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📘 UNIT I – THE MACHINE LEARNING LANDSCAPE (DETAILED NOTES)

1. What Is Machine Learning?

Machine Learning (ML) is a subset of artificial intelligence that provides systems the ability to learn
and improve from experience automatically without being explicitly programmed.

 Arthur Samuel (1959):

“Machine Learning is the field of study that gives computers the ability to learn without being
explicitly programmed.”

 Tom Mitchell (1997):

“A computer program is said to learn from experience (E), with respect to some task (T), and
performance measure (P), if its performance on T, as measured by P, improves with experience E.”

Examples:

 Spam Detection: Email spam filters improve by learning from labeled spam and non-spam
emails.

 Self-driving Cars: Learn to drive using sensor data and past driving behaviors.

 Recommendation Systems: Amazon or Netflix suggest products/movies based on your

preferences.

2. Why Use Machine Learning?

Traditional programming requires developers to explicitly write rules. ML is used when:

 Rules are too complex to be manually defined.

 The system must adapt to new data continuously.

 Automation is required in dynamic environments.

Real-World Use Cases:

 Search engines (ranking results)

 Face recognition

 Voice assistants

 Fraud detection

 Autonomous systems
3. Types of Machine Learning Systems

A. Based on Supervision:

1. Supervised Learning:

o Trained with labeled data.

o Examples: classification (spam detection), regression (predicting prices).

2. Unsupervised Learning:

o No labeled data.

o Finds hidden patterns.

o Examples: clustering (market segmentation), dimensionality reduction (PCA).

3. Semi-supervised Learning:

o Mix of labeled and unlabeled data.

o Useful when labeled data is expensive or hard to obtain.

4. Reinforcement Learning:

o Agent learns by interacting with environment.

o Learns from rewards and punishments.

o Examples: game playing, robotics.

B. Based on Training Style:

1. Batch Learning:

o Model is trained on entire dataset at once.

o Good for offline training.

o Not adaptable to streaming data.

2. Online Learning:

o Learns from data sequentially, one instance at a time.

o Suitable for dynamic data (stock prices, sensor data).

C. Based on Generalization Method:

1. Instance-Based Learning:

o Memorizes training examples.

o Compares new data to known instances.

o Example: k-Nearest Neighbors (k-NN)

 2. Model-Based Learning:

o Generalizes from data by building a model.

o Example: Linear Regression, Decision Trees

4. Main Challenges in Machine Learning

1. Insufficient Quantity of Training Data:

o ML models require thousands or millions of examples.

o Small datasets may lead to poor performance.

2. Non-representative Training Data:

o Training data must reflect real-world scenarios.

o Biased data → biased model.

3. Poor-Quality Data:

o Noisy, incomplete, or inconsistent data can lead to errors.

4. Irrelevant Features:

o Unimportant attributes confuse the model.

o Feature engineering and selection are crucial.

5. Overfitting the Training Data:

o Model performs well on training data but fails on unseen data.

o It memorizes rather than generalizes.

6. Underfitting the Training Data:

o Model is too simple to capture underlying patterns.

o High bias leads to poor performance on both training and test data.

5. Bias-Variance Tradeoff

 Bias: Error due to overly simplistic assumptions.

 Variance: Error due to too much sensitivity to training data.

Situation Description

High Bias Underfitting

High Variance Overfitting

The goal is to find the right balance.

6. Stepping Back – ML Workflow

1. Define Problem: What do you want to predict?

2. Collect Data: Gather high-quality relevant data.

3. Prepare Data: Handle missing values, normalize, transform features.

4. Choose Model: Select appropriate ML algorithm.

5. Train Model: Use training data.

6. Evaluate Model: Test with new data (test set).

7. Tune Hyperparameters: Improve accuracy with cross-validation.

8. Deploy Model: Use in real-world applications.

7. Testing and Validating

 Training Set: Used to train the model.

 Validation Set: Used for tuning and cross-validation.

 Test Set: Used to evaluate the final model performance.

Cross-validation:

 Splits data into folds and trains/tests multiple times.

 Helps avoid overfitting.

Evaluation Metrics:

 Accuracy

 Precision, Recall, F1-Score

 Confusion Matrix

 ROC-AUC

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📘 UNIT II – CLASSIFICATION & ENSEMBLE LEARNING (DETAILED NOTES)

🔹 PART A: CLASSIFICATION
1. Training a Binary Classifier

 Binary Classifier: A model that classifies inputs into one of two classes, e.g., spam vs. not
spam.

