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Measures of classification quality: type I and type II errors, the ROC curve and AUC, gradient maximization of AUC, log-loss, precision and recall, micro- and macro-averaging, the F-measure; internal and external criteria of generalization ability; hold-out, leave-one-out, q-fold and t×q-fold cross-validation, stratification; model consistency; regularization, AIC, BIC and the Vapnik–Chervonenkis bound; multi-criteria model selection; feature selection: full search, Add, Add-Del, depth-first search, beam search (GMDH), the genetic algorithm and random search with adaptation.

The clustering problem and its ill-posedness, the aims of clustering, types of cluster structure, sensitivity to the choice of metric; the problem of semi-supervised learning and transductive learning, why it reduces neither to classification nor to clustering; criteria of clustering quality, the silhouette coefficient, the BCubed measures of precision and recall; the k-means method (Lloyd's algorithm) as a simplification of the EM algorithm for a mixture of Gaussians; the DBSCAN algorithm; agglomerative hierarchical clustering, the Lance–Williams formula and its special cases, the dendrogram, monotonicity, contracting and dilating distances, Ward's distance; semi-supervised learning based on classification: self-training, co-training, co-learning, the transductive SVM, expectation regularisation (XR).

Anomaly and novelty detection; heuristic anomaly scores: local density, isolation forest, a mixture with a background component, robust principal component analysis; outlier removal in nonparametric regression, the LOWESS algorithm; anomaly as the value of the loss function; the theory of robust learning: slowly growing functions, iterative reweighting of objects with IRS and IRLS, robust loss functions, the median, the quantile and the censored mean, robust aggregation functions and their smoothing, the IR-ERM algorithm; one-class SVM, learning from positive and unlabeled objects (PU-learning), problems with new and unknown classes.

A closing review of the first semester: empirical risk minimisation and gradient methods; underfitting, overfitting, multicollinearity and regularisation; optimisation formulations of supervised learning (regression, classification, ranking) and unsupervised learning (density, mixtures, clustering, one-class classification, semi-supervised learning, PU-learning, principal component analysis, autoencoders); the six scientific schools of machine learning — symbolism, evolutionism, analogism, Bayesianism, connectionism, compositionism — and their Soviet roots; estimate-calculating algorithms; practice: CRISP-DM, data preprocessing, model evaluation and selection, loss analysis, A/B testing, meta-learning and AutoML.

The learning-to-rank problem: recovering a partial order relation, the pointwise, pairwise and listwise approaches, the linear ranking model, applications; ordinal regression and the ordinal SVM (SVOR); the pairwise criterion, Ranking SVM, RankNet, the transition to the listwise method LambdaRank; ranking search results: query–document objects, assessor ratings, text, link and click features, TF-IDF and its probabilistic meaning, Okapi BM25, PageRank; quality criteria: precision and recall, MAP, the share of defective pairs and its link with AUC, DCG and NDCG, the pFound user behaviour model; the DSSM neural model: a siamese network, word hashing by letter trigrams, training on clicks with negative sampling.

Collaborative filtering problems: transaction data, the clients–items matrix, filling in missing values and ranking recommendations, the Netflix Prize competition; user-based and item-based correlation methods, the Pearson, cosine and Jaccard similarity measures, Fisher's exact test; the sparse linear model SLIM; latent models and matrix factorisations: SVD, the alternating least squares method ALS, the latent factor model LFM and stochastic gradient, nonnegative matrix factorisations NNMF, PLSA; taking implicit preferences into account (implicit feedback); matrix factorisation as a linear autoencoder, neural network and denoising autoencoders; taking features of clients and items into account, factorisation machines libFM, a hypergraph topic model; the quality of recommendations: RMSE, precision@k, recall@k, diversity, novelty, coverage, serendipity, bias, offline and online evaluation.

Time series forecasting problems: the time series model, the forecasting horizon, the least squares method; econometrics as the main source of problems — trends, seasonalities, change points; examples of forecasting sales volumes and electricity prices; the linear autoregression model; a brief survey of forecasting methods; adaptive short-term forecasting methods: the exponential moving average and the smoothing parameter, the models of Holt, Theil–Wage, Winters with linear and exponential trend, adaptive autoregression; the tracking signal and a statistical test of model adequacy, the Trigg–Leach model; adaptive selection and adaptive composition of models, the LAVR method — local adaptation of weights with regularisation, the monotonicity constraint as a regulariser; experiments on the sales forecasting problem.

Naive set theory and Russell's paradox, Kuratowski's ordered pair and the Cartesian product, a function as a subset of a product, composition, injections, surjections and bijections, the group of bijections and the embedding of any group into it, equinumerosity and indicator functions, the Cantor–Bernstein and Cantor theorems.

