Lesson 1-3

Question 1

Is ML a black box?

Answer 1

No. Interpretable ML Visualize gradients and activatuions

Question 2

Does deep learning need to much data?

Answer 2

No. Transfer learning; share/use pre-trained nets

Question 3

What does a Union[…] mean in a function signature?

Answer 3

One of the items

Question 4

Why do you need to make all the images the same shape and size?

Answer 4

Because in order for the GPU to work fast with them, it has to be that way!

Question 5

What size usually works?

Answer 5

square with size=224 :-)

Question 6

What are the resnets?

Answer 6

Pre-trained, 34 (#layers) and 50. Different sizes. Start with the smaller one. Trained on 1.5mm imagenet pictures. Has pre-trained weigths. Start with a model that knows how to recognize 1000 categories.

Question 7

What is transfer learning?

Answer 7

Take a model that knows how to do something well, and make it learn how to do your thing REALLY well. Train with 1/100th or less (maybe thousands of times) of data and time.

Question 8

What is one cycle learning?

Answer 8

Better, faster; recent paper (TODO: look this up)

Question 9

What does unfreeze do?

Answer 9

Without unfreeze, the fitting is done on the final layers only, leaving the initial pre-trained layers untouched. This makes it very fast and avoids overfitting. Unfreeze means fit all layers,.

Question 10

Paper on Understanding CNN

Answer 10

Visualizing and Understanding Convolutional Networks; Rob Fergus, Matthew Zeiler

Question 11

Why run prod (“inference”) on CPU instead of GPU?

Answer 11

b/c in prod it is unlikely that you want to do many many things at one time

Question 12

Why does train loss < valid loss not mean overfitting?

Answer 12

As long as the error rate continues to decrease in a train step, YOU ARE NOT OVERFITTING

Question 13

what does the doc function do?

Answer 13

This is a fastai function that shows the html docs

Question 14

What do you do with unbalanced data?

Answer 14

Jeremy says nothing. it always works. lol. However you could try to over sample the underrepresented class.

Question 15

What does _ mean at the end of a pytorch function?

Answer 15

operation happens in place

Question 16

How do you create a tensor of ones in pytortch?

Answer 16

x = torch.ones(n,2)

Question 17

How do you make a coliumn in a tensor random?

Answer 17

x[:,0].uniform_()

Question 18

What is gradient descent in pytorch?

Answer 18

a = nn.Parameter(a); a def update(): y_hat = x@a loss = mse(y, y_hat) if t % 10 == 0: print(loss) loss.backward() with torch.no_grad(): a.sub_(lr * a.grad) a.grad.zero_() lr = 1e-1 for t in range(100): update()

Question 19

What is the differnce between gradient descent and sgd?

Answer 19

sgd is done on mini-batches… instead of running on the entire dataset, we choose a batch of data at random (randomize without replacement; you will see all images)

Question 20

How do we make sure we don’t overfit?

Answer 20

Not with parsimonious models! With regularization.

Question 21

How do we make sure we don’t overfit?

Answer 21

Not with parsimonious models! With regularization. Use a validation set!

Question 22

How does Python typing work?

Answer 22

def greeting(name: str) -> str: return ‘Hello ‘ + name

Question 23

How does Python typing work?

Answer 23

def greeting(name: str) -> str: return ‘Hello ‘ + name

Question 24

What is camvid

Answer 24

Segmentation mask, labeled dataset

Question 25

What do you do with the learning rate finding graph?

Answer 25

In first step of training, I think you find the slice where is has the sharpest negative slopes. When you unfreeze, then you want likely the point where it starts sloping up and 10x before that.

Question 26

What is unet?

Answer 26

conv net on input (smaller and smaller layers), then the reverse... learn = Learner.create\_unet(data, models.resnet34, metrics)

Question 27

what does fit one cycle do?

Answer 27

varies learning rate. Goes up and then goes down. Why is this good? Because when you start away from the minimum you want to jump around a bit; loss surface is not smooth, so you want to jump over bumps; but when you get close to the global minimum you want it to go down (learning rate annealing). Innovation here is that upfront you want it to increase. Gradulaly increasing the learning rate is a really good way to help the model explore the entire loss surface. So when you learn.recorder.plot\_losses() you will see loss going up for a while before it goes down a lot!

Question 28

What is mixed precision learning?

Answer 28

Add .to\_fp16() to your Learner...() then it will train at half precision floating point. Saves GPU RAM and should be faster. When you make things less precise (sometimes) in deep learning, it will generalize better. You need the most recent CUDA drivers and a very recent gpu

Question 29

How do you create NLP classifier?

