About: Bob is a free signal-processing and machine learning toolbox originally developed by the Biometrics group at Idiap Research Institute, in Switzerland.

Bob 1.2.0 comes about 1 year after we released Bob 1.0.0. This new release comes with a big set of new features and lots of changes under the hood to make your experiments run even smoother. Some statistics:

Diff URL: https://github.com/idiap/bob/compare/v1.1.4...HEAD Commits: 629 Files changed: 954 Contributors: 7

Here is a quick list of things you should pay attention for while integrating your satellite packages against Bob 1.2.x:

• The LBP module had its API changed look at the online docs for more details
• LLRTrainer has been renamed to CGLogRegTrainer
• The order in which you pass data to CGLogRegTrainer has been inverted (negatives now go first)
• For C++ bindings, includes are in bob/python instead of bob/core/python
• All specialized Bob exceptions are gone, if you were catching them, most have been cast into std::runtime_error's

For a detailed list of changes and additions, please look at our Changelog page for this release and minor updates:

https://github.com/idiap/bob/wiki/Changelog-from-1.1.4-to-1.2 https://github.com/idiap/bob/wiki/Changelog-from-1.2.0-to-1.2.1 https://github.com/idiap/bob/wiki/Changelog-from-1.2.1-to-1.2.2

About: Lua-MapReduce framework implemented in Lua using luamongo driver and MongoDB as storage. It follows Iterative MapReduce for training of Machine Learning statistical models.

• Updated to work with luamongo v0.5.0, which uses C++ driver legacy-1.1.0

About: pyGPs is a Python package for Gaussian process (GP) regression and classification for machine learning.

Changelog pyGPs v1.3.2

December 15th 2014

• pyGPs added to pip
• mathematical definitions of kernel functions available in documentation
• more error message added

About: FABIA is a biclustering algorithm that clusters rows and columns of a matrix simultaneously. Consequently, members of a row cluster are similar to each other on a subset of columns and, analogously, members of a column cluster are similar to each other on a subset of rows. Biclusters are found by factor analysis where both the factors and the loading matrix are sparse. FABIA is a multiplicative model that extracts linear dependencies between samples and feature patterns. Applications include detection of transcriptional modules in gene expression data and identification of haplotypes/>identity by descent< consisting of rare variants obtained by next generation sequencing.

CHANGES IN VERSION 2.8.0

NEW FEATURES

o rescaling of lapla
o extractPlot does not plot sorted matrices

CHANGES IN VERSION 2.4.0

o spfabia bugfixes

CHANGES IN VERSION 2.3.1

NEW FEATURES

o Getters and setters for class Factorization

2.0.0:

• spfabia: fabia for a sparse data matrix (in sparse matrix format) and sparse vector/matrix computations in the code to speed up computations. spfabia applications: (a) detecting >identity by descent< in next generation sequencing data with rare variants, (b) detecting >shared haplotypes< in disease studies based on next generation sequencing data with rare variants;
• fabia for non-negative factorization (parameter: non_negative);
• changed to C and removed dependencies to Rcpp;
• improved update for lambda (alpha should be smaller, e.g. 0.03);
• introduced maximal number of row elements (lL);
• introduced cycle bL when upper bounds nL or lL are effective;
• reduced computational complexity;
• bug fixes: (a) update formula for lambda: tighter approximation, (b) corrected inverse of the conditional covariance matrix of z;

1.4.0:

• New option nL: maximal number of biclusters per row element;
• Sort biclusters according to information content;
• Improved and extended preprocessing;
• Update to R2.13

About: A fast and scalable graph-based clustering algorithm based on the eigenvectors of the nonlinear 1-Laplacian.

• improved optimization of ncut and rcut criterion
• optimized eigenvector initialization
• changed default values for number of runs
• several internal optimizations
• made console output more informative

About: JProGraM (PRObabilistic GRAphical Models in Java) is a statistical machine learning library. It supports statistical modeling and data analysis along three main directions: (1) probabilistic graphical models (Bayesian networks, Markov random fields, dependency networks, hybrid random fields); (2) parametric, semiparametric, and nonparametric density estimation (Gaussian models, nonparanormal estimators, Parzen windows, Nadaraya-Watson estimator); (3) generative models for random networks (small-world, scale-free, exponential random graphs, Fiedler random graphs/fields), subgraph sampling algorithms (random walk, snowball, etc.), and spectral decomposition.

