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Course Objectives

  1. The aim of this course is to teach necessary mathematical skills in order to understand machine learning algorithms
  2. Moreover, the second aim is to teach mathematics to be able to implement machine learning models.

Topics

  • Importance of mathematics in machine learning
  • Linear Algebra
  • Eigenvector and eigenvalues
  • Matrix decomposition
  • Vector Calculus
  • Probability and distributions
  • Optimization
  • Learn parameters of linear regression with optimization
  • Dimension reduction with principal component analysis
  • Density Estimation with Gaussian mixture models
  • Classification with support vector machines