This week’s topics
Midterm evaluation
- Midterm assessment of the criteria taught so far
- Individual feedback and targets
What you will be able to do
- 1.1 Define artificial intelligence and describe the different approaches to learning.
- 1.2 Describe a range of simple and complex machine learning strategies.
- 1.3 Explain the difference between supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning.
- 1.4 Analyse the significance of the bias-variance trade-off in machine learning.
- 2.1 Describe how backpropagation is used to update neural network parameters to achieve a desired goal.
- 2.2 Explain the bias-variance trade-off in machine learning.
- 2.3 Explain the importance of loss functions in providing an objective for the training of neural networks.
- 2.4 Analyse and compare common optimisation strategies for neural network training.
- 2.5 Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of deep and shallow neural network architectures.
Activity
Midterm assessment task and individual feedback.
Study materials
The teaching notes, exercises and videos of this week are in the student portal. Your portal is set up as soon as you receive final acceptance, so you can open them before the semester starts.