AJM Note: ALTHOUGH NEARLY COMPLETE, references and discussion still being added to this blogpost. This note will be removed once the blogpost is completed – anticipated over the Memorial Day weekend, 2023. Note updated 12:30 AM, Hawai’i Time, Tuesday, May 29, 2023. This blogpost accompanies a YouTube vid on the same topic of the Evolution… Continue reading Evolution of NLP Algorithms through Latent Variables: Future of AI (Part 3 of 3)
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When a Classifier Acts as an Autoencoder, and an Autoencoder Acts as a Classifier (Part 1 of 3)
One of the biggest mental sinkholes into which AI students can get trapped is not quite understanding the fundamental difference between how our two basic “building block” networks operate: the Multilayer Perceptron (MLP), trained with backpropagation (or any form of gradient descent learning), and the (restricted) Boltzmann machine (RBM), trained with contrastive divergence. It’s easy… Continue reading When a Classifier Acts as an Autoencoder, and an Autoencoder Acts as a Classifier (Part 1 of 3)