Elements of Machine Learning Aleksandar Bojchevski and Jilles Vreeken

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21.03.2023

Final Information for Re-Exam Tomorrow

Dear all,

As you know, the re-exam will take place tomorrow, Wednesday the 22nd, between 14:00—17:00. The exam is scheduled for three hours. If you finish earlier, you will be free to leave, except for during the first and last half hour (i.e. not between 14:00... Read more

Dear all,

As you know, the re-exam will take place tomorrow, Wednesday the 22nd, between 14:00—17:00. The exam is scheduled for three hours. If you finish earlier, you will be free to leave, except for during the first and last half hour (i.e. not between 14:00 and 14:30 resp. 16:30 and 17:00).

We have assigned every registered student a pre-determined seat in the Günter-Hotz Lecture Hall (GHH) in building E2.2. The seating index is here and the equivalent seating map is here.

Please make sure to

  • be at lecture hall at 13:45 to find your seat, etc.,
  • bring your matriculation card,
  • bring a pen with blue or black ink, and
  • (optionally) bring a single A4 cheat sheet (hand-written, both-sides).

We will provide the paper on which you can write your solutions.

Best of luck, and see you tomorrow!

Best regards,
Jilles Vreeken and Aleksandar Bojchevski

 

14.03.2023

Post-Inspection Grades for Main Exam

Dear all,

We finished processing your inspection post-it notes, and posted the updated grades on CMS.

To give you insight into why you did or did not receive additional points, we provide comments on your notes. These are not up for discussion, our grade... Read more

Dear all,

We finished processing your inspection post-it notes, and posted the updated grades on CMS.

To give you insight into why you did or did not receive additional points, we provide comments on your notes. These are not up for discussion, our grade decisions are final.

If you are eligible and interested in taking the re-exam, please make sure to register on both LSF and CMS by Wednesday 15th 23:59 latest.

Best regards,
Jilles Vreeken and Aleksandar Bojchevski

13.03.2023

Registration Re-Exam

Dear all,

All who are eligible and want to take the re-exam, please make sure to register on both CMS and LSF/HISPOS by Wednesday, March 15th, 23:59.

We need the registration on CMS to plan the exam, and the registration on LSF/HISPOS for the examination... Read more

Dear all,

All who are eligible and want to take the re-exam, please make sure to register on both CMS and LSF/HISPOS by Wednesday, March 15th, 23:59.

We need the registration on CMS to plan the exam, and the registration on LSF/HISPOS for the examination office to process your grades.

To enable registering for the re-exam on LSF we had to upload the pre-inspection grades of the main exam. We will update these grades as soon as we are finished processing your comments. We will send out a separate announcement once this is done. Hopefully, this will be today or tomorrow, but depends on the responsible TAs being healthy again.

Some of you will not be able to register via LSF/HISPOS because you are, e.g. an exchange student. In that case, make sure to register on CMS and send us an email via eml-tas@cispa.de. For everybody else, please register in both systems.

We will share more details about the re-exam, such as to which lecture hall you have been assigned, this Thursday.

Best regards,
Jilles Vreeken and Aleksandar Bojchevski

03.03.2023

Grades for Main Exam Posted

Dear all,

We just posted the grades for the main exam on CMS. Those of you who took the exam will find your grade with bonus, your exam grade without bonus, as well as the number of points that you scored on your status page. The threshold for a passing grade was... Read more

Dear all,

We just posted the grades for the main exam on CMS. Those of you who took the exam will find your grade with bonus, your exam grade without bonus, as well as the number of points that you scored on your status page. The threshold for a passing grade was 25 out of 50 points.

We will present the solution to the exam, as well as discuss common mistakes, in a special tutorial on Tuesday, March 7th, 14-16. This will (most likely) be held in HS 0.01 (E1.3). We will post the exam and sample solution on the same day.

We will organize an in-person exam inspection on Friday, March 10th. We will explain the details, including how to register, etc. in a separate announcement.

Best regards,
Jilles Vreeken and Aleksandar Bojchevski

 

Course Information

Summary In this course we will discuss the foundations – the elements – of machine learning. In particular, we will focus on the ability of, given a data set, to choose an appropriate method for analyzing it, to select the appropriate parameters for the model generated by that method, and to assess the quality of the resulting model. Both theoretical and practical aspects will be covered.
Prerequisites

The course is targeted at students in computer science, data science and AI, cybersecurity, bioinformatics, math, and general sciences with a mathematical background. Students should know linear algebra and have good basic knowledge of statistics, for example by having taken Mathematics for Computer Scientists I and II (for linear algebra), and then either Statistics Lab or Mathematics for Computer Scientists III.

We provide a self-test that you can use to evaluate whether you have the required background to attempt EML.

Type Basic Lecture (6 ECTS) for BSc DSAI, CySec, and Computer Science; Advanced Lecture (6 ECTS) for all others.
Lecturers Prof. Dr. Jilles Vreeken and Dr. Aleksandar Bojchevski
Assistants Advait Gadhikar, Janis Kalofolias, David Kaltenpoth, Sarah Mameche
Tutors Lukas Auer, Ihor Hetman, Kinaan Khan, Maryam Meghdadi, Michael Schott, Sohaib Zahid
Lectures Thursdays, 16–18 o'clock in person in E.2.2 Lecture Hall 0.01 (Günter Hotz Hörsaal) and online via Zoom and YouTube
Assignments 6 assignment sheets, one every two weeks, including theory, practical and bonus questions.
Tutorials Mondays and Tuesdays, 12–14 o'clock in-person and via Zoom
Office Hours Prof. Dr. Jilles Vreeken and Dr. Aleksandar Bojchevski: after each lecture
Teaching Assistants: by appointment
Language English
Contact Via the Forum, for exceptional cases you can write to eml-tas (at) to cispa.de When in doubt, check the Questions and Answers page. 


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