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.