Hi James,
Thanks for the quick response!
I've already finished my writing, and is expected to defend the thesis in
May. Therefore, my supervisor won't argue about the whole project, since
the major part of it would be realized after the defense (and during the
summer).
I think that my first project in majority corresponds to your research. As
far as I know, there exists only 2 evolutionary algorithms implemented in
Python for black-box optimization (PSO and GA). I would like to extend that
with other, more recent methods, such as Firefly Algorithm, Bat Algorithm,
Differential Evolution, Harmony Search, etc. These algorithms could be used
to train NNs, similarly to the two mentioned ones. Also, they can be used
to solve different problems, highly possible in your hyperopt area. I don't
have any knowledge on Bayesian optimization, or statistics, but I believe I
could help.
Thanks again,
Marko
2014-03-11 15:49 GMT+01:00 James Bergstra <[email protected]>:
> Hi Marko,
>
> This is a good fit with the sort of thing I was hoping to mentor. I've
> worked on Bayesian optimization / black-box optimization for neural
> networks, and more recently, for optimizing over the algorithm
> configuration of sklearn pipelines (
> https://github.com/hyperopt/hyperopt-sklearn).
>
> What's your project idea?
>
> My one concern would be: shouldn't you be writing your thesis? (Is your
> supervisor supportive of you taking 4 months to work on GSoC?)
>
> - James
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 10:25 AM, Marko Mitic <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> My name is Marko Mitic, and I'm a final year PhD student at University of
>> Belgrade, Serbia. I am willing to participate in GSoC, if I can find
>> someone to mentor my work. My research interest are robotics and applied
>> computational intelligence with emphasis on evolutionary algorithms. For
>> purpose of finishing my PhD, I already implemented some
>> evolutionary/metaheuristic algorithms in Python. Likewise, I have some
>> experience using Extreme Learning Machines in Matlab, and would love to
>> transfer the code to Python. I am proficient in Matlab, with solid
>> knowledge of Python which I would like to improve further. I am willing to
>> work 40+ hours a week on the GSoC project, starting 1st May 2014.
>>
>> Two main projects which I want to propose are:
>>
>> - Evolutionary (Metaheuristic) algorithms for function optimization
>>
>> - Extreme Learning Machines for Python users
>>
>> If there is someone finding these interesting, I would be delighted to
>> explain in detail my ideas and project proposal. I am apologizing if its a
>> little late for this whole procedure.
>>
>> Thanks in advance!
>> Marko Mitic
>>
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