CSC 503/SENG 474: 2

Posted 2021-09-07 3xy0x6yy

Due on: Friday, JUNE 25th at 23:59 PST
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This assignment consists of 4 problems. Some are intended only for graduate students (those
taking CSC 503), and are labelled as such. Some contain bonus sections: you can use bonus points
to improve your overall homework score. Bonus points cannot be transferred to other assignments or
the final project. Any graduate-level problem counts as a bonus problem for undergraduate students.
Some problems are purposefully open-ended. Whatever you think the correct answer is, make
sure to support it with code and data.
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Problem 1. The American Handwriting [40 points]
The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology collected digital images of the digits written
by high school students and the U.S. Census Bureau employees over the years. These images serve
as the basis of the extremely popular MNIST dataset that is commonly used to benchmark machine
learning classifiers.
Wouldn’t it be a good idea to play with that dataset? To do so, install Keras and load the MNIST
dataset as follows:
from keras.datasets import mnist
(train_X, train_y), (test_X, test_y) = mnist.load_data()
Now, let’s see how we can use neural networks to classify these images.

1. [Derivative; 5 points] Calculate the gradient of the softmax function:
   f(x)i =
   exi∑
   j e
   x
   j
2. [Simple; 10 points] Implement a simple one-layered neural network from scratch (using only
   NumPy). The implementation should include the forward propagation (i.e. prediction), and
   the backpropagation-powered gradient descent for training the network. Feel free to select
   the number of nodes in the hidden layer yourself (it must be, however, greater than 10; the
   recommended value is 128). Each hidden node should use the sigmoid activation function.
   The output layer should use the softmax activation function to produce the final 10 values
   (probabilities of each digit). You can use either classical or stochastic gradient descent. Learning
   rate and the number of iterations are also up to you; you can experiment with {0.001, 0.01, 0.1}
   to get a sense of the best learning rate.
   Plot the network’s accuracy (or error) on test data as the number of iterations increases. Does
   it keep raising (falling) with the number of gradient descent iterations?
3. [Keras; 5 points] Now use Keras to model and train the exact same network. Faster, slower?
   Better?
4. [ReLU; 5 points] This time, use the ReLU activation functions instead of the sigmoids. What
   happens?
5. [Dropout; 5 points] Now add two hidden layers. You should end up with a three-layer deep
   neural network. Use Keras to model the network and add dropout to each layer. Further-
   more, use L2 regularization for the training objective. Use cross-validation to select the best
   regularization and dropout hyperparameters. How much improvement did you get?
6. [Convolution; 5 points] Use Keras to model and train a simple convolutional network with
   one convolutional layer, one pooling layer, and one fully connected layer. You are free to pick
   any hyperparameters you want: play with the data and provide some justification behind your
   hyperparameter selection. How much improvement did you get, if any?
7. [Mugshots; 5 points] Display nine images of your choice that were consistently misclassified
   by all of the above models (if there are no such images, pick at least those that were mis-
   classified most of the time). You can plot an image via matplotlib.pyplot.imshow(image,
   cmap=’gray’). Would you be able to classify those images yourself or not? Why?
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   It goes without saying: for each model, provide the corresponding training and test errors with
   the metrics of your choice.
   Bonus [5 points]: Use the leaky ReLU activation function for your artisan neural network you
   made from scratch ([Simple]). Any improvements?
   Problem 2. Support machines [20 points]
   We have seen in the class how to use support vector machines to perform binary classification. Let’s
   now see how they work in practice by playing with the sklearn’s SVM implementation.
8. [Hard; 5 points] Select all images corresponding to ones and sevens from the MNIST dataset,
   and train a hard-margin SVM classifier that classifies if an image depicts 1 or 7. How good is
   it? Can it even be done?
9. [Soft; 5 points] Now train a soft-margin SVM classifier for the same problem. Use cross-
   validation to select the best value of C. Did you achieve better results?
10. [Kernel; 5 points] Try the following kernels with the best soft-margin model and see which
    one is the best:
    (a) polynomial kernel of various degrees;
    (b) Gaussian kernel with various values of σ (also known as radial basis function kernel); and
    (c) linear kernel.
    So far, we’ve only used SVMs for binary for binary classification. But did you know that they can
    be used for multiclass classification as well? One common way to do it is by using all-vs-all (AVA)
    classification trick: train n(n? 1) binary classifiers fi,j that distinguish between the pairs of classes
    i and j (if you have, of course, n different classes). Then, you can classify an example x as:
    f(x) = arg max
    i
    ∑
    j
    fi,j(x).
11. [AVA; 5 points] Use the best-performing SVM model thus far to implement the multiclass
    AVA classification for all digits at once. Once done, plot the confusion matrix (heatmap) of all
    n2 classifiers.
    Again, for each model, make sure to provide the training and test errors in the metrics of your
    choice.
    Problem 3. Pigs, begone! [20 points]
    Let’s get rid of those annoying spam texts! First, get the SMS dataset from https://archive.ics.
    uci.edu/ml/machine-learning-databases/00228/. This dataset consists of short SMS messages
    and their class (spam or ham, where ham is not spam).
    Represent each message as a bag of words, and use these bags of words to train your Na ive Bayes
    classifier to predict if a message is a spam or not.
    Use 70/30% split for the training/test data. How good is your simple classifier?
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    Problem 4. Uber-SVM [20 points; only for CSC 503]
    Sometimes it is worth using different slack variables for different classes in the soft-margin SVM
    formulation. For example, we will use this trick if the datasets are not balanced, or if it is more
    important to correctly classify one class instead of the other. More formally, for a binary classification
    problem between two classes + and ?, we would like to optimize the following function:
    min
    w,b
    1
    2‖w‖
12. • C+
      ∑
      i: yi is +
      ξi + C?
      ∑
      i: yi is ?
      ξi
      such that yi(w>xi + b) ≥ 1 ? ξi and ξi ≥ 0 for any i. Your job is to derive the Lagrangian dual
      formulation of this problem.
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