Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning detailed syllabus for Computer Science & Design (CSD) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna University official website and presented for the CSD 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 Computer Science & Design 4th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit CSD 4th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. The detailed syllabus of artificial intelligence and machine learning is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
PROBLEM SOLVING 9 Introduction to AI – AI Applications – Problem solving agents – search algorithms – uninformed search strategies – Heuristic search strategies – Local search and optimization problems – adversarial search – constraint satisfaction problems (CSP)
Unit II
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Unit III
SUPERVISED LEARNING 9 Introduction to machine learning – Linear Regression Models: Least squares, single & multiple variables, Bayesian linear regression, gradient descent, Linear Classification Models: Discriminant function – Probabilistic discriminative model – Logistic regression, Probabilistic generative model -Naive Bayes, Maximum margin classifier – Support vector machine, Decision Tree, Random forests
Unit IV
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Unit V
NEURAL NETWORKS 9 Perceptron – Multilayer perceptron, activation functions, network training – gradient descent optimization – stochastic gradient descent, error backpropagation, from shallow networks to deep networks -Unit saturation (aka the vanishing gradient problem) – ReLU, hyperparameter tuning, batch normalization, regularization, dropout.
Practical Exercises:
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Course Outcomes:
At the end of this course, the students will be able to:
- Use appropriate search algorithms for problem solving
- Apply reasoning under uncertainty
- Build supervised learning models
- Build ensembling and unsupervised models
- Build deep learning neural network models
Text Books:
- Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig, Artificial Intelligence – A Modern Approach, Fourth Edition, Pearson Education, 2021.
- Ethem Alpaydin, Introduction to Machine Learning, MIT Press, Fourth Edition, 2020.
Reference Books:
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