Proseminar: Aspects of Machine Learning (Summer 2020)

Time: (First Meeting: 6 May 2020, 10:00 – 11:30 a.m.)

Location: Microsoft Teams

Lecturer: Dr. Fech Scen Khoo

Suitable for: BSc Computational Linguistics

Registration: Please send an email to fskhoo@lsv.uni-saarland.de

Reference book: Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning, Christopher M. Bishop

Tentative contents:

  • Chapter 1: Introduction
  • Chapter 3: Regression
  • Chapter 4: Classification
  • Chapter 5: Neural Networks
  • Chapter 6: Kernel Methods
  • Chapter 7: Sparse Kernel Machines
  • Chapter 8: Graphs
  • Chapter 9: Mixture Models and EM
  • Chapter 11: Sampling Methods
  • Chapter 12: Continuous Latent Variables
  • Chapter 14: Combining Models

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