Machine Learning Roadmap For 2025
Machine Learning Roadmap For 2025
1. Programming Foundations
● Python Basics
○ Syntax, variables, loops, functions
○ List, dict, set, tuple, comprehension
● Python Libraries
○ NumPy (arrays, operations)
○ Pandas (DataFrames, manipulation)
○ Matplotlib & Seaborn (visualization)
● Linear Algebra
○ Vectors and matrices
○ Dot product, matrix multiplication
○ Eigenvalues and eigenvectors
● Calculus
○ Derivatives and gradients
○ Chain rule
○ Partial derivatives for optimization
● Probability and Statistics
○ Distributions (normal, binomial)
○ Bayes’ Theorem
○ Mean, variance, standard deviation
● Supervised Learning
○ Linear Regression
○ Logistic Regression
○ Decision Trees, Random Forests
● Unsupervised Learning
○ K-Means Clustering
○ Hierarchical Clustering
○ PCA (Dimensionality Reduction)
● Model Evaluation
○ Accuracy, Precision, Recall, F1
○ Confusion Matrix
○ Cross-validation, ROC-AUC
4. Deep Learning
● NLP Basics
○ Tokenization, stemming, lemmatization
○ TF-IDF, word embeddings (Word2Vec, GloVe)
● Transformer Models
○ Attention mechanism
○ BERT
○ GPT (e.g., GPT-4, GPT-NEOX)
● Practical NLP
○ Sentiment analysis
○ Named Entity Recognition
○ Chatbot creation
6. Computer Vision
● Model Deployment
○ Flask or FastAPI for APIs
○ Docker for containerization
○ Streamlit or Gradio for UI
● Cloud Services
○ AWS Sagemaker
○ Google Colab / Vertex AI
○ Azure ML
● Experiment Management
○ MLflow
○ Weights & Biases
○ DVC (Data Version Control)
8. Reinforcement Learning
● RL Basics
○ Environment, Agent, Reward
○ Q-Learning
○ Policy vs Value-based methods
● Deep RL
○ DQN (Deep Q Network)
○ PPO, A3C
○ AlphaZero, MuZero
● Tools
○ OpenAI Gym
○ Stable-Baselines3
○ Unity ML-Agents
● Capstone Projects
○ End-to-end ML project (EDA → model → deploy)
○ Real-world datasets (Kaggle, UCI, open APIs)
● Portfolio & GitHub
○ Well-documented repos
○ README, visuals, performance metrics
● Collaboration & Competitions
○ Kaggle competitions
○ Open-source contributions
○ GitHub projects with teams