Course Contents
- Refresher of probability & Bayesian decision theory
- Directed and undirected models and their properties
- Inference in tree graphs
- Approximate inference in general graphs: Message passing and mean field
- Learning of directed and undirected models
- Sampling methods for learning and inference
- Modeling in example applications, including topic models
- Deep networks
- Semi-supervised learning

Literature
Literature recommendations will be updated regularly, an example might be:
- D. Barber: “Bayesian Reasoning and Machine Learning”, Cambridge University Press 2012
- D. Koller, N. Friedman: “Probabilistic Graphical Models: Principles and Techniques”, MIT Press 2009

Preconditions
Recommended: Participation in “Statistisches Maschinelles Lernen”.

Bemerkung Webportal
[b]Area:[/b] Human Computer Systems<br /> <br />

Online Offerings
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Semester: Inverno 2019/20