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Pen and Paper Exercises in Machine Learning

Machine Learning 2022-06-28 v1 Machine Learning

Abstract

This is a collection of (mostly) pen-and-paper exercises in machine learning. The exercises are on the following topics: linear algebra, optimisation, directed graphical models, undirected graphical models, expressive power of graphical models, factor graphs and message passing, inference for hidden Markov models, model-based learning (including ICA and unnormalised models), sampling and Monte-Carlo integration, and variational inference.

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@article{arxiv.2206.13446,
  title  = {Pen and Paper Exercises in Machine Learning},
  author = {Michael U. Gutmann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.13446},
  year   = {2022}
}

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The associated github page is https://github.com/michaelgutmann/ml-pen-and-paper-exercises

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