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CSE-6363-001 Machine Learning, Spring 2018
Syllabus
Teaching Assistant
- Xinliang Zhu
- Email: xinliang.zhu@mavs.uta.edu
- Office: TBD
- Office hours: TBD
Lectures
- Introduction to Machine Learning
- READINGDS
- Chapter 1 & 2 Tom Mitchell
- Chapter 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Witten & Frank
- Chapter 1, Bishop
- Chapter 1 & 2, Hastie, Tibshirani, Friedman
- Decision Trees
- READINGS
- Chapter 3, Tom Mitchell
- Section 6.1, Witten & Frank
- Rule-based Learning
- READINGS
- Chapter 10, Tom Mitchell
- Section 6.2, Witten & Frank
- Association Rules
- READINGS
- Fast Algorithms for Mining Association Rules, R. Agrawal, R. Srikant, Proc. 20th International Conf. on Very Large Data, 1994.
- Section 14.2, Hastie, Tibshirani, Friedman
- Clustering
- READINGS
- Section 6.6, Witten & Frank
- Section 14.3, Hastie, Tibshirani, Friedman
- Instance-based Learning
- READINGS
- Chapter 8, Tom Mitchell
- Section 6.4, Witten & Frank
- Hypothesis Testing
- READINGS
- Chapter 5, Tom Mitchell
- Chapter 5, Witten & Frank
- Bayesian Learning - Naive Bayes
- READINGS
- Chapter 6, Tom Mitchell
- Bayesian Learning - Bayesian Networks
- READINGS
- Chapter on Bayesian Networks, Artificial Intelligence by Russel & Norvig
- Chapter 6, Tom Mitchell
- Section 6.7, Witten & Frank
- Neural Networks
- READINGS
- Chapter 4, Tom Mitchell
- Chapter 5, Bishop
- Chapter 11, Hastie, Tibshirani, Friedman
- Support Vector Machines
- READINGS
- Chapter 12, Hastie, Tibshirani, Friedman
- Introduction to Big Data
- Introduction to Data Science
- Exploratory Data Analysis
References to other Algorithms
Project (50%) (Teams of 2 Students)
- Project topic approval, January 24, 2018
- Project definition (brief presentation), January 31, 2018
- Project mid course advances (brief presentation), Feb 21, 2018
- Project final presentation and Report, May 2, 2018
Exams (30%)
- Midterm 1, February 14, 2018
- Midterm 2, May 4, 2018
Assignments (20%)
- Implementation of a Decision Tree Algorithm (ID3 or C4.5), Jan 31, 2018
- Comparison of Algorithms using Hypothesis Testing, Feb 21, 2018
Prepare for the Exams
- Midterm 1, Feb 14, 2018: Study topics ? - ?
- Midterm 2, May 4, 2018: Study topics ? - ?