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VBM683

Machine Learning

Pinar Duygulu

Slides are adapted from

Dhruv Batra,

Fei-Fei Li & Andrej Karpathy & Justin Johnson L

Aykut Erdem

Python

• Python is a high-level, dynamically typed

multiparadigm programming language. Python code

is often said to be almost like pseudocode, since it

allows you to express very powerful ideas in very few

lines of code while being very readable.

• http://cs231n.github.io/python-numpy-tutorial/


http://cs231n.github.io/python-numpy-tutorial/

NumPy

http://www.numpy.org/• NumPy is the fundamental package for scientific

computing with Python. It contains among other

things:

• a powerful N-dimensional array object

• sophisticated (broadcasting) functions

• tools for integrating C/C++ and Fortran code

• useful linear algebra, Fourier transform, and random

number capabilities

• Besides its obvious scientific uses, NumPy can also

be used as an efficient multi-dimensional container of

generic data. Arbitrary data-types can be defined.

This allows NumPy to seamlessly and speedily

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Plan for today

• Introduction to Supervised/Inductive Learning

• Your first classifier: k-Nearest Neighbour

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Types of Learning

• Supervised learning

– Training data includes desired outputs

• Unsupervised learning

– Training data does not include desired outputs

• Weakly or Semi-supervised learning

– Training data includes a few desired outputs

• Reinforcement learning

– Rewards from sequence of actions

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Supervised / Inductive Learning

• Given

– examples of a function (x, f(x))

• Predict function f(x) for new examples x

– Discrete f(x): Classification

– Continuous f(x): Regression

– f(x) = Probability(x): Probability estimation

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Slide Credit: Pedro Domingos, Tom Mitchel, Tom Dietterich

Supervised Learning

• Input: x (images, text, emails…)

• Output: y (spam or non-spam…)

• (Unknown) Target Function– f: X Y (the “true” mapping / reality)

• Data – (x1,y1), (x2,y2), …, (xN,yN)

• Model / Hypothesis Class– g: X Y

– y = g(x) = sign(wTx)

• Learning = Search in hypothesis space– Find best g in model class.

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(C) Dhruv Batra Slide Credit: Yaser Abu-Mostapha

Basic Steps of Supervised Learning• Set up a supervised learning problem

• Data collection – Start with training data for which we know the correct outcome provided by a teacher or

oracle.

• Representation – Choose how to represent the data.

• Modeling– Choose a hypothesis class: H = {g: X Y}

• Learning/Estimation– Find best hypothesis you can in the chosen class.

• Model Selection– Try different models. Picks the best one. (More on this later)

• If happy stop– Else refine one or more of the above

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Learning is hard!

• No assumptions = No learning

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Klingon vs Mlingon Classification

• Training Data

– Klingon: klix, kour, koop

– Mlingon: moo, maa, mou

• Testing Data: kap

• Which language?

• Why?

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Concept Learning

• Definition: Acquire an operational definition of a

general category of objects given positive and

negative training examples. • Also called binary

classification, binary supervised learning

Slide credit: Thorsten Joachims

Slide credit: Thorsten Joachims

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Loss/Error Functions

• How do we measure performance?

• Regression:

– L2 error

• Classification:

– #misclassifications

– Weighted misclassification via a cost matrix

– For 2-class classification:

• True Positive, False Positive, True Negative, False Negative

– For k-class classification:

• Confusion Matrix

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Training vs Testing

• What do we want?

– Good performance (low loss) on training data?

– No, Good performance on unseen test data!

• Training Data:

– { (x1,y1), (x2,y2), …, (xN,yN) }

– Given to us for learning f

• Testing Data

– { x1, x2, …, xM }

– Used to see if we have learnt anything

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Procedural View

• Training Stage:

– Raw Data x (Feature Extraction)

– Training Data { (x,y) } f (Learning)

• Testing Stage

– Raw Data x (Feature Extraction)

– Test Data x f(x) (Apply function, Evaluate error)

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Statistical Estimation View

• Probabilities to rescue:

– x and y are random variables

– D = (x1,y1), (x2,y2), …, (xN,yN) ~ P(X,Y)

• IID: Independent Identically Distributed

– Both training & testing data sampled IID from P(X,Y)

– Learn on training set

– Have some hope of generalizing to test set

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Concepts

• Capacity

– Measure how large hypothesis class H is.

– Are all functions allowed?

• Overfitting

– f works well on training data

– Works poorly on test data

• Generalization

– The ability to achieve low error on new test data

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Guarantees

• 20 years of research in Learning Theory

oversimplified:

• If you have:

– Enough training data D

– and H is not too complex

– then probably we can generalize to unseen test data

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Your First Classifier:

Nearest Neighbours

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Synonyms

• Nearest Neighbours

• k-Nearest Neighbours

• Member of following families:

– Instance-based Learning

– Memory-based Learning

– Exemplar methods

– Non-parametric methods

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Nearest Neighbor is an example of….

