PA034 Machine Learning

Faculty of Informatics
Autumn 2003
Extent and Intensity
2/1. 3 credit(s) (plus extra credits for completion). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: k (colloquium), z (credit).
Teacher(s)
doc. Ing. Jan Žižka, CSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Karel Pala, CSc.
Department of Machine Learning and Data Processing – Faculty of Informatics
Contact Person: doc. Ing. Jan Žižka, CSc.
Timetable
Thu 16:00–17:50 A107 and each even Thursday 18:00–19:50 B117, each even Thursday 18:00–19:50 B116
Prerequisites (in Czech)
! P034 Machine Learning
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
The field of machine learning is concerned with the question of how to construct computer programs that automatically improve with experience. The goal of the subject is to present the key algorithms and theory that form the core of machine learning. Machine learning is interdisciplinary, draws on concepts and results from many fields, including statistics, artificial intelligence, information theory, philosophy, biology, cognitive science, and control theory.
Syllabus
  • Machine learning as the integration of artificial intelligence and cognive sciences. Computational processes that are related to learning. Selection of learning algorithms.
  • Training and testing data. Learning and searching. Natural and human learning. Problem representation language. Learning algorithms with numerical and symbolic inputs.
  • Decision-tree induction. Presence of noise, incomplete description of examples. Tree-to-rules transformation. Bagging, boosting.
  • Perceptrons. Logical neural networks. Kohonen maps. Genetic algorithms, genetic programming. Comparision with biological systems.
  • Pattern recognition. Generalization. Nearest-neghbor method (k-NN). Instance-based learning (IBL algorithms).
  • Bayesian classifiers. Reinforcement learning.
  • SVM (Support Vector Machines).
  • Description and demonstration of applications.
Literature
  • MITCHELL, Tom M. Machine learning. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 1997, xv, 414. ISBN 0070428077. info
Assessment methods (in Czech)
Výuka formou přednášek a cvičení (cvičení jsou jednou za 2 týdny 2 hod. a studenti si v nich vyzkoušejí některé z probíraných metod pomocí existujících softwarových nástrojů). Zkouška je písemná.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2002, Autumn 2004, Autumn 2005, Autumn 2006.
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