Day 26 (8/12/19): Presentation Revisions

Today was very useful for making revisions and edits to my presentation. I ran through it in front of my lab this morning and got lots of helpful feedback as to how to make it more accessible to a general audience (eliminating jargon). Every day I am becoming more and more confident with the talk, and I'm looking forward to presenting on Friday!

Furthermore, I learned today that I will be able to get my RIT computer account/email to stay active for a few months after the internship ends. This will allow me to continue communicating with the lab via Slack and help review and write a research paper including some of the work I have pursued over the past six weeks. We hope to submit this paper to get it published at a conference in the fall (possible AAAI).

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Day 9 (7/18/19): Incrementally Learning CUB200

Today I continued my work learning about incremental learning models by testing out different strategies on the CUB200 dataset. From what I understand from reading various articles, there seem to be five different approaches to mitigating catastrophic forgetting in lifelong learning models. These are regularization methods (adding constraints to a network's weights), ensemble methods (train multiple classifiers and combine them), rehearsal methods (mix old data with data from the current session), dual-memory methods (based off the human brain, includes a fast learner and a slow learner), and sparse-coding methods (reducing the interference with previously learned representations). All of these methods have their constraints and I don't believe it is yet clear what method (or what combination of different methods) is best. Full rehearsal obviously seems to be the most effective at making the model remember what it had previously learned but given that all training exam...

Day 28 (7/14/19): Presentation Dry Run

In the morning, all of us interns got the chance to practice our presentations in front of each other in the auditorium. I was pretty happy with how mine went overall but the experience was definitely valuable in identifying typos or slight adjustments that should be made. Throughout the rest of the day, I tried to implement these changes and clean up a few plots that I want to include for Friday.

Day 29 (8/15/19): Final Day Before Presentations

Most of today was also spent practicing and editing my presentation to make it as professional as I can. I'm really looking forward to the opportunity to present my work to faculty and friends tomorrow. Here is a link to the slides for my final presentation: Novelty Detection in Streaming Learning using Neural Networks

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