CSCE 970 (Spring 2017) Homework 1

Assigned Tuesday, January 24
Due Friday, February 3 at 11:59pm
Total points: 40

When you hand in your results from this homework, you should submit the following, in separate files:

1. A zip file called username1-username2.zip, where username1 and username2 are your team members' user names on cse. In this zip file, put the source code of your programs.
2. A single .pdf file with your writeup of the results for all the homework problems. Only pdf will be accepted, and you should only submit one pdf file, with the name username1-username2.pdf, where username1 and username2 are your team members' user names on cse. Include all your plots in this file, and all discussion.

Submit everything by the due date and time using the handin program.

On this homework, you must work with your homework partner.

1. MNIST For ML Beginners
2. Deep MNIST for Experts

Write a brief (1–2 page) report summarizing your results from these two tutorials. For the second tutorial, include a plot of test set loss versus training iteration, for every 100th training iteration. Were your results similar to what were expected by the tutorial? In particular, did dropout make any difference in your final results?

After finishing the second tutorial, run it again while varying the activation function used. Summarize the result of this test, with another plot of loss versus training iteration.