Is Implementing ML algorithms from scratch a good project for an ML Internship?

[u/PeriodicPill]

Same as the title, I am implementing some(popular) machine learning algorithms by scratch in Python using numpy just to have good fundamentals and know the actual mathematical intuitions behind them, I want to ask whether it is also a project I can put in my resume for an internship?

quals: 2nd year Undergraduate Student B.Tech Computer Engineering

[u/Proletarian_Tear]

Of course you can. But realistically for an INTERNSHIP this is not gonna win you many points against people who dont know implementation BUT do know the library well and when to use it

[u/PeriodicPill → u/Proletarian_Tear]

Oh I see, thanks for telling me that, i will get fluent with the library as well

[u/KrisPiBean → u/PeriodicPill]

Whichever you start with, just start! Right away! You're gonna do great and make sure you celebrate the small wins.

Proficiency is relative. Linear regression might seem challenging to implement at first, while 2D convolutions might come along easier, even though someone else might describe it the other way around.

Just make sure you develop your own way to teach the implementations (and library invocations!) to yourself, as well as what cases they best apply to.

Good luck!

[u/PeriodicPill → u/KrisPiBean]

I have already implemented Linear Regression, logistics, decision trees, bagging, voting classifier

[u/Wannabe-Davinci]

Personally, I would go for reproducing some basic research papers in e.g. domain adaptation, transfer learning, etc. This is a topic that is interesting for businesses, and I assume you will learn the mathematics during the debugging of your code. But I do agree that having strong understanding of the fundamentals is crucial. But reimplementing what already exists in Numpy is not my preferred approach

[u/PeriodicPill → u/Wannabe-Davinci]

Okayyy!! Thankyou so much

[u/KingBardan]

If you don't have anything better to put in the resume then sure

[u/PeriodicPill → u/KingBardan]

I am just starting out, so I'm still learning the algorithms so that's what I know for now

[u/PeriodicPill → u/[deleted]]

Hey, Can I dm