Understanding Machine Learning

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The goal of this course is to teach you why machine learning works and how to implement it. We will cover the essentials of learning theory, including the probably approximately correct (PAC) framework and the bias-complexity tradeoff. We will then see how these concepts shed light on the mathematics behind linear regression, logistic regression, boosting (and AdaBoost), support vector machines and neural networks. We cover clustering algorithms and how to implement them. Data will be analyzed using modern software packages with the above algorithms, with the aim of reinforcing the mathematics behind them.