Course overview

What is Machine Learning Foundations (MLF) about?

MLF is a Diploma-level course that builds the linear algebra and calculus foundation for machine learning — what a model and a learning algorithm actually are, through vector spaces and multivariate optimization, to eigenvalues and regression.

• ▸Week 1: what machine learning is, supervised learning, classification, dimensionality reduction, density estimation.
• ▸Week 2: vector spaces, dot products, functions, derivatives, gradients, multivariate optimization, high-dimensional geometry.
• ▸Week 3: the four fundamental subspaces, orthogonal projection, least squares.
• ▸Week 4: diagonalization, eigenvalues and eigenvectors, linear and polynomial/ridge regression.

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