Goals and collaboration on tasks

[alan-turing-institute]

Goals and collaboration on tasks

[gbohner]

Design decisions to discuss:

1. Data container (agnostic to specifics)
2. Task descriptions / Composition
3. Meta-learning (hyperparameter setting)
4. Model composition
5. Evaluation and diagnostics (simple set of available metrics, benchmarks, diagnostics plots)

[gbohner]

See the poster for a bit more details: https://github.com/alan-turing-institute/mlj/blob/master/material/MLJ-JuliaCon2018-poster.pdf

[dominusmi]

Design decisions to discuss:

1. Data container (agnostic to specifics)
2. Task descriptions / Composition
3. Meta-learning (hyperparameter setting)
4. Model composition
5. Evaluation and diagnostics (simple set of available metrics, benchmarks, diagnostics plots)

I think each of these deserves an issue otherwise it's going to be a bit of a mess on a single thread. We can also better set priority being set as independent

[ablaom]

Agenda for Machine Learning in Julia Kickoff meeting

• introductions; expressions of special interests within the project

• clarify the status of the mlj repo: what bits of code are known to be broken, etc

• to further that end, make a plan for getting some basic test
  code into "runtests.jl", and setting up Travis

• clarification of protocols and responsibility for managing the repo

• determine if there are any known obstacles to moving to Julia 0.7

• field feedback on Anthony's proposal for the package interface spec.

• draw up a list of other immediate priorities and tasks and,
  determine who will take responsibility for what.

• time permitting, a discussion of some intermediate-level design aspects:

  • lazy loading versus automatic loading of packages/interfaces

  • learning networks (aka pipelines, composite learners)

  • agnostic data containers

  Please take a look at this idea for conceptualization learning networks as "dynamic data" and this suggestion for supporting multiple data containers. Both suggestions
  are implemented in this proof-of-concept repo.

Anyone want to add something?