Mar. 13 - Homework #2 - choose a paper in Week 4, and present them in Week 6.
Mar. 5 - Homework #1 - choose a paper in Week 3, and present them in Week 4.
Course Information
Course Description -
Machine learning is a scientific discipline that is concerned with the design and development of algorithms that allow computers to evolve behaviors based on empirical data, such as from sensor data or databases.
Course Objectives -
A major focus of machine learning research is to automatically learn to recognize complex patterns and make intelligent decisions based on data;
the difficulty lies in the fact that the set of all possible behaviors given all possible inputs is too complex to describe generally in programming languages, so that in effect programs must automatically describe programs.
Evaluation -
Presentation (Midterm)
Term project (Finalterm)
Lab. Experiments -
The purpose of lab experiments is understand each algorithms and how the algorithm is applied to real world problems.
The lab experiments include naive Bayes classifiers, decision tree classifiers, artificial neural networks, support vector machines, and ensemble classifiers such as AdaBoost, Bagging, etc.
Lab. Experiments Tools -
We will use WEKA for experiments on Windows based PC.
For evaluation, each student needs to submit lab report.
Selective Bayesian Classifiers (SBC) - Langley, P., Sage, S.: Induction of selective Bayesian classifiers. in Proceedings of the Tenth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, 1994, pp. 339-406.
SuperParent algorithm (SP-TAN) - Keogh, E., Pazzani, M. : Learning augmented bayesian classifiers. Proceedings of Seventh International Workshop on AI and Statistics. (1999) Ft. Lauderdale.
Lawrence O. Hall, Nitesh Chawla and Kevin W. Bowyer: Combining Decision Trees Learned in Parallel, Distributed Data Mining Workshop at International Conference of Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 1998.
ADTree - Yoav Freund and Llew Mason. The Alternating Decision Tree Algorithm. Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Machine Learning, pages 124-133 (1999)
Recursive Naive Bayes - Kang, D.-K., Silvescu, A., and Honavar, V., "RNBL-MN: A Recursive Naive Bayes Learner for Sequence Classification," Proceedings of the Tenth Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2006), Singapore, April 9-12, 2006; Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 3918, pp. 45-54, 2006, Springer-Verlag.