1st Lisbon Machine Learning School
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LxMLS 2011 took place July 20-25 2011 at Instituto Superior Tecnico, a leading Engineering and Science school in Portugal. It is organized jointly by IST, the Instituto de Telecomunicacoes and the Spoken Language Systems Lab - L2F of INESC-ID.
School Day 1
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Applied Machine Learning: Algorithms, Practice and Theory - Predicting & Naive Bayes (Part 1)- Decision theory
- Classification
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Generative and discriminative models
- Naive Bayes, logistic regression, support vector machines (SVMs)
- Online learning: perceptron and passive-aggressive algorithms
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Applied Machine Learning: Algorithms, Practice and Theory - Predicting & Naive Bayes (Part 2)Applied Machine Learning continued. -
Applied Machine Learning: Algorithms, Practice and Theory - Predicting & Naive Bayes (Part 3)Applied Machine Learning continued.
School Day 2
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Sequence Models (Part 1)- Markov models and hidden Markov models (HMMs)
- Dynamic programming algorithms (Viterbi and sum-product)
- Parameter learning (MLE and Baum-Welch/EM)
- Finite state machines and finite state transducers
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Sequence Models (Part 2)Sequence Models continued.
School Day 3
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Learning Structured Predictors (Part 1)- From HMMs to CRFs: discriminative learning and features
- Structured perceptron, structured SVMs and max-margin Markov networks
- Training and optimization
- Iterative scaling, L-BFGS, perceptron, MIRA, stochastic and batch gradient descent
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Learning Structured Predictors (Part 2)Learning Structured Predictors continued.