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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.

A survey lecture: machine learning as formulations of optimisation problems, a model, a loss function, a regulariser. Regression and classification, continuous approximations of the threshold loss function, SVM and logistic regression, quantile, robust and SVM regression; the L0, L1, L2, Elastic Net, SFM, RFM regularisers and feature selection; learning to rank: ordinal regression, the pairwise approach and AUC, LambdaRank; estimating a density and a mixture of distributions, clustering as a special case of a mixture, the one-class SVM; semi-supervised learning, the transductive SVM, PU-learning; matrix factorisations, autoencoders, multidimensional scaling, graph factorisations, GraphEDM; transfer learning, multi-task and self-supervised learning, distillation, learning using privileged information, generative adversarial networks; a typology of machine learning problems.

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.

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.

Objects, features and answers; the types of supervised learning problems; parametric models and the learning method; loss functions and empirical risk minimization; the Runge example and overfitting; hold-out, leave-one-out and cross-validation; applied problems from medical diagnosis to sales forecasting; the CRISP-DM standard.

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.

The general scheme of supervised learning for regression, binary and multiclass classification; the margin and continuous approximations of the threshold loss; the linear classifier as a model of a neuron; the stochastic gradient method, momentum, Nesterov's accelerated gradient and heuristics; multicollinearity and L2 regularization; the maximum likelihood principle, its link to empirical risk minimization and the probabilistic meaning of regularization.

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).

The continuity and compactness hypotheses; the Minkowski metric and feature-free distances; the generalized metric classifier, the k nearest neighbours method, the Parzen window and the method of potential functions as a linear classifier; complete cross-validation, the compactness profile and the exact CCV formula for the nearest neighbour method; prototype selection; Nadaraya–Watson kernel smoothing, the choice of kernel and bandwidth.

The optimal separating hyperplane and the width of the separating strip; the hinge loss and L2 regularization; the Karush–Kuhn–Tucker conditions, the dual problem and the types of objects; kernels, rectifying spaces and the constructive building of kernels; SVM as a two-layer neural network; choosing the constant C; SVM regression; L1 regularization, Elastic Net SVM, SFM and RVM.

Multiple linear regression and least squares, the pseudoinverse and the geometric meaning of least squares; the solution through the singular value decomposition; multicollinearity and the condition number; ridge regression, choosing the regularization parameter and the effective dimension; LASSO and non-smooth regularizers for feature selection; principal component analysis as a low-rank matrix decomposition; the spectral method of least squares.

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.

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 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.

The interpretability of models; decision trees and the greedy ID3 algorithm; the axioms of impurity, the entropy and Gini criteria; handling missing values; the merits and drawbacks of the greedy strategy; tree pruning (post-pruning); CART regression trees and Minimal Cost-Complexity Pruning; rule induction: logical regularities, families of rules (conjunctions, syndromes, half-planes, balls), search metaheuristics, a tree as a covering set of conjunctions; the Pareto front in (p,n) space, logical and statistical regularities, Fisher's exact test, informativeness criteria; building a classifier from regularities.

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.

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.

Estimating a probability density from a sample: the maximum likelihood principle, the multivariate Gaussian density and its geometric meaning, multicollinearity and regularisation of the covariance matrix; separating a mixture of distributions, the EM algorithm as a method of simple iterations, the Gaussian mixture (GMM); the nonparametric Parzen–Rosenblatt estimate, the choice of kernel and window width; Bayesian classification theory: the generative and discriminative approaches, the optimal Bayes classifier, the Parzen window method, the quadratic discriminant, Fisher's linear discriminant, the radial basis function network and its training by the EM algorithm.

The probabilistic formulation of classification: prior and posterior class probabilities, class likelihood functions, the maximum a posteriori principle; the optimal Bayes classifier and losses from errors; empirical estimation of prior probabilities and class densities; the naive Bayes classifier, features with exponential-family densities and the linear naive Bayes classifier; a survey of Bayesian classifiers: the Parzen window method, the quadratic discriminant, Fisher's linear discriminant, Gaussian mixtures with diagonal covariance matrices, and the radial basis function network.