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ML Fundamentals

Neural networks, backpropagation, gradient descent — the maths behind AI

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Manipulate vectors and matrices
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Engineer features and handle missing data

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ArXiv cs.AI 📐 ML Fundamentals 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Mapping data literacy trajectories in K-12 education
arXiv:2603.28317v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Data literacy skills are fundamental in computer science education. However, understanding how data-driven sys
ArXiv cs.AI 📐 ML Fundamentals 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
KGroups: A Versatile Univariate Max-Relevance Min-Redundancy Feature Selection Algorithm for High-dimensional Biological Data
arXiv:2603.28417v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper proposes a new univariate filter feature selection (FFS) algorithm called KGroups. The majority of
ArXiv cs.AI 📐 ML Fundamentals 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
A Convex Route to Thermomechanics: Learning Internal Energy and Dissipation
arXiv:2603.28707v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present a physics-based neural network framework for the discovery of constitutive models in fully coupled
ArXiv cs.AI 📐 ML Fundamentals 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Geometry-aware similarity metrics for neural representations on Riemannian and statistical manifolds
arXiv:2603.28764v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Similarity measures are widely used to interpret the representational geometries used by neural networks to so
ArXiv cs.AI 📐 ML Fundamentals 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Temporally Detailed Hypergraph Neural ODEs for Disease Progression Modeling
arXiv:2510.17211v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Disease progression modeling aims to characterize and predict how a patient's disease complications worsen o
ArXiv cs.AI 📐 ML Fundamentals 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Learning Expressive Priors for Generalization and Uncertainty Estimation in Neural Networks
arXiv:2307.07753v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In this work, we propose a novel prior learning method for advancing generalization and uncertainty es
ArXiv cs.AI 📐 ML Fundamentals 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Efficient Human-in-the-Loop Active Learning: A Novel Framework for Data Labeling in AI Systems
arXiv:2501.00277v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Modern AI algorithms require labeled data. In real world, majority of data are unlabeled. Labeling the
ArXiv cs.AI 📐 ML Fundamentals 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Class-Imbalanced-Aware Adaptive Dataset Distillation for Scalable Pretrained Model on Credit Scoring
arXiv:2501.10677v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The advent of artificial intelligence has significantly enhanced credit scoring technologies. Despite
ArXiv cs.AI 📐 ML Fundamentals 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
A Benchmark for Incremental Micro-expression Recognition
arXiv:2501.19111v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Micro-expression recognition plays a pivotal role in understanding hidden emotions and has application
ArXiv cs.AI 📐 ML Fundamentals 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Towards Quantifying Long-Range Interactions in Graph Machine Learning: a Large Graph Dataset and a Measurement
arXiv:2503.09008v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Long-range dependencies are critical for effective graph representation learning, yet most existing da
ArXiv cs.AI 📐 ML Fundamentals 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Measuring the (Un)Faithfulness of Concept-Based Explanations
arXiv:2504.10833v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Deep vision models perform input-output computations that are hard to interpret. Concept-based explana
ArXiv cs.AI 📐 ML Fundamentals 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
What Is the Optimal Ranking Score Between Precision and Recall? We Can Always Find It and It Is Rarely $F_1$
arXiv:2511.22442v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Ranking methods or models based on their performance is of prime importance but is tricky because perf
ArXiv cs.AI 📐 ML Fundamentals 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Overcoming the Curvature Bottleneck in MeanFlow
arXiv:2511.23342v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: MeanFlow offers a promising framework for one-step generative modeling by directly learning a mean-vel
ArXiv cs.AI 📐 ML Fundamentals 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Prototype-Based Semantic Consistency Alignment for Domain Adaptive Retrieval
arXiv:2512.04524v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Domain adaptive retrieval aims to transfer knowledge from a labeled source domain to an unlabeled targ
ArXiv cs.AI 📐 ML Fundamentals 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Hellinger Multimodal Variational Autoencoders
arXiv:2601.06572v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Multimodal variational autoencoders (VAEs) are widely used for weakly supervised generative learning w
ArXiv cs.AI 📐 ML Fundamentals 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago
Dual-Prototype Disentanglement: A Context-Aware Enhancement Framework for Time Series Forecasting
arXiv:2601.16632v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Time series forecasting has witnessed significant progress with deep learning. While prevailing approa
Towards Data Science 📐 ML Fundamentals ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
How to Lie with Statistics with your Robot Best Friend
What is p hacking, is it bad, and can you get ai to do it for you? The post How to Lie with Statistics with your Robot Best Friend appeared first on Towards Dat
5 Useful Python Scripts for Effective Feature Selection
KDnuggets 📐 ML Fundamentals ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
5 Useful Python Scripts for Effective Feature Selection
Learn five simple Python scripts to perform effective feature selection. Each one is practical, minimal, and easy to use in real projects.
7 Essential Python Itertools for Feature Engineering
Machine Learning Mastery 📐 ML Fundamentals ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago
7 Essential Python Itertools for Feature Engineering
Feature engineering is where most of the real work in machine learning happens.