Machine Learning – Types of Machine Learning – Supervised Learning – Unsupervised Learning – Basic Concepts in Machine Learning – Machine Learning Process – Weight Space – Testing Machine Learning Algorithms – A Brief Review of Probability Theory –Turning Data into Probabilities – The Bias-Variance Tradeoff.

Linear Models for Regression – Linear Basis Function Models – The Bias-Variance Decomposition – Bayesian Linear Regression – Common Regression Algorithms – Simple Linear Regression – Multiple Linear Regression – Linear Models for Classification – Discriminate Functions – Probabilistic Generative Models – Probabilistic Discriminative Models – Laplace Approximation – Bayesian Logistic Regression – Common Classification Algorithms – k-Nearest Neighbors – Decision Trees – Random Forest model – Support Vector Machines.

Mixture Models and EM – K-Means Clustering – Dirichlet Process Mixture Models – Spectral Clustering – Hierarchical Clustering – The Curse of Dimensionality – Dimensionality Reduction – Principal Component Analysis – Latent Variable Models(LVM) – Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA).

Bayesian Networks – Conditional Independence – Markov Random Fields – Learning – Naive Bayes Classifiers – Markov Model – Hidden Markov Model- Model evaluation – Precision,Recall.

Reinforcement Learning – Representation Learning – Neural Networks – Active Learning – Ensemble Learning – Bootstrap Aggregation – Boosting – Ada Boost & Gradient Boosting Machines.