FML Course Content
FML Course Content
IV. SYLLABUS:
MODULE – I: INTRODUCTION TO MACHINE LEARNING (09)
Machine Learning Foundations: Introduction to machine learning, learning problems and scenarios, need for machine
learning, types of learning, standard learning tasks, the Statistical Learning Framework, Probably Approximately
Correct (PAC) learning.
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MODULE – III: ENSEMBLE AND PROBABILISTIC LEARNING (09)
Ensemble Learning Model Combination Schemes, Voting, Error-Correcting Output Codes, Bagging: Random Forest
Trees, Boosting: Adaboost, Stacking
Bayesian Learning, Bayes Optimal Classifier, Naïve Bayes Classifier, Bayesian Belief Networks, Mining
Frequent Patterns
V. TEXT BOOKS:
1. Ethem Alpaydin, “Introduction to Machine Learning”, MIT Press, PHI, 3rd Edition, 2014.
2. Mehryar Mohri, Afshin Rostamizadeh, Ameet Talwalkar, “Foundations of Machine Learning”, MIT Press,
2nd Edition, 2018.
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