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Sadly, not yet. Might be too secret sauce even for Google.
by gwern 10y ago
Sadly, not yet. Might be too secret sauce even for Google.
- conistonwater 10y agoNonlinear control with neural networks has existed for a long time, though, it's not exactly new. Is there reason to think they did something profoundly new in that specific instance?
- mooneater 10y agoProbably the use of a DNC for industrial application is novel.
- gwern 10y agoYes. When this came first up, someone on /r/machinelearning scoffed that using NNs to control fans/coolers/power systems to optimize was trivial and obvious and had been done for decades. When I challenged him for a ref, he produced a PDF which listed dozens of industrial applications for various nonlinear NN algorithms... none of which were actually autonomously controlling anything and most were predictive.
- haimez 10y agoLol, no. It's just the scale of the use that makes it valuable. Google datacenter cooling problems only exist inside of Google data centers, and the control knobs therein are 1. measurable AND measured 2. deterministic 3. simple. They're innovating in a problem space that only exists at Google, Microsoft, and Amazon. This is the boringest of sauces.
- deepnotderp 10y agoIt's not secret sauce, the algos are well known, read carefully, the guy who proposed it was an ML outsider. And besides, they stated they plan to release it.