JProGraM 13.2 -- CHANGE LOG

Release date: February 13, 2012

New features: -- Support for Fiedler random graphs/random field models for large-scale networks (ninofreno.graph.fiedler package); -- Various bugfixes and enhancements (especially in the ninofreno.graph and ninofreno.math package).

About: Caffe aims to provide computer vision scientists with a clean, modifiable implementation of state-of-the-art deep learning algorithms. We believe that Caffe is the fastest available GPU CNN implementation. Caffe also provides seamless switching between CPU and GPU, which allows one to train models with fast GPUs and then deploy them on non-GPU clusters. Even in CPU mode, computing predictions on an image takes only 20 ms (in batch mode).

LOTS of stuff: https://github.com/BVLC/caffe/releases/tag/v0.9999

About: Bayesian Additive Regression Trees

Fetched by r-cran-robot on 2018-09-01 00:00:04.269138

About: Orange is a component-based machine learning and data mining software. It includes a friendly yet powerful and flexible graphical user interface for visual programming. For more advanced use(r)s, [...]

The core of the system (except the GUI) no longer includes any GPL code and can be licensed under the terms of BSD upon request. The graphical part remains under GPL.

Changed the BibTeX reference to the paper recently published in JMLR MLOSS.

About: VR

Fetched by r-cran-robot on 2009-10-03 07:16:05.643423

About: Generalised Stirling Numbers for Pitman-Yor Processes: this library provides ways of computing generalised 2nd-order Stirling numbers for Pitman-Yor and Dirichlet processes. Included is a tester and parameter optimiser. This accompanies Buntine and Hutter's article: http://arxiv.org/abs/1007.0296, and a series of papers by Buntine and students at NICTA and ANU.

Moved repository to GitHub, and added thread support to use the main table lookups in multi-threaded code.

About: FLANN is a library for performing fast approximate nearest neighbor searches in high dimensional spaces. It contains a collection of algorithms we found to work best for nearest neighbor search.

See project page for changes.

About: Logic Regression

Fetched by r-cran-robot on 2013-04-01 00:00:06.139495

About: Optunity is a library containing various optimizers for hyperparameter tuning. Hyperparameter tuning is a recurrent problem in many machine learning tasks, both supervised and unsupervised.This package provides several distinct approaches to solve such problems including some helpful facilities such as cross-validation and a plethora of score functions.

This minor release has the same feature set as Optunity 1.1.0, but incorporates several bug fixes, mostly related to the specification of structured search spaces.

About: Regularization for semiparametric additive hazards regression

Fetched by r-cran-robot on 2018-09-01 00:00:03.378832

About: A thin Python3 wrapper that uses the javabridge Python library to communicate with a Java Virtual Machine executing Weka API calls.

• upgraded to Weka 3.9.2
• properly initializing package support now, rather than adding package jars to classpath
• added weka.core.ClassHelper Java class for obtaining classes and static fields, as javabridge only uses the system class loader

About: OpenViBE is an opensource platform that enables to design, test and use Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCI). Broadly speaking, OpenViBE can be used in many real-time Neuroscience applications [...]

New release 0.8.0.

About: "Pattern" is a web mining module for Python. It bundles tools for data retrieval, text analysis, clustering and classification, and data visualization.

• Small bug fixes in overall + performance improvements.
• Module pattern.web: updated to the new Bing API (Bing API has is paid service now).
• Module pattern.en: now includes Norvig's spell checking algorithm.
• Module pattern.de: new German tagger/chunker, courtesy of Schneider & Volk (1998) who kindly agreed to release their work in Pattern under BSD.
• Module pattern.search: the search syntax now includes { } syntax to define match groups.
• Module pattern.vector: fast implementation of information gain for feature selection.
• Module pattern.graph: now includes a toy semantic network of commonsense (see examples).
• Module canvas.js: image pixel effects & editor now supports live editing

About: Generalized linear and additive models by likelihood based boosting

Fetched by r-cran-robot on 2013-04-01 00:00:04.893311