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Ensembles of models: base algorithms, the space of estimates, the decision rule and correcting functions; the problem of diversity of base algorithms; bagging, the random subspace method and a common pseudocode of stochastic ensembling; the unbiased out-of-bag estimate and estimating feature importance; converting simple voting into weighted voting; the random forest; boosting for binary classification with abstentions, the exponential approximation of the threshold loss function, the main theorem of AdaBoost with proof, convergence, classical AdaBoost and heuristics; why boosting does not overfit: experiments, bounding the probability of error through margins, the distribution of margins, comparison with bagging; the ComBoost algorithm.

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.

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.

Задачный листок к курсу теории вероятностей. Институт и учебное заведение в исходных публикациях не указаны, поэтому здесь не названы.

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.

Association rule mining as unsupervised learning: binary features, support and frequent itemsets, the association rule, minimum support MinSupp and minimum confidence MinConf; market basket analysis; the link between association rules and logical regularities; the anti-monotonicity of support; the APriori algorithm: breadth-first search for frequent itemsets and recursive extraction of rules; modifications: search on a random subsample, item hierarchies, incremental and decremental algorithms; the FP-growth algorithm: the prefix FP-tree, building it in one pass over the transaction database, computing the support of any itemset from the tree, the conditional FP-tree and recursive search for frequent itemsets; the speed of FP-growth compared with APriori.

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.

Vector representations (embeddings) of texts and graphs: the distributional semantics hypothesis, syntagmatic and paradigmatic similarity of words, the CBOW and Skip-gram models of the word2vec program, hierarchical SoftMax on a Huffman tree, negative sampling (SGNS) and the connection of word2vec with the matrix factorisation of the PMI matrix, semantic analogies of words, the FastText model on character n-grams; texts as graphs; multidimensional scaling and the stress criterion, stochastic neighbour embedding SNE, perplexity, t-SNE; matrix factorisations of graphs, the random-walk models DeepWalk and node2vec; graph embedding methods as autoencoders, the generalised GraphEDM model, graph neural networks and message passing.

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.

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.

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.

The combinatorial theory of overfitting: the probability of overfitting and why the Vapnik–Chervonenkis bounds are loose; experiments with overfitting — a monotone chain of algorithms, the effect of splitting and connectivity of the family on the probability of overfitting and on the complete cross-validation estimate, overfitting of chains, the exact formula for the probability of overfitting when choosing between two algorithms; the splitting–connectivity graph of a family of algorithms, examples for linear classifiers, a monotone chain and a two-dimensional net; generating and forbidden sets, upper connectivity and inferiority of an algorithm; the splitting–connectivity upper bound, the idea of its proof and its properties.

The finite probability space and five properties of probability, a description of all probability measures on a finite set, equally likely outcomes and the choice of a model, classical paradoxes (two dice, the division of the stakes, Bertrand's paradox), conditional probability and the product rule, the law of total probability as a way to define a measure, Bayes' formula, independence of events.

Where simplicial homology shows up in real life — topological data analysis. The union of balls around a point cloud, persistence modules and their decomposition into a sum of interval modules over a field (the structure theorem and the algorithm), the barcode; the Vietoris–Rips and Čech complexes; the stability theorem for barcodes, the Hausdorff, Gromov–Hausdorff and Wasserstein distances; open covers and their nerves, Leray covers and the nerve theorem, the category of covers, paracompactness, Lebesgue covering dimension, Čech homology and cohomology.

The problem of estimating generalization ability; the error matrix and the probability of overfitting; the case of a single algorithm and the hypergeometric distribution; the principle of uniform convergence of frequencies and Boole's inequality; the Vapnik–Chervonenkis bound, the growth function and the capacity of a family of algorithms; inverting the bound and the complexity penalty; structural risk minimization; the splitting and similarity effects; the Occam's razor bound and its link to regularization.