Winter 2020 STAT 27725=CMSC 25400

Course: STAT 27725=CMSC 25400

Title: Machine Learning

Instructor(s): Staff

Class Schedule: Sec 01: TR 3:30 PM-4:50 PM in TBA

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Description: This course offers a practical, problem-centered introduction to machine learning. Topics covered include the Perceptron and other online algorithms; boosting; graphical models and message passing; dimensionality reduction and manifold learning; SVMs and other kernel methods; and a short introduction to statistical learning theory. Weekly programming assignments give students the opportunity to try out each learning algorithm on real world datasets.