Academic Catalog

IAM772 FUNDAMENTALS OF MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHMS

Course Code: 9700772
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): 3(3-0)
ECTS Credit: 8.0
Department: Institute Of Applied Mathematics
Language of Instruction: English
Level of Study: Graduate
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Offered Semester: Fall and Spring Semesters.

Course Content

Matrix Decompositions: eigendecomposition and diagonalization, singular value decomposition, matrix approximations; Vector Calculus: gradients, backpropagation, automatic differentiation; Continuous Optimization: gradient descent, constraint optimization and Lagrange multipliers, convex optimization; Probability and Distributions: Bayes theorem, discrete probabilities, Gaussian distribution; Data, Models, and Learning: model selection; Linear Regression: orthogonal projection; Dimensionality Reduction with Principal Component Analysis; Classification with Support Vector Machines; Decision Trees; Neural Networks, Machine Learning Applications: dynamical systems, data mining.