Singular homology — standard simplices and the inclusions of facets, singular simplices and chains, the differential; zeroth homology and path components, the homology of a point, reduced homology; chain maps and maps of homology, functoriality, the chain map induced by a continuous map; chain homotopies and the prism; the homotopy invariance theorem with a full proof via the prism operator; subcomplexes, quotient complexes and the homology of a pair.

The neuron as a linear model; implementing Boolean functions and the exclusive-OR problem; two-layer networks as universal approximators, Cybenko's theorem; the multilayer network and the backpropagation method; the adaptive gradient methods RMSProp, AdaDelta, Adam, Nadam; gradient explosion and gradient clipping; Dropout, ReLU activation functions, batch normalization, initialization and network pruning (Optimal Brain Damage).

Bias–variance analysis: the decomposition of the error into noise, bias and variance, the bias and variance of simple voting, why complex ensembles do not overfit; gradient boosting for an arbitrary loss function as a parametric approximation of a gradient step; stochastic gradient boosting; special cases: regression, AdaBoost, AnyBoost, variants of loss functions; XGBoost: the tree as a linear model, L0 and L2 regularisation, analytical leaf values and the splitting criterion; CatBoost: leakage in the gradients, ordered boosting on subsamples of doubling length, unbiased target statistics for categorical features.

Reminder: the neuron model, the multilayer network, stochastic gradient, momentum, vanishing and exploding gradients, ReLU, dropout, batch normalisation; depth matters more than width; feature generation and end-to-end learning; convolutional neural networks: convolution and pooling layers, the standard CNN scheme, AlexNet and ImageNet, residual networks ResNet and Highway Networks; convolutional networks for speech, texts and games; recurrent neural networks, training by BPTT, long short-term memory networks LSTM, the peephole variant, GRU.

Active learning: the model itself chooses which objects to give the teacher for labelling. The problem setting, why active learning is faster than passive learning, learning curves; pool-based sampling, query synthesis and stream-based selective sampling, cost-sensitive methods; uncertainty sampling (least confidence, minimum margin, maximum entropy), query by committee, version space reduction, expected model change, expected error reduction; query synthesis by the Nelder–Mead method and by the variance reduction criterion; density weighting; exploratory actions, the ε-active and EG-active algorithms with the exponentiated gradient; active learning in crowdsourcing: reconciling annotators' labels, models of their reliability and of object difficulty, assigning tasks to annotators.

Learning on a data stream: the formulation of the online learning problem, the learning curve, the issues: efficient model updates, making the model more complex as the sample grows, the equivalence of online and offline, storing the sample and catastrophic forgetting; how online learning differs from incremental learning, continual learning, anytime algorithms; lazy learning and online prototype selection; the online naive Bayes classifier with exponential distributions of features; the perceptron, Passive-Aggressive and online gradient descent; the recursive least squares method and the Sherman–Morrison formula; incremental training of decision trees ID5R; online training of an ensemble by the Hedge(β) algorithm and its financial interpretation; online deep learning and Hedge BackProp; incremental learning of new classes, iCaRL.

Reinforcement learning as learning from the environment's response: the multi-armed bandit problem, estimating the value of an action, the greedy and ε-greedy strategies, the exploration–exploitation trade-off, the UCB method, the exponential moving average, the pursuit method and reinforcement comparison; an environment with states, the Markov decision process, how it differs from ordinary machine learning problems, the discounted return, the state and action value functions, the Bellman equation, the SARSA and Q-learning methods, on-policy and off-policy; deep Q-learning DQN on the example of Atari games, experience replay; gradient optimisation of the policy (policy gradient) and its connection with log-likelihood maximisation; model-based and model-free approaches, a regression model of the reward with an upper confidence bound, LinUCB, recommending news articles, evaluating a policy on historical data.

A contour integral as a double integral: the hypotheses of Green's theorem, orientation of the contour, area as a contour integral, closing an open arc, an annulus, a singular point inside the contour.

Nonlinear regression: the Newton–Raphson and Gauss–Newton methods as a series of linear regressions; logistic regression and iteratively reweighted least squares (IRLS); the generalized additive model and backfitting; the probabilistic meaning of least squares; the generalized linear model (GLM), the exponential family of distributions and the link function; logistic regression as a special case of GLM; the median, quantile regression and robust loss functions.

Kohonen networks: clustering as a two-layer neural network, the hard (WTA) and soft (WTM) competition rules, self-organising Kohonen maps and their interpretation; autoencoders: the formulation of the problem, the linear autoencoder and the principal component method, sparse, denoising, contractive, relational and variational autoencoders, reparametrisation, autoencoders for supervised learning, multilayer autoencoders; joint training of several models: pre-training and transfer learning, multi-task learning and few-shot learning, self-supervised learning, distillation and surrogate modelling, learning using privileged information (LUPI), generative adversarial networks (GAN).