Syllabus-Machine Learning Elective-II
Syllabus-Machine Learning Elective-II
IV Clustering: Linkage based clustering algorithm, K-means and other cost minimization 09
clustering, Maximum Likelihood Estimator, Linear discriminant Analysis, Latent Variable
Models and EM Algorithm, Supervised learning after clustering, A Categorization of Major
Clustering Methods – Partitioning Methods – Hierarchical methods – Density Based
Methods, Grid Based Methods, Model Based Clustering Methods.
Total 45
Text/Reference Books:
1. Understanding Machine Learning: From theory to Algorithm by Shai Shalev-Shwartz and Shai Ben-David,
Cambridge University Press, First Edition
2. Introduction to Machine Learning by Ethem Alpaydin Third Edition, MIT Press
3. Tom M. Mitchell, “Machine Learning”, McGraw-Hill, 2010
4. Bishop, Christopher. Neural Networks for Pattern Recognition. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1995
5. T. astie, R. Tibshirani, J. H. Friedman, “The Elements of Statistical Learning”, Springer (2nd ed.), 2009