1. Bachelor of Science (at least 180 higher education credits) in computer science or related subjects such as mathematics, informatics, telecommunications, electrical engineering, physics.
2. Knowledge equivalent to English 6 at Swedish upper secondary level.
3. At least 15 credits in programming.
4. At least 7.5 credits in mathematics.
5. Passing grade in the course Statistical methods for Data Science (MA660E)

Participation in the course also requires knowledge obtained from the course Artificial intelligence for Data Science (DA631E).

The course is part of the programme Computer Science: Applied Data Science, master’s programme, and can be included in the master's degree in computer science (120 credits).

The course contains the following elements:

• Data transformation, Data Augmentation, adjustment/calibration of model parameters (including Advanced Feature Extraction, Hyper-parameter Optimisation)
• Interactive machine learning methods (including Human-Machine Collaboration, Active Learning, Online learning, Incremental Learning, Learning from Data Streams)
• Meta-learning algorithms and Ensemble Methods
• Advanced algorithms for supervised learning and unsupervised learning (with emphasis on discriminative and generative Deep Learning architectures)
• Reinforcement learning (including Policy Search, Policy Iteration, Value Iteration, Q-learning)
• Trends and current front line research in machine learning

**Knowledge and understanding
**For a passing grade the student shall be able to:

• Explain advanced machine learning methods and how they are used in practice

Competence and abilities
For a pass grade the student shall be able to:

• Implement advanced machine learning algorithms, both individually and in groups
• Assimilate and use published research results in machine learning
• Explore recent developments in commercial machine learning applications
• Evaluate and compare the suitability of different methods for addressing a given problem
• Interpret the relevance of machine learning results

Evaluation abilities and approach
For a pass grade the student shall be able to:

• Analyse and evaluate academic publications in machine learning
• Critically analyse strengths and weaknesses in scientific arguments for both theoretical and experimental results.

Lectures, data laboratories, seminars, project work (Kaggle competition)

The students' achievements are assessed through a report on group projects (5 credits, UG), laboratory assignments (5 credits, UG) and written examination (5 credits, UA).

An A-E passing grade requires that all parts have been completed and passed.

The final grade is based on the written examination.

• Aurlien Gron. 2017. Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn and Tensorflow: Concepts, Tools, and Techniques to Build Intelligent Systems (1st ed.). O'Reilly Media, Inc.
• Han, J., Kamber, M., & Pei, J. (2011). Data mining: Concepts and techniques (3rd ed.). Waltham: Morgan Kaufmann.
• Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio, and Aaron Courville. 2016. Deep Learning. The MIT Press.
• Russell, Stuart Jonathan & Norvig, Peter (2010). Artificial intelligence: a modern approach. (3rd ed.) Boston: Pearson Education.
• Witten, Ian H., Frank, Eibe & Hall, Mark A. (2011). Data mining: practical machine learning tools and techniques (3rd ed.) Burlington, MA: Morgan Kaufmann.

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