Checking date: 13/05/2022


Course: 2024/2025

Machine learning
(17239)
Master in Big Data Analytics (Plan: 352 - Estudio: 322)
EPI


Coordinating teacher: PARRADO HERNANDEZ, EMILIO

Department assigned to the subject: Signal and Communications Theory Department

Type: Compulsory
ECTS Credits: 6.0 ECTS

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Requirements (Subjects that are assumed to be known)
Big Data Intelligence: methods and technologies Statistical learning
Objectives
Basic Skills - Acquisition of knowledge and skills that provide with a background of creativity in the development and application of ideas, often within a research context. - Ability to apply acquired knowledge and to solve problems under novel or almost novel situations or within broader (multidisciplinary) contexts related with big data. - Acquisition of skills for learning in an autonomous and continuous manner. General Skills - Ability to apply the theoretical foundation of collect, storage, processing and presentation of information, especially for big data volumes. - Ability to identify the most suitable data analysis technique in each problem, and to apply it for obtaining the most appropriate solution to each one. - Ability to obtain practical and efficient solution for processing of big data volumes. - Skill to synthesize data analysis conclusions, and to communicate it clearly and convincingly in a bilingual environment. - Ability to generate new ideas and to anticipate new situations, within the context of data analysis and decision making. - Skill to working collaboratively and to collaborate with others autonomously. Specific Skills - Skill to design data processing systems, from the data gathering to statistical analysis and presentation of final results. - Ability to apply the basic principles of machine learning to the design and improvement of data processing procedures. - Ability to interpret the functional specifications of machine learning based software applications. - Ability to identify the opportunity to apply machine learning techniques for solving real problems. Learning outcomes - Basic knowledge about machine learning techniques. - Understanding of basic machine learning techniques. - Making practical use of machine learning techniques in real problems - Ability to analyse and select the most appropriate task in each technique - Ability to determine when to apply machine learning techniques for solving real problems
Skills and learning outcomes
Description of contents: programme
1. Kernels and Large Margin Classifiers 2. Gaussian Processes 3. Mixtures and Latent Variable Models 4. Topic modeling in corpus of documents 5. Deep Learning 6. Sequential modeling with Hidden Markov Models, Kalman Filters and latent variational autoencoders 7. Machine learning in industrial applications
Learning activities and methodology
The course is imparted in specific rooms and laboratories for the Master Program. It will include: - Lectures for the presentation, development and analysis of the contents of the course. - Practical sessions for the resolution of individual problems and practical projects in the laboratory - Seminars for discussion with reduced groups of students
Assessment System
  • % end-of-term-examination 20
  • % of continuous assessment (assigments, laboratory, practicals...) 80

Calendar of Continuous assessment


Basic Bibliography
  • Crish Bishop. Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning. Springer . 2006
  • David Barber. Bayesian Reasoning and Machine Learning. Cambridge University Press. 2012
  • Murphy, K.P.. Machine Learning. A Probabilistic Perspective. MIT Press. 2012

The course syllabus may change due academic events or other reasons.