Side quest: Check out my app here for turning in Java code. Log in with your credentials for class and submit to the Binary Tree assignment. If you need a file to
submit, here’s one that should work
Assignment: Create an auto-encoder for the Fashion MNIST dataset. If you get that working, add noise or dropout to the input images and see how well it reconstructs.
4/10/2025 (Thursday)
Notes on genetic algorithms and symbolic regression
Code up solution from handout and generate Fashion MNIST data
Note: the provided code is not compatible with Keras 3! Here’s a fix
5/7 (Wednesday)
Continue GANs
Fix code from last class
Implement a Deep Convolutional GAN solution to “FaceGAN”
Find your own face data. There are HUGE databases but I’m using 10,000 images of size 256x256 on the 4090 and that’s pretty much a reasonable size. So don’t get too much. Here’s some helper code to wrangle your data into folders