
Generating and Videolizing Agglomerative Processes
- Vincent Granville
- April 17, 2023
This short article explains how to efficiently simulate the evolution of agglomerative processes, and visualize their behavior with data animations. I use a generic, simple model for illustration purposes: atoms, initially consisting of one electron, collide and merge over time, with a pre-specified maximum number of electrons per atom: the maximum limit. Given enough time, […]
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New Book on Synthetic Data: Version 3.0 Just Released
- Vincent Granville
- February 3, 2023
Update on March 3, 2023: Version 4.0 has been released and now replaces version 3.0 on the e-Store. It contains a new full chapter on enhanced generative adversarial networks (GANs) with comparison to copula-based methods for data synthetization, with illustrations on real-life datasets. The book has considerably grown since version 1.0. It started with synthetic […]
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Math-free, Parameter-free Gradient Descent in Python
- Vincent Granville
- January 28, 2023
Entitled “Math-free, Parameter-free Gradient Descent in Python”, the full version in PDF format is accessible in the “Free Books and Articles” section, here. I discuss techniques related to the gradient descent method in 2D. The goal is to find the minima of a target function, called the cost function. The values of the function are computed at […]
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New Interpolation Methods for Data Synthetization and Prediction
- Vincent Granville
- January 14, 2023
Entitled “New Interpolation Methods for Synthetization and Prediction”, the full version in PDF format is accessible in the “Free Books and Articles” section, here. This article is an extract from my book “Synthetic Data and Generative AI”, available here. I describe little-known original interpolation methods with applications to real-life datasets. These simple techniques are easy to implement and can […]
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Empirical Optimization with Divergent Fixed Point Algorithm – When All Else Fails
- Vincent Granville
- December 9, 2022
Entitled “Empirical Optimization with Divergent Fixed Point Algorithm – When All Else Fails”, the full version in PDF format is accessible in the “Free Books and Articles” section, here. Also discussed in details with Python code in my book “Synthetic Data”, available here. While the technique discussed here is a last resort solution when all else fails, it is […]
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Course: Synthetic Data and Interpretable Machine Learning
- Vincent Granville
- December 2, 2022
This live course is based on my book “Synthetic Data”, available here. Participants will receive a free copy of this book. The information below provides a brief overview of the course. To be notified about our next live classes, sign-up to our newsletter. Currently, the course is offered via our certification program, described here. Course Description […]
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New Book: Synthetic Data and Generative AI
- Vincent Granville
- November 28, 2022
Synthetic data is used more and more to augment real-life datasets, enriching them and allowing black-box systems to correctly classify observations or predict values that are well outside of training and validation sets. In addition, it helps understand decisions made by obscure systems such as deep neural networks, contributing to the development of explainable AI. […]
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Spectacular Videos: Synthetic Universes, with Star Collision Graph
- Vincent Granville
- November 19, 2022
Entitled “Spectacular Videos: Synthetic Universes, with Star Collision Graph”, the full version in PDF format is accessible in the “Free Books and Articles” section, here. Also discussed in details with Python code in my book “Synthetic Data”, available here. This project started as an attempt to generate simulations for the three-body problem in astronomy: studying the orbits of three […]
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Dynamic Clouds and Landscape Generation: Morphing and Evolutionary Processes
- Vincent Granville
- November 5, 2022
Entitled “Dynamic Clouds and Landscape Generation: Morphing and Evolutionary Processes”, the full version in PDF format is accessible in the “Free Books and Articles” section, here. Also discussed in details with Python code in my book “Synthetic Data”, available here. My previous article focused on map generation in 3D, and also features a fascinating video, see here. In this […]
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From 3D Contour Plots to AI-Generated Art
- Vincent Granville
- October 24, 2022
Fun tutorial to learn how to make professional contour plots in Python, with incredible animated visualizations. At the intersection of machine learning, scientific computing, automated art, cartography, and video games. Section 3 is particularly interesting, as it shows all the work behind the scene, to complete this project in 20 hours when you have no […]
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