Machine Learning

Introduction to Machine Learning

General Information

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Benno Stein
Lab advisors: Michael Völske, Wei-Fan Chen
Workload: 4.5 ECTS, 2 SWS Lecture, 1 SWS Lab
Lecture: Th. 9:15am - 10:45am (weekly starting October 19th). HK7
Lab: Th. 11:00am - 12:30pm (biweekly starting October 26th). HK 7
Examination: Mo. Feb. 19th 2018, 11:00am. HS A, M13C

Lecturenotes

Labs

The deadline and the exercises to be submitted are on the exercise sheet.

Lab class dates:

  • [2017-10-26] Lab class introduction [slides]
  • [2017-11-02] Tutorial [slides]
  • [2017-11-09] Lab class ML I,II [slides]; Tutorial II [slides]
  • [2017-11-23] Lab class ML II [slides]
  • [2017-12-07] Lab class ML III [ML:IV starter code]
  • [2017-12-21] Lab class ML IV [slides]
  • [2018-01-11] Lab: Backpropagation [slides]
  • [2018-01-18] Lab class ML VI [slides]
  • [2018-02-01] Lab class ML XI

Group work up to 3 people is allowed. Please provide both your name(s) and student number(s) with your solutions. To submit your solutions, send an email to Michael Völske or Wei-Fan Chen with a single PDF file or ZIP archive, and name the file <last name>-<student number>-ml-lab<lab-class-number>.[pdf|zip], e.g. "meier-4711-schulz-1234-ml-lab3.pdf" or "meier-4711-schulz-1234-ml-lab3.zip". If you need to submit source code, include it in the ZIP archive. Thank you!

Literature

Machine Learning:

  • Christopher M. Bishop. Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning. 2nd edition, Springer 2007.
  • Leo Breiman, Jerome H. Friedman, Richard A. Olshen, Charles J. Stone. Classification and Regression Trees. CRC Press reprint, 1998.
  • Nello Cristianini, John Shawe-Taylor. An Introduction to Support Vector Machines and Other Kernel-based Learning Methods. Cambridge University Press, 2000.
  • Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani, Jerome Friedman. The Elements of Statistical Learning. 2nd edition, Springer, 2009.
  • Tom Mitchell. Machine Learning. 1st edition, McGraw-Hill, 1997.
  • Vladimir Vapnik. The Nature of Statistical Learning Theory. 2nd edition, Springer 2000.

Data Mining:

  • David Hand, Heikki Mannila, Padhraic Smyth. Principles of Data Mining. Bradford, 2001.
  • Pang-Ning Tan, Michael Steinbach, Vipin Kumar. Introduction to Data Mining. 1st edition, Addison Wesley, 2005.
  • Ian H. Witten, Eibe Frank. Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques. 3rd edition, Morgan Kaufmann, 2011.
  • Anil K. Jain. Data Clustering: 50 Years Beyond K-Means. Pattern Recognition Letters, Vol. 31, Issue 8, 2010.

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