Google Summer of Code 2017 Projects

Google Summer of Code 2017

We applied are accepted to GSoC 2017. This page is our ideas page. See the follow up blog posts for how it went in the past.

First step to get involved: Read how to get involved, and that the best way is to solve entrance tasks. Note that we explicitly encourage female students to apply.

See here for the list of participating mentors and students.

Main focus

As in 2016, this year's GSoC is about improving and showcasing Shogun, rather than extending it (exceptions allowed). We mainly want to recruit new long-term developers.

This year, we would like to

• Focus on improving the existing: We want to improve our algorithms - easier use, efficiency, better documentation and more applications - rather than just adding more algorithms. We want to improve Shogun's core framework and the installation process.
• Focus on students: We aim to have fewer students (aiming at 3-4 core projects + 1-2 application projects!) - more intense mentoring, interaction between students, blogging and documenting for individual students.
• Focus on applications: We would like to use Shogun to solve some real life ML problems in a self-contained project. If you have a cool idea, let us know.

Joint efforts!

In addition to the technical project, all students will:

• add to our example/testing system: http://shogun.ml/examples
• peer-review a fellow student's work
• jointly help our ever growing issue list and work on a release
• contribute to our GSoC blog
• The low hanging fruit project

Projects

Project Ideas below are roughly ordered by priority and projects in bold type are more likely to happen.

• Shogun Detox II
• Efficient ML: The usual suspects II
• A Kaggle-style pipeline for supervised learning
• Applying Shogun to the real world
  • Election data analysis
  • More fancy web-demos
• SWIG interfaces: Matlab, Javascript, clean-ups

New Algorithms

Note that projects extending Shogun have a lower priority than projects improving Shogun. If you are really keen and can show that you are the right person, we might consider (max) one project here.

• Fundamental ML: LGSSMs
• Approximate kernel methods
• Large-Scale Gaussian Processes
• Hip Deep learning
• Density Estimation in Infinite Dimensional Exponential Families
• Large scale statistical testing
• HMM cleanup and application
• Solver for the KKT System
• Dual coordinate ascent solver for SO-SVM
• LP/QP Framework
• Debiasing & Cluster computing

Framework extensions

Again, If you are really keen and can show that you are the right person, we might consider (max) one project here.

• MCMC & Stan
• Flexible modelselection 2
• Independent jobs Framework
• Shogun cloud extensions
• REST interface

Our list of projects is a growing list.