General information

• Study points: 1.00
• Language: English
• Category: Exercises
• Duration: 15.0 hours 
• Periodicity: Taught in the first semester
• POC: POC Artificial Intelligence

Taught by

Blockeel Hendrik

Content

Exercises are made on the subjects discussed during the lectures. These are mostly pen-and-paper exercises where students gain insight in the workings of learning algorithms by manually mimicking the computations of certain learning algorithms, graphically describing the result of a learning algorithm (by drawing decision
surfaces), etc.  There are also exercises on evaluation of machine learning models and algorithms.

Course Material

• A list of exercises.
• Solutions are made available on Toledo.

Course activities

Students try to independently solve the exercises during some time.  A teaching assistant provides help where necessary, and discusses the solution afterwards.

This course is also included in

H02C1B Machine Learning and Inductive Inference  

General information

• Study points: 3.00
• Language: English
• Category: Lectures
• Duration: 19.5 hours 
• Periodicity: Taught in the first semester
• POC: POC Artificial Intelligence

Taught by

Blockeel Hendrik

Content

1. introduction to machine learning, connections with other subjects
2. general principles of learning:
- concept learning, version spaces
- evaluation of learning algorithms
- theory of learnability
- representation of inputs and outputs of learning algorithms
3. specific learning approaches:
- decision trees
- rules, association rules
- instance based learning
- clustering
- neural networks
- support vector machines
- Bayesian learning
- genetic algorithms
- ensemble methods (bagging, boosting, ...)
- reinforcement learning
- inductive logic programming
 

Course Material

Course Text
Lecture slides

Course activities

Ten lectures of 2 hours each.

This course is also included in

H02C1B Machine Learning and Inductive Inference  

Evaluation description

Examination type:
    oral with written preparation
When?: final examination during examination period
Evaluation type:
    Open book

Explanation

The exam consists of questions about the theory as well as some exercises.  The course text and lecture slides can be consulted during the exam.  Students have about 2 hours time for preparing their answers, followed by an ten minute oral interrogation.