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Machine Learning School 2010 Proceedings Available

Monday, June 21st, 2010

The machine learning school 2010 conducted in Bangalore,India appears to be a success. The proceedings are now made available.

Download:

Associative Rule Mining
Graphical Models 1
Graphical Models 2
Graphical Models 3
Gaussian Processes
ML Introduction
Privacy Preserving Mining
Support Vector Machines

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Machine Learning Summer School – June 14,16 2010, Bangalore, India

Friday, June 11th, 2010

Machine Learning Summer School 2010’ will be hosted from June 14 – 19, 2010 at IISc Bangalore, from Yahoo! India Research & Development, in partnership with the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore. This summer school is targeted towards academia as well as industry with a focus to deliver practical learning with or without machine learning exposure.

Schedule:

Jun-14 (morning) Nando De Freitas/Alex Smola
Introduction to ML/Graphical Models
Jun-14 (afternoon) Nando De Freitas
Gaussian Processes
Jun-15 (morning) Chiru Bhattacharyya
Support Vector Machines
Jun-15 (afternoon) Alex Smola
Graphical Models and Kernels
Jun-16 (morning) Jayant Haritsa
Association Rule Mining
Jun-16 (afternoon) Chiru Bhattacharyya
Kernel Methods
Jun-17 (morning) Nando De Freitas
Bayesian Optimization
Jun-17 (afternoon) Jayant Haritsa
Privacy Preserving Mining
Jun-18 (morning) John Langford
Transformation of learning problem
Jun-18 (afternoon) John Langford
Learning in contextual bandit settings
Jun-19 (morning) Deepak Agarwal
Recommender problems: matrix factorization
Jun-19 (afternoon) Deepak Agarwal
Recommender problems: multi-resolution models

More details visit :http://bangalore.yahoo.com/labs/summerschool.html

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SAS offers FREE software for college statistical enthusiasts

Sunday, April 18th, 2010

Are you a stat’s fan?, then pick up your copy of SAS for free starting this fall at your university!

On-Demand for Academics is an online program for teaching and learning data management and analytics. It allows professors and students to use several applications, including SAS Enterprise Guide and SAS Enterprise Miner for free. More applications may be added in the near future.  Is SAS Institue following in the foot steps of software giants?, its something which we should wait and watch!

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Machine Learning at Stanford University

Sunday, March 28th, 2010

This time we bring to you an online video tutorial on CS 229: Machine Learning course from Stanford University. Besides 19 Lectures on machine learning you will be provided with relevant lecture notes, links other related miscellaneous stuff . Professor Andrew Ng will introduce  machine learning and statistical pattern recognition which will cover topics like supervised learning, unsupervised learning, learning theory, reinforcement learning and adaptive control. Other applications of machine learning, such as to robotic control, data mining, autonomous navigation, bio informatics, speech recognition, and text and web data processing are also discussed.

This was the first lecture:- (course materials) The first 30 minutes or so of this lecture is introduction to the course and the field of machine learning in general.

  • In the rest of the lecture, the four main parts of the course is described in some detail along with illustrative examples :-Supervised learning: providing the algorithm a data set, supervising- learn the association between input & output, regression problems, classification problems, support vector machines- infinite number of features
  • Learning theory
  • Unsupervised learning: clustering, Cocktail party problem, independent component analysis Reinforcement learning: reward function (good dog, bad dog), feedback function

In the second lecture, Professor Andrew Ng will cover topics like linear regression, gradient descent, and normal equations and discusses how they relate to machine learning.

For more  visit the home page: http://cs229.stanford.edu/

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