This course provides a concise introduction to the fundamental concepts in machine learning and popular machine learning algorithms. We will cover the standard and most popular supervised learning algorithms including linear regression, logistic regression, decision trees, k-nearest neighbour, an introduction to Bayesian learning and the naïve Bayes algorithm, support vector machines and kernels and neural networks with an introduction to Deep Learning. We will also cover the basic clustering algorithms. Feature reduction methods will also be discussed. We will introduce the basics of computational learning theory. In the course we will discuss various issues related to the application of machine learning algorithms. We will discuss hypothesis space, overfitting, bias and variance, tradeoffs between representational power and learnability, evaluation strategies and cross-validation. The course will be accompanied by hands-on problem solving with programming in Python and some tutorial sessions.
Elective course
UG or PG
BE/ME/MS/MSc/PhD
Basic programming skills (in Python), algorithm design, basics of probability & statistics
Data science companies and many other industries value machine learning skills.
Sudeshna Sarkar is a Professor and currently the Head in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Kharagpur. She completed her B.Tech. in 1989 from IIT Kharagpur, MS from University of California, Berkeley, and PhD from IIT Kharagpur in 1995. She served briefly in the faculty of IIT Guwahati and at IIT Kanpur before joining IIT Kharagpur in 1998. Her research interests are in Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Data and Text Mining.
The Teaching Assistants of this course are Anirban Santara and Ayan Das, both of whom are PhD students in Computer Science & Engineering Department, IIT Kharagpur. They will take active part in the course especially in running demonstration and programming classes as well as tutorial classes.
1. Machine Learning. Tom Mitchell. First Edition, McGraw- Hill, 1997.
2. Introduction to Machine Learning Edition 2, by Ethem Alpaydin
E-Certificate will be given to those who register and write the exam. Certificate will have your name, photograph and the score in the final exam. It will have the logos of NPTEL and IIT Kharagpur.
It will be e-verifiable at nptel.ac.in/noc.