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Machine Learning II 2018/19 spring

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  • All practice session materials are available in Github
    • https://github.com/swenlaur/machine-learning-ii/tree/master/practise-sessions
  • Some of them may be in incomplete state. I will let you know which materials are stable

Points for the homeworks will appear in the table Machine Learning II 2019.

  • 15.02 - 22.02: I. Performance measures
    • Empirical risk and its variability
    • Convergence of empirical risk to true risk
    • Bias-variance trade-off in performance estimation
    • Applications of crossvalidation algorithms
    • Confidence intervals for crossvalidation estimates
    • Different flavours of bootstrapping algorithms
    Homework:
    • You can get up to 15 points from the homework exercises.
    • Nominal score for the homework is 10 points.
    • There are no restrictions how you choose exercises.
1. Performance evaluation measures
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  • 01.03 - 08.03: II. Basics of probabilistic modelling
    • True meaning of confidence intervals
    • Quantile-Quantile plot and its confidence envelope
    • Probability distributions over real-valued functions
      • Confidence envelopes for predictors
      • Confidence envelopes for ROC curves
    • Bayesian inference and its internal consistency
    • Naive-Bayes classification
    • Markov chains and detection of abnormal words
2. Basics of probabilistic modelling
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  • 15.03 - 22.03: III. Graphical models and belief propagation
3. Graphical models and belief propagation
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  • 29.03 - 16.04: IV. Normal distributions and linear projections
4. Normal distribution and linear projections
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  • 24.04 - 03.05: V. Model-based clustering
5. Model-based clustering
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  • 05.05 - 24.05: VI. Expectation-Maximisation algorithm Subdirectories 07 (nominal 10 points) and 08 (nominal 5 points)
6. Expectation-Maximisation algorithm
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Before You Submit Exercises

  • Requirements to solutions of home exercises!
  • Nominal score for the homework is 10 points. You can earn up to 15 points for each homework!
  • Your points will appear in this table Machine Learning 2016S.

Exercise Sessions

All exercise sessions will be held on Tuesdays at 16:15 Liivi-202

  • 09.02: 1. Decision trees and association rules
    • Session: GNU R and its usage by Sven Laur
    • Self-study: Decision trees and association rules (deadline 01.03 16:15)
  • 16.02: 2. Linear regression by Sven Laur
  • 23.02: 3. Performance measures by Sven Laur
  • 01.03: 4. Optimization basics by Ilya Kuzovkin
  • 08.03: 5. Linear classification by Sven Laur
    • Self-study: Scalar product and matrix algebra (deadline 07.03 16:15)
  • 15.03: 6. Neural networks by Sven Laur
  • 22.03: 7. Basics of probabilistic modelling by Sven Laur
  • 29.03: 8. Maximum likelihood and maximum a posteriori estimates by Sven Laur
  • 05.04: 9. Principle Component Analysis by Sven Laur
  • 12.04: 10. Model-based clustering by Sven Laur
  • 19.04: 11. Expectation-Maximisation algorithm by Sven Laur
  • 26.04: 12. Support Vector Machines by Sven Laur
  • 03.05: 13. Kernel Methods by Sven Laur
  • 10.05: 14. Statistical Learning Theory by Sven Laur
  • 17.05: 15. Ensemble Methods by Meelis Kull
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