<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Hi everyone,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br>Here's the plan for today's ML discussion group meeting:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><div class="gmail_default">1. Have a low-level, nuts-and-bolts discussion about good practices and answering noobie questions in machine learning, including discussing questions such as :</div><div class="gmail_default"><ul><li style="margin-left:15px">What ML frameworks (Tensorflow or Pytorch) does everyone use?</li><li style="margin-left:15px">Are there good tutorials people have used to learn these frameworks? What is a good set of "homework assignments" that people should do in order to be ready to do research using these ML tools?</li><li style="margin-left:15px">Where does everyone run their experiments? What systems have they found to work well or not well? What systems are available to us on campus?</li><li style="margin-left:15px">In our group, people often embed ML into an existing system, such as a renderer. How do people interface between the learning components and the other systems? What are some good working practices for this?</li><li style="margin-left:15px">Has anyone used the C++ binding for PyTorch?  Thoughts and comments?</li><li style="margin-left:15px">Good initialization and optimizer strategies</li><li style="margin-left:15px">Other noobie questions 

(please bring your own questions so that we can do a group Q/A)

</li></ul></div><div class="gmail_default">2. If there is time, I will present some ideas we've been exploring with Jedrzej on visualizing the training process of neural networks.</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">3. Anything else?</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">See you all there in about 20 minutes.</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">Best,</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">-Pradeep</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">PS. For those of you joining from off-site, let's try the following link:</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><div class="gmail-VA2JSc" style="padding-left:8px;color:rgb(32,33,36);font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><a href="https://meet.google.com/fyc-gscm-ana">https://meet.google.com/fyc-gscm-ana</a></div><div class="gmail-oFS10d" style="padding-left:8px;color:rgb(32,33,36);font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span class="gmail-Ys2Tsb" style="margin-right:2px">Dial-in: </span>(US)<span class="gmail-OGITWd" style="margin-right:4px"> +1 954-637-3826 </span><span class="gmail-lg8y8">PIN: </span><span class="gmail-dIKZ1c" style="white-space:nowrap">724 778 557#</span></div><div class="gmail-oFS10d" style="padding-left:8px;color:rgb(32,33,36);font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span class="gmail-dIKZ1c" style="white-space:nowrap"><br></span></div><div class="gmail-oFS10d" style="padding-left:8px;color:rgb(32,33,36);font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span class="gmail-dIKZ1c" style="white-space:nowrap"><br></span></div></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">---<div>Pradeep Sen</div><div>Professor</div><div>UCSB MIRAGE Lab</div><div>Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering</div><div>University of California, Santa Barbara</div><div>Santa Barbara, CA <span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">93106-9560</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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