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What type of networks does Keras support for prototyping?
What type of networks does Keras support for prototyping?
Which of the following libraries is based on the Lua programming language?
Which of the following libraries is based on the Lua programming language?
What is a recommended method for handling missing values in data cleaning?
What is a recommended method for handling missing values in data cleaning?
Which feature does TensorFlow.js provide?
Which feature does TensorFlow.js provide?
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Which of the following is NOT listed as a method for data transformation?
Which of the following is NOT listed as a method for data transformation?
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What is the primary goal of supervised learning?
What is the primary goal of supervised learning?
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What is the primary purpose of using machine learning according to the content?
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Which of the following is a characteristic of unsupervised learning?
Which of the following is a characteristic of unsupervised learning?
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Which of the following statements best describes 'big data' as mentioned in the content?
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In reinforcement learning, what is the credit assignment problem?
In reinforcement learning, what is the credit assignment problem?
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What type of output does supervised learning typically produce?
What type of output does supervised learning typically produce?
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In what scenarios is learning particularly emphasized according to the content?
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What does the phrase 'build a model that is a good and useful approximation to the data' imply?
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Which application is least likely associated with unsupervised learning?
Which application is least likely associated with unsupervised learning?
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What is the main goal of machine learning?
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Which of the following tasks falls under supervised learning?
Which of the following tasks falls under supervised learning?
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In the context of reinforcement learning, what is the primary objective of an algorithm?
In the context of reinforcement learning, what is the primary objective of an algorithm?
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What type of task is 'association' considered in machine learning?
What type of task is 'association' considered in machine learning?
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Which role does statistics primarily serve in machine learning?
Which role does statistics primarily serve in machine learning?
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Which option best describes clustering in unsupervised learning?
Which option best describes clustering in unsupervised learning?
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What is the purpose of 'ranking' in the context of supervised learning?
What is the purpose of 'ranking' in the context of supervised learning?
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Which process is specifically used for reducing the number of features in a dataset?
Which process is specifically used for reducing the number of features in a dataset?
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What is the primary relationship between bias and variance in a model as complexity increases?
What is the primary relationship between bias and variance in a model as complexity increases?
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What does the mean square error (MSE) consist of?
What does the mean square error (MSE) consist of?
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Which Python library is specifically designed for data manipulation and preprocessing?
Which Python library is specifically designed for data manipulation and preprocessing?
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Which method in supervised learning involves comparing items to rank them?
Which method in supervised learning involves comparing items to rank them?
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What feature of the bias/variance dilemma is demonstrated by a constant model function like gi(x) = 2?
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What is one of the key packages in R for handling missing values?
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Which programming language is identified for its extensive collection of libraries and packages for deep learning?
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Which framework is NOT mentioned as a Python library for implementing deep learning?
Which framework is NOT mentioned as a Python library for implementing deep learning?
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What does overfitting refer to in the context of supervised learning?
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What is the role of the loss function in supervised learning?
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What does generalization refer to in the context of model performance?
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What is a common consequence of underfitting in a model?
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In the triple trade-off model of machine learning, which factors are crucial?
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Why is cross-validation important in model training?
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What is the purpose of the inductive bias in model selection?
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What does regression analysis in supervised learning primarily focus on?
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Study Notes
Learning from Data - Overview
- Elshimaa Elgendi, PhD, Operations Research and Decision Support, Faculty of Computers and Artificial Intelligence, Cairo University, presented a lecture on Learning from Data.
- The lecture covers logistics, course grading, introduction, big data, why "learn", what we talk about when we talk about "Learning," data mining, machine learning, supervised learning, unsupervised learning, reinforcement learning, classification applications and more.
