This course provides a broad introduction to machine learning and statistical pattern recognition. Topics include: supervised learning (generative/discriminative learning, parametric/non-parametric learning, neural networks, support vector machines); unsupervised learning (clustering, dimensionality reduction, kernel methods); learning theory (bias/variance tradeoffs; VC theory; large margins); reinforcement learning and adaptive control. The course will also discuss recent applications of machine learning, such as to robotic control, data mining, autonomous navigation, bioinformatics, speech recognition, and text and web data processing.
In this course, you will learn the foundations of deep learning. When you finish this class, you will: – Understand the major technology trends driving Deep Learning – Be able to build, train and apply fully connected deep neural networks – Know how to implement efficient (vectorized) neural networks – Understand the key parameters in a neural network’s architecture