Knowledge Base Resources
These resources have been contributed and “vetted” by the community of cyberinfrastructure professionals (researchers, research computing facilitators, research software engineers and HPC system administrators) that are participating in programs such as this one, that are supported by the ConnectCI community management platform. Additional Knowledge Base Resources are always welcome!
DeapSECURE – Data-Enabled Advanced Computational Training Platform for Cybersecurity Research and Education
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DeapSECURE is a training program to infuse high-performance computational techniques into cybersecurity research and education. It is an NSF-funded project of the ODU School of Cybersecurity along with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Information Technology Services at ODU. The DeapSECURE team has developed six non-degree training modules to expose cybersecurity students to advanced CI platforms and techniques rooted in big data, machine learning, neural networks, and high-performance programming. Techniques taught in DeapSECURE workshops are rather general and transferable to other areas including science, engineering, finance, linguistics, etc. All lesson materials are made available as open-source educational resources.
Attention, Transformers, and LLMs: a hands-on introduction in Pytorch
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This workshop focuses on developing an understanding of the fundamentals of attention and the transformer architecture so that you can understand how LLMs work and use them in your own projects.
Introduction to Deep Learning in Pytorch
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This workshop series introduces the essential concepts in deep learning and walks through the common steps in a deep learning workflow from data loading and preprocessing to training and model evaluation. Throughout the sessions, students participate in writing and executing simple deep learning programs using Pytorch – a popular Python library for developing, training, and deploying deep learning models.
PyTorch for Deep Learning and Natural Language Processing
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PyTorch is a Python library that supports accelerated GPU processing for Machine Learning and Deep Learning. In this tutorial, I will teach the basics of PyTorch from scratch. I will then explore how to use it for some ML projects such as Neural Networks, Multi-layer perceptrons (MLPs), Sentiment analysis with RNN, and Image Classification with CNN.
Data Imputation Methods for Climate Data and Mortality Data
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This slices and videos introduced how to use K-Nearest-Neighbors method to impute climate data and how to use Bayesian Spatio-Temporal models in R-INLA to impute mortality data. The demos will be added soon.
Intro to Machine Learning on HPC
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This tutorial introduces machine learning on high performance computing (HPC) clusters. While it focuses on the HPC clusters at The University of Arizona, the content is generic enough that it can be used by students from other institutions.
Automated Machine Learning Book
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The authoritative book on automated machine learning, which allows practitioners without ML expertise to develop and deploy state-of-the-art machine learning approaches. Describes the background of techniques used in detail, along with tools that are available for free.
Machine Learning with sci-kit learn
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In the realm of Python-based machine learning, Scikit-Learn stands out as one of the most powerful and versatile tools available. This introductory post serves as a gateway to understanding Scikit-Learn through explanations of introductory ML concepts along with implementations examples in Python.
Implementing Markov Processes with Julia
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The following link provides an easy method of implementing Markov Decision Processes (MDP) in the Julia computing language. MDPs are a class of algorithms designed to handle stochastic situations where the actor has some level of control. For example, used at a low level, MDPs can be used to control an inverted pendulum, but applied in higher level decision making the can also decide when to take evasive action in air traffic management. MDPs can also be extended to the partially observable domain to form the Partially Observable Markov Decision Process (POMDP). This link contains a wealth of information to show one can easily implement basic POMDP and MDP algorithms and apply well known online and offline solvers.
Python Tools for Data Science
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Python has become a very popular programming language and software ecosystem for work in Data Science, integrating support for data access, data processing, modeling, machine learning, and visualization. In this webinar, we will describe some of the key Python packages that have been developed to support that work, and highlight some of their capabilities. This webinar will also serve as an introduction and overview of topics addressed in two Cornell Virtual Workshop tutorials, available at https://cvw.cac.cornell.edu/pydatasci1 and https://cvw.cac.cornell.edu/pydatasci2
Research Software Development in JupyterLab: A Platform for Collaboration Between Scientists and RSEs
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Iterative Programming takes place when you can explore your code and play with your objects and functions without needing to save, recompile, or leave your development environment. This has traditionally been achieved with a REPL or an interactive shell. The magic of Jupyter Notebooks is that the interactive shell is saved as a persistant document, so you don't have to flip back and forth between your code files and the shell in order to program iteratively.
There are several editors and IDE's that are intended for notebook development, but JupyterLab is a natural choice because it is free and open source and most closely related to the Jupyter Notebooks/iPython projects. The chief motivation of this repository is to enable an IDE-like development environment through the use of extensions. There are also expositional notebooks to show off the usefulness of these features.
AI powered VsCode Editor
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**Cursor: The AI-Powered Code Editor**
Cursor is a cutting-edge, AI-first code editor designed to revolutionize the way developers write, debug, and understand code. Built upon the premise of pair-programming with artificial intelligence, Cursor harnesses the capabilities of advanced AI models to offer real-time coding assistance, bug detection, and code generation.
**How Cursor Benefits High-Performance Computing (HPC) Work:**
1. **Efficient Code Development:** With AI-assisted code generation, researchers and developers in the HPC realm can quickly write optimized code for simulations, data processing, or modeling tasks, reducing the time to deployment.
2. **Debugging Assistance:** Handling complex datasets and simulations often lead to intricate bugs. Cursor's capability to automatically investigate errors and determine root causes can save crucial time in the HPC workflow.
3. **Tailored Code Suggestions:** Cursor's AI provides context-specific code suggestions by understanding the entire codebase. For HPC applications where performance is paramount, this means receiving recommendations that align with optimization goals.
4. **Improved Code Quality:** With AI-driven bug scanning and linter checks, Cursor ensures that HPC codes are not only fast but also robust and free of common errors.