Logistics
- Course Google Drive Link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1TnPO8EcQhRNEKhxiBM3Kh4saq7jU0769?usp=sharing
- Office hours: Saturday 1-3pm or to be scheduled online
- Email: [email protected]
- Teaching Assistant (TA): Eng. Ahmed Fouad
Course Grade Distribution
- 4 Assignments (theory and programming): 15%
- Course participation: 5%
- Midterm exam: 20%
- Final exam: 60%
Introduction
- The slides presented a visual representation of concepts of idea, concept, inspiration, future, products, goals, enterprise, business growth, branding, advertising , marketing, product, e-commerce, management, motivation, teamwork, synergy, mobile, phone, social media, support development, online and technology.
Big Data
- Widespread use of personal computers and wireless communication, leads to an enormous amount of data called "big data".
- People are both producers and consumers of data.
- Data is not random but structured as in customer behavior.
- "Big theory" is necessary to extract the data structure to be able to understand the process and make future predictions.
Why "Learn"?
- Machine learning programs computers to optimize a performance criterion by using example data or past experience.
- Payroll calculation doesn't need "learn."
- Learning is needed when human expertise doesn't exist (e.g., navigating on Mars), humans are unable to explain expertise (e.g., speech recognition), solutions change in time (e.g., routing on a computer network), or solutions need to be adapted to specific cases (e.g., user biometrics).
What We Talk About When We Talk About "Learning"
- Learning involves creating general models from examples.
- Data is abundant and cheap, but knowledge is expensive and scarce.
- Data such as customer transactions (what people bought together) can help to predict consumer behavior, as in example: people who bought "Blink" also bought "Outliers".
- A model is a good and useful approximation to the data. A model learns from training data, predicts values for testing data, and then is tested.
Data Mining
- Applications include analyzing retail data for basket analysis and customer relationship management (CRM) and in finance for credit scoring. Detection of fraud, spam filters, intrusion detection, medical diagnostics, web mining for search engines, control and robotics in manufacturing, motif and alignment in bioinformatics.
Machine Learning is...
- Programming computers to optimize a performance criterion using example data or past experience.
- The goal is to develop methods that automatically detect patterns in data and use those patterns to predict future data or other outcomes.
What is Machine Learning?
- Optimizes performance criteria using example data or past experience.
- Role of statistics: inference from a sample.
- Role of computer science: efficient algorithms for solving optimization problems.
- Representing and evaluating the model for inference.
Machine Learning Tasks
- Supervised learning: predict numerical values (regression), categorical values (classification), or ranking given a set of examples or data.
- Unsupervised learning: find data structure using clustering (group data), association (find co-occurrences), link prediction (discover relationships), and data reduction.
- Reinforcement learning: how an algorithm/software agent takes steps in an environment to maximize reward.
Supervised Learning: Find f
- Given a training set {(xi, yi), i = 1, ..., n}, find a good approximation to function f: X → Y to predict future cases (e.g., spam detection).
- Knowledge extraction: rules are simpler than data.
- Compression: rules are simpler than the data they explain.
- Outlier detection: exceptions not covered by rules (e.g., fraud).
Supervised Learning
- Training data, like text documents, images, and sounds, are labeled.
- Features, or vectors, are extracted from data.
- Machine learning algorithms are used.
- A predictive model is created.
- Labels are predicted for new data.
Unsupervised Learning
- No output, learns "what normally happens."
- Clustering groups similar instances.
- Applications include customer segmentation in CRM, image compression (color quantization), and bioinformatics (learning motifs).
Reinforcement Learning
- Learns a policy (sequence of outputs).
- No supervised output; reward is delayed.
- Applications include game playing, robots in mazes, multiple agents, and partial observability.
- Learning about making decisions.
Supervised Learning – Classification
- Classifies data from discrete classes based on the data at hand.
- Example: Spam filtering predicts whether an email is spam or not.
Object Detection
- Find example training images to identify orientations.
Weather Prediction
- Uses data to predict weather.
Learning a Class from Examples
- Class C = "family car."
- Prediction: Is car x a "family car"?
- Knowledge extraction: What do people expect from a family car?
- Output: positive and negative examples.
- Input representation: x₁ (price), x₂ (engine power).
