[mlpack] Google Summer of Code 14

[Bhanukiran Vinzamuri]

Hi Ryan,
          Thanks a lot for your reply. I will send you my proposals asap. Basically I have gone through the optimers in MLPACK currently. I saw ADMM, SGD, LRSDP and LBFGS. I feel incorporating more advanced stochastic methods (SCD) and more recent ones into MLPACK would be interesting and not just simulated annealing. Do you think this would make a good GSOC project ? 

Regards
Bhanu

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ryan Curtin" <gth671b at mail.gatech.edu>
To: "Bhanukiran Vinzamuri" <bhanukiranv at wayne.edu>
Cc: mlpack at cc.gatech.edu
Sent: Sunday, March 2, 2014 9:03:46 PM
Subject: Re: [mlpack] Google Summer of Code 14

On Sat, Mar 01, 2014 at 05:15:08PM -0500, Bhanukiran Vinzamuri wrote:
> Hi,
> I am 2cnd year PHD student in Computer Science doing my research in
> the areas of optimization and machine learning for healthcare
> analytics. I am very interested in sending my proposals to you on two
> topics
> 
> 1) Simulated annealing optimizer with several extensions.
> 2) Large Margin Nearest Neighbor (LMNN) with LRSDP
> 
> Can you tell me which email id should I send them to receive feedback
> and consideration for GSOC 14.

Hi Bhanu,

You can send them to this mailing list, or because I would be the mentor
for this project, you can send them to me directly and I may give you a
little feedback.  To actually submit the application, you would do that
on the Melange website.

If you want to discuss project ideas, it is best to do that in public on
the list, for the benefit of others who might also be looking for
information on these projects.

Thanks,

Ryan

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