Classroom Demonstration: Deep Learning for Classification and Prediction, Introduction to GPU Computing

• Activity Number: 181 - Contributed Poster Presentations: Section on Statistical Education
• Type: Contributed
• Date/Time: Monday, July 30, 2018 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
• Sponsor: Section on Statistical Education
• Author(s): Eric Suess*
• Companies: CSU East Bay
• Keywords: Artificial Neural Networks; Deep Learning; Classification; Prediction; parallel processing; GPU computing

Abstract

We present examples of the use of basic Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) for introductory Statistics classes at the undergraduate, major and first year graduate classes. Because of the available packages in R, ANNs are easily included in the discussion of Statistics classes as alternative methods to logistic regression and linear regression.

With the increases in computational power (parallel computation on CPUs, parallel computation on GPUs, TPUs, and NPUs, and with increases in RAM) Deep Learning has become possible. With the newer packages in R to connect to h2O, tensorflow, and keras, implementing Deep Learning is possible.

We present examples for running ANNs and Deep Learning in Statistics classes with discussion of the similarities and differences between traditional Statistical Methods and Deep Learning.