Fundamentals of Machine Learning

KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING

The aim of the course is to provide the student with knowledge and skills in the area of machine learning.
At the end of the course the student should be able to:

• distinguish the various machine learning paradigms;
• know the learning theory
• know classification algorithms, regression, clustering and dimension reduction;

APPLYING KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
After completing the course, the student must demonstrate that he is able to:

• apply the different machine learning paradigms
• implement the classification, regression, clustering and dimensionality reduction algorithms;
• design and implement systems able to learn automatically from real data and situations;

COMMUNICATION SKILLS
At the end of this training activity, the student will be able to express himself clearly and with appropriate terms, using the English language, in the learning discussions as well as expose the results of a research concerning technical aspects of machine learning.

LEARNING SKILLS
At the end of this training activity the student will be able to:

• Finding and learning the innumerable algorithms and techniques that are presented in the field of machine learning
• Implementing and using the new algorithms

• Notions of Probability and Linear Algebra

• Supervised Learning

• Linear Models and Regression for Classification

• Decision Tree, Random Forest, Ensemble

• Unsupervised Learning

• Clustering

• Neural networks (an introduction) : FFNN, RNN, SOM, CNN

• Balanced and unbalanced data

• Evaluation Metrics (AUC, ROC, Confusion Matrix…)

• Examples of coding in Python

• Probabilistic learning theory and the “learning problem”

• The VC-dimension

• Bias-Variance Trade-off

• Support Vector Machines (Proof of the maximum margin)

Course Slides and video

• 07/10/2024 Lezione1
• 08/10/2024 Lezione2
• 14/10/2024 see 08/10/2024
• 15/10/2024 see 15/10/2024
• 21/10/2024 Lezione3
• 22/10/2024 see 21/10/2024
• 28/10/2024 Lezione4
• 29/10/2024 see 28/10/2024
• 04/11/2024 Lezione5
• 05/11/2024 Lezione6
• 11/11/2024
• 12/11/2024
• 18/11/2024
• 19/11/2024
• 25/11/2024
• 26/11/2024
• 02/12/2024
• 03/12/2024
• 09/12/2024
• 10/12/2024
• 16/12/2024
• 17/12/2024

Reference books

• Norvig, P., Russel, S., Artificial Intelligence: a Modern Approach - Pearson, 2021
• Sutton, R., Barto, A. Reinforcement Learning: an Introduction Online version
• C.M. Bishop, Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning, Springer - 2006
• D. Barber, Bayesian Reasoning and Machine Learning, Cambridge University Press. - 2012 Online version
• T. Hastie, R. Tibshirani, J. Friedman, The Elements of Statistical Learning, Springer - 2008 Online version

Link to recordings Recorded lessons

Telegram https://t.me/+ugRO4d2VHDk1MzFk

Other sources Some of the material is taken from the ML Course of Caltech given by Prof. Yaser Abu Mostafa and his collaborators

Additional Material

• 02/10/2024 Math for Machine Learning - no Bayesian Probability
• 16/10/2024 Regression
• 25/10/2024 SVM
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• 06/11/2024 ensemble_methods_zhou.pdf
• 06/11/2024 explaining_adaboost_schapire.pdf
• 20/11/2023 hoeffdingsinequality_protetto.pdf

Exams