Mod-03 Lec-09 Sufficient Statistics; Recursive formulation of ML and Bayesian estimates
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Mod-07 Lec-22 Consistency of Empirical Risk Minimization; VC-Dimension
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Mod-09 Lec-35 Overview of SMO and other algorithms for SVM; ?-SVM and ?-SVR; SVM as a risk minimizer
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Mod-03 Lec-08 Bayesian Estimation examples; the exponential family of densities and ML estimates
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Mod-09 Lec-34 Support Vector Regression and ?-insensitive Loss function, examples of SVM learning
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Mod-03 Lec-07 Bayesian estimation of parameters of density functions, MAP estimates
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Mod-07 Lec-21 Consistency of Empirical Risk Minimization
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Mod-07 Lec-20 Overview of Statistical Learning Theory; Empirical Risk Minimization
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Mod-07 Lec-19 Learning and Generalization; PAC learning framework
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Mod-03 Lec-06 Maximum Likelihood estimation of different densities
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Mod-09 Lec-33 Kernel Functions for nonlinear SVMs; Mercer and positive definite Kernels
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Mod-03 Lec-05 Implementing Bayes Classifier; Estimation of Class Conditional Densities
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Mod-06 Lec-18 Linear Discriminant functions for multi-class case; multi-class logistic regression
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Mod-02 Lec-04 Estimating Bayes Error; Minimax and Neymann-Pearson classifiers
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Mod-09 Lec-32 SVM formulation with slack variables; nonlinear SVM classifiers
Description:
Prof. P.S. Sastry, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, IISc Bangalore.
This course provides a fairly comprehensive view of the fundamentals of pattern classification and regression. Topics covered in the lectures include an overview of pattern classification and regression; Bayesian decision making and Bayes classifier; parametric estimation of densities; mixture densities and EM algorithm; Nonparametric Density Estimation; Linear Models for Classification and Regression; overview of statistical learning theory; empirical risk minimization and VC-dimension; artificial neural networks for classification and regression; support vector machines and kernel-based methods; feature selection, model assessment and cross-validation; boosting and classifier ensembles.