Mathematics of Machine Learning: An Introduction - Lecture 1

Mathematics of Machine Learning: An Introduction - Lecture 1

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Mathematics of Machine Learning: An Introduction - Lecture 1

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  1. 1 Date & Time: Tuesday, 12 February,
  2. 2 Date & Time: Tuesday, 12 February,
  3. 3 Date & Time: Wednesday, 13 February,
  4. 4 ICTS-TIFR: An Overview
  5. 5 ICTS and its Mandate
  6. 6 The ICTS Campus - Imagined 2012
  7. 7 The ICTS Campus - Realised 2017
  8. 8 ICTS Research - Structure
  9. 9 ICTS Programs
  10. 10 What ICTS is Not
  11. 11 ICTS Programs - Format
  12. 12 ICTS Programs - Duration
  13. 13 ICTS Programs - Organisation
  14. 14 ICTS Programs - Directions
  15. 15 ICTS Programs - Numbers
  16. 16 ICTS Programs - A Sampling
  17. 17 ICTS Outreach - Initiatives
  18. 18 ICTS Outreach-Kaapi with Kuriosity
  19. 19 Thank You See You Again at ICTS
  20. 20 What is machine learning and deep learning?
  21. 21 Machine learning ML: A new kind of science
  22. 22 Talk overview
  23. 23 Part 1 - Mathematical formalization of Machine Learning ML
  24. 24 Old Idea: Curve fitting Legendre, Gauss, c. 1800
  25. 25 Example: Learning to score reviews
  26. 26 Example: Learning to rate reviews contd
  27. 27 ML ~ finding suitable function "model" given examples of desired input/output behavior
  28. 28 Formal framework
  29. 29 Training via Gradient Descent "natural algorithm"
  30. 30 Subcase: deep learning* deep models = "multilayered"
  31. 31 Summary so far:
  32. 32 Unsupervised learning no human-supplied labels
  33. 33 A Language model baby "word2ver" [Mikolov et al'1 3]
  34. 34 Properties of semantic word vectors
  35. 35 Sequential decision-making framework
  36. 36 Game-playing via Deep Learning crude account of Alpha-Go Zero
  37. 37 Part 3 - Toward mathematical understanding of Deep Learning
  38. 38 Special case: deep learning deep = "multilayered"
  39. 39 Some key questions
  40. 40 Analysis of optimization
  41. 41 Black box analysis sketch
  42. 42 More about optimization in next talk, including recent works using trajectory analysis for gradient descent
  43. 43 Why no overfitting?
  44. 44 Part 4 - Taking stock, wrapping up
  45. 45 1. Imitation approach has not worked well in the past: airplanes, chess/go etc.
  46. 46 Sample Task: "Decoding" Brain fMRI [Vodrahalli et al, Neurolmage'17]
  47. 47 Brain regions useful for decoding
  48. 48 Can Machine Learning thrive in India?
  49. 49 Concluding thoughts on ML
  50. 50 Q&A

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