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"Periodic table of machine learning" could fuel AI discovery
- jmount 2y agoThe chart is mixing things that are very minor at scale (such as choosing Gaussian versus Student-T versus cross-entropy losses) and things that are major (such as representation). I'd say it is more like the notes one prepares for one's self when surveying things than a "periodic table" that explains which elements are similar and predicts missing elements.
- chriskanan 2y agoThat was my initial reaction as well, but I think that isn't fair upon looking more closely. Equation 1 of their paper is a unifying equation such that different choices for the terms result in the various classical and new algorithms. I still wouldn't call it a periodic table, though.
- throwawaymaths 2y agois this not just a table? What makes it periodic?
- LPisGood 2y agoThis always bothers me. I have never seen a “periodic table of _” that wasn’t just a funny shaped table. If there were actual patterns and multiple different things happening as you go down or to the right, etc it would be very well done.