## Wasserstein variational autoencoders

Variational auto-encoders (VAEs) are a latent space model. The idea is you have some latent space variable $z \in \mathbb{R}^{k}$ which describes your original variables $x\in\mathbb{R}^d$ in higher dimensional space by a latent model $p(x|z)$. Let’s assume that this distribution is given by a neural network with some parameters $\theta$ so that we assume $$x | z, \theta \sim N(g_\theta(z), 1).$$ Of course in reality, we don’t know $(z, \theta)$, we would like to infer these from the data. [Read More]

## Introduction To Tensorflow Estimator

In this post I am going to introduce tf.estimator library. So first of all, what is this library trying to do? When writing tensorflow code, there is a lot of repeated operations that we need to do: read the data in batches process the data, e.g. convert images to floats run a for loop and take a few gradient descent steps save model weights to disk output metrics to tensorboard The keras library makes this quite a bit easier, but there are times when you might need to use plain old tensorflow (it gets quite hacky to implement some multiple output models and GANs in keras). [Read More]

## FizzBuzz with neural networks and NALU

FizzBuzz is one of the most well-known interview questions. The problem is stated as: > Write the numbers from 0 to n replacing any number divisible by 3 with Fizz, divisible by 5 by Buzz and divisible by both 3 and 5 by FizzBuzz. The example program should output 1, 2, Fizz, 3, Buzz, Fizz, 7, 8, Fizz, Buzz. A while back, there was this infamous post where the author claimed to solve this problem in an interview using tensorflow. [Read More]

## From Zero To State Of The Art NLP Part I - Attention mechanism

There has been some really amazing advances in natural language processing (NLP) in the last couple of years. Back in November 2018, Google released https://ai.googleblog.com/2018/11/open-sourcing-bert-state-of-art-pre.html, which is based on attention mechanisms in Attention Is All You Need. In this two part series, I will assume you know nothing about NLP, have some understanding about neural networks, and take you from the start to end of understanding how transformers work. Natural language processing is the art of using machine learning techniques in processing language. [Read More]