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Kultur Dokumente
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Course Introduction
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Course Introduction
usage in practice
what every machine learning user should know
story-like:
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Course Introduction
Roadmap
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learning
skill
ML
skill
What is skill?
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data
ML
improved
performance
measure
ML
navigating on Mars
when human cannot define the solution easily
speech/visual recognition
when needing rapid decisions that humans cannot do
high-frequency trading
when needing to be user-oriented in a massive scale
consumer-targeted marketing
Give a computer a fish, you feed it for a day;
teach it how to fish, you feed it for a lifetime. :-)
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data
ML
improved
performance
measure
Quiz
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data
1
skill
ML is everywhere!
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Education
data
ML
skill
A Possible ML Solution
answer correctly Jrecent strength of student > difficulty of questionK
give ML 9 million records from 3000 students
automatically
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ML
skill
A Hot Problem
competition held by Netflix in 2006
100,480,507 ratings that 480,189 users gave to 17,770 movies
10% improvement = 1 million dollar prize
similar competition (movies songs) held by Yahoo! in KDDCup
2011
252,800,275 ratings that 1,000,990 users gave to 624,961 songs
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A Possible ML Solution
pattern:
viewer
learning:
Match movie and
viewer factors
add contributions
from each factor
predicted
rating
movie
known rating
learned factors
unknown rating prediction
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Quiz
Which of the following field cannot use machine learning?
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Finance
Medicine
Law
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Components of Learning:
Metaphor Using Credit Approval
Applicant Information
age
gender
annual salary
year in residence
year in job
current debt
23 years
female
USD 33,000
1 year
0.5 year
20,000
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{(xn , yn )} from f
ML
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training examples
D : (x1 , y1 ), , (xN , yN )
learning
algorithm
A
final hypothesis
gf
(learned formula to be used)
target f unknown
learning
algorithm
A
final hypothesis
gf
(learned formula to be used)
hypothesis set
H
(set of candidate formula)
training examples
D : (x1 , y1 ), , (xN , yN )
learning
algorithm
A
final hypothesis
gf
(learned formula to be used)
hypothesis set
H
(set of candidate formula)
machine learning:
use data to compute hypothesis g
that approximates target f
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Quiz
How to use the four sets below to form a learning problem for
song recommendation?
S1 = [0, 100]
S2 = all possible (userid, songid) pairs
S3 = all formula that multiplies user factors & song factors,
indexed by all possible combinations of such factors
S4 = 1,000,000 pairs of ((userid, songid), rating)
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S1 = X , S2 = Y, S3 = H, S4 = D
S1 = Y, S2 = X , S3 = H, S4 = D
S1 = D, S2 = H, S3 = Y, S4 = X
S1 = X , S2 = D, S3 = Y, S4 = H
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Quiz
How to use the four sets below to form a learning problem for
song recommendation?
S1 = [0, 100]
S2 = all possible (userid, songid) pairs
S3 = all formula that multiplies user factors & song factors,
indexed by all possible combinations of such factors
S4 = 1,000,000 pairs of ((userid, songid), rating)
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S1 = X , S2 = Y, S3 = H, S4 = D
S1 = Y, S2 = X , S3 = H, S4 = D
S1 = D, S2 = H, S3 = Y, S4 = X
S1 = X , S2 = D, S3 = Y, S4 = H
Reference Answer: 2
A on S3
S4
(g : S2 S1)
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Data Mining
target
ML = DM (usually what KDDCup does)
if interesting property related to hypothesis that approximate
target
DM can help ML, and vice versa (often, but not always)
traditional DM also focuses on efficient computation in large
database
difficult to distinguish ML and DM in reality
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Artificial Intelligence
compute something
that shows intelligent behavior
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Statistics
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Quiz
Which of the following claim is not totally true?
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Reference Answer: 3
While data mining and machine learning do
share a huge overlap, they are arguably not
equivalent because of the difference of focus.
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Summary
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