Machine Learning: An Algorithmic Perspective, Second Edition

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CRC Press, Oct 8, 2014 - Computers - 457 pages
A Proven, Hands-On Approach for Students without a Strong Statistical FoundationSince the best-selling first edition was published, there have been several prominent developments in the field of machine learning, including the increasing work on the statistical interpretations of machine learning algorithms. Unfortunately, computer science students
 

Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction
1
Chapter 2 Preliminaries
15
Chapter 3 Neurons Neural Networks and Linear Discriminants
39
Chapter 4 The MultiLayer Perceptron
71
Chapter 5 Radial Basis Functions and Splines
111
Chapter 6 Dimensionality Reduction
129
Chapter 7 Probabilistic Learning
153
Chapter 8 Support Vector Machines
169
Chapter 12 Learning with Trees
249
Ensemble Learning
267
Chapter 14 Unsupervised Learning
281
Chapter 15 Markov Chain Monte Carlo MCMC Methods
305
Chapter 16 Graphical Models
321
Chapter 17 Symmetric Weights and Deep Belief Networks
359
Chapter 18 Gaussian Processes
395
Appendix A Python
415

Chapter 9 Optimisation and Search
189
Chapter 10 Evolutionary Learning
211
Chapter 11 Reinforcement Learning
231

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About the author (2014)

Stephen Marsland is a professor of scientific computing and the postgraduate director of the School of Engineering and Advanced Technology (SEAT) at Massey University. His research interests in mathematical computing include shape spaces, Euler equations, machine learning, and algorithms. He received a PhD from Manchester University