R22 ML Syllabus
R22 ML Syllabus
UNIT - I
Learning – Types of Machine Learning – Supervised Learning – The Brain and the Neuron – Design a
Learning System – Perspectives and Issues in Machine Learning – Concept Learning Task – Concept
Learning as Search – Finding a Maximally Specific Hypothesis – Version Spaces and the Candidate
Elimination Algorithm – Linear Discriminants: – Perceptron – Linear Separability – Linear Regression.
UNIT - II
Multi-layer Perceptron– Going Forwards – Going Backwards: Back Propagation Error – Multi-
layer Perceptron in Practice – Examples of using the MLP – Overview – Deriving Back-
Propagation – Radial Basis Functions and Splines – Concepts – RBF Network – Curse of
Dimensionality – Interpolations and Basis Functions – Support Vector Machines
UNIT - III
Learning with Trees – Decision Trees – Constructing Decision Trees – Classification and
Regression Trees – Ensemble Learning – Boosting – Bagging – Different ways to Combine
Classifiers – Basic Statistics – Gaussian Mixture Models – Nearest Neighbor Methods –
Unsupervised Learning – K means Algorithms
UNIT - IV
Dimensionality Reduction – Linear Discriminant Analysis – Principal Component Analysis –
Factor Analysis – Independent Component Analysis – Locally Linear Embedding – Isomap –
Least Squares Optimization
Evolutionary Learning – Genetic algorithms – Genetic Offspring: - Genetic Operators – Using
Genetic Algorithms
UNIT - V
Reinforcement Learning – Overview – Getting Lost Example
Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods – Sampling – Proposal Distribution – Markov Chain Monte Carlo
– Graphical Models – Bayesian Networks – Markov Random Fields – Hidden Markov Models –
Tracking Methods
TEXT BOOKS:
Stephen Marsland, ―Machine Learning – An Algorithmic Perspective, Second Edition,
Chapman and Hall/CRC Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition Series, 2