Machine Learning Q3/2010
Announcements
- 05/03/10: Preliminary exam questions and an exam schedule is available, see the Exam section below.
- 26/02/10: A description of mandatory project 2 is available on the Projects-page.
- 24/02/10: The oral exam will be on March 22-23 in Shannon-157.
- 05/02/10: A description of mandatory project 1 is available on the Projects-page.
- 25/01/10: Monday lectures are moved to 1015-1200, starting Monday Feb 1.
- 18/01/10: Initial www-page ready.
About
The field machine learning concerns techniques for programming a computer to learn from data. A traditional program can be seen as implementing a number of concrete rules which specifies how input is transformed to output; in constrast a machine learning program implements a number of rules specifying how the program should make its own rules for transforming input to output from examples. In situations where the transformation rules are complex (or unknown) the machine learning approach can be very succesfull.
After the course the student should know about and be able to explain:
- Classification and regression
- Artificial neural networks
- Hidden Markov models
- Clustering
Read the complete course description
Schedule
Lectures take place:
- Monday 10.15-12.00, Shannon-157.
- Thursday 09.15-10.00, Shannon-157.
First lecture is on Monday, January 25 in Shannon-157.
Literature
We will use the following book, which will be available in the GAD bookstore:
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Christopher M. Bishop |
| Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning | |
| Springer, 2006 | |
| ISBN: 0387310738 |
Additional research papers will be handed out in class or made available for download.
Exam and Projects
To participate in the final oral exam each student must complete all mandatory projects.
The final exam is an individual oral exam (20 min) which includes a discussion related to one of the mandatory projects and a general discussion of related topics (maybe in opposite order). You should prepare a 12-13 minutes presentation for each exam question. See the list of (preliminary) exam questions for details. The exam curriculum is every reference listed under "Reading material" on the weekly schedule for Week 1-7, and the descriptions of the mandatory projects.
The exam dates are March 22 - 23, 2010. The exam will take place in Shannon-157 according this exam list. If your name is not on the list, and you expected it to be, then let us know.
Lecturer
If you have any comments or questions related to the course, do not hesitate to contact one of the lectures:
Office: 1110.326
Phone: +45 8942 3125
E-mail: mailund [at] birc.au.dk
Christian Nørgaard Storm Pedersen
Office: 1110.325
Phone: +45 8942 3121
E-mail: cstorm [at] birc.au.dk