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Data Science

• 30 minutes introduction to AI and Machine Learning

An extremely gentle 30 minutes introduction to AI and Machine Learning. Thanks to my PhD student Haodong Chang for assist editing

• Regression methods

Classification: Logistic and Softmax; Regression: Linear, polynomial; Mix Effect model [costFunction.m] and [soft_max.m]

• Recommendation system

collaborative filtering, Factorization Machines, Non-Negative Matrix factorisation, Multiplicative Update Rule

• Dimension Reduction

classic PCA and t-SNE

• Introduction to Data Analytics and associate Jupyter notebook

Three perspectives into machine learning and Data Science. Supervised vs Unsupervised Learning, Classification accuracy

Deep Learning (jupyter style notes coming in 2018)

• Optimisation methods

Optimisation methods in general. not limited to just Deep Learning

• Neural Networks

basic neural networks and multilayer perceptron

• Convolution Neural Networks: from basic to recent Research

detailed explanation of CNN, various Loss function, Centre Loss, contrastive Loss, Residual Networks, YOLO, SSD

• Word Representation and approximated Softmax

Word2Vec, skip-gram, GloVe, Noise Contrastive Estimation, Negative sampling, Gumbel-max trick

• Deep Natural Language Processing

RNN, LSTM, Seq2Seq with Attenion, Beam search, Attention is all you need, Convolution Seq2Seq, Pointer Networks

• Deep Reinforcement Learning

basic knowledge in reinforcement learning, Markov Decision Process, Bellman Equation and move onto Deep Q-Learning

• Restricted Boltzmann Machine

basic knowledge in Restricted Boltzmann Machine (RBM)

Probability and Statistics Background

• Bayesian model

revision on Bayes model include Bayesian predictive model, conditional expectation

• Probabilistic Estimation

some useful distributions, conjugacy, MLE, MAP, Exponential family and natural parameters

• Statistics Properties

useful statistical properties to help us prove things, include Chebyshev and Markov inequality

Probabilistic Model

• Expectation Maximisation

Proof of convergence for E-M, examples of E-M through Gaussian Mixture Model, [gmm_demo.m] and [kmeans_demo.m] and [优酷链接]

• State Space Model (Dynamic model)

explain in detail of Kalman Filter and Hidden Markov Model, [kalman_demo.m] and [HMM 优酷链接] and [Kalman Filter 优酷链接]

Inference

• Variational Inference

explain Variational Bayes both the non-exponential and exponential family distribution plus stochastic variational inference. [vb_normal_gamma.m] and [优酷链接]

• Stochastic Matrices

stochastic matrix, Power Method Convergence Theorem, detailed balance and PageRank algorithm

• Introduction to Monte Carlo

inverse CDF, rejection, adaptive rejection, importance sampling [adaptive_rejection_sampling.m] and [hybrid_gmm.m]

• Markov Chain Monte Carlo

M-H, Gibbs, Slice Sampling, Elliptical Slice sampling, Swendesen-Wang, demonstrate collapsed Gibbs using LDA [lda_gibbs_example.m] and [test_autocorrelation.m] and [gibbs.m] and [优酷链接]

• Particle Filter (Sequential Monte-Carlo)

Sequential Monte-Carlo, Condensational Filter algorithm, Auxiliary Particle Filter [优酷链接]

Advanced Probabilistic Model

• Bayesian Non Parametrics (BNP) and its inference basics

Dircihlet Process (DP), Chinese Restaurant Process insights, Slice sampling for DP [dirichlet_process.m] and [优酷链接] and [Jupyter Notebook]

• Bayesian Non Parametrics (BNP) extensions

Hierarchical DP, HDP-HMM, Indian Buffet Process (IBP)

• Determinantal Point Process

explain the details of DPP’s marginal distribution, L-ensemble, its sampling strategy, our work in time-varying DPP