 Steps:

o Input features (e.g., email content).

o Target labels: 0 or 1.

o Use algorithms like Logistic Regression, SVM, Decision Trees.

o Train the model using labeled data.

o Evaluate with a validation set.

2. Performance Measures

To understand how well a classification model performs:

A. Accuracy

Accuracy=Number of correct predictionsTotal predictions\text{Accuracy} = \frac{\text{Number of

correct predictions}}{\text{Total predictions}}

 Useful when classes are balanced.

 Misleading when data is imbalanced (e.g., 95% of emails are not spam).

B. Confusion Matrix

A matrix that shows correct and incorrect classifications.

Predicted Positive Predicted Negative

Actual Positive True Positive (TP) False Negative (FN)

Actual Negative False Positive (FP) True Negative (TN)

C. Precision

Precision=TPTP+FP\text{Precision} = \frac{TP}{TP + FP}

 What proportion of positive predictions were correct?

D. Recall (Sensitivity)

Recall=TPTP+FN\text{Recall} = \frac{TP}{TP + FN}

 What proportion of actual positives were correctly predicted?

E. F1 Score

F1=2×Precision⋅RecallPrecision+RecallF1 = 2 \times \frac{Precision \cdot Recall}{Precision + Recall}

 Harmonic mean of precision and recall.

 Best when there's a balance needed between precision and recall.

F. Precision/Recall Trade-off

 Increasing precision decreases recall and vice versa.

 You can adjust the classification threshold to tune this balance.

 Ideal when false positives and false negatives have different costs.

G. ROC Curve (Receiver Operating Characteristic)

 Plots True Positive Rate (Recall) vs False Positive Rate (FPR).

 AUC (Area Under Curve): 1 = perfect, 0.5 = random.

 Use ROC when both false positives and false negatives are important.

3. Multiclass Classification

 More than two classes (e.g., digit recognition: 0–9).

 Approaches:

o One-vs-All (OvA): Train one binary classifier per class.

o One-vs-One (OvO): Train classifier for every pair of classes.

 Algorithms like Decision Trees and Random Forests handle multiclass natively.

4. Error Analysis

 Study the types of errors the model makes.

 Helps identify:

o Confusing features

o Ambiguous inputs

o Labeling mistakes

Confusion Matrix and visual inspection of false predictions help in error analysis.
5. Multilabel Classification

 Each instance can belong to multiple classes.

 Example: A movie can be “comedy”, “action”, and “thriller”.

 Model outputs an array of probabilities or binary outputs per label.

6. Multioutput Classification

 Each instance has multiple outputs (targets).

 Combines classification and regression.

 Example: Image denoising (input = noisy image, output = clean image pixels).

🔹 PART B: ENSEMBLE LEARNING & RANDOM FORESTS

1. Ensemble Learning

 Combines multiple models (weak learners) to create a strong learner.

 Goal: improve performance, stability, and generalization.

2. Voting Classifiers

 Combines predictions of multiple classifiers.

 Hard Voting: Majority class wins.

 Soft Voting: Averages predicted probabilities and chooses the most probable class.

 Works best when individual models are diverse and accurate.

3. Bagging and Pasting

 Bagging (Bootstrap Aggregating):

o Each model is trained on a random subset with replacement.

o Reduces variance and overfitting.

o Example: Random Forest

 Pasting:

o Like bagging, but without replacement.

o Less common but useful in some cases.

4. Out-of-Bag (OOB) Evaluation

 During bagging, ~37% of training samples are not used in a given model (OOB samples).

 OOB samples act as validation data to estimate performance without cross-validation.

5. Random Patches and Random Subspaces

 Random Patches: Train on random subsets of samples and features.

 Random Subspaces: Train on all samples but a subset of features.

 Improves diversity among models.

6. Random Forests

 An ensemble of decision trees using bagging and feature randomness.

 Each tree is trained on a bootstrap sample and splits based on random feature subsets.

 Combines the predictions of many trees → better generalization.

 Handles overfitting better than a single tree.

7. Extra Trees (Extremely Randomized Trees)

 Like Random Forest but:

o Splits are chosen at random (not best possible split).

o Even more diversity → less variance.

8. Feature Importance

 Random Forests can measure how important each feature is to the model’s predictions.

 Helps in feature selection and model interpretation.

9. Boosting

 Trains learners sequentially.

 Each new model focuses on the errors of the previous ones.

 Strong focus on reducing bias.

A. AdaBoost (Adaptive Boosting):

 Weights instances: more weight to misclassified ones.

 Combines weak learners (usually shallow trees).

  Sensitive to noisy data.

B. Gradient Boosting:

 Fits