Representation in Machine Learning

M Narasimha Murty is a prominent researcher in the areas of ML and AI. He has co-authored an introductory book on Pattern Recognition, published by Springer, that is widely used by teachers and researchers. He led the team that won the ACMKDD Cup in 2003. He has collaborated with and worked at several institutions in India, the USA and Europe.Avinash M is a graduate student at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India, whose main research interests include Signal Processing and ML. He was in the top 90 among the approximately 200,000 candidates taking the GATE (Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering) examination in 2016 in India.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Representation.- 3. Nearest Neighbor Algorithms.- 4. Representation Using Linear Combinations.- 5. Non-Linear Schemes for Representation.- 6. Conclusions.