The Noisy Hypernym A word is a commonality at the intersection of multiple meanings. A hypernym can be thought of as a superset of any given word. For instance, ‘animal’ would be a hypernym of cat, dog, walrus, and of course, dung beetle. Examples of hypernyms from wordnet: bay: {‘hypernyms’:…
The Assignation of the Labels
The assignation of the labels is what tells the network what you’re trying to teach it. Not the more granular features that constitute the reason that this particular input has the label and that one over there doesn’t, but the one-level-up-in-abstraction label. It isn’t the two eyes, the nose, the…
Pattern Recognition
On Classes and Instances Are there any concepts that could be of use in suggesting how machine learning could understand and convey meaning? I think there are: repetition and generalization. In the words of the great Philosopher Charles Barkley, I may be wrong, but I doubt it. I think perception…