5. **Easy Integration:** Being a fork of VSCode, Cursor allows seamless migration, ensuring that developers working in HPC can swiftly integrate their existing VSCode setups and extensions.
In essence, for HPC tasks that demand speed, precision, and robustness, Cursor acts as an invaluable co-pilot, guiding developers towards efficient and optimized coding solutions.
It is free if you provide your own OPEN AI API KEY.
AI Institutes Cyberinfrastructure Documents: SAIL Meeting
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Materials from the SAIL meeting (https://aiinstitutes.org/2023/06/21/sail-2023-summit-for-ai-leadership/). A space where AI researchers can learn about using ACCESS resources for AI applications and research.
Fairness and Machine Learning
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The "Fairness and Machine Learning" book offers a rigorous exploration of fairness in ML and is suitable for researchers, practitioners, and anyone interested in understanding the complexities and implications of fairness in machine learning.
Time-Series LSTMs Python Walkthrough
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A walkthrough (with a Google Colab link) on how to implement your own LSTM to observe time-dependent behavior.
An Introduction to the Julia Programming Language
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The Julia Programming Language is one of the fastest growing software languages for AI/ML development. It writes in manner that's similar to Python while being nearly as fast as C++, while being open source, and reproducible across platforms and environments. The following link provide an introduction to using Julia including the basic syntax, data structures, key functions, and a few key packages.
Active inference textbook
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This textbook is the first comprehensive treatment of active inference, an integrative perspective on brain, cognition, and behavior used across multiple disciplines including computational neurosciences, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and robotics. It was published in 2022 and it's open access at this time. The contents in this textbook should be educational to those who want to understand how the free energy principle is applied to the normative behavior of living organisms and who want to widen their knowledge of sequential decision making under uncertainty.
Factor Graphs and the Sum-Product Algorithm
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A tutorial paper that presents a generic message-passing algorithm, the sum-product algorithm, that operates in a factor graph. Following a single, simple computational rule, the sum-product algorithm computes either exactly or approximately various marginal functions derived from the global function. A wide variety of algorithms developed in artificial intelligence, signal processing, and digital communications can be derived as specific instances of the sum-product algorithm, including the forward/backward algorithm, the Viterbi algorithm, the iterative "turbo" decoding algorithm, Pearl's (1988) belief propagation algorithm for Bayesian networks, the Kalman filter, and certain fast Fourier transform (FFT) algorithms
fast.ai
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Fastai offers many tools to people working with machine learning and artifical intelligence including tutorials on PyTorch in addition to their own library built on PyTorch, news articles, and other resources to dive into this realm.
What is fairness in ML?
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This article discusses the importance of fairness in machine learning and provides insights into how Google approaches fairness in their ML models.
The article covers several key topics:
Introduction to fairness in ML: It provides an overview of why fairness is essential in machine learning systems, the potential biases that can arise, and the impact of biased models on different communities.
Defining fairness: The article discusses various definitions of fairness, including individual fairness, group fairness, and disparate impact. It explains the challenges in achieving fairness due to trade-offs and the need for thoughtful considerations.
Addressing bias in training data: It explores how biases can be present in training data and offers strategies to identify and mitigate these biases. Techniques like data preprocessing, data augmentation, and synthetic data generation are discussed.
Fairness in ML algorithms: The article examines the potential biases that can arise from different machine learning algorithms, such as classification and recommendation systems. It highlights the importance of evaluating and monitoring models for fairness throughout their lifecycle.
Fairness tools and resources: It showcases various tools and resources available to practitioners and developers to help measure, understand, and mitigate bias in machine learning models. Google's TensorFlow Extended (TFX) and What-If Tool are mentioned as examples.
Google's approach to fairness: The article highlights Google's commitment to fairness and the steps they take to address fairness challenges in their ML models. It mentions the use of fairness indicators, ongoing research, and partnerships to advance fairness in AI.
Overall, the article provides a comprehensive overview of fairness in machine learning and offers insights into Google's approach to building fair ML models.
What are LSTMs?
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This reading will explain what a long short-term memory neural network is. LSTMs are a type of neural networks that rely on both past and present data to make decisions about future data. It relies on loops back to previous data to make such decisions. This makes LSTMs very good for predicting time-dependent behavior.
AI for improved HPC research - Cursor and Termius - Powerpoint
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These slides provide an introduction on how Termius and Cursor, two new and freemium apps that use AI to perform more efficient work, can be used for faster HPC research.
Probabilistic Semantic Data Association for Collaborative Human-Robot Sensing
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Humans cannot always be treated as oracles for collaborative sensing. Robots thus need to maintain beliefs over unknown world states when receiving semantic data from humans, as well as account for possible discrepancies between human-provided data and these beliefs. To this end, this paper introduces the problem of semantic data association (SDA) in relation to conventional data association problems for sensor fusion. It then, develops a novel probabilistic semantic data association (PSDA) algorithm to rigorously address SDA in general settings. Simulations of a multi-object search task show that PSDA enables robust collaborative state estimation under a wide range of conditions.
A visual introduction to Gaussian Belief Propagation
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This website is an interactive introduction to Gaussian Belief Propagation (GBP). A probabilistic inference algorithm that operates by passing messages between the nodes of arbitrarily structured factor graphs. A special case of loopy belief propagation, GBP updates rely only on local information and will converge independently of the message schedule. The key argument is that, given recent trends in computing hardware, GBP has the right computational properties to act as a scalable distributed probabilistic inference framework for future machine learning systems.
InsideHPC
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InsideHPC is an informational site offers videos, research papers, articles, and other resources focused on machine learning and quantum computing among other topics within high performance computing.