Oct 12, 2018Deep Neural Networks: Choosing a Learning RateOriginal Paper: Cyclical Learning Rates for Training Neural Networks by Leslie Smith Motivation One of the most arduous tasks of training a deep neural network is picking the learning rate(LR). Often this is done crudely. Pick a value and see how it does. Repeat until you find good results or are…Machine Learning4 min read
Aug 15, 2018MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large ClustersOriginal Paper: MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters by Jeffrey Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat, Google, Inc. Introduction With MapReduce, Google created a new domain of programming. The authors first present an interface for dealing with data that can be run in a distributed fashion. Then they provide details of Google’s…Big Data4 min read
