Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
The following are last minute news you should be aware of ;-)
13/04/2013: change to the schedule to recover missed lecture 05/03/2013: a new edition of the course starts today! 05/03/2013: grades from the 29/01/2013 exam are available at this link
Course Aim & Organization
The objective of this course is to give an advanced presentation of the techniques most used in artificial intelligence and machine learning for pattern recognition, knowledge discovery, and data analysis/modeling.
Teachers
The course is composed by a blending of lectures and exercises by the course teacher and some teaching assistants.
- Matteo Matteucci: the course teacher
- Luigi Malago': the teaching assistant on regression
- Davide Eynard: the teaching assistant on clustering
Course Program
Techniques from machine and statistical learning are presented from a theoretical (i.e., statistics and information theory) and practical perspective through the descriptions of algorithms, the theory behind them, their implementation issues, and few examples from real applications. The course follows, at least partially, the outline of The Elements of Statistical Learning book (by Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani, and Jerome Friedman):
- Machine Learning and Pattern Classification: in this part of the course the general concepts of Machine Learning and Patter Recognition are introduced with a brief review of statistics and information theory;
- Unsupervised Learning Techniques: the most common approaches to unsupervised learning are described mostly focusing on clustering techniques, rule induction, Bayesian networks and density estimators using mixure models;
- Supervised Learning Techniques: in this part of the course the most common techniques for Supervised Learning are described: decision trees, decision rules, Bayesian classifiers, hidden markov models, lazy learners, etc.
- Feature Selection and Reduction: techniques for data rediction and feature selection will be presented with theory and applications
- Model Validation and Selection: model validation and selection are orthogonal issues to previous technique; during the course the fundamentals are described and discussed (e.g., AIC, BIC, cross-validation, etc. ).
Detailed course schedule
A detailed schedule of the course can be found here; topics are just indicative while days and teachers are correct up to some last minute change (I will notify you by email). Please note that not all days we have lectures!!
Date | Day | Time | Room | Teacher | Topic |
05/03/2013 | Tuesday | 13:15 - 15:15 | 4.1 | Matteo Matteucci | Course Introduction (Ch. 1) |
11/03/2013 | Monday | 13:15 - 15:15 | 3.8 | Matteo Matteucci | Two examples from classification (Ch. 2) |
12/03/2013 | Tuesday | 13:15 - 15:15 | 4.1 | Matteo Matteucci | Statistical Decision Theory and Bias-Variance trade off (Ch. 2) |
18/03/2013 | Monday | 13:15 - 15:15 | 3.8 | Luigi Malagò | Linear Regression Methods (Ch. 2, Ch. 3, (*)) |
19/03/2013 | Tuesday | 13:15 - 15:15 | 4.1 | Luigi Malagò | Linear Regression Methods (Ch. 2, Ch. 3, (*)) |
25/03/2013 | Monday | 13:15 - 15:15 | 3.8 | Luigi Malagò | --- CANCELLED --- |
26/03/2013 | Tuesday | 13:15 - 15:15 | 4.1 | Luigi Malagò | Linear Regression Methods (Ch. 2, Ch. 3, (*)) |
01/04/2013 | Monday | 13:15 - 15:15 | 3.8 | --- | No Lecture |
02/04/2013 | Tuesday | 13:15 - 15:15 | 4.1 | --- | No Lecture |
08/04/2013 | Monday | 13:15 - 15:15 | 3.8 | Luigi Malagò | Linear Regression Methods (Ch. 2, Ch. 3, (*)) |
09/04/2013 | Tuesday | 13:15 - 15:15 | 4.1 | Matteo Matteucci | Discriminating functions, decision boundary and Linear Regression (Ch.4.1, Ch. 4.2) |
15/04/2013 | Monday | 13:15 - 15:15 | 3.8 | Matteo Matteucci | Linear Discriminant Analysis (Ch. 4.3) |
16/04/2013 | Tuesday | 13:15 - 15:15 | 4.1 | Luigi Malagò | Linear Regression Methods (Ch. 2, Ch. 3, (*)) |
22/04/2013 | Monday | 13:15 - 15:15 | 3.8 | --- | No Lecture |
23/04/2013 | Tuesday | 13:15 - 15:15 | 4.1 | Matteo Matteucci | Linear Discriminant Analysis (Ch. 4.3) |
29/04/2013 | Monday | 13:15 - 15:15 | 3.8 | Matteo Matteucci | Linear Discriminant Analysis (Ch. 4.3) |
30/04/2013 | Tuesday | 13:15 - 15:15 | 4.1 | Matteo Matteucci | Logistic Regression (Ch.4.4) |
06/05/2013 | Monday | 13:15 - 15:15 | 3.8 | Davide Eynard | Clustering I: Introduction and K-Means |
07/05/2013 | Tuesday | 13:15 - 15:15 | 4.1 | Davide Eynard | Clustering II: K-Means Alternatives, Hierarchical, SOM |
13/05/2013 | Monday | 13:15 - 15:15 | 3.8 | Davide Eynard | Clustering III: Mixture of Gaussians, DBSCAN, Jarvis-Patrick |
14/05/2013 | Tuesday | 13:15 - 15:15 | 4.1 | Davide Eynard | Clustering IV: Spectral Clustering |
20/05/2013 | Monday | 13:15 - 15:15 | 3.8 | Davide Eynard | Clustering V: Evaluation Measures |
21/05/2013 | Tuesday | 13:15 - 15:15 | 4.1 | Matteo Matteucci | Logistic Regression (Ch.4.4) |
27/05/2013 | Monday | 13:15 - 15:15 | 3.8 | Matteo Matteucci | Logistic Regression (Ch.4.4) + Perceptron Learning |
28/05/2013 | Tuesday | 13:15 - 15:15 | 4.1 | --- | No Lecture |
03/06/2013 | Monday | 13:15 - 15:15 | 3.8 | Matteo Matteucci | |
04/06/2013 | Tuesday | 13:15 - 15:15 | 4.1 | Matteo Matteucci | |
10/06/2013 | Monday | 13:15 - 15:15 | 3.8 | Matteo Matteucci | |
11/06/2013 | Tuesday | 13:15 - 15:15 | 4.1 | Matteo Matteucci | |
17/06/2013 | Monday | 13:15 - 15:15 | 3.8 | Matteo Matteucci |