Machine Learning

This bestseller helps students understand the algorithms of machine learning. It puts them on a path toward mastering the relevant mathematics and statistics as well as the necessary programming and experimentation. Along with improved Python code, this second edition includes two new chapters on deep belief networks and Gaussian processes. It incorporates new material on the support vector machine, random forests, the perceptron convergence theorem, filters, and more. All of the code is available on the author's website.

Introduction. Linear Discriminants. The Multi-Layer Perceptron. Radial Basis Functions and Splines. Support Vector Machines. Learning with Trees. Decision by Committee: Ensemble Learning. Probability and Learning. Unsupervised Learning. Dimensionality Reduction. Optimization and Search. Evolutionary Learning. Reinforcement Learning. Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) Methods. Graphical Models. Python.