We compare the performance of adding a batch normalisation layer to a convolution neural network (CNN). For this we use the results from a previous post on creating a CNN for fashion MNIST data:

In this post we will build a Convolution Neural Network (CNN) in order to classify images from the fashion MNIST dataset. CNNs are commonly used with image data to efficiently exploit spatial relationships between nearby pixels.

Here we explore the theoretical coefficient distributions from a linear regression model. When fitting a regression model we can get estimates for the standard deviation of the coefficients. We use bootstrapping to get an empiracle distribution of the regression coefficients to compare against those distributions.

Parquet files are a columinar data format we can use to store dataframes. They can be stored in partitions, which can allow us to load only a subset of the data. This is useful is we are filtering the data, as we can do that without loading it all into memory.

This follows on from the previous post on fitting a gaussian distribution with pyro: Fitting a Distribution with Pyro