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FedML aims to improve FL research by providing a library and benchmark.

problem Inconsistent FL algorithm development and performance comparison.
method FedML offers an open research library and benchmark supporting diverse computing paradigms and flexible API design.
result FedML facilitates fair algorithm comparison and development in federated learning.

Pylearn2 is a machine learning research library. This does not just mean that it is a collection of machine learning algorithms that share a common API; it means that it has been designed for flexibility and extensibility in order to facilitate research projects that involve new or unusual use cases. In this paper we g…

2013-08-20abs ↗pdf ↗

As an emerging research direction, online streaming feature selection deals with sequentially added dimensions in a feature space while the number of data instances is fixed. Online streaming feature selection provides a new, complementary algorithmic methodology to enrich online feature selection, especially targets t…

2016-03-02abs ↗pdf ↗

PettingZoo library accelerates multi-agent reinforcement learning research.

problem Challenges in multi-agent reinforcement learning, especially conceptual models of games.
method Developed PettingZoo library with AEC games model to address multi-agent reinforcement learning challenges.
result AEC games model addresses conceptual issues in multi-agent reinforcement learning environments.

MushroomRL is an open-source Python library developed to simplify the process of implementing and running Reinforcement Learning (RL) experiments. Compared to other available libraries, MushroomRL has been created with the purpose of providing a comprehensive and flexible framework to minimize the effort in implementin…

2020-01-04abs ↗pdf ↗

We introduce torchbearer, a model fitting library for pytorch aimed at researchers working on deep learning or differentiable programming. The torchbearer library provides a high level metric and callback API that can be used for a wide range of applications. We also include a series of built in callbacks that can be u…

2018-09-10abs ↗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 ↗

In this paper, we introduce ChainerRL, an open-source deep reinforcement learning (DRL) library built using Python and the Chainer deep learning framework. ChainerRL implements a comprehensive set of DRL algorithms and techniques drawn from state-of-the-art research in the field. To foster reproducible research, and fo…

2019-12-09abs ↗pdf ↗

Unsupervised learning of disentangled representations is an open problem in machine learning. The Disentanglement-PyTorch library is developed to facilitate research, implementation, and testing of new variational algorithms. In this modular library, neural architectures, dimensionality of the latent space, and the tra…

2019-12-11abs ↗pdf ↗

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 ↗

SOL is an open-source library for scalable online learning algorithms, and is particularly suitable for learning with high-dimensional data. The library provides a family of regular and sparse online learning algorithms for large-scale binary and multi-class classification tasks with high efficiency, scalability, porta…

2016-10-28abs ↗pdf ↗

Training modern deep learning models requires large amounts of computation, often provided by GPUs. Scaling computation from one GPU to many can enable much faster training and research progress but entails two complications. First, the training library must support inter-GPU communication. Depending on the particular …

2018-02-15abs ↗pdf ↗

Twitter has provided a great opportunity for public libraries to disseminate information for a variety of purposes. Twitter data have been applied in different domains such as health, politics, and history. There are thousands of public libraries in the US, but no study has yet investigated the content of their social …

2018-08-17abs ↗pdf ↗

We consider the problem of finding the minimizer of a function f:RdRf: \mathbb{R}^d \rightarrow \mathbb{R} of the finite-sum form minf(w)=1/ninfi(w)\min f(w) = 1/n\sum_{i}^n f_i(w). This problem has been studied intensively in recent years in the field of machine learning (ML). One promising approach for large-scale data is to use a stoc…

2017-10-27abs ↗pdf ↗

DynamicGEM is an open-source Python library for learning node representations of dynamic graphs. It consists of state-of-the-art algorithms for defining embeddings of nodes whose connections evolve over time. The library also contains the evaluation framework for four downstream tasks on the network: graph reconstructi…

2018-11-26abs ↗pdf ↗

fastai is a deep learning library which provides practitioners with high-level components that can quickly and easily provide state-of-the-art results in standard deep learning domains, and provides researchers with low-level components that can be mixed and matched to build new approaches. It aims to do both things wi…

2020-02-11abs ↗pdf ↗

Mango automates hyperparameter tuning for large-scale ML training.

problem Manual hyperparameter tuning is tedious and inefficient for large-scale machine learning.
method Parallel hyperparameter tuning with intelligent search strategies and flexible abstractions.
result Mango achieves comparable performance to Hyperopt while supporting distributed computing.

