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Category: Machine Learning

An Overview to Vanishing Gradient Problem

Legacy form of perceptrons cannot handle non-linear problems such as xor logic gate problem. This is because step function is … More

gradient exploding, gradient vanishing, relu

A Step By Step C4.5 Decision Tree Example

Decision trees are still hot topics nowadays in data science world. Here, ID3 is the most common conventional decision tree algorithm … More

c4.5, decision tree, gradient boosted, id3

Random Initialization in Neural Networks

Neural networks requires to apply several state-of-the-art techniques such as choice of activation function, or network design to push their … More

neural networks, python

How Vectorization Saves Life in Neural Networks

Developers tend to handle problems with conditional statements and loops. This is the number one topic of developers and data … More

neural networks, numpy, python, vectorization

Convolutional Autoencoder: Clustering Images with Neural Networks

Previously, we’ve applied conventional autoencoder to handwritten digit database (MNIST). That approach was pretty. We can apply same model to … More

autoencoder, neural networks, unsupervised learning

Autoencoder: Neural Networks For Unsupervised Learning

Neural networks are like swiss army knifes. They can solve both classification and regression problems. Surprisingly, they can also contribute … More

autoencoder, neural networks, unsupervised learning

Handling Overfitting with Dropout in Neural Networks

Overfitting is trouble maker for neural networks. Designing too complex neural networks structure could cause overfitting. So, dropout is introduced to … More

hinton, keras, neural networks, tensorflow

Oracle Analytics Summit 2018 Istanbul

Oracle Analytics Summit is held in Istanbul on 2018 Mar, 07. I have been attending this summit since 2016. I … More

analytics, oracle, summit

Leaky ReLU as a Neural Networks Activation Function

Convolutional neural networks make ReLU activation function so popular. Common alternatives such as sigmoid or tanh have upper limits to … More

activation function, LReLU, PReLU

Real Time Facial Expression Recognition on Streaming Data

Previously, we’ve worked on facial expression recognition of a custom image. Additionally, we can detect multiple faces in a image, … More

face detection, facial expression recognition, keras, opencv, tensorflow

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