About: RLScore - regularized least-squares machine learning algorithms package

Initial Announcement on mloss.org.

About: RLPy is a framework for performing reinforcement learning (RL) experiments in Python. RLPy provides a large library of agent and domain components, and a suite of tools to aid in experiments (parallelization, hyperparameter optimization, code profiling, and plotting).

• Fixed bug where results using same random seed were different with visualization turned on/off
• Created RLPy package on pypi (Available at https://pypi.python.org/pypi/rlpy)
• Switched from custom logger class to python default
• Added unit tests
• Code readability improvements (formatting, variable names/ordering)
• Restructured TD Learning heirarchy
• Updated tutorials

About: A collection of python code to perform research in optimization. The aim is to provide reusable components that can be quickly applied to machine learning problems. Used in: - Ellipsoidal multiple instance learning - difference of convex functions algorithms for sparse classfication - Contextual bandits upper confidence bound algorithm (using GP) - learning output kernels, that is kernels between the labels of a classifier.

• minor bugfix

About: HDDM is a python toolbox for hierarchical Bayesian parameter estimation of the Drift Diffusion Model (via PyMC). Drift Diffusion Models are used widely in psychology and cognitive neuroscience to study decision making.

• New and improved HDDM model with the following changes:
  • Priors: by default model will use informative priors (see http://ski.clps.brown.edu/hddm_docs/methods.html#hierarchical-drift-diffusion-models-used-in-hddm) If you want uninformative priors, set informative=False.
  • Sampling: This model uses slice sampling which leads to faster convergence while being slower to generate an individual sample. In our experiments, burnin of 20 is often good enough.
  • Inter-trial variablity parameters are only estimated at the group level, not for individual subjects.
  • The old model has been renamed to HDDMTransformed.
  • HDDMRegression and HDDMStimCoding are also using this model.
• HDDMRegression takes patsy model specification strings. See http://ski.clps.brown.edu/hddm_docs/howto.html#estimate-a-regression-model and http://ski.clps.brown.edu/hddm_docs/tutorial_regression_stimcoding.html#chap-tutorial-hddm-regression
• Improved online documentation at http://ski.clps.brown.edu/hddm_docs
• A new HDDM demo at http://ski.clps.brown.edu/hddm_docs/demo.html
• Ratcliff's quantile optimization method for single subjects and groups using the .optimize() method
• Maximum likelihood optimization.
• Many bugfixes and better test coverage.
• hddm_fit.py command line utility is depracated.