Course Material Machine Learning


Exercise Sheets

        Introducing Matlab [PDF]
        Maximum Likelihood Estimation [PDF]
        Linear Discriminant Analysis [PDF]
        Perceptron [PDF]
        Boosting [PDF] [USPS data]
        Support Vector Machines [PDF] [svmfiles.zip]
        Regression [PDF]
        Kernel Methods [PDF]
        Entropy [PDF]
        PAC Learning and VC Dimension [PDF]
        Clustering [PDF]
        Mean Field Methods [PDF]


Slides

Complete Sets of Slides

        Primer: Probability and Statistics [PDF]        
        The EM Algorithm [PDF]        
        Support Vector Machines [PDF]        
        Primer: Information Theory [PDF]        
        Bayesian Estimation [PDF]        
        Clustering [PDF]        
        Jackknife and Bootstrap [PDF]        
        Optimization of Functionals (Variational Calculus) [PDF]        
        Regression [PDF]        
        Precision/Recall and ROC [PDF]        

Other Topics Large & Not So Large

        Counting Dichotomies [PDF]        
        Ensemble Methods [PDF]        
        Histograms and Sample Size [PDF]        
        Hypothesis Testing [PDF]        
        PAC Learning [PDF]        
        Projection Methods [PDF]        
        Supervised vs Unsupervised Learning [PDF]        



Student's Theses

Theses I supervised at ETH Zurich.

Model Order Selection: Criteria, Inference Strategies, and an Application to Biclustering.
by Patrick Pletscher.
Master Thesis, ETH Zurich, 2007. [PDF]

Clustering Rank Data.
by Ludwig Busse.
Research Project, ETH Zurich, 2007.

Feature Extraction for Bayesian Order-Adaptive Clustering.
by Samuel Braendle.
Term Thesis, ETH Zurich, 2007. [PDF]

Classification of Radar Data Based on Constrained Agglomerative Segmentation.
by Sarah Gugl.
Term Thesis, ETH Zurich, 2006.


Course Pages

Advanced Topics in Machine Learning, Summer 2007
Machine Learning, Winter 2006/2007
Advanced Topics in Machine Learning, Summer 2006
Machine Learning, Winter 2005/2006