CSI635-Fall04 : Machine Learning

Course Code: CSI635
Course Title: Artificial Intelligence II - Machine Learning
Course Credits: 3
Lecture Times: Tuesday and Thursday 10:15am till 11:35pm @ HU0127
Office Hours: Tuesday 1:30pm till 3:30pm and by appointment
Text: Machine Learning by Tom Mitchell available at the school bookstore and 3 hour reserve
Email: davidson@cs.albany.edu
Class Web Site: www.cs.albany.edu/~davidson/courses/CSI63504/CSI635.html

Course Objective
To provide an overview of the various machine learning techniques
available touching upon the theortical aspects of the field
and practical applications.

Term Project

Term Project

Assignment #1

Assignment #1

Training Data

Lectures

Lecture 1): 08/31/04 - Class Overview and Logistics

Module A): Concept and PAC Learning - Chapter 2 and 7 of Mitchell

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Module B): Connectionist Architectures - Chapter 4 of Mitchell

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See the slides for how to implement a SOM, here is a more detailed treatment of SOM:

Module C): Decision Trees, Bagging and Boosting Chapter 3 of Mitchell

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Module D): Reinforcement Learning Chapter 13 of Mitchell

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