[mlpack] GSoC - 2017

[Prasanna Patil]

Hello everyone,

I am new to mlpack. I am 3rd year computer engineering undergraduate
student from India. I am going to participate in GSoC this year and I would
like to work with mlpack on "Essential Deep Learning Modules" project.


I have compiled mlpack locally and everything is set up. I have been
exploring mlpack code base and I have created some basic ml programs using
mlpack.


I have completed coursera machine learning course and udacity deep learning
course. I have implemented a few machine learning algorithm such as neural
net, decision tree, hopfield network, self organizing map, k means etc.
myself. However they are implemented in Python. You can check them here (
https://github.com/prasanna08/machinelearning).


I have intermediate knowledge in deep learning field. I have also read
Vivek's discussion on this topic and it gave me more information on the
project idea. I have studied RBM, DBN and Hopfield network from book
"Machine learning: an algorithmic perspective, Stephen Marsland". The book
gave me idea of these networks and basic training algorithm for these
models. I have implemented basic training algorithm but I am unaware of
latest research going on in these models?


The project page says that this project will implement RBM, DBN, BRNN and
GAN networks. Are there any other modules expected in this project? Also is
there anything you can help me get started with this project? (any issues /
bugs related to this part of code)


As of now I am reading DeepLearningBook to dive into latest research going
on in deep learning fields. It has variety of models / layers (for e.g.
batch norm layer, GRU cell) which are not part of mlpack as of now. So I
just wanted to know which methods are exactly expected from deep learning
project? Also can I come up with my own project that implements these other
methods which are not part of current project idea ?

It would be much helpful if you can point me to some direction to get
started with this project. Also it would be great if I can get my hands on
issue related to ann module of mlpack.

Thanks,
Prasanna
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