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Principles of Machine
III B. Tech I Semester Learning 3 0 0 3
Course Objectives:
The objectives of the course is to
Define machine learning and its different types (supervised and unsupervised) and
understand their applications.
Apply supervised learning algorithms including decision trees and k-nearest
neighbours (k-NN).
Implement unsupervised learning techniques, such as K-means clustering.
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Course Outcomes: At the end of the course, student will be able to
Enumerate the Fundamentals of Machine Learning
Build Nearest neighbour based models
Apply Models based on decision trees and Bayes rule
Make use of Linear discriminants for machine Learning
Choose appropriate clustering technique
COURSE ARTICULATION MATRIX (Correlation between COs, POs &PSOs):
CO/PO PO1 PO2 PO3 PO4 PO5 PO6 PO7 PO8 PO9 PO10 PO11 PO12
CO1 2 2 3 1 2 - - - 1 1 - 2
CO2 2 2 3 1 2 - - - 1 1 - 2
CO3 2 2 2 1 2 - - - 1 1 - 2
CO4 2 2 2 1 2 - - - 1 1 - 2
CO5 2 1 2 1 2 - - - 1 1 - 2
Note: Enter Correlation Levels 1 or 2 or 3. If there is no correlation, put ‘-’1- Slight (Low), 2 - Moderate
(Medium), 3 - Substantial (High).
UNIT-I: Introduction to Machine Learning: Evolution of Machine Learning, Paradigms
for ML, Learning by Rote, Learning by Induction, Well posed Learning Problems,
Perspectives and Issues,Reinforcement Learning,Types of Data, Matching, Stages in Machine
Learning, Data Acquisition, Feature Engineering, Data Representation, Model Selection,
Model Learning, Model Evaluation, Model Prediction, Search and Learning, Data Sets.
UNIT-II: Nearest Neighbor-Based Models: Introduction to Proximity Measures, Distance
Measures, Non-Metric Similarity Functions, Proximity Between Binary Patterns, Different
Classification Algorithms Based on the Distance Measures ,K-Nearest Neighbor Classifier,
Radius Distance Nearest Neighbor Algorithm, KNN Regression, Performance of Classifiers,
Performance of Regression Algorithms. Regression-Linear Regression, Locally weighted
regression, Logistic Regression.
UNIT-III: Models Based on Decision Trees: Decision Trees for Classification, Decision
Tree learning, Decision Tree Representation – ID3 Algorithm. Impurity Measures, Properties,
Regression Based on Decision Trees, Bias–Variance Trade-off, Random Forests for
Classification and Regression.
The Bayes Classifier: Introduction to the Bayes Classifier, Bayes’ Rule and Inference,
Bayes Theorem Representation, The Bayes Classifier and its Optimality, Multi-Class
Classification | Class Conditional Independence and Naive Bayes Classifier (NBC) .
UNIT-IV: Linear Discriminants for Machine Learning: Introduction to Linear
Discriminants, Linear Discriminants for Classification, Perceptron Classifier, Perceptron
Learning Algorithm, Perceptron Models, Perceptron Components and Types, Support Vector
Machines, Linearly Non-Separable Case, Non-linear SVM, Kernel Trick, Logistic
Regression, Linear Regression, Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLPs), Backpropagation algorithm
for Training an MLP.
UNIT-V: Clustering : Introduction to Clustering, Partitioning of Data, Matrix Factorization |
Clustering of Patterns, Divisive Clustering, Agglomerative Clustering, Partitional Clustering,
K-Means Clustering, Soft Partitioning, Soft Clustering, Fuzzy C-Means Clustering, Rough
Clustering, Rough K-Means Clustering Algorithm, Expectation Maximization-Based
Clustering, Spectral Clustering.
Text Books:
1. “Machine Learning Theory and Practice”, M N Murthy, V S Ananthanarayana,
Universities Press (India), 2024
Reference Books:
1. “Machine Learning”, Tom M. Mitchell, McGraw-Hill Publication, 2017
2. “Machine Learning in Action”,Peter Harrington, DreamTech
3. “Introduction to Data Mining”, Pang-Ning Tan, Michel Stenbach, Vipin Kumar, 7th
Edition, 2019.
