GSoC 2014 results

Discussion

• review code: by top level directory -- problems/risks per directory -- periodically recheck sections
• roadmap -- construction sites -- upcoming construction sites
• preparing release
• Matlab/octave bindings
• macports, homebrew, ubuntu, debian
• swig, cmake: update dependencies
• port algorithms to new linalg interface
• integrate Björn
• use more micro-libraries
• consolidate (?) vector, stack, matrix, list, array
• wikipedia page updaten
• exception handling

TODOs for 2014

• Foundation
• Steuerdings
• Blog entry for SoC
• Release
• integrate Wu Lin
• integrate Abinash
• integrate Khaled
• contact all SoC students (and mentors!)
• Money for hackathon in London (Heiko)

GSoC 2015 -- Heiko creates admin section -- less projects, more skilled people -- Heiko creates blog entry -- show things

Brainstorming GSoC 2015 projects

• roter Faden: -- coole Anwendungen -- Dokumentation -- weniger Fokus auf Algorithmen
• dense/sparse (x) streaming/bulk
• Fernando/Heiko: bindings to stan
• Fundamental ML algorithms
• Recommendations (ideas, Thoralf) -- PCA/Matrix Factorization/... -- incomplete SVD -- Music Brains (ask Heiko) -- ResearchGate (maybe benchmark data?)
• SHOGUN Quickstart/Binary
• using SHOGUN as a tool
• Theo/Sergey: Deep Learning II
• Fast Foot (Kernel Methods)
• Random Features, Random Kitchen Sink
• Incomplete Choleski
• Min Count Sketch, Hashing Tricks
• Kernel Testing: Rahul==Lambday
• Independent Jobs (Viktor)
• Graph Kernels

Mentors

• Thoralf/Shell
• Heiko
• Fernando
• Sergey/Theo
• Dino
• ask Emti about students
• Andreas Zieher
• Heiko asks Li Song
• Lambday==Rahul
• Jackeline
• Marius Kloft
• John Langford (Vowpal)
• Ulf Brefeld
• Viktor
• Heiko asks Karsten Borgward
• Kevin

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Action items:

• remove migration stuff
• remove grid search (update webapp)
• model selection search into gp class
• remove integration tests
• parameter framework: ...
• deprecated code finden (flag)
• legacy code finden (missing tests)

Midterm/longterm:

• what about equals? Serialization?
• reader/writer fixes
• Debian packets
• automate vertical cuts
• windows build

CRITICAL:

• build bot
• nightly builds
• mac builds
• user care

Ideas:

• website/documentation/wiki
• roadmap
• priority list (with date)
• performance better than scikit
• no pthread code in classes