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 EE2211 Introduction to
Machine Learning
Lec 0

Wang Xinchao Helen Zhou

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 Welcome to EE2211!
• Team
– Lecturers – Tutors
• Xinchao Wang (Lec 1-3, Lec 10-12) • Prof. Chen-Khong Tham
• Helen Zhou (Lec 4-9) • Erik Maurite Spaans
• Teoh Jing Yang
– Python Tutor • Yu Juezhao
• Liu Songhua/Yang Xingyi (Week 1-2) • Shu Ting Goh
• Neil Banerjee
– Graduate Assistants (i.e., Graders) • Christopher Moy Shin Lee Lan
• Songhua Liu • Pang Kai Lin
• Gongfan Fang • Du Yutong
• Xinyin Ma • Jerome Teo Sze Yang
• Jiahao Lu • Zhu Shaohan Steven
• Runpeng Yu • Qingqing Ni

– Support and Coordinators

• Celine Cheong

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 Course Contents
• Introduction and Preliminaries (Xinchao)
– Introduction
– Data Engineering
– Introduction to Probability and Statistics
• Fundamental Machine Learning Algorithms I (Helen)
– Systems of linear equations
– Least squares, Linear regression
– Ridge regression, Polynomial regression
• Fundamental Machine Learning Algorithms II (Helen)
– Over-fitting, bias/variance trade-off
– Optimization, Gradient descent
– Decision Trees, Random Forest
• Performance and More Algorithms (Xinchao)
– Performance Issues
– K-means Clustering
– Neural Networks
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 Logistics
• Schedule
– 12 Weeks Lectures, starting from Week 1
– 12 Weeks Tutorials, starting from Week 2
– 2 Programming Tutorials (optional and highly recommended)
• Week 1 – 2, Tuesday (i.e., 15 and 22 Aug 2023)
• Right after the lecture (i.e., 5 to 6 PM)
– 1 Mid-term Quiz (using ExamSoft)
• Held offline on 26 Sept 2023 (Recess Week)
• Content up to Week 5 (inclusive)
– 1 Briefing Session on ExamSoft
• Tentative on Week 3, exact time to be confirmed with CIT Staff
– 1 Final Exam (using ExamSoft)
• Held on 27-Nov-2023
– 3 Assignments
• Assignment 1: released on Week 4, due on Week 6 (tentatively)
• Assignment 2: released on Week 6, due on Week 9 (tentatively)
• Assignment 3: released on Week 9, due on Week 13 (tentatively)
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 Logistics
• 3 Assignments (36%) + Tutorial Attendance (4%)
• 1 Mid-term (30%)
• 1 Final Exam (30%)

• Held online:
– Lectures

• Held offline (in classrooms):

– Tutorials

• Videos of lectures are made available after lectures.

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 Responsibility of Team Members
• All members, together, strive to serve you well! However, we have a
huge class of ~500 students!

• The lecturers will spare no effort in helping you, but it wouldn’t be

possible for us two to answer *all* questions from 500 students on
time…

• Therefore, to get the most prompt and high-quality answers to your

questions, when you have:
– Logistic-related Questions, go to Lecturers
– Lecture-related Questions, go to Lecturers
– Fundamental Python Questions (Week 1-2), go to GAs
– Tutorial-related Questions, go to Tutors
– Assignment-related Questions, go to GAs

• We will also actively use Canvas Discussion to answer questions so

that everyone benefits! Feel free to post questions there!
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 Reference Books

• [Book1] Andriy Burkov, “The Hundred-Page Machine Learning Book”, 2019.

(read first, buy later: http://themlbook.com/wiki/doku.php)

• [Book2] Andreas C. Muller and Sarah Guido, “Introduction to Machine

Learning with Python: A Guide for Data Scientists”, O’Reilly Media, Inc.,
2017.

• [Book3] Jeff Leek, “The Elements of Data Analytic Style: A guide for people
who want to analyze data”, Lean Publishing, 2015.

• [Book4] Vincent Tan, “Introduction to Machine Learning for EE2211”,

https://vyftan.github.io/papers/ee2211book.pdf
– Follows the flow of the lectures and contains many additional “theory” practice problems (no
solutions yet)

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 Something to Note…
• The topic of machine learning, per se, is a mixture of concepts and
applications.
• Lectures are treated as the “theory” part and tutorials as “practice” part
• Hence,
– During lecture, we focus on learning concepts
• Unfortunately, we won’t be able to spend much time showing code since we
will only have 2 hours (especially for Lecs 1-3 and Lecs 10-12)
– During tutorials, we focus on reviewing concepts and coding
• The tutors will discuss coding with you

• We understand that our students come from different departments all

across CDE
– Don’t worry too much if you consider your coding skills to be not
perfect, you will have chances to learn and improve in EE2211. ;-)
– The whole team is here to offer help whenever your need!
– In past semesters, very majority of students end up doing great!
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