SYLLABUS
SYLLABUS
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Pre-requisite MAT2001 Syllabus version
v1.1
Course Objectives:
1. Ability to comprehend the concept of supervised and unsupervised learning techniques
2. Differentiate regression, classification and clustering techniques and to implement their
algorithms.
3. To analyze the performance of various machine learning techniques and to select appropriate
features for training machine learning algorithms.
Text Book(s)
1. Ethem Alpaydin, Introduction to Machine Learning , MIT Press, Prentice Hall of India,
Third Edition 2014
Reference Books
1. Sergios Theodoridis, Konstantinos Koutroumbas, Pattern Recognition, Academic Press, 4th
edition, 2008, ISBN:9781597492720.
2. Mehryar Mohri, Afshin Rostamizadeh, Ameet Talwalkar ”Foundations of Machine Learning,
MIT Press, 2012
3. Tom Mitchell, Machine Learning, McGraw Hill, 3rd Edition,1997.
4 Charu C. Aggarwal, Data Classification Algorithms and Applications , CRC Press, 2014
5 Charu C. Aggarwal, DATA CLUSTERING Algorithms and Applications, CRC Press, 2014
6 Kevin P. Murphy ”Machine Learning: A Probabilistic Perspective”, The MIT Press, 2012
Mode of Evaluation: CAT / Assignment / Quiz / FAT / Project / Seminar
List of Challenging Experiments (Indicative)
1. Implement Decision Tree learning. 2 hours
2. Implement Logistic Regression. 2 hours
3. Implement classification using Multilayer perceptron. 2 hours
4. Implement classification using SVM 2 hours
5. Implement Adaboost 2 hours
6. Implement Bagging using Random Forests 2 hours
7. Implement K-means Clustering to Find Natural Patterns in Data. 2 hours
8. Implement Hierarchical clustering. 2 hours
9. Implement K-mode clustering 2 hours
10 Implement Principle Component Analysis for Dimensionality Reduction. 2 hours
.
11 Implement Multiple Correspondence Analysis for Dimensionality 2 hours
. Reduction.
12 Implement Gaussian Mixture Model Using the Expectation Maximization. 2 hours
.
13 Evaluating ML algorithm with balanced and unbalanced datasets. 2 hours
.
14 Comparison of Machine Learning algorithms. 2 hours
.
15. Implement k-nearest neighbors algorithm 2 hours
Total Laboratory Hours 30 hours
Mode of assessment: Project/Activity
Recommended by Board of Studies
Approved by Academic Council No. 47 Date 05.10.2017