LibAUC optimizes X-risks for AI tasks like CID, LTR, and CLR.

problem Optimizing risk functions in AI for tasks like classification, ranking, and representation learning.
method Developed a new mini-batch pipeline for deep X-risk optimization (DXO) algorithms.
result Achieved great success in solving CID, LTR, and CLR tasks with faster convergence and scalable performance.

This paper uses machine learning to select kernels for machine learning models on various devices.

problem Traditional kernel auto-tuning is limited for machine learning research with changing network topologies and hyperparameters.
method Combines auto-tuning and machine learning to select kernels for SYCL on various devices.
result Initial results show high performance kernel selection with little developer effort.

Many (but not all) approaches self-qualifying as "meta-learning" in deep learning and reinforcement learning fit a common pattern of approximating the solution to a nested optimization problem. In this paper, we give a formalization of this shared pattern, which we call GIMLI, prove its general requirements, and derive…

2019-10-03abs ↗pdf ↗

We present seven myths commonly believed to be true in machine learning research, circa Feb 2019. This is an archival copy of the blog post at https://crazyoscarchang.github.io/2019/02/16/seven-myths-in-machine-learning-research/ Myth 1: TensorFlow is a Tensor manipulation library Myth 2: Image datasets are representat…

2019-02-18abs ↗pdf ↗

Model combination, often regarded as a key sub-field of ensemble learning, has been widely used in both academic research and industry applications. To facilitate this process, we propose and implement an easy-to-use Python toolkit, combo, to aggregate models and scores under various scenarios, including classification…

2019-09-21abs ↗pdf ↗

We present POLO --- a C++ library for large-scale parallel optimization research that emphasizes ease-of-use, flexibility and efficiency in algorithm design. It uses multiple inheritance and template programming to decompose algorithms into essential policies and facilitate code reuse. With its clear separation between…

2018-10-08abs ↗pdf ↗

Data preprocessing techniques are devoted to correct or alleviate errors in data. Discretization and feature selection are two of the most extended data preprocessing techniques. Although we can find many proposals for static Big Data preprocessing, there is little research devoted to the continuous Big Data problem. A…

2018-10-14abs ↗pdf ↗

Pykg2vec is an open-source Python library for learning the representations of the entities and relations in knowledge graphs. Pykg2vec's flexible and modular software architecture currently implements 16 state-of-the-art knowledge graph embedding algorithms, and is designed to easily incorporate new algorithms. The goa…

2019-06-04abs ↗pdf ↗

BNNpriors library improves Bayesian neural network inference with various prior distributions.

problem Challenges in choosing good prior distributions for Bayesian neural networks.
method State-of-the-art Markov Chain Monte Carlo inference with a wide range of predefined priors.
result Facilitates foundational discoveries on the nature of the cold posterior effect.

This document investigates the integration of adaptive distinguishing sequences into the process of active automata learning (AAL). A novel AAL algorithm "ADT" (adaptive discrimination tree) is developed and presented. Since the submission of the original thesis, the presented algorithm has been integrated into LearnLi…

2019-02-04abs ↗pdf ↗

We consider the problem of developing suitable learning representations (embeddings) for library packages that capture semantic similarity among libraries. Such representations are known to improve the performance of downstream learning tasks (e.g. classification) or applications such as contextual search and analogica…

2019-03-27abs ↗pdf ↗

Factor Engine simplifies financial factor computation and analysis in Python.

problem Efficient computation and analysis of financial factors.
method Modular, extensible Python library with decorators, integrates with data science ecosystem.
result Mispricing factors computed by Factor Engine and Stata implementation are highly similar.

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.