Gwybodaeth Modiwlau
Course Delivery
| Delivery Type | Delivery length / details |
|---|---|
| Lecture | 22 x 1 Hour Lectures |
Assessment
| Assessment Type | Assessment length / details | Proportion |
|---|---|---|
| Semester Exam | 2 Hours Written Exam | 100% |
| Supplementary Exam | 2 Hours Resit failed examination | 100% |
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this module, students will be able to:
1. Formalise and represent experience, using techniques like feature-value pairs;
2. Apply concept learning, decision making tree, artificial neural networks, Bayesian learning, genetic algorithms, and reinforcement learning to solve a range of simple problems in applications like customer attitude prediction, banking business, handwritten character recognition, medical diagnosis, artificial life, robot path optimization, etc.;
3. Compare and choose different learning algorithms for different applications;
4. Appreciate the range of applicability of intelligent learning concepts and techniques; ;
5. Explain the state of the art of intelligent learning concepts and techniques;
Brief description
This module explores real world applications of machine learning. To this end, a small number of topics are studied in depth in order to give insight and understanding of the methods and issues involved in the state-of-the-art applications of the various learning techniques.
Content
Possibility and necessity of learning, target function, components in a learning system, performance measurement of learning systems.
2. Concept learning - 3 lectures
This chapter will use concept learning to develop applications to predict whether students like this module or not: Generality ordering of hypotheses, FIND-S algorithm, version space, the LIST-THEN-ELIMINATE algorithm, inductive bias
3. Decision tree learning - 3 lectures
This chapter will use decision tree learning to develop applications about banking business: Entropy, best attribute, information gain, best tree, inductive bias, Occam's razor, over-fitting, reduced error pruning, rule post-pruning.
4. Artificial neural network - 3 lectures
This chapter will use artificial neural network learning to develop applications to recognize handwritten characters: Perceptron, linear separability, gradient decent, sigmoid function, back propagation algorithm, over-fitting.
5. Bayesian learning - 4 lectures
This chapter will use Bayesian learning to develop applications about medical diagnosis: Bayesian theory, maximum a posteriori hypothesis, maximum likelihood, probability density, normal distribution, minimum description length principle, Bayes optimal classifier, naive Bayes classifier.
6. Support vector machines - 3 lectures
This chapter will introduce the ideas, formulations and applications of support vector machines: Binary linear classifier, maximum margin hyperplane, linear separability/non-linear separability, kernel function, hard/soft margin, primal/dual form, quadratic programming, cross validation, applications.
7. Reinforcement learning - 2 lectures
This chapter will use reinforcement learning to develop applications about robot path optimization: Reward, Markov decision process, utility function, Q-learning.
Notes
This module is at CQFW Level 6