Deep Learning, deeplearning4j and Outlier Detection: Talks at Trivadis Tech Event

Last weekend, another edition of Trivadis Tech Event took place. As usual, it was great fun and a great source of inspiration.
I had the occasion to talk about deep learning twice: One talk was an intro to DL4J (deeplearning4j), zooming in on a few aspects I’ve found especially nice and useful while trying to provide a general introduction to deep learning at the same time. The audience was great, and the framework really is fun to work with, so this was a totally pleasant experience! Here are the slides, and here’s the example code.

The second talk was a joint session with my colleague Olaf on outlier / anomaly detection. We covered both ML and DL algorithms. For DL, I focused on variational autoencoders, the special challenge being to successfully apply the algorithm to datasets other than MNIST… and especially, datasets with a mix of categorical and continuous variables of different scale. As I say in the habitual “conclusion” slide, I don’t think I’ve arrived at a conclusion yet… any comments / suggestions are very welcome! Here’s the VAE presentation on RPubs, and here on github.
Thanks for reading!