Introduction to Machine learning
Introduction to Machine learning
INTENDED AUDIENCE: This is an elective course. Intended for senior UG/PG students. BE/ME/MS/PhD
PRE-REQUISITES: We will assume that the students know programming for some of the assignments.If the students
have done introductory courses on probability theory and linear algebra it would be helpful. We will review some of
the basic topics in the first two weeks as well.
INDUSTRY SUPPORT: Any company in the data analytics/data science/big data domain would value this course.
COURSE OUTLINE :
With the increased availability of data from varied sources there has been increasing attention paid to the various
data driven disciplines such as analytics and machine learning. In this course we intend to introduce some of the
basic concepts of machine learning from a mathematically well motivated perspective. We will cover the different
learning paradigms and some of the more popular algorithms and architectures used in each of these paradigms.
ABOUT INSTRUCTOR :
Prof. Balaraman Ravindran is currently an Professor in Computer Science at IIT Madras and Mindtree Faculty Fellow .
He has nearly two decades of research experience in machine learning and specifically reinforcement learning.
Currently his research interests are centered on learning from and through interactions and span the areas of data
mining, social network analysis, and reinforcement learning.
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