Machine Learning Refined

Jeremy Watt received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Northwestern University, Illinois, and is now a machine learning consultant and educator. He teaches machine learning, deep learning, mathematical optimization, and reinforcement learning at Northwestern University, Illinois. Reza Borhani received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Northwestern University, Illinois, and is now a machine learning consultant and educator. He teaches a variety of courses in machine learning and deep learning at Northwestern University, Illinois. Aggelos K. Katsaggelos is the Joseph Cummings Professor at Northwestern University, Illinois, where he heads the Image and Video Processing Laboratory. He is a Fellow of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), SPIE, the European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP), and The Optical Society (OSA) and the recipient of the IEEE Third Millennium Medal (2000).

'An excellent book that treats the fundamentals of machine learning from basic principles to practical implementation. The book is suitable as a text for senior-level and first-year graduate courses in engineering and computer science. It is well organized and covers basic concepts and algorithms in mathematical optimization methods, linear learning, and nonlinear learning techniques. The book is nicely illustrated in multiple colors and contains numerous examples and coding exercises using Python.' John G. Proakis, University of California, San Diego

• 1. Introduction to machine learning; Part I. Mathematical Optimization: 2. Zero order optimization techniques; 3. First order methods; 4. Second order optimization techniques; Part II. Linear Learning: 5. Linear regression; 6. Linear two-class classification; 7. Linear multi-class classification; 8. Linear unsupervised learning; 9. Feature engineering and selection; Part III. Nonlinear Learning: 10. Principles of nonlinear feature engineering; 11. Principles of feature learning; 12. Kernel methods; 13. Fully-connected neural networks; 14. Tree-based learners; Part IV. Appendices: Appendix A. Advanced first and second order optimization methods; Appendix B. Derivatives and automatic differentiation; Appendix C. Linear algebra.