Introduction to Machine Learning

Miroslav Kubat, Associate Professor at the University of Miami, has been teaching and studying machine learning for over 25 years. He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed papers, co-edited two books, served on the program committees of over 60 conferences and workshops, and is an editorial board member of three scientific journals. He is widely credited with co-pioneering research in two major branches of the discipline: induction of time-varying concepts and learning from imbalanced training sets. He also contributed to research in induction from multi-label examples, induction of hierarchically organized classes, genetic algorithms, and initialization of neural networks.

• 1 A Simple Machine-Learning Task.- 2 Probabilities: Bayesian Classifiers.- Similarities: Nearest-Neighbor Classifiers.- 4 Inter-Class Boundaries: Linear and Polynomial Classifiers.- 5 Artificial Neural Networks.- 6 Decision Trees.- 7 Computational Learning Theory.- 8 A Few Instructive Applications.- 9 Induction of Voting Assemblies.- 10 Some Practical Aspects to Know About.- 11 Performance Evaluation.- 12 Statistical Significance.- 13 Induction in Multi-Label Domains.- 14 Unsupervised Learning.- 15 Classifiers in the Form of Rulesets.- 16 The Genetic Algorithm.- 17 Reinforcement Learning.

“The presentation is mainly empirical, but precise and pedagogical, as each concept introduced is followed by a set of questions which allows the reader to check immediately whether they understand the topic. Each chapter ends with a historical summary and a series of computer assignments. … this book could serve as textbook for an undergraduate introductory course on machine learning … .” (Gilles Teyssière, Mathematical Reviews, April, 2017)“This book describes ongoing human-computer interaction (HCI) research and practical applications. … These techniques can be very useful in AR/VR development projects, and some of these chapters can be used as examples and guides for future research.” (Miguel A. Garcia-Ruiz, Computing Reviews, January, 2019)