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diff doc/v2_planning/dataset.txt @ 1023:fb6cae14fd07
dataset: Comment about viewing a dataset as a distribution
author | Olivier Delalleau <delallea@iro> |
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date | Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:30:50 -0400 |
parents | a5886b394bda |
children | a154c9b68239 |
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--- a/doc/v2_planning/dataset.txt Fri Sep 03 16:20:10 2010 -0400 +++ b/doc/v2_planning/dataset.txt Fri Sep 03 16:30:50 2010 -0400 @@ -7,6 +7,11 @@ needs to be flexible enough to accommodate different (sub)tasks and views of the same underlying data. * Datasets as probability distributions from which one can sample. + * That's not something I would consider to be a dataset-related problem to + tackle now: a probability distribution in Pylearn would probably be a + different kind of beast, and it should be easy enough to have a + DatasetToDistribution class for instance, that would take care of viewing a + dataset as a probability distribution. -- OD * Our specification should allow transparent handling of infinite datasets (or simply datasets which cannot fit in memory) * GPU/buffering issues.