Questions tagged [theory]
Use for questions on AI theory and other theoretical subjects related to AI.
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What is the relationship between gradient accumulation and batch size?
I am currently training some models using gradient accumulation since the model batches do not fit in GPU memory. Since I am using gradient accumulation, I had to tweak the training configuration a ...
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Is there any application of topology to deep learning?
Is there any application of topology (as in math discipline) to deep learning? If so, what are some examples?
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Is it theoretically possible (or impossible) that principal component analysis worsens the performance of the model?
In case I had a prediction model and decided to add a PCA step prior to the model, is it theoretically possible/impossible that the number of output dimensions that is better for all tests may perform ...
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Is there a theory that captures the following ideas?
A big class of problems that are relevant in today's society are full of uncertainty and are also sometimes computationally intractable. Along our lives we come to realize that we are solving the same ...
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Are there any good resources about techniques used for entity extraction
Given some natural language sentences like "I would like to talk to Mr. Smith" I would like to extract entities like the person "Smith".
I know that frameworks exist which are capable of doing so (f. ...
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What are some examples of classical AI methods?
All of the attention in the AI field over the past few years has been toward statistical AI, now that Machine Learning has been validated on hard problems.
However, I want to learn more about ...
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What is the theoretical basis for the use of Cross Validation set?
So let's follow this line of reasoning. We use a MLE estimator (implementation doesn't matter) and we have a train set. We assume that we have sampled training set from a Gaussian distribution $\...
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Suitable kernels for Gaussian processes
Consider a stochastic process $\{X_t \colon t \in T\}$ indexed by a set $T$. We assume for simplicty that $T \in \mathbb{R}^n$. We assume that for any choice of indexes $t_1, \dots, t_n$, the random ...
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Understanding CNN in a few sentences
I don't know if this is the right place to ask this question. If it is not, please tell me and I remove it.
I've just started to learn CNN and I'm trying to understand what they do and how they do it....
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Is there a way to ensure that my model is able to recognize an unseen example?
My question is more theoretical than practical. Let's say that I am training my cat classifier with a dataset that I feel is pretty representative of cat images in general. But then a new breed of cat ...
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What event would confirm that we have reached AGI or a highly intelligent system?
I was listening to a podcast on the topic of AGI and a guest made an argument that if strong music generation were to happen, it would be a sign of true intelligence in machines because of how much ...
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Did people analyze dynamics of very simple LSTMs?
I wonder if researchers tried to understand how LSTMs work by analyzing the dynamics of simple LSTM (e.g. with 2 units)? For example how the hidden state evolves depending on the properties of weight ...
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What make a CNN suitable for image classification or for semantic segmentation?
I've just started with CNN and there is something that I haven't understood yet:
How do you "ask" a network: "classify me these images" or "do semantic segmentation"?
I think it must be something on ...
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What does “episodic training” mean?
I'm reading the book Hands-On Meta Learning with Python, and in Prototypical networks said:
So, we use episodic training—for each episode, we randomly sample a
few data points from each class in ...
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How many ways are there to perform image segmentation?
I'm new in Artificial Intelligence and I want to do image segmentation.
Searching I have found these ways
Digital image processing (I have read it in this book: Digital Image Processing, 4th edition)...
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Is this a problem well suited for machine learning?
The light-field of a certain scene is the set of all light rays that travel through the volume of that scene at a specific point of time. A light-field camera for example captures and stores a subset ...
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Are current AI models sufficient to achieve Artificial General Intelligence?
I read an interesting essay about how far we are from AGI. There were quite a few solid points that made me re-visit the foundation of AI today. A few interesting concepts arose:
imagine that you ...
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How would you differentiate between different on-policy reinforcement learning algorithms?
How would you differentiate between different on-policy reinforcement learning algorithms?
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When are compiled vs. interpreted languages more optimal in AI?
When are interpreted languages more optimal? When are compiled languages more optimal? What are the qualities and functions that render the so in relation to various AI methods?
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Is there anything theoretically revolutionary about Deep Neural Network?
In recent years we have seen quite a lot of impressive display of Deep Neural Network (DNN), as demonstrated most famously by AlphaGo and its cousin programs.
But if I understand correctly, deep ...
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What is convergence in machine learning?
I came across this answer on Quora, but it was pretty sparse. I'm looking for specific meanings in the context of machine learning, but also mathematical and economic notions of the term in general.
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What does 'democratizing AI' exactly mean?
In my AI literature research, I often notice authors use term 'democratizing AI', especially in the AutoML area. I think I have an idea of what this means, but I would like to ask you for some more ...
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Is there a way to understand neural networks without using the concept of brain?
Is there a way to understand, for instance, a multi-layered perceptron without hand-waving about them being similar to brains etc?
For example: it is obvious that what a perceptron does is ...
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Why is image classification tasks are dominated by minimizing cost function instead of maximizing ones?
I was watching a video of policy gradient by Andrej Karpathy at 10:00 there shows an equation for supervised learning for image classification.
$max\sum _{i}log \:p(y_i|x_i)$
I have worked with ...
