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Machine Learning Summer School 2008 - Kioloa
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Introduction to Statistical Machine Learning

author: Marcus Hutter, IDSIA

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The first part of his tutorial provides a brief overview of the fundamental methods and applications of statistical machine learning. The other speakers will detail or built upon this introduction.

Statistical machine learning is concerned with the development of algorithms and techniques that learn from observed data by constructing stochastic models that can be used for making predictions and decisions.

Topics covered include Bayesian inference and maximum likelihood modeling; regression, classification, density estimation, clustering, principal component analysis; parametric, semi-parametric, and non-parametric models; basis functions, neural networks, kernel methods, and graphical models; deterministic and stochastic optimization; overfitting, regularization, and validation.

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0:00 Introduction to Statistical Machine Learning
0:32 Abstract
0:34 Table of Contents
1:27 1 INTRO/OVERVIEW/PRELIMINARIES
2:04 What is Machine Learning?
3:42 Why 'Learn'?
5:49 Handwritten Character Recognition
6:32 Applications of Machine Learning
8:20 Some Fundamental Types of Learning
10:36 Supervised Learning
11:05 Classification
12:16 Regression
12:56 Unsupervised Learning
13:12 Reinforcement Learning
15:27 Dichotomies in Machine Learning
20:13 Probability Basics
22:06 Probability Jargon
29:16 2 LINEAR METHODS FOR REGRESSION
30:06 Linear Regression
32:14 Coefficient Subset Selection
33:19 Coefficient Shrinkage
34:40 Linear Methods for Classification
38:34 Linear Basis Function Regression (LBFR) (1)
42:03 Linear Basis Function Regression (LBFR) (2)
42:11 2D Spline LBFR and 1D Symmlet-8 Wavelets
42:54 Local Smoothing & Kernel Regression
44:16 Regularization & 1D Smoothing Splines
46:29 3 NONLINEAR REGRESSION
46:47 Artificial Neural Networks 1
48:50 Artificial Neural Networks 2

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Reviews and comments:

Comment1 Kx, April 10, 2008 at 9:24 a.m.:

I think part 2 finishes about 14 min.


Comment2 Nina (staff), May 15, 2008 at 4:29 p.m.:

Thnx for your comment. We have replaced the old part 2 with a new video.


Comment3 p, May 15, 2008 at 7:21 p.m.:

Perhaps an irrelevant comment about the last slide in part 2: in the example with the cube packing the dimension, at which the central spere sticks out of the cube, seems to be d=10, not d=11. For d=9 the sphere touches the cube faces (follows from (sqrt(d)-1)/2=1).


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