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tanh activation function vs sigmoid activation function

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Gradient Boosting Tree vs Random Forest

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What is one class SVM and how does it work?

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What does kernel size mean?

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Is KNN a discriminative learning algorithm?

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Where is density estimation useful?

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Machine learning algorithms to handle missing data

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Why not always use ensemble learning?

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Why is gradient descent required?

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How to calculate optimal zero padding for convolutional neural networks?

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Curse of dimensionality: kNN classifier

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Why is optimizing a mixture of Gaussian directly computationally hard?

answered Apr 21, 2014 at 16:16

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Softmax layer in a neural network

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Having a conjugate prior: Deep property or mathematical accident?

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Does k-NN with k=1 always implies overfitting?

answered Jul 14, 2014 at 17:34

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What are good initial weights in a neural network?

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Why must one trade off between bias and variance?

answered Mar 26, 2013 at 16:42

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Mathematical background for neural networks

answered Jul 15, 2013 at 13:06

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Machine Learning to Predict Class Probabilities

answered Nov 16, 2013 at 12:02

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Iterative process for removing extreme samples

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Non-orthogonal technique analogous to PCA

answered May 9, 2014 at 12:59

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Regression vs. classification and generative vs. discriminative

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Choosing filter size, strides etc. in a CNN?

answered Aug 3, 2017 at 17:49

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What machine learning techniques can, once trained, generate prediction despite some missing inputs?

answered May 17, 2013 at 14:11

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Visualizing high dimensional data

answered Apr 19, 2013 at 20:56

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LibSVM cost weights for unbalanced data doesn't work

answered Jan 17, 2013 at 21:17

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In Naive Bayes, why bother with Laplace smoothing when we have unknown words in the test set?

answered Jul 22, 2014 at 8:33

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Differences between Multi-layer NN, Hopfield, Helmholtz and Boltzmann machines

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stick breaking model of Dirichlet process

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Is linear discriminant analysis (LDA) more likely to overfit than support vector machine (SVM)?

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tanh activation function vs sigmoid activation function

Gradient Boosting Tree vs Random Forest

What is one class SVM and how does it work?

What does kernel size mean?

Is KNN a discriminative learning algorithm?

Where is density estimation useful?

Machine learning algorithms to handle missing data

Why not always use ensemble learning?

Why is gradient descent required?

How to calculate optimal zero padding for convolutional neural networks?

Curse of dimensionality: kNN classifier

Why is optimizing a mixture of Gaussian directly computationally hard?

Softmax layer in a neural network

Having a conjugate prior: Deep property or mathematical accident?

Does k-NN with k=1 always implies overfitting?

What are good initial weights in a neural network?

Why must one trade off between bias and variance?

Mathematical background for neural networks

Machine Learning to Predict Class Probabilities

Iterative process for removing extreme samples

Non-orthogonal technique analogous to PCA

Regression vs. classification and generative vs. discriminative

Choosing filter size, strides etc. in a CNN?

What machine learning techniques can, once trained, generate prediction despite some missing inputs?

Visualizing high dimensional data

LibSVM cost weights for unbalanced data doesn't work

In Naive Bayes, why bother with Laplace smoothing when we have unknown words in the test set?

Differences between Multi-layer NN, Hopfield, Helmholtz and Boltzmann machines

stick breaking model of Dirichlet process

Is linear discriminant analysis (LDA) more likely to overfit than support vector machine (SVM)?