Training set X
- Shows a graph of price vs engine power for family cars
- Data points represented.
Class C
- Shows a region that helps to identify family cars
Multiple Classes, C₁, i = 1,..., K
- Shows a diagram to help visualize different classes for multiple classifications.
Classification: Applications
- Applications including face recognition, character recognition, speech recognition, medical diagnosis, biometrics, and outlier/novelty detection.
Important Concepts
- Data: labeled instances, e.g., emails marked spam/not spam.
- Training, held-out, and test sets (for evaluation).
- Experimentation cycle: select hypothesis, tune parameters, evaluate.
Evaluation
- Accuracy: fraction of instances predicted correctly.
- Overfitting: fitting training data too well, not generalizing well.
- Generalization: how well a model works on unseen data.
- Bias/variance: related to complexity of model, data set, generalization error.
Supervised Learning – Regression
- Predicts a numeric value, such as stock market prices or weather.
Stock Market
- Shows a graph of stock prices fluctuating over time.
Weather Prediction revisited
- Shows the weather prediction image including temperature.
Regression
- Shows the relationships between variables, and how to predict values for a model.
Model Selection & Generalization
- Learning is an ill-posed problem; there is a need to find assumptions (inductive bias).
- Generalization: how well the model will perform on unseen data.
- Overfitting: model is too complex.
- Underfitting: model is too simple.
Triple Trade-Off
- Trade-off between model complexity, training set size, and generalization error.
Cross Validation
- Estimating generalization error.
- Splitting data into portions to estimate.
- Splits into training, validation, and test sets.
- Resampling for few data issues.
Dimensions of a Supervised Learner
- Model g(x|θ).
- Loss function E(θ|X) = ∑(r, g(x|θ)).
- Optimization procedure θ* = arg min E(θ|X).
Bias and Variance
- Unknown parameter θ.
- Estimator d = d(x₁).
- Bias; Expected Value of d.
- Variance; difference in predictions.
Bias/Variance Dilemma
- Example: g(x) = 2 (high bias) and g(x) = ∑r²/N (lower bias higher variance).
- Increasing model complexity decreases bias and increases variance.
Supervised Learning – Ranking
- Comparing items based on preferences or scores.
Web Search
- Algorithms for ranking search results.
Given Image, Find Similar Images
- Finding similar images using given image.
Collaborative Filtering
- Recommending things to users based on what others have liked.
Recommendation Systems
- Machine learning competition to improve recommendation systems.
Unsupervised Learning – Clustering
- Discovering structure in data.
Clustering Data: Group Similar Things
- Graph shows clustering of data examples based on similar values
Clustering Images
- Shows clusters of images arranged by a computer system.
Clustering Web Search Results
- Shows clustering of web search results, grouping similar concepts together
What Is the Best Language for Machine Learning?
- Python and R programming languages are common choices.
Python Programming Language
- Extensive library collection for data analysis, image processing, and deep learning.
R Programming Language
- Extensive package collection for machine learning tasks (e.g., missing values).
Other Languages
- Java, JavaScript, Julia, and Lisp are others.
Pandas
- Python library used for working with data sets for organizing, cleaning, exploring and manipulating data.
Scikit-learn
- Python machine learning library.
- Includes tools for data mining and analysis.
- Accessible to everyone and reusable in contexts.
PyTorch
- Open-source, deep-learning library.
TensorFlow.js
- JavaScript library for deep learning in Node.js and the browser.
Keras
- Python deep-learning library.
- Facilitates use of neural networks
Data pipelines
- Data ingestion process (CSV/JSON/XML, RDBMS, NoSQL).
- Data cleaning (outlier/invalid values, missing values, filtering, imputation).
- Data transformation (scaling, normalization).
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This quiz provides an overview of the key concepts discussed in the Learning from Data lecture by Dr. Elshimaa Elgendi. Topics include the fundamentals of data mining, machine learning techniques, and the classification of learning types. It also covers the course logistics and assessment criteria.
