Questions tagged [random-variable]
For questions related to the mathematical concept of a random variable (in the context of AI).
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Should the biases be zero or randomly initialised?
I'm initialising DNN of shape [2 inputs, 2 hiddens, 1 output] with these weights and biases:
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What is the point of converting conditional probability to factor for Variable Elimination?
I have this slide from my AI class on using a Bayes network to compute a conditional probability. I don't really understand the point of converting the conditional probabilities to factors (besides ...
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Is decision tree learning a deterministic algorithm?
Is decision tree learning a deterministic algorithm?
Given a fixed dataset, does it always produce a tree of a same topology?
What about random forest?
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Is learning possible without random thoughts and actions?
In my view intelligence begins once the thoughts/actions are logical rather than purely randomn based. The learning environments can be random but the logic seems to obey some elusive rules. There is ...
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What kind of distributions can be used to model discrete latent variables?
If we take the vanilla variational auto-encoder (VAE), we $p(z)$ is a Gaussian distribution with zero mean and unit variance and we approximate $p(z|x) \approx q(z|x)$ to be a Gaussian distribution as ...
