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Advanced Machine Learning (CS60073)

Instructor: Sourangshu Bhattacharya

Class Schedule: WED(09:30-10:30) , THURS(08:30-09:30) , FRI(10:30-11:30) , FRI(11:30-12:30)

Classroom: CSE-120

Website: http://cse.iitkgp.ac.in/~sourangshu/cs60073-2015.html

First Meeting: Wednesday, 7th January, at 09:30 am in CSE-120.

Syllabus:
Kernel Methods: Kernel Methods for Classification, Regression. Gaussian processes. Kernels on strings, trees, graphs.
Structured Learning: Multi-class SVM. Ranking. SVM rank, Rank boost. Learning with structured output spaces: structSVM, Conditional random fields.
Algorithms: Cutting plane algorithm, Bundle Methods.
Unsupervised Learning: Principal Component Analysis, Factor Analysis, CCA. Latent Dirichlet allocation, Gibbs sampling, collapsed Gibbs sampling. Spectral Clustering.
Reinforcement Learning: Online learning, Multi-armed bandits.

Textbooks:

  • Recent Literature.
  • Kernel Methods for Pattern Analysis, John Shaw Taylor and Nello Christianini, Cambridge University Press.
  • Foundations of Machine Learning, Mehryar Mohri, Afshin Rostamizadeh, and Ameet Talwalkar, MIT Press.
  • Machine Learning: A Probabilistic Perspective, Kevin P Murphy, MIT Press.