Introduction to Machine Learning, fourth edition

by Ethem Alpaydin

Overview

A substantially revised fourth edition of a comprehensive textbook, including new coverage of recent advances in deep learning and neural networks.

The goal of machine learning is to program computers to use example data or past experience to solve a given problem. Machine learning underlies such exciting new technologies as self-driving cars, speech recognition, and translation applications. This substantially revised fourth edition of a comprehensive, widely used machine learning textbook offers new coverage of recent advances in the field in both theory and practice, including developments in deep learning and neural networks.

The book covers a broad array of topics not usually included in introductory machine learning texts, including supervised learning, Bayesian decision theory, parametric methods, semiparametric methods, nonparametric methods, multivariate analysis, hidden Markov models, reinforcement learning, kernel machines, graphical models, Bayesian estimation, and statistical testing. The fourth edition offers a new chapter on deep learning that discusses training, regularizing, and structuring deep neural networks such as convolutional and generative adversarial networks; new material in the chapter on reinforcement learning that covers the use of deep networks, the policy gradient methods, and deep reinforcement learning; new material in the chapter on multilayer perceptrons on autoencoders and the word2vec network; and discussion of a popular method of dimensionality reduction, t-SNE. New appendixes offer background material on linear algebra and optimization. End-of-chapter exercises help readers to apply concepts learned. Introduction to Machine Learning can be used in courses for advanced undergraduate and graduate students and as a reference for professionals.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780262358064
Publisher:	MIT Press
Publication date:	03/24/2020
Series:	Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning series
Sold by:	Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format:	eBook
Pages:	712
Sales rank:	753,761
File size:	12 MB
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About the Author

Ethem Alpaydin is Professor in the Department of Computer Engineering at Özyegin University and Member of The Science Academy, Istanbul. He is the author of Machine Learning: The New AI, a volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series.s).

What People are Saying About This

Larry Holder

I have used Introduction to Machine Learning for several years in my graduate Machine Learning course. The book provides an ideal balance of theory and practice, and with this third edition, extends coverage to many new state-of-the-art algorithms. I look forward to using this edition in my next Machine Learning course.

John W. Sheppard

Ethem Alpaydin's Introduction to Machine Learning provides a nice blending of the topical coverage of machine learning (à la Tom Mitchell) with formal probabilistic foundations (à la Christopher Bishop). This newly updated version now introduces some of the most recent and important topics in machine learning (e.g., spectral methods, deep learning, and learning to rank) to students and researchers of this critically important and expanding field.

Endorsement

This volume is both a complete and accessible introduction to the machine learning world. This is a 'Swiss Army knife' book for this rapidly evolving subject. Although intended as an introduction, it will be useful not only for students but for any professional looking for a comprehensive book in this field. Newcomers will find clearly explained concepts and experts will find a source for new references and ideas.

—Hilario Gómez-Moreno, IEEE Senior Member, University of Alcalá, Spain

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This volume is a complete and accessible introduction to the machine learning world. This is a 'Swiss Army knife' book for this rapidly evolving subject.

—Hilario Gómez-Moreno, IEEE Senior Member, University of Alcalá, Spain

I have used Introduction to Machine Learning for several years in my graduate Machine Learning course. The book provides an ideal balance of theory and practice.

—Larry Holder, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Washington State University

Editorial Reviews

"A few years ago, I used the first edition of this book as a reference book for a project I was working on. The clarity of the writing, as well as the excellent structure and scope, impressed me. I am more than pleased to find that this second edition continues to be highly informative and comprehensive, as well as easy to read and follow." Radu State Computing Reviews

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