1/28/2018 Learning From Data - Online Course (MOOC)

Machine Learning course - recorded at a live broadcast from Caltech

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Free, introductory Machine Learning online course (MOOC)

Taught by Caltech Professor Yaser Abu-Mostafa [article]
Lectures recorded from a live broadcast, including Q&A
Prerequisites: Basic probability, matrices, and calculus terms and conditions
8 homework sets and a final exam
Discussion forum for participants
Topic-by-topic video library for easy review

Take the course at your own pace

Lectures -- Homework

Outline
This is an introductory course in machine learning (ML) that covers the basic theory,
algorithms, and applications. ML is a key technology in Big Data, and in many
financial, medical, commercial, and scientific applications. It enables computational
systems to adaptively improve their performance with experience accumulated from
the observed data. ML has become one of the hottest fields of study today, taken up
by undergraduate and graduate students from 15 different majors at Caltech. This
course balances theory and practice, and covers the mathematical as well as the
heuristic aspects. The lectures below follow each other in a story-like fashion:

What is learning?
Can a machine learn?
How to do it?
How to do it well?
Take-home lessons.

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The 18 lectures are about 60 minutes each plus Q&A. The content of each lecture is
color coded:

theory; mathematical
technique; practical
analysis; conceptual
Place the mouse on a lecture title for a short description

Lecture 1: The Learning Problem

Lecture 2: Is Learning Feasible?
Lecture 3: The Linear Model I
Lecture 4: Error and Noise
Lecture 5: Training versus Testing
Lecture 6: Theory of Generalization
Lecture 7: The VC Dimension
Lecture 8: Bias-Variance Tradeoff
Lecture 9: The Linear Model II
Lecture 10: Neural Networks
Lecture 11: Overfitting
Lecture 12: Regularization
Lecture 13: Validation
Lecture 14: Support Vector Machines
Lecture 15: Kernel Methods
Lecture 16: Radial Basis Functions
Lecture 17: Three Learning Principles
Lecture 18: Epilogue

You can also look for a particular topic within the lectures in the Machine Learning
Video Library.

Live Lectures

This course was broadcast live from the lecture hall at Caltech in April and May 2012.
There was no 'Take 2' for the recorded videos. The lectures included live Q&A
sessions with online audience participation. Here is a sample of a live lecture as the
online audience saw it in real time.

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