Statistical Machine Learning

10-702/36-702, Spring 2011

Aarti Singh and Larry Wasserman

Class Assistant: Michelle Martin
Teaching Assistants: T. K. Huang, Min Xu


Lecture:

Date and Time: Monday and Wednesday, 10:30 - 11:50 am
Location: 1305 NSH

Recitation: Date and Time: Thursday, 5 - 6 pm
Location: 1305 NSH


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Statistical Machine Learning is a second graduate level course in advanced machine learning , assuming students have taken Machine Learning (10-701) and Intermediate Statistics (36-705). The term "statistical" in the title reflects the emphasis on statistical analysis and methodology, which is the predominant approach in modern machine learning.

The course combines methodology with theoretical foundations and computational aspects. It treats both the "art" of designing good learning algorithms and the "science" of analyzing an algorithm's statistical properties and performance guarantees. Theorems are presented together with practical aspects of methodology and intuition to help students develop tools for selecting appropriate methods and approaches to problems in their own research.

The course includes topics in statistical theory that are now becoming important for researchers in machine learning, including consistency, minimax estimation, and concentration of measure. It also presents topics in computation including elements of convex optimization, variational methods, randomized projection algorithms, and techniques for handling large data sets.

For details about the course policies, projects, etc. see Syllabus

You can email the instructors (Larry, Aarti and TAs) by sending an email to 10702-instructors@cs