine Learning framework TensorFlow was open-sourced in November 2015 [1] and has since built a growing community around it. TensorFlow is supposed to be flexible for research purposes while also allowing its models to be deployed productively. This work is aimed towards people with experience in Machine Lea…

2016-11-27abs ↗pdf ↗

Slow feature analysis (SFA) is a method for extracting slowly varying features from a quickly varying multidimensional signal. An open source Matlab-implementation sfa-tk makes SFA easily useable. We show here that under certain circumstances, namely when the covariance matrix of the nonlinearly expanded data does not …

2009-12-06abs ↗pdf ↗

We consider parallel global optimization of derivative-free expensive-to-evaluate functions, and propose an efficient method based on stochastic approximation for implementing a conceptual Bayesian optimization algorithm proposed by Ginsbourger et al. (2007). At the heart of this algorithm is maximizing the information…

2016-02-16abs ↗pdf ↗

Torch-Points3D simplifies 3D deep learning research and reproducibility.

problem Lack of transparency and reproducibility in 3D deep learning research.
method Modular framework with quality-of-life features, standardized protocols, and open-source implementation.
result Facilitates fair and rigorous evaluation of 3D deep learning methods.

BayesPy is an open-source Python software package for performing variational Bayesian inference. It is based on the variational message passing framework and supports conjugate exponential family models. By removing the tedious task of implementing the variational Bayesian update equations, the user can construct model…

2014-10-03abs ↗pdf ↗