Title: IDE Support for Machine Learning Programming
Time: 10:00-11:00, Octomber 17 Wednesday,2018
Location: Room 201, Math Building
Lecturer: Julian Dolby IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center. America
Abstract:
Machine learning has transformed domains like vision and translation, and is now increasingly used in science, where the correctness of such code is vital. Python is popular for machine learning, in part because of its wealth of machine learning libraries, and is felt to make development faster; however, this dynamic language has less support for error detection at code creation time than tools like Eclipse. This is especially problematic for machine learning: given its statistical nature, code with subtle errors may run and produce results that look plausible but are meaningless. This can vitiate scientific results.