Course Information

About

This is a undergraduate-level introductory course in machine learning (ML) which will give a broad overview of many concepts and algorithms in ML, ranging from supervised learning methods such as support vector machines and decision trees, to unsupervised learning (clustering and factor analysis). The goal is to provide students with a deep understanding of the subject matter and skills to apply these concepts to real world problems. The course is taught by Erkut Erdem - the teaching assistant is Sibel Kapan.

        

Time and Location

Lectures: Mondays at 11:30-12:30 (D4) and Wednesdays 09:40-11:30 (D1)
Tutorials: Tutorials: Wednesdays at 15:40-17:30 (Computer Lab)

Reference Books

Policies: All work on assignments must be done individually unless stated otherwise. You are encouraged to discuss with your classmates about the given assignments, but these discussions should be carried out in an abstract way. That is, discussions related to a particular solution to a specific problem (either in actual code or in the pseudocode) will not be tolerated.

In short, turning in someone else’s work, in whole or in part, as your own will be considered as a violation of academic integrity. Please note that the former condition also holds for the material found on the web as everything on the web has been written by someone else.

Communication

The course webpage will be updated regularly throughout the semester with lecture notes, presentations, assignments and important deadlines. All other course related communications will be carried out through ed. Please enroll it by following the link https://edstem.org/eu/join/KXqbx8 using your departmental account.

Pre-requisites

AIN311 is a mandatory course for third-year undergraduate students who enrolled in Artificial Intelligence Engineering program. The prerequisites for this course are:

Course Requirements and Grading

Grading for AIN311 will be based on

Grading for AIN313 will be based on

Schedule

Date Topic Notes
Oct 2 Course outline and logistics, An overview of Machine Learning [slides] Reading: The Discipline of Machine Learning, Tom Mitchell
Video 1: The Master Algorithm, Pedro Domingos
Video 2: The Thinking Machine
Tutorial: Python/numpy
Oct 4 Machine Learning by Examples, Nearest Neighbor Classifier [slides] Reading: Barber 1,14.1-14.2
Demo: k-Nearest Neighbors
Oct 9 Kernel Regression, Distance Functions, Curse of Dimensionality
Oct 11 Linear Regression, Generalization, Model Complexity, Regularization Assg1 out
Oct 16 Machine Learning Methodology
Oct 18 Learning Theory, Basic Probability Review
Oct 23 Statistical Estimation: MLE
Oct 25 Statistical Estimation: MAP, Naïve Bayes Classifier Assg1 due
Oct 30 Logistic Regression, Discriminant vs. Generative Classification
Nov 1 Linear Discriminant Functions, Perceptron Assg2 out
Nov 6 Multi-layer Perceptron Course project proposal due
Nov 8 Training Neural Networks: Computational Graph, Back-propagation
Nov 13 Introduction to Deep Learning
Nov 15 Deep Convolutional Networks Assg2 due
Nov 20 Support Vector Machines (SVMs)
Nov 22 Soft margin SVM, Multi-class SVM
Nov 27 Midterm review
Nov 29 Midterm exam Assg3 out
Dec 4 Kernels, Kernel Trick for SVMs, Support Vector Regression
Dec 6 Decision Tree Learning
Dec 11 Ensemble Methods: Bagging, Random Forests
Dec 13 Ensemble Methods: Boosting Assg3 due
Dec 18 Clustering: K-Means Project progress reports due
Dec 20 Clustering: Spectral Clustering, Agglomerative Clustering
Dec 25 Dimensionality Reduction: PCA, SVD
Dec 27 Dimensionality Reduction: ICA, Autoencoders
Jan 1 No class - The first day of the year
Jan 3 Project presentations, Course wrap-up Final project reports due

Resources

Related Conferences

  • Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
  • International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
  • The Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI)
  • International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS)
  • IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM)

Related Journals

  • IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
  • Journal of Machine Learning Research
  • Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
  • IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks

Python Resources

Linear Algebra

Resources for scientific writing and talks