I once attended an engineering leadership meeting in my company where the topic was how best to allocate support from our most experienced technical contributors, staff and principal engineers. As a manager for a machine learning team my reaction was mixe... (more…)

Classes previously only available to Amazon employees will now be available to the community. (more…)

This paper surveys the machine learning literature and presents in an optimization framework several commonly used machine learning approaches. Particularly, mathematical optimization models are presented for regression, classification, clustering, deep l... (more…)

The paper "Unsupervised Learning of Visual Representations by Solving Jigsaw Puzzles" describes a convolutional neural network (CNN) that aims to solve a pretext task, solving Jigsaw puzzles without manual labelling, and then to solve object classificatio... (more…)

Having been at the forefront of machine learning since the 1980s when I was a staff scientist in the Theoretical Division at Los Alamos performing basic re... (more…)