[mlpack] Applying GSoC project

[zhijie he]

Hi Ryan,

Thank you for your reply.

CF project is difficult for me since I don't have the domain knowledge
about CF. So I change to the improvement of tree traversers project:)

Currently I am trying to get familiar with the source code. Could you tell
me how to generate the profile data about the number of base case
computations? I enabled the profile option when complied mlpack. But I only
find how many nodes are pruned in the output when running the knn example.

Thanks.

Best Regards,
Zhijie


2013/4/9 Ryan Curtin <gth671b at mail.gatech.edu>

> On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 12:37:22PM +0800, zhijie he wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am Zhijie He, a master candidate at National University of Singapore.
> My
> > research interest is natural language processing and machine learning. I
> > will gradate this May, so I have a lot of time to do the GSoC project.
> >
> > I am interested in developing a collaborative filtering package for
> mlpack.
> > I was wondering before submit my application, do I have to do some other
> > things like submit a patch for mlpack? Do you have other requirements for
> > the applicants?
>
> Hello Zhijie (and Salman who had nearly the same question),
>
> The collaborative filtering project is as much of a research project as
> it is an implementation project.  As the description says, the project
> entails researching what the state-of-the-art is in CF and implementing
> it, with an emphasis on scalability.  It is a somewhat open-ended
> project, so a good application for that project should already have CF
> domain knowledge and ideas for what exactly could be implemented.
>
> You are welcome to submit patches to mlpack if you find bugs, but that
> is not necessary for a GSoC application.
>
> Hopefully this information is helpful.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ryan
>
> --
> Ryan Curtin       | "I am the luckiest man alive!"
> ryan at igglybob.com |   - General Borzov
>
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