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#70 - LETITIA PARCALABESCU - Symbolics, Linguistics [UNPLUGGED]

Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST)

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X G Boost Is a Symbolic Learner and Works Better Than Deep Learning

The most naive conceptions of what it means to be symbolic are that there are variables or discreet structures in your system. Pedro domingo's made this very interesting post on twitter, x g boost is a symbolic learner and works better than deep learning for most problems. Garry said in his article that simply having symbols and processing them algebraically are two different things. It's the processing part which allows us to robustly deal with abstractions in novel situations.

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