David S. Rosenberg

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On further reflection... maybe this is fine: say you have a classic latent variable model z --> x, where x is observed, z is latent. When the distributions of z...

More ideas: one could draw a circle around each point, color-coded based on the coefficient (e.g. yellow for zero, red for the max value, and some version orange for everything...

Yeah definitely should have the full rank condition.

This is for showing that l2 spreads weight evenly? and showing it's a descent direction is a cute inner product with the gradient. I like it - where do we...

This sounds good -- want to write this up? We can use it for concept check or move it into homework #2.

The "traditional form" of soft margin SVM that Brett gives in 3-SVM-Notes.pdf is basically the Tikhonov form of SVM. The formulations I mention above the Ivanov form and another form...

These slides have a nice way of motivating max margin in hard-margin case: http://bit.ly/2jOnINC For a picture showing separation but with very small margin, they say: "Better not these, since...

Hi Vlad -- 2d animation looks good. for minibatch SGD, what about just linear regression (no ridge penalty)? Linear model with additive Gaussian noise sounds fine. Let's start with a...