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Machine Learning (Open Elective) B.Tech. ECE LTPC 3 0 0 3 Objectives

This document outlines an elective course on machine learning. The course objectives are to formulate machine learning problems, understand algorithms with strengths and weaknesses, and apply algorithms to solve moderate complexity problems. The course covers topics like classification, regression, unsupervised learning, decision trees, linear models, probabilistic models, and features. After completing the course, students should be able to discuss applications, describe algorithms, illustrate theories, improve algorithm performance, and analyze probabilistic models and features of machine learning. The course uses two textbooks and two reference books.

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Machine Learning (Open Elective) B.Tech. ECE LTPC 3 0 0 3 Objectives

This document outlines an elective course on machine learning. The course objectives are to formulate machine learning problems, understand algorithms with strengths and weaknesses, and apply algorithms to solve moderate complexity problems. The course covers topics like classification, regression, unsupervised learning, decision trees, linear models, probabilistic models, and features. After completing the course, students should be able to discuss applications, describe algorithms, illustrate theories, improve algorithm performance, and analyze probabilistic models and features of machine learning. The course uses two textbooks and two reference books.

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MACHINE LEARNING

(Open Elective)
B.Tech. ECE LTP C
3 0 03

Objectives:
 To be able to formulate machine learning problems corresponding to different applications.
 To understand a range of machine learning algorithms along with their strengths and weaknesses.
 To understand the basic theory underlying machine learning.
 To be able to apply machine learning algorithms to solve problems of moderate complexity.
 To be able to read current research papers and understands the issues raised by current research.

UNIT-I:
The ingredients of machine learning, Tasks: the problems that can be solved with machine learning, Models:
the output of machine learning, Features: The workhorses of machine learning. Binary classification and
related tasks: Classification, Scoring and ranking.

UNIT- II:
Beyond binary classification: Handling more than two classes, Regression, Unsupervised and descriptive
learning. Concept learning: The hypothesis space, Paths through the hypothesis space.

UNIT-III:
Models: Decision trees, Ranking and probability estimation trees, Tree learning as variance reduction. Rule
models: Learning ordered rule lists, Learning unordered rule sets, Descriptive rule learning, First-order rule
learning

UNIT-IV:
Linear models: The least-squares method, The perceptron: a heuristic learning algorithm for linear
classifiers, Support vector machines. Distance Based Models: Introduction, Neighbours and exemplars,
Distance Based Clustering, Hierarchical Clustering.

UNIT- V:
Probabilistic models: The normal distribution and its geometric interpretations, Probabilistic models for
categorical data,Probabilistic models with hidden variables. Features: Kinds of feature, Feature
transformations, Feature construction and selection.

Course Outcomes:
After the completion of this course the students should be able to :
CO-1: Discuss different application on Machine Learning problems.
CO-2: Describe various algorithms on Machine Learning mentioning its strengths and weaknesses.
CO-3: Illustrate the basic theory focused on Machine Learning models and Learning Techniques.
CO-4: Improve the performance of Machine Learning algorithms with different parameters.
CO-5: Analyze Probabilistic models and features of Machine Learning.
TEXT BOOKS:

1. Machine Learning: The art and science of algorithms that make sense of data, Peter Flach,
Cambridge.
2. Machine Learning, Tom M. Mitchell, MGH.

REFERENCE BOOKS:
1. Understanding Machine Learning: From Theory to Algorithms, Shai Shalev-Shwartz, Shai Ben-
David, Cambridge.
2. Machine Learning in Action, Peter Harington, 2012, Cengage.

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