[Lisa_teatalk] [Lisa_labo] Tea Talk Thursday!

Philippe Hamel hamel.phil at gmail.com
Fri Jul 8 11:50:44 EDT 2011


The library is now on Assembla:

hg clone http://hg.assembla.com/hyperplot

Take a look at the demos for a quick overview.


Phil

On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 3:02 PM, Aaron Courville
<aaron.courville at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> This week we will have Philippe Hamel present a python library that he
> and Simon have been working on. Hope to see you all there.
>
> Where: LISA lab (AA3256)
> When: 14h00, Thursday, July 7th, 2011
>
> Title/Abstract:
>
> Developing tools for hyper-parameter visualization
>
> As the complexity of machine learning algorithms becomes greater,  the
> number of hyper-parameters tends to do the same. Optimizing such
> algorithms often involves tedious exploration of a high dimensional
> hyper-parameter space. Typically, results from experiments are stored
> in a SQL database and results can be analyzed by looking at sql
> queries in a table. With this kind of view, it can be hard to see
> correlations between parameters, or to understand trends in the data.
> Using plots instead of tables can allow for better understanding of
> the hyper-parameter space, but might require more coding. So, a tool
> that allows us to easily plot and visualize the hyper-parameter space
> could help to guide our experiments in the right direction.
>
> In this tea talk, I would like to present a small python library that
> Simon and I have been working on and using to visualize our
> experiments. It is basically a bridge between a jobman SQL database
> and pylab. It allows dynamic filtering of the data, applying functions
> to transform and/or combine columns of data, and more! We have a few
> ideas on features that could be added, and we would like to get your
> input.
>
> We would like to give you a quick demo of what the library can do for
> now. We'd love some feedback from you. We are interested to know if
> people from LISA might be interested to use this tool, or even
> contribute to it.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Aaron
>
> --
> Aaron C. Courville
> Département d’Informatique et
> de recherche opérationnelle
> Université de Montréal
> email:Aaron.Courville at gmail.com
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