Adrien Lucas EcoffetinTowards Data ScienceAn Intuitive Explanation of Policy Gradient — Part 1: REINFORCEPolicy gradient is behind some of the best RL algorithms out there, yet few people understand the intuition behind its loss function.Oct 5, 201826Oct 5, 201826
Adrien Lucas EcoffetinTowards Data ScienceDeep Learning Book Notes, Chapter 3 (part 1): Introduction to ProbabilityThese are the first part of my notes for chapter 3 of the Deep Learning book. They can also serve as a quick intro to probability. These…May 5, 20189May 5, 20189
Adrien Lucas EcoffetinTowards Data SciencePaper repro: Deep Metalearning using “MAML” and “Reptile”How do you learn from very little data? Two recent papers may have the answer. Let’s reproduce them!Apr 2, 20189Apr 2, 20189
Adrien Lucas EcoffetinTowards Data SciencePaper Repro: Deep Neuroevolution“Deep Neuroevolution” showed that simple genetic algorithms can outperform advanced RL algorithms on Atari games. Let’s reproduce it!Mar 27, 20185Mar 27, 20185
Adrien Lucas EcoffetinBecoming Human: Artificial Intelligence MagazineDeep Learning Book Notes, Chapter 2: Linear Algebra for Deep LearningThese are my notes for chapter 2 of the Deep Learning book. They can also serve as a quick intro to linear algebra for deep learning.Mar 17, 20186Mar 17, 20186
Adrien Lucas EcoffetinBecoming Human: Artificial Intelligence MagazinePaper repro: “Self-Normalizing Neural Networks”This post details my experience reproducing “Self-Normalizing Neural Networks” as part of the Nurture.AI NIPS Challenge 2017, as well as my…Mar 11, 2018Mar 11, 2018
Adrien Lucas EcoffetinBecoming Human: Artificial Intelligence MagazineDeep Learning Book Notes, Chapter 1These are my notes on the Deep Learning book. There are many like them but these ones are mine.Mar 10, 20181Mar 10, 20181
Adrien Lucas EcoffetinBecoming Human: Artificial Intelligence MagazineInvestigating Focal and Dice Loss for the Kaggle 2018 Data Science BowlThis post details my experiments and implementations with three important loss functions for the Kaggle 2018 data science bowl, and…Mar 6, 20182Mar 6, 20182
Adrien Lucas EcoffetinBecoming Human: Artificial Intelligence MagazinePaper repro: “Learning to Learn by Gradient Descent by Gradient Descent”This post is the first of what will (hopefully) be a series of deep learning paper reproduction posts.Feb 27, 20186Feb 27, 20186
Adrien Lucas EcoffetinBecoming Human: Artificial Intelligence MagazineBeat Atari with Deep Reinforcement Learning! (Part 2: DQN improvements)Note: Before reading part 2, I recommend you read Beat Atari with Deep Reinforcement Learning! (Part 1: DQN)Oct 31, 20179Oct 31, 20179