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Machine Learning (AIS): Module I

  • DegreeMaster of Science in Artificial Intelligence Systems
  • PeriodSeptember – December
  • InstructorAndrea Passerini
  • Teaching assistants Steve Azzolin
    Samuele Bortolotti
  • Office hoursArrange by email.
  • Lecture time Monday 11:30–13:30 (room a205)
    Wednesday 9:30–11:30 (room a102)
  • CommunicationsPlease check the Moodle page of the course for news and updates.
  • Bibliography R.O. Duda, P.E. Hart and D.G. Stork, Pattern Classification (2nd edition), Wiley-Interscience, 2001
    D. Koller and N. Friedman, Probabilistic Graphical Models, The MIT Press, 2009
    J. Shawe-Taylor and N. Cristianini, Kernel Methods for Pattern Analysis, Cambridge University Press, 2004
    S. Russell and P. Norvig, Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (4th Global ed.), Pearson, 2021
    K. Murphy, Probabilistic Machine Learning: An Introduction, The MIT Press, 2021 (online version)
  • VideosRegistered lectures (from previous year) made available on Moodle.
  • ExamOral examination.
Materials

Prerequisites (suggested)

Linear algebra, probability theory, boolean algebra, knowledge of a programming language. For a good introduction to linear algebra see: Gilbert Strang, Introduction to Linear Algebra, Wellesley-Cambridge Press, 2016.

Content

The second part of Module I (taught by Andrea Passerini) covers: linear discriminant analysis (perceptron, least-square regression, SVM); kernel machines (kernel methods, kernels on structures); learning Bayesian networks (parameter learning, structure learning); reinforcement learning; unsupervised learning.

Slides

Additional material

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