SHIV NADAR UNIVERSITY

GRADUATE COURSE PROPOSAL

I. COURSE TITLE: Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery

II. COURSE CODE: BDA 655

III. COURSE CREDITS (L:T:P):3:0:0

IV. TOTAL CONTACT HOURS/ BATCH/WEEK (L:T:P): 3

V. NO. OF BATCHES: 1

VI. COURSE TYPE (MAJOR/UWE/CCC/REAL/VELS/IC), PLEASE MENTION ALL

THAT APPLIES:

VII. PREREQUISITE/S (IF ANY): Based on internal written test for course registration

VIII. COURSE COORDINATOR/INSTRUCTOR(S): Santosh Singh

IX. SCHOOL/ DEPARTMENT: SONS / BDAC

X. DISCIPLINES TO WHICH THE COURSE MAY BE OF INTEREST: SOE, SoNS and

Economics

XI. COURSE CONTENT:

Overview
This course gives an overview of many concepts, techniques and algorithms in
machine learning, beginning with topics such as linear models of regression and
classification and ending with topics like Bayesian networks and deep belief
networks. This course will give the students the basic idea and intuition behind
modern machine learning methods as well as a bit more formal understanding of
how, why and when they work. The underlying theme in the course is statistical
inference as it provides the foundation for most of the methods covered.

Detailed Syllabus

1. The Learning Problem: Problem setup, components of learning, a simple

learning model, learning versus design, Understand if learning is feasible?

2. Linear Models: Linear classification, Linear regression, Logistic regression

3. Training versus testing

4. Kernel Methods
 5. Bayesian Networks

6. Deep Belief Networks

Main References:
1. Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning, Christopher M. Bishop
2. Learning from Data, Yaser S. Abu-Mostafa, Malik Magdon Ismail, Hsuan-Tien Lin
3. Machine Learning: A probabilistic Approach, Kevin P. Murphy

Other References:
1. Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms, David Mackey
2. The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference and Prediction, Hastie,
T., R. Tibshirani, and J. H. Friedman

XII. ASSESSMENT SCHEME:

Midterm Exam 20%

Final Exam 30%
Project 50%