Machine Learning detailed syllabus for Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning (AI&ML) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna University official website and presented for the AI&ML students. For course code, course name, number of credits for a course and other scheme related information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.
For Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning 4th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit AI&ML 4th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. The detailed syllabus of machine learning is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
INTRODUCTION TO MACHINE LEARNING 8 Review of Linear Algebra for machine learning; Introduction and motivation for machine learning; Examples of machine learning applications, Vapnik-Chervonenkis (VC) dimension, Probably Approximately Correct (PAC) learning, Hypothesis spaces, Inductive bias, Generalization, Bias variance trade-off.
Unit II
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Unit III
ENSEMBLE TECHNIQUES AND UNSUPERVISED LEARNING 9 Combining multiple learners: Model combination schemes, Voting, Ensemble Learning – bagging, boosting, stacking, Unsupervised learning: K-means, Instance Based Learning: KNN, Gaussian mixture models and Expectation maximization.
Unit IV
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Unit V
DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF MACHINE LEARNING EXPERIMENTS 8 Guidelines for machine learning experiments, Cross Validation (CV) and resampling – K-fold CV, bootstrapping, measuring classifier performance, assessing a single classification algorithm and comparing two classification algorithms – t test, McNemars test, K-fold CV paired t test
Course Outcomes:
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Reference Books:
- Christopher M. Bishop, Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning, Springer, 2006.
- Tom Mitchell, Machine Learning, McGraw Hill, 3rd Edition, 1997.
- Mehryar Mohri, Afshin Rostamizadeh, Ameet Talwalkar, Foundations of Machine Learning, Second Edition, MIT Press, 2012, 2018.
- Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio, Aaron Courville, Deep Learning, MIT Press, 2016
- Sebastain Raschka, Vahid Mirjalili , Python Machine Learning, Packt publishing, 3rd Edition, 2019.
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