Re: [Scikit-learn-general] GSoC proposal for Bayesian networks: update

2012-04-06 Thread Timmy Wilson
why not use pymc or r: - http://code.google.com/p/pymc/ - http://cran.r-project.org/web/views/Bayesian.html On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 9:41 AM, Shankar Satish wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I was supposed to prepare a proposal for bayesian networks in sklearn. > However as i researched the details f

[Scikit-learn-general] Graph reduction via sequential importance sampling (SIS)

2012-03-13 Thread Timmy Wilson
numpy and the parallelization gained from libblas + liblapack. Curious if anyone can recommend an efficient SIS example? Much, much appreciated, Timmy Wilson Cleveland, OH -- Virtualization & Cloud Management Using

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] Fwd: RuntimeError: Factor is exactly singular

2011-12-09 Thread Timmy Wilson
ude in the gist a minimal python script which > reproduces the error from the included data, that would be very helpful. >  Jake > > Timmy Wilson wrote: >> Thanks Jake >> >> here are the files -- https://gist.github.com/1453617 >> >> here's the c

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] Fwd: RuntimeError: Factor is exactly singular

2011-12-09 Thread Timmy Wilson
can take a look and see if I can figure out what the problem is. > Alternatively, you could just push the plot there, but it would be > harder for me to experiment with.  Thanks! >  Jake > > Timmy Wilson wrote: >> This was rejected because attachments were > 40K >>

[Scikit-learn-general] Fwd: RuntimeError: Factor is exactly singular

2011-12-09 Thread Timmy Wilson
This was rejected because attachments were > 40K What's the preferred way to pass random/tmp files? -- Forwarded message -- From: Timmy Wilson Date: Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 8:57 AM Subject: Re: [Scikit-learn-general] RuntimeError: Factor is exactly singular To: scikit-learn

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] Force/energy based embedding (manifold learning)?

2011-12-09 Thread Timmy Wilson
otion, viscosity, and springlike attractive and repulsive forces. " http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/106454603321489509 On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 9:36 AM, Timmy Wilson wrote: > I first ran into energy-based learning when studying neural nets. > > Recently i found a few promis

[Scikit-learn-general] Force/energy based embedding (manifold learning)?

2011-12-09 Thread Timmy Wilson
I first ran into energy-based learning when studying neural nets. Recently i found a few promising papers/examples that focus on energy based graph embedding. I'm curious what the community thinks of this brand of learning? The guys @ Gephi published a nice overview of force/energy

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] RuntimeError: Factor is exactly singular

2011-12-08 Thread Timmy Wilson
'standard' + 'modified' both work fine 'hessian' + 'ltsa' both have issues ltsa is printing: RuntimeWarning: Diagonal number 2 is exactly zero. Singular matrix. and then setting everything to -nan i tried adding random noise and increasing n_neighbors -- but no dice Fabian's suggestion is sti

[Scikit-learn-general] RuntimeError: Factor is exactly singular

2011-12-07 Thread Timmy Wilson
I get the following error when running Hessian-based LLE:: /home/timmyt/projects/smarttypes/smarttypes/scripts/reduce_twitter_graph.py in () 32 print "Passed our little test: following %s users!" % len(tmp_followies) 33 ---> 34 results = reduce_graph(adjacency_matrix, follow

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] Sprinting at PyCon US 2012 in Santa Clara in March.

2011-12-07 Thread Timmy Wilson
t it. So here we go. " Joe's in Berkeley -- maybe he'll join us ;] On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 9:28 AM, Olivier Grisel wrote: > 2011/12/7 Timmy Wilson : >> I would love to sit in, and learn, and contribute where i can. >> >> Probably won't have time fo

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] Sprinting at PyCon US 2012 in Santa Clara in March.

2011-12-07 Thread Timmy Wilson
I would love to sit in, and learn, and contribute where i can. Probably won't have time for this during the sprint -- but i want to throw it out there: The importance of locality in many manifold learning algos them good candidates for distribution. On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 3:22 AM, Olivier Grise

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] Gradient descent backprop on layered RBMs

2011-11-28 Thread Timmy Wilson
Awesome! Thank you David -- backproppy looks nice + simple -- exactly what i needed to experiment/learn with. On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 1:22 PM, David Warde-Farley wrote: > On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 06:42:03PM +0100, Andreas Müller wrote: > >> I think it should be pretty straightforward, replacing

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] Gradient descent backprop on layered RBMs

2011-11-28 Thread Timmy Wilson
Thanks Guys! > This is neither a Deep Belief Network nor a stack > of RBMs, just a regular feed forward neural network > that has a particularly well chosen set of initial weights. Agreed. This is what i'm imagining. Assuming good results, i'm sure i'll want to move to a GPU implementation. In

[Scikit-learn-general] Gradient descent backprop on layered RBMs

2011-11-27 Thread Timmy Wilson
rt -- running gradient descent backpropagation on the weights established by step 1. Has anyone tried this, or something similar? I found a library that uses MDP to do something similar -- http://organic.elis.ugent.be/node/270 -- but i'd like to do it all w/ Edwin's cod