JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD

Overview

Course OBJECTIVES:

• To introduce students to the basic concepts and techniques of Machine Learning.
• To have a thorough understanding of the Supervised and Unsupervised learning techniques
• To study the various probability based learning techniques
• To understand graphical models of machine learning algorithms

Course Outcomes

Upon completion of the course, the students will be able to:

• Distinguish between, supervised, unsupervised and semi-supervised learning
• Apply the apt machine learning strategy for any given problem
• Suggest supervised, unsupervised or semi-supervised learning algorithms for any given problem
• Design systems that use the appropriate graph models of machine learning
• Modify existing machine learning algorithms to improve classification efficiency

UNIT - I: Introduction

Learning – Types of Machine Learning – Supervised Learning – The Brain and the Neuron – Design a Learning System – Perspectives and Issues in Machine Learning – Concept Learning Task – Concept Learning as Search – Finding a Maximally Specific Hypothesis – Version Spaces and the Candidate Elimination Algorithm – Linear Discriminants: – Perceptron – Linear Separability – Linear Regression.

UNIT - II: Linear Models

Multi-layer Perceptron– Going Forwards – Going Backwards: Back Propagation Error – Multi-layer Perceptron in Practice – Examples of using the MLP – Overview – Deriving Back-Propagation – Radial Basis Functions and Splines – Concepts – RBF Network – Curse of Dimensionality – Interpolations and Basis Functions – Support Vector Machines

UNIT - III: Tree and Probabilistic Models

Learning with Trees – Decision Trees – Constructing Decision Trees – Classification and Regression Trees – Ensemble Learning – Boosting – Bagging – Different ways to Combine Classifiers – Basic Statistics – Gaussian Mixture Models – Nearest Neighbor Methods – Unsupervised Learning – K means Algorithms

UNIT - IV: Dimensionality Reduction and Evolutionary Models

Dimensionality Reduction – Linear Discriminant Analysis – Principal Component Analysis – Factor Analysis – Independent Component Analysis – Locally Linear Embedding – Isomap – Least Squares Optimization – Evolutionary Learning – Genetic algorithms – Genetic Offspring: - Genetic Operators – Using Genetic Algorithms – Reinforcement Learning – Overview – Getting Lost Example

UNIT - V: Graphical Models

Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods – Sampling – Proposal Distribution – Markov Chain Monte Carlo – Graphical Models – Bayesian Networks – Markov Random Fields – Hidden Markov Models – Tracking Methods

TEXT BOOKS:

• 1. Stephen Marsland, ―Machine Learning – An Algorithmic Perspective, Second Edition, Chapman and Hall/ CRC Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition Series, 2014.
• 2. Tom M Mitchell, ―Machine Learning, First Edition, McGraw Hill Education, 2013.

REFERENCES:

• 1. Peter Flach, ―Machine Learning: The Art and Science of Algorithms that Make Sense of Dataǁ, First Edition, Cambridge University Press, 2012.
• 2. Jason Bell, ―Machine learning – Hands on for Developers and Technical Professionalsǁ, First Edition, Wiley, 2014
• 3. Ethem Alpaydin, ―Introduction to Machine Learning 3e (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning Series), Third Edition, MIT Press, 2014