000 ece, Selected Topics in Machine Learning – Assignment 2
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004 tldr: Perform binary classification on the spirals dataset using a multi-layer 005 perceptron. You must generate the data yourself.
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008 Problem Statement Consider a set of examples with two classes and distributions as
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018 Impose an L2 penalty on the set of parameters. Produce one plot. Show the
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021 of suitable visual quality. It may be difficult to to find an appropriate functional 022 form for f, write a few sentences discussing your various attempts.