Instance-based learning

Has been around since

about 1910.

To make a prediction,

search database for

similar datapoints, and fit

with the local points.

Assumption: Nearby

points behavior similarly

wrt y

x1 y1

x2 y2

x3 y3

.

.

xn yn

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Instance/Memory-based Learning

Four things make a memory based learner:

• A distance metric

• How many nearby neighbors to look at?

• A weighting function (optional)

• How to fit with the local points?

Slide Credit: Carlos Guestrin(C) Dhruv Batra

1-Nearest Neighbour



– Euclidean (and others)


– 1


– unused


– Just predict the same output as the nearest neighbour.

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k-Nearest Neighbour



– Euclidean (and others)


– k


– unused


– Just predict the average output among the nearest

neighbours.

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1 vs k Nearest Neighbour

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1 vs k Nearest Neighbour

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Nearest Neighbour

• Demo 1

– http://cgm.cs.mcgill.ca/~soss/cs644/projects/perrier/Nearest.

html

• Demo 2

– http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~rani/LocBoost/

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http://cgm.cs.mcgill.ca/~soss/cs644/projects/perrier/Nearest.html

http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~rani/LocBoost/

• Gender Classification from body proportions

– Igor Janjic & Daniel Friedman, Juniors

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Scene Completion [Hayes & Efros, SIGGRAPH07]

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Hays and Efros, SIGGRAPH 2007

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Context Matching


Graph cut + Poisson blending Hays and Efros, SIGGRAPH 2007











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1-NN for Regression

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x

y

Here, this is the closest datapoint

Figure Credit: Carlos Guestrin

1-NN for Regression

• Often bumpy (overfits)

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9-NN for Regression

• Often bumpy (overfits)

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Multivariate distance metrics

Suppose the input vectors x1, x2, …xN are two dimensional:

x1 = ( x11 , x12 ) , x2 = ( x21 , x22 ) , …xN = ( xN1 , xN2 ).

One can draw the nearest-neighbor regions in input space.

Dist(xi,xj) =(xi1 – xj1)2+(3xi2 – 3xj2)

2

The relative scalings in the distance metric affect region shapes

Dist(xi,xj) = (xi1 – xj1)2 + (xi2 – xj2)

2

Slide Credit: Carlos Guestrin

Euclidean distance metric

where

Or equivalently,

A


Scaled Euclidian (L2) Mahalanobis

(non-diagonal A)

Notable distance metrics

(and their level sets)


Minkowski distance

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[CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

L1 norm (absolute)

Linf (max) norm

Scaled Euclidian (L2)

Mahalanobis

(non-diagonal A)

Notable distance metrics

(and their level sets)


Kernel Regression/Classification


• A distance metric– Euclidean (and others)

• How many nearby neighbors to look at?– All of them

• A weighting function (optional)– wi = exp(-d(xi, query)2 / σ2)

– Nearby points to the query are weighted strongly, far points weakly. The σ parameter is the Kernel Width. Very important.

• How to fit with the local points?– Predict the weighted average of the outputs

predict = Σwiyi / Σwi


Weighting/Kernel functions

wi = exp(-d(xi, query)2 / σ2)

(Our examples use Gaussian)


Effect of Kernel Width

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• What happens as σinf?

• What happens as σ0?

Image Credit: Ben Taskar

Problems with Instance-Based Learning

• Expensive

– No Learning: most real work done during testing

– For every test sample, must search through all dataset –

very slow!

– Must use tricks like approximate nearest neighbour search

• Doesn’t work well when large number of irrelevant

features

– Distances overwhelmed by noisy features

• Curse of Dimensionality

– Distances become meaningless in high dimensions

– (See proof in next lecture)

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• k-NN– Simplest learning algorithm

– With sufficient data, very hard to beat “strawman” approach

– Picking k?

• Kernel regression/classification– Set k to n (number of data points) and chose kernel width

– Smoother than k-NN

• Problems with k-NN– Curse of dimensionality

– Irrelevant features often killers for instance-basedapproaches

– Slow NN search: Must remember (very large) dataset for prediction

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What you need to know

Parametric vs Non-Parametric Models

• Does the capacity (size of hypothesis class) grow

with size of training data?

– Yes = Non-Parametric Models

– No = Parametric Models

• Example

– http://www.theparticle.com/applets/ml/nearest_neighbor/

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http://www.theparticle.com/applets/ml/nearest_neighbor/

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