CSci 5521 Fall 2018 -- Notes

Supplementary Material on Textbook

• Textbook lecture notes -- Lecture notes by Ethem Alpaydin (author of text book, from author's own web site)
• allslides.pdf all the above slides arranged 4x4 (16 slides per page), in a single PDF file.

Supplementary Material

• Matlab Tutorial (slides from Rui Kuang).
• Supervised Learning (slides from Rui Kuang).
• Discriminant Function: Bayes Analysis with Gaussian Distribution
• old-mid1.pdf Sample old midterm.
• EM.pdf Expectation-Maximization process.
• principal_components.pdf Principal Components
• SVM-bennet-campbell.pdf Brief Summary of Support Vector Machines
• BackPropagation.pdf Simple Back Propagation of Neural Networks

Outside References

• Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning by Christopher M. Bishop A very thorough intense treatment of machine learning.
• Deep Learning by Ian Goodfellow and Yoshua Bengio and Aaron Courville an entry level book on deep learning neural networks.
• A Beginner's Guide To Understanding Convolutional Neural Networks
• An Intuitive Explanation of Convolutional Neural Networks
• Demo of Convolutional Neural Networks

Matlab Notes

• Matlab notes -- Some hints on getting started with matlab.
• Matlab Tutorial -- A simple tutorial on Matlab.
• Some sample illustrative matlab files
  • intro.m -- A simple introductory demo on Matlab.
  • sample_function.m -- A sample temporary function for use in the demo.
  • temporary_function.m -- Another sample temporary function for use in the demo.
    (Copy these files to your own directory, start matlab, and type intro)
  • classdemo_Sep10.m Class Demo of Sep 10
  • Fish.txt fish data for Class Demo of Sep 10
• MATLAB Primer, Kermit Sigmon.
  local PDF version.
• The Matlab Manuals, Mathworks. You will find this very useful!
• Matlab Manual: Getting Started (184 pgs, especially chapters 2 and 4).
• Official Matlab Usenet FAQ.
• A Practical Introduction to Matlab, Mark Gockenbach.

  Deep Learning in Matlab

• Matlab: Create Simple Deep Learning Network for Classification
• RunNet.m A Simple example of a short convolutional network, using digit data in OptDigitsData.m.

Matlab vs R vs Python

• MATLAB / R Reference by David Hiebeler (latest version)
  (older version of the same thing)
• R for MATLAB users
• R for OCTAVE users
• Comparison Chart of Matlab vs python numpy package
• Chart of Matlab vs R vs Python numpy package

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