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Sparse Sampling

Last edited: August 8, 2025

Same core algorithm as Forward Search, but instead of calculating a utility based on the action-value over all possible next states, you make \(m\) different samples of next state, action, and reward, and average them

sparsity

Last edited: August 8, 2025

A bunch of matricies could be sparse; for fluid dynamics, for instance, has a \(10^{6} \times 10^{6}\) matrix, but may only have \(7 \times 10^{6}\) non-zero entries; but the inverse could be fully dense!

In these cases, we almost never want to form a in inverse if needed.

If we really need to invert this, performing a LU-Factorization is going to be a very good idea.

Speech Feature Extraction

Last edited: August 8, 2025
  • take audio

  • calculate Mel Scale representation

  • apply a series of Filter Banks which attenuates the input to highlight groups of frequencies

  • we then run a discrete-cosine transform to obtain MFCCs, because much of the output results will still correlate with each other

Speech Processing Index

Last edited: August 8, 2025

Group Meetings

spinal tap

Last edited: August 8, 2025

A spinal tap is a medical procedure whereby cerebralspinal fluid is collected by puncturing the lumbar; used to diagnose problems where biomakers from the brain are needed.