Answer 29

Lesson 3: Segmentation 1:41 ... NLP classficiataion 1) data = (TextSplitData.from\_csv...) language\_model\_learner : : Jeremy;s model in this vid is SOTA for IMDB (ULMFit?)

Question 30

Do you need to use ngram in DL?

Answer 30

NO! each token is just a word and the DL model figures it out. (TODO: what about mis-spellings?)

Question 31

How do yo udeal with 4 channel images (e.g., some satellite) in a pretrained model?

Answer 31

You have to change the model :-)

Question 32

What is the universal approximation theorem?

Answer 32

The idea that a neural net can aproxmiate ANY function to arbitrary precision

Question 33

What is transfer learning in NLP?

Answer 33

1) Start with a pretrained model which was trained for something else: a "language model": a model that learns to predict the next word of a sentence. Wikitext 103 dataset, subset of largest articles in wikipedia. About 1bn tokens. 2) use the pretained model to make a model to predict the next word of your domain (don't need labels! "self supervised labels"). This is fine-tuning. data\_lm = ... USE THE text in the test set to train your LM. This is a good trick on Kaggle! 3) learn = language\_model\_learner(data\_lm, pretrained\_model=URLs.WT103, drop\_mult=0.3) 4) learn.lr\_find() 5) learn.recorder.plot(skip\_end=15) 6) learn.fit\_one\_cycle(1, 1e-2, moms=(0.8,0.7)) #

Question 34

How to use DL on tabular?

Answer 34

1) procs = [FillMissing, Categorify, Normalize] # pre-processing 2) data = TabularList.from\_df(df, path, cat\_names=cat\_names, cont\_names=cont\_names, procs=procs) 3) learn = get\_tabular\_learner(data, layers=[200,100]) 4) learn.fit(1, 1e-2)

Question 35

What is collab filtering?

Answer 35

three column table: userid, product\_id, movie rating very sparse matrix: user on rows movies on columns ratings as valued get\_collar\_learner(ratings, n\_factors=50, min\_score=0, max\_score=5) learn.fit\_one\_cycle(5, 5e-3) predict, you give a userid and movie id and it will predict the score

Question 36

What is the cold start problem?

Answer 36

You want to be good when you have a new user You want to be good when it is a new user But you have no data! You need a second model -- meta data model for new users or new movies

Question 37

How does collab filtering work?

Answer 37

linear model mmult A\*B = pred\_matrix A is num\_movies by N B is N by num\_users pred\_matrix is num\_movies by num\_users Loss is MSE between this matrix and your given ratings data matrix Minimize the loss with gradient descent (NOTE: need bias for each user and each item, maybe an item is just naturally popular, etc.) Map to sigmoid between max and min score.

Question 38

What is a nn.Embedding?

Answer 38

A matrix of weights which you can lookup into (index into it as an array) and grab one vector out of it

Question 39

What is a Parameter in PyTorch?

Answer 39

Weight matrices are PyTorch Parameters Also bias are Parameters Activations are the result of ReLU Anything that does a calc is a layer Last layer is likely be a sigmoid, not ReLU b/c you Loss function, compares output to input in training

Question 40

What is the one line description of gradient descent?

Answer 40

paramaters -= learning\_rate\*parameters.grad()

Question 41

How does fine-tuning work?

Answer 41

resnet last layer has 1000 columns target vector is length 1000 So we throw it away. create\_cnn kills this. Instead it puts two weight matrices with a ReLU in between The erliaer layer, the more likely you want the weigths to stay the same Freeze: fastai and PyTorch will NOT backprop the gradients into frozen layers When unfreeze, give different learning rates to each part of the model; earlier layers, make smaller learning rate, b/c it is already pretty good "Discriminitive Learning Rates": fit(1, ) slice(1e-3): final layers get 1e-3, earlier get 1e-3/3 slice(1e-5, 1e-3), final layer gets 1e-3, earlier layers get linear interp learning rate Zeiler and Fergus paper, Visualizing CNN

Question 42

What is an affine function?

Answer 42

Just means a linear function; like matrix multiplication if you are multipling things together and adding them together then you have an affine function

Question 43

I want to do a matrix multiplication by a one-hot encoded matrix without ever having to create the OHE matrix, what is this?

Answer 43

an embedding! embedding means look something up in an array Therefore, and embedding can be a kind of layer "embedding"=an array lookup which is mathematically equivalent to a matrix multiplied by a OHE matrix

Question 44

Latent features?

Answer 44

Underlying features that appear. Hidden things that were there all along that appear when we do gradient descent.

Question 45

What is the bias in an embedding?

Answer 45

an extra single number per user or per product in the embedding matrix