FIRST SEMESTER 2023-2024

Course Handout Part II

In addition to part-I (General Handout for all courses appended to the time table) this portion gives further specific details regarding the course.

Date: 11/08/2023

Course No. : BITS F464

Course Title : Machine Learning

Instructor In Charge : Manik Gupta

Scope and Objectives of the course:

Machine Learning addresses the problem of identifying patterns in data. The major goal of machine learning is to allow computers to learn (potentially complex)

patterns from data, and then make decisions based on these patterns. The course covers design, implementation and applications of many supervised and

unsupervised machine learning algorithms. The classification algorithms, namely, Perceptron, Logistic Regression, Support Vector Machines, Artificial Neural

Networks, Decision Trees, Ensembles will be studied in details.

The objectives of the course are to

Learn theoretical and practical aspects of linear models for regression and classification
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Understand probabilistic discriminative and generative models for classification
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Learn theoretical and practical aspects of SVM and ANN
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Understand decision tree learning and ensemble methods
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3. TEXT BOOK :

T1. Christopher Bishop: Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning, Springer International Edition

T2. Tom M. Mitchell: Machine Learning, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc..

COURSE PLAN:

Chapter in the Text

Lecture No. Learning objectives Topics to be covered
Book

1–2 To introduce the course Course Introduction & Motivation Lecture Slides

To understand linear models for Linear Regression, Polynomial regression T1 – Ch. 1.1
3-6
classification T1 – Ch. 3.1

7 – 13 Discriminant functions, Least squares for classification, perceptron T1 – Ch. 4.1

To understand linear models for
 classification algorithm

To understand probabilistic Probabilistic generative models – Maximum likelihood solution, T1 – Ch.4.2

14 - 20 generative and discriminative Naïve Bayes classifier, probabilistic discriminative models – Logistic T1 – Ch. 4.3

Regression T2 – Ch 6
models

21 – 26 To understand ANN Feed forward Neural Networks, Backpropagation T1 – Ch. 5.1, 5.2, 5.3

T2 – Ch. 4

27 – 32 To understand SVM Maximum margin classifiers T1 – Ch. 7.1

33 - 34 To understand unsupervised Clustering and Expectation Maximization T1 – Ch. 9.1, 9.2

learning

35 – 36 To understand decision tree Decision Tree Learning T2 – Ch. 3

learning

37 – 40 To understand ensemble Bias Variance tradeoff, Bagging and Boosting T1 – Ch.14.2, 14.3

methods

EVALUATION SCHEME:

Component Duration Date & Time Weightage Nature of

Component

Mid Sem Exam 90 mins 09/10 - 11.30 - 1.00PM 30% Closed Book

Assignments To be announced later 30% Open Book

Comprehensive Exam 3 Hrs 06/12 AN 40% Closed Book

7. Office Hours: Monday 1200Hrs – 1300Hrs @H126

8. Make-up:
1. No Make-up requests for project submissions will be catered to.
2. Prior permission of the Instructor-in-Charge is required to get make-up for the mid-semester exam. Only on producing documentary proof of absence

minimum one day prior to the exam, proving that student would be physically unable to appear for the exam, the decision of granting the make-up will be taken. The

recommendation from chief warden is necessary to request for a make-up.

3. Prior permission of Dean, AUGSD is required to get make-up for the comprehensive exam.
4. Instructor-in-charge’s decision in the matter of granting make-up would be final.

9. Notices: All notices about the course will be put on CMS/Google Classroom.

10. Academic Honesty and Integrity Policy: Academic honesty and integrity are to be maintained by all the students throughout the semester and no type of

academic dishonesty is acceptable.

Instructor-in-charge

BITS F464