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Objectives of the Courses:
To introduce advanced topics in Machine Learning, including
classifier evaluation, genetic algorithms, unsupervised
learning, feature selection, single-class learning and learning
from class imbalances.
To introduce the students to the careful reading, presenting
and critiquing of individual research papers.
To introduce the students to background research in a subfield
of Machine Learning: finding appropriate sources (some
giving broad overviews, others describing the most important
approaches in the subfield), organizing the knowledge
logically, presenting the knowledge to the class.
To initiate the students to formulate a research problem and
carrying this research through.
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Format of the Course:
Each week will be devoted to a different topic in the
field.
The first part of the lecture will be a presentation (by
the lecturer or invited guests) of the basics concepts
pertaining to the weekly topic.
The second part of the lecture will be a set of
presentations by 1 or 2 students on:
recent research papers written on that topic.