COURSE PLAN AND EVALUATION PLAN

1.Course Code : EC424 2.Course Title : SOFT COMPUTING 3.LTP : 3-0-0 4.Credits : 3 5:Pre-requisite : EC213 6.Teaching Department: Electronics & Communication Engg. Course Instructor: Deepu V. 7. Objectives of the Course: At the end of the program the student must be able to Able to model machine learning problems for practical applications Develop and design a machine learning algorithm Able to perform learning and evaluation of the algorithms Develop simple machine learning applications 8.Course Coverage : Module Contents Introduction Introduction to learning systems, Motivation, Application scenarios, types of learning Statistical Foundations Probability theory, conditional and marginal distributions, Expectations and covariances, Bayesian probabilties, Gaussian distribution, conditional and marginal distributions Decision theory misclassification rate, expected loss, reject option, inference, loss functions Linear Models for regression, maximum likelihood and least squares, regularization. Classification Linear discriminant functions,Linear separability, two-class and multi-class problems, least squares for classification, Fisher's linear discriminant, single layer perceptron, regularization Multi layer perceptron(MLP)- threshold and sigmoidal units, Error back-propagation, practical considerations, preprocessing, feature selection Radial Basis functions (RBF), network training, regularization, Supervised training Support Vector Machines Dimensionality Reduction principal component analysis, reconstruction, choosing dimensionality Clustering Unsupervised learning, K-Means, selection of distance measure, optimization objective, random initialization Anomality detection, Recommender systems, Large scale machine learning Objectives Appreciate the relevance of the course Understand the tools used in learning Lecture L1 L2-L8 Modeling, Analysis Evaluation

Linear Models

Build simple linear models for classification and regression Generalize the concepts to nonlinear modeling Familiarize with kernel methods Learn about basics of data analytics Familiarize with various topics in learning

L9-L14

Application, Analysis

Multi layer neural networks Kernel methods Unsupervised Learning

L15-L20

Application, Analysis Application, Analysis Application, analysis

L21-L26 L27-L32

Miscellaneous topics 9.Reference Books i. ii. iii. iv.

L33-L40

Application

Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning Christopher M. Bishop, Springer 2013 Artificial Neural Networks, B. Yegnanarayana, PHI, 2009 Pattern Classification, Richard O. Duda, Peter E. Hart, David G. Stork, Wiley 2001 Neural Networks for Pattern Recognition Christopher M Bishop, Oxford press

10. EVALUATION PLAN :

Mid semester exam - 25% Assignments/Quiz - 25% End semester exam - 50% Cut-off marks for DD grade - 30% Prepared by: Approved by

Deepu V. Course Instructor

Prof. Muralidhar Kulkarni Head, Dept of E&C