FUNDAMENTALS OF MACHINE LEARNING - Syllabus
FUNDAMENTALS OF MACHINE LEARNING
(Professional
Elective - 3)
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Department : IT |
IV
B.Tech I Semester |
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Course
Code |
Hours/Week |
Credits |
Marks |
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A2275E9 |
L |
T |
P |
C |
CIE |
SEE |
Total |
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3 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
40 |
60 |
100 |
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Course Outcomes: At the end of the course, the student should
be able to
- 1. Ability
to identify machine learning problems corresponding to different applications.
- 2. Ability
to understand the basic concepts such as Decision trees and Neural Networks.
- 3. Apply
Machine Learning algorithms to solve problems of moderate complexity.
- 4. Identify
Machine Learning applications
- 5. Understand
Genetic algorithms and their applications
Introduction and
Concept Learning: Well-posed
learning problems, designing a learning system Perspectives and issues in
machine learning, Types of learning. Concept learning task, Concept Learning as
search through a hypothesis space, Finding maximally specific hypotheses,
Version spaces and the candidate elimination algorithm, Inductive Bias
Decision Tree
learning and Neural Network learning:
Decision Tree representation and learning algorithm, appropriate problems for
Decision Tree Learning, Hypothesis space search in Decision Tree Learning,
Inductive bias in Decision Tree Learning: Occam’s razor, Issues in Decision
Tree Learning. Introduction to Neural Network Learning, Introduction to
Perceptions, Perceptions, Introduction to Gradient Descent and Back
propagation.
Unit - III
Support
Vector Machines: Introduction, Linear Classifier, Non-linear Classifier,
Training SVM, Support Vector Regression.
Bayesian
Learning:
Bayes theorem and concept learning, Minimum Description Length Principle, Bayes
optimal classifier, Gibbs Algorithm, Naïve Bayes Classifier, The EM algorithm.
Unit – IV
Instance-based
Techniques:
Introduction to Instance-based Techniques, Lazy vs. eager generalization, K
nearest neighbor, Radial Basis Function, Case Based reasoning, Remarks on Lazy
vs Eager learning.
Unit – V
Genetic
Algorithm:
Biological motivation, Representing Hypothesis, Genetic Operators, Fitness
function and selection, Hypothesis space search, Genetic Programming, Models of
Evolution and Learning, Parallelizing Genetic Algorithms.
Text Books:
- Machine Learning - Mc Graw Hill, Tom
M. Mitchell.
Reference Books:
1. Machine Learning Methods and the
Environmental Science, Neural Network, William W Hsieh Cambridge University Press.
2. Rechard o Duda, Peter E. Hart and David
G. Stork, & pattern Classification, John Wiley & Sons Inc,2001
3.
Chris
Bishop, Neural Network for, Pattern Recognition, Oxford University Press. 1995
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