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Welcome to Hippocampus's Garden, a Shion Honda's blog. I regularly write about machine learning, statistics, programming, and my hobbies.
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Stats with Python: Unbiased Variance

January 17, 2021  |  6 min read

What is unbiased sample variance? Why divide by n-1? With a little programming with Python, it's easier to understand.

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Creating a Face Swapping Model in 10 Minutes

January 13, 2021  |  3 min read

Let's re-inplement face swapping in 10 minutes! This post shows a naive solution using a pre-trained CNN and OpenCV.

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NeurIPS 2020 Favorite Papers

January 10, 2021  |  6 min read

NeurIPS 2020 virtual conference was full of exciting presentations! Here I list some notable ones with brief introductions.

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Best Machine Learning Papers of 2020

January 02, 2021  |  12 min read

Let's look back on the machine learning papers published in 2020! This post covers 10 representative papers that I found interesting and worth reading.

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How I Built 🍣This Sushi Does Not Exist🍣

December 19, 2020  |  3 min read

Lightweight GAN has opened the way for generating fine images with ~100 training samples and affordable computing resources. This post presents "This Sushi Does Not Exist" and how I built it with GAE.

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Custom Objective for LightGBM

November 22, 2020  |  6 min read

If you want to use a custom loss function with a modern GBDT model, you'll need the first- and second-order derivatives. This post shows how to implement them, using LightGBM as an example

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A Deeper Look at ROC-AUC

November 15, 2020  |  4 min read

How come ROC-AUC is equal to the probability of a positive sample ranked higher than negative ones? This post provides an answer with a fun example.

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油そばを作るのに最適な袋麺はどれか

November 03, 2020  |  4 min read

袋麺で油そばを作りたくて試行錯誤した結果をまとめました。Optunaは使用しておりません。

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Transformers Now: A Survey of Recent Advances

November 02, 2020  |  10 min read

Transformer has undergone various application studies, model enhancements, etc. This post aims to provide an overview of these studies.

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