torch for tabular data
How not to die from poisonous mushrooms. Also: How to use torch for deep learning on tabular data, including a mix of categorical and numerical features.
Brain image segmentation with torch
The need to segment images arises in various sciences and their applications, many of which are vital to human (and animal) life. In this introductory post, we train a U-Net to mark lesioned regions on MRI brain scans.
sparklyr 1.5: better dplyr interface, more sdf_* functions, and RDS-based serialization routines
Unlike all three previous sparklyr releases, the recent release of sparklyr 1.5 placed much more emphasis on enhancing existing sparklyr features rather than creating new ones. As a result, many valuable suggestions from sparklyr users were taken into account and were successfully addressed in a long list of bug fixes and improvements.
torch 0.2.0 – Initial JIT support and many bug fixes
The torch 0.2.0 release includes many bug fixes and some nice new features like initial JIT support, multi-worker dataloaders, new optimizers and a new print method for nn_modules.
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Convolutional LSTM for spatial forecasting
In forecasting spatially-determined phenomena (the weather, say, or the next frame in a movie), we want to model temporal evolution, ideally using recurrence relations. At the same time, we’d like to efficiently extract spatial features, something that is normally done with convolutional filters. Ideally then, we’d have at our disposal an architecture that is both
Forecasting El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO)
El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is an atmospheric phenomenon, located in the tropical Pacific, that greatly affects ecosystems as well as human well-being on a large portion of the globe. We use the convLSTM introduced in a prior post to predict the Niño 3.4 Index from spatially-ordered sequences of sea surface temperatures.
Simple audio classification with torch
This article translates Daniel Falbel’s post on “Simple Audio Classification” from TensorFlow/Keras to torch/torchaudio.
torch, tidymodels, and high-energy physics
Today we introduce tabnet, a torch implementation of “TabNet: Attentive Interpretable Tabular Learning” that is fully integrated with the tidymodels framework. Per se, already, tabnet was designed to require very little data pre-processing; thanks to tidymodels, hyperparameter tuning (so often cumbersome in deep learning) becomes convenient and even, fun!
First mlverse survey results – software, applications, and beyond
Last month, we conducted our first survey on mlverse software, covering topics ranging from area of application through software usage to user wishes and suggestions. In addition, the survey asked about thoughts on social impacts of AI/ML. This post presents the results, and tries to address some of the things that came up.
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Introductory time-series forecasting with torch
This post is an introduction to time-series forecasting with torch. Central topics are data input, and practical usage of RNNs (GRUs/LSTMs). Upcoming posts will build on this, and introduce increasingly involved architectures.