Miroslav Kubat

An Introduction to Machine Learning (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

This textbook presents fundamental machine learning concepts in an easy to understand manner by providing practical advice, using straightforward examples, and offering engaging discussions of relevant applications. The main topics include Bayesian classifiers, nearest-neighbor classifiers, linear and polynomial classifiers, decision trees, neural networks, and support vector machines. Later chapters show how to combine these simple tools by way of "boosting," how to exploit them in more complicated domains, and how to deal with diverse advanced practical issues. One chapter is dedicated to the popular genetic algorithms.

This revised edition contains three entirely new chapters on critical topics regarding the pragmatic application of machine learning in industry. The chapters examine multi-label domains, unsupervised learning and its use in deep learning, and logical approaches to induction as well as Inductive Logic Programming. Numerous chapters have been expanded, and the presentation of the material has been enhanced. The book contains many new exercises, numerous solved examples, thought-provoking experiments, and computer assignments for independent work.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer International Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 348
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783319639130
• Artikelnr.: 53063573

Autorenporträt

Miroslav Kubat, Associate Professor at the University of Miami, has been teaching and studying machine learning for over 25 years. He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed papers, co-edited two books, served on the program committees of over 60 conferences and workshops, and is an editorial board member of three scientific journals. He is widely credited with co-pioneering research in two major branches of the discipline: induction of time-varying concepts and learning from imbalanced training sets. He also contributed to research in induction from multi-label examples, induction of hierarchically organized classes, genetic algorithms, and initialization of neural networks.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Ambitions and Goals of Machine Learning.- 2. Probabilities: Bayesian Classifiers.- 3. Similarities: Nearest-Neighbor Classifiers.- 4. Inter-Class Boundaries: Linear and Polynomial Classifiers.- 5. Decision Trees.- 6. Artificial Neural Networks.- 7. Computational Learning Theory.- 8. Experience from Historical Applications.- 9. Voting Assemblies and Boosting.- 10. Classifiers in the Form of Rule-Sets.- 11. Practical Issues to Know About.- 12. Performance Evaluation.- 13. Statistical Significance.- 14. Induction in Multi-Label Domains.- 15. Unsupervised Learning.- 16. Deep Learning.- 17. Reinforcement Learning: N-Armed Bandits and Episodes.- 18. Reinforcement Learning: From TD(0) to Deep-Q-Learning.- 19. Temporal Learning.- 20. Hidden Markov Models.- 21. Genetic Algorithm.- Bibliography.- Index.

Rezensionen

"Miroslav Kubat's Introduction to Machine Learning is an excellent overview of a broad range of Machine Learning (ML) techniques. It fills a longstanding need for texts that cover the middle ground of neither oversimplifying nor too technical explanations of key concepts of key Machine Learning algorithms. ... All in all it is a very informative and instructive read which is well suited for undergraduate students and aspiring data scientists." (Holger K. von Joua, Google+, plus.google.com, December, 2016)

"It is superbly organized: each section includes a 'what have you learned' summary, and every chapter has a short summary, accompanying (brief) historical remarks, and a slew of exercises. ... In most of the chapters, there are very clear examples, well chosen and illustrated, that really help the reader understand each concept. ... I did learn quite a bit about very basic machine learning by reading this book." (Jacques Carette, Computing Reviews, January, 2016)