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Is the gradient at a layer independent of the activations of the previous layers?
Is the gradient at a layer (of a feed-forward neural network) independent of the activations of the previous layers?
I read this in a paper titled Mean Field Residual Networks: On the Edge of Chaos (...
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Is it possible to control asymptotic behaviour of neural network models?
Is it possible to specify what the asymptotic behaviour of a Neural Networks (NN) model should be? I am thinking on NN which try to learn a mapping $\vec y=f(\vec x)$ with $\vec x$ a vector of ...
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Can Neural Networks self-optimize?
Suppose that you show a neural network its own code, and allow it to edit itself?
Can a neural network modify its own weights and architecture (the number of layers, the number of neurons per layer, ...
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Are neural networks prone to catastrophic forgetting?
Imagine you show a neural network a picture of a lion 100 times and label with "dangerous", so it learns that lions are dangerous.
Now imagine that previously you have shown it millions of images of ...
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Why do neural networks have bias units?
Why do neural networks have bias units? Why is it sometimes okay to opt them out?
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What is an agent in Artificial Intelligence?
While studying artificial intelligence, I have often encountered the term "agent" (often autonomous, intelligent). For instance, in fields such as Reinforcement Learning, Multi-Agent Systems, Game ...
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Is explainable AI more feasible through symbolic AI or soft computing?
Is explainable AI more feasible through symbolic AI or soft computing?
How much each paradigm, symbolic AI and soft computing (or hydrid approaches), adresses explanation and argumentation, where ...
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Would an artificial general intelligence have to be Turing complete?
Artificial general intelligence is the intelligence of a machine that could successfully perform any intellectual task that a human being can.
Would an artificial general intelligence have to be ...
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What are the known ways to test AI black boxes?
Is there any conmprehensive paper or site that describes an overview of the known black box testing techniques?
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Theoretical grounding for ease of training with a prior
If we have a neural network that learns the generative model for P(A, B, C)
And now, we want to learn the generative model for P(A, B, C, D)
Is there any theory that says learning P(A,B,C) and then ...
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Superhuman AI to disguise as human players
TL;DR below.
You entered a online mini video game.
It's a fast-paced hypercasual game. But it's a ranked one - top 10 get prizes. The leaderboard resets and prizes are handed out every couple of ...
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Neural nets need a short term memory of some sort
I notice with the recent revelation of severe limitations in some AI domains such as self driving cars that NNets behave with the same sort of errors as in simpler models. Ie: They may be ~100% ...
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Is Intelligence a naturally occurring function of Information Technology?
Here intelligence is defined as any analytic or decision making process, regardless of strength (utility), and, potentially, any process of computation that produces output, regardless of the medium.
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Are winning and imitating the primary indicators of intelligence?
Conjecture 1: The smartest chess playing system is the one that wins the tournament.
Conjecture 2: The computer system that imitates human dialog is as smart as the human whose dialog was imitated.
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How would a quantum computer potentially facilitate artificial consciousness, assuming it is possible?
How would a quantum computer potentially facilitate artificial consciousness, assuming it is possible?
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Batch PTA stopping condition
I am reviewing my Neural Network lectures and I have a doubt: My book's (Haykin) batch PTA describes a cost function which is defined over the set of the misclassified inputs.
I have always been ...
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An idea I had to create the first Humanoid using Deep Learning
I've come up with an idea on how we could use a combination of Deep Learning and body sensors to create a walking talking living humanoid. Here goes:
First, we will recruit 1 billion people and have ...
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What does learning mean?
Can someone explain what is the process of learning? What does it mean to learn something?
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Are human brain processes, like creativity, intuition or imagination, computable processes?
Are human brain processes, like intuition, creativity, imagination and the ability to create art, computable processes?
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How can I systematically learn about the theory of neural networks?
I have seen a few articles about neural nets. Mostly they went along these lines: we tried these architectures, these meta parameters, we trained it for $x$ hours on $y$ CPUs, and it gave us these ...
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Can NEAT produce neural networks where inputs are directly connected to outputs?
Can NEAT produce neural networks where inputs are directly (without intermediate hidden neurons) connected to outputs?
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Will a neural network always predict the correct label if it sees the exact same input during training and testing?
If I'm performing a text classification task using a model built in Keras, and for example, am attempting to predict the appropriate tag given a Stack Overflow question:
"how to subtract 1 from an ...
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If AI can perceive, can it be sentient? [duplicate]
I think that AI perceive the world. Can an AI be sentient?
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Is AI truly doing anything that we can consider ''intelligent'' outside of subjective perception of what we perceive to function?
Artificial intelligence seems like a modelling program for interfaces of possible processes forming into another possible or greater architectures of further or differing processes. In what capacity ...
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How important are notations for Artificial Intelligence?
According to WIkipedia, a notation is a semiotics term to describe artistic disciplines. Famous examples are: chess notation, Siteswap notation for juggling, Labanotation for dancing, basketball play ...
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Can I filter barking sounds on the television?
My dog goes bonkers every time the sound of a barking dog is heard on a television program. I never noticed this before but literally every movie or show with an outdoors setting eventually includes ...
