Personal Perspective

A Short Course on Machine Learning

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This is a short course on machine learning, describing my personal perspective on inference and decision making. Inference refers to how we assess a situation under uncertainty, and decision making implies action under uncertainty. I say 'personal perspective' to indicate that I'll be as rigorous as or as brief as I deem appropriate to convey my insight.

• Probability
• State Space
  • N-Dimensional Space
• Decision Theory
• Big Picture of Machine Learning
  • Point Estimation
    • Basic Optimization
    • Expectation Maximization
  • Deterministic Inference
    • Variational Inference
  • Stochastic Inference
    • MCMC
• Information Theory
• Linear Regression
• Logistic Regression
• Artificial Neural Network
  • Backpropagation
• Probabilistic Graphical Model
  • Directed Graphical Model
  • Undirected Graphical Model
• Singular Value Decomposition
  • PageRank