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Massive Sets of Heuristics

The MASH project investigates the design of complex learning systems to increase the performance of artificial intelligence. To create such systems, we want to involve large groups of contributors from as many fields and backgrounds as possible, to program large and heterogeneous families of feature extraction modules.

Performance will be measured on action selection with a robotic arm and in a simulated 3d environment, and object detection.

Research activity will be organized on this web platform which will be fully operational in the coming weeks. Anybody with some knowledge in C++ is strongly encouraged to participate, whatever her or his background and expertise are. You can not hurt the system by getting involved but only improve it, so do not hesitate to contribute or contact us.

This project is funded by the Information and Communication Technologies division of the European Commission, Cognitive Systems and Robotics unit, under the 7th Research Framework Program. The sub-project VELASH on object detection is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.

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Latest news

Future platform development

2010-09-01 11:22:34 by Kanma

Here is the list of things we are currently working on to improve the contributor experience:
  • An evaluation mechanism for newly-uploaded heuristics. This will give contributors an immediate feedback on the usefulness of their work in various scenarios. A first version of this system is already available.
  • Based on this evaluation, a ranking of the heuristics.
  • Display detailed informations when a heuristic crash (or is considered problematic by the platform). This will help you to debug your heuristics.
  • Display more detailed experiment results (for instance: a ROC curve, the worst mistakes, ...).
  • Add more experiment types (object detection and goal-planning).
  • Permanently run public experiments using the public heuristics.
Stay tuned!

MASH SDK 0.7.0 Released

2010-09-01 11:05:51 by Kanma

New version of the SDK! Existing heuristics don't need to be rewritten.

This version is essentially a maintenance release, but to keep its version number in sync with those of our internal tools, it is labeled as version 0.7.0 instead of version 0.6.2.

MASH SDK 0.6.1 Released

2010-04-29 16:38:39 by Kanma

This is a maintenance release which fix some problems under Linux.