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Mathematics for Machine Learning

By Prof. Debjani Chakraborty, Prof. Debashree Guha Adhya   |   IIT Kharagpur
Learners enrolled: 2990   |  Exam registration: 322
ABOUT THE COURSE: This course will discuss the rich mathematical theory needed for developing efficient, accurate and robust machine learning algorithms. This course will focus on selected advanced topics from linear algebra, calculus, optimization, probability theory and statistics with strong linkage with machine learning. Applications of these topics will be introduced in ML with help of some real-life examples.

INTENDED AUDIENCE: Under graduate

PREREQUISITES: Basic Mathematics

INDUSTRY SUPPORT: Any industry who practices AI
Summary
Course Status : Completed
Course Type : Elective
Language for course content : English
Duration : 12 weeks
Category :
  • Mathematics
Credit Points : 3
Level : Undergraduate
Start Date : 22 Jul 2024
End Date : 11 Oct 2024
Enrollment Ends : 05 Aug 2024
Exam Registration Ends : 16 Aug 2024
Exam Date : 27 Oct 2024 IST

Note: This exam date is subject to change based on seat availability. You can check final exam date on your hall ticket.


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Course layout

Week 1:  Introduction to Theory of Learning: meaning of learning, overfitting etc.

Week 2: Convex functions and sets, Convex Optimization, Optimization problem Formulations

Week 3: Gradient and Sub-gradient descent for non- smooth functions

Week 4: Regularization, Lasso and Ridge, Applications with medical data

Week 5: Accelerating Gradient Descent, Stochastic Gradient Descent and its applications (NN)

Week 6: Support Vector Regression, Logistic Regression for dichotomous variable

Week 7: Maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) in Binomial, Multinomial, Gaussian, models in exponential family

Week 8: Maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) in Binomial, Multinomial, Gaussian, models in exponential family. (Contd.)

Week 9: Dimensionality reduction techniques

Week 10: Dynamical systems and control, Fourier transform and its applications

Week 11: Expectation Maximization (EM) based learning in Mixture models, Hidden Markov Model, Dirichlet processes (Clustering).

Week 12: Bayesian Machine Learning, estimating decisions using posterior distributions, Model selection: Variational Inference.

Books and references

1. Introduction to Machine Learning, by Jeeva Jose, Khanna Book Publishing, 2020.
2. Linear Algebra and Learning from Data (2019), Gilbert Strang, Wellesley Cambridge Press
3. “Machine Learning: A Probabilistic Perspective” By Kevin P. Murphy (MIT Press), 2021 edition
4. Deisenroth MP, Faisal AA, Ong CS. Mathematics for machine learning. Cambridge University Press; 2020 Apr 23.

Instructor bio

Prof. Debjani Chakraborty

Prof. Debjani Chakraborty is Professor of Department of Mathematics, IIT Kharagpur. She is also Associate Dean Outreach (CE&T/IoE) of IIT Kharagpur.


Prof. Debashree Guha Adhya

IIT Kharagpur
Prof. Debashree Guha Adhya is Assistant Professor of School of Medical Science & Technology, IIT Khargapur. She was faculty of Department of Mathematics of IIT Patna before.

Course certificate

The course is free to enroll and learn from. But if you want a certificate, you have to register and write the proctored exam conducted by us in person at any of the designated exam centres.
The exam is optional for a fee of Rs 1000/- (Rupees one thousand only).
Date and Time of Exams: 
27 October 2024 Morning session 9am to 12 noon; Afternoon Session 2pm to 5pm.
Registration url: Announcements will be made when the registration form is open for registrations.
The online registration form has to be filled and the certification exam fee needs to be paid. More details will be made available when the exam registration form is published. If there are any changes, it will be mentioned then.
Please check the form for more details on the cities where the exams will be held, the conditions you agree to when you fill the form etc.

CRITERIA TO GET A CERTIFICATE

Average assignment score = 25% of average of best 8 assignments out of the total 12 assignments given in the course.
Exam score = 75% of the proctored certification exam score out of 100

Final score = Average assignment score + Exam score

YOU WILL BE ELIGIBLE FOR A CERTIFICATE ONLY IF AVERAGE ASSIGNMENT SCORE >=10/25 AND EXAM SCORE >= 30/75. If one of the 2 criteria is not met, you will not get the certificate even if the Final score >= 40/100.

Certificate will have your name, photograph and the score in the final exam with the breakup.It will have the logos of NPTEL and IIT Kharagpur .It will be e-verifiable at nptel.ac.in/noc.

Only the e-certificate will be made available. Hard copies will not be dispatched.

Once again, thanks for your interest in our online courses and certification. Happy learning.

- NPTEL team


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