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Advanced Machine Learning (CS60073)

Instructor: Sourangshu Bhattacharya

Class Schedule: MON(04:30-05:30) , THURS(04:30-05:30) , FRI(07:30-08:30) , FRI(04:30-05:30)

Classroom: CSE-107

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

First Meeting: Monday, 6th January, at 04:30 pm in CSE-107.

Syllabus:
Kernel Methods: Kernel Methods for Classification, Regression. Gaussian processes. Kernels on strings, trees, graphs.
Structured Learning: Ranking. SVM rank, Rank boost Learning with structured output spaces: structSVM, cutting plane algorithm, Conditional random fields.
Unsupervised Learning: Principal Component Analysis, Factor Analysis, CCA, ICA. Inference algorithms in Graphical models, belief propagation, variational inference, Sampling. Latent Dirichlet allocation, Topic models. Spectral Clustering and Biclustering.
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.