252-0220-00L Introduction to Machine Learning
| Semester | Spring Semester 2024 |
| Lecturers | F. Perez Cruz, F. Yang |
| Periodicity | yearly recurring course |
| Language of instruction | English |
| Comment | Preference is given to students in programmes in which the course is being offered. All other students will be waitlisted. Please do not contact the lecturers for any questions in this regard. If necessary, please contact studiensekretariat@inf.ethz.ch |
| Abstract | The course introduces the foundations of learning and making predictions based on data. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Learning objective | The course will introduce the foundations of learning and making predictions from data. We will study basic concepts such as trading goodness of fit and model complexitiy. We will discuss important machine learning algorithms used in practice, and provide hands-on experience in a course project. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Content | - Linear regression (overfitting, cross-validation/bootstrap, model selection, regularization, [stochastic] gradient descent) - Linear classification: Logistic regression (feature selection, sparsity, multi-class) - Kernels and the kernel trick (Properties of kernels; applications to linear and logistic regression); k-nearest neighbor - Neural networks (backpropagation, regularization, convolutional neural networks) - Unsupervised learning (k-means, PCA, neural network autoencoders) - The statistical perspective (regularization as prior; loss as likelihood; learning as MAP inference) - Statistical decision theory (decision making based on statistical models and utility functions) - Discriminative vs. generative modeling (benefits and challenges in modeling joint vy. conditional distributions) - Bayes' classifiers (Naive Bayes, Gaussian Bayes; MLE) - Bayesian approaches to unsupervised learning (Gaussian mixtures, EM) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Prerequisites / Notice | Designed to provide a basis for following courses: - Advanced Machine Learning - Deep Learning - Probabilistic Artificial Intelligence - Seminar "Advanced Topics in Machine Learning" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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