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author Xavier Glorot <glorotxa@iro.umontreal.ca>
date Tue, 07 Sep 2010 12:08:37 -0400
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1 Discussion of Function Specification for Dataset Types
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4 Some talking points from the September 2 meeting:
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6 * Datasets as views/tasks (Pascal Vincent's idea): our dataset specification
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7 needs to be flexible enough to accommodate different (sub)tasks and views of
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8 the same underlying data.
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9 * Datasets as probability distributions from which one can sample.
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10 * That's not something I would consider to be a dataset-related problem to
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11 tackle now: a probability distribution in Pylearn would probably be a
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12 different kind of beast, and it should be easy enough to have a
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13 DatasetToDistribution class for instance, that would take care of viewing a
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14 dataset as a probability distribution. -- OD
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15 * Our specification should allow transparent handling of infinite datasets (or
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16 simply datasets which cannot fit in memory)
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17 * GPU/buffering issues.
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19 Commiteee: DE, OB, OD, AB, PV
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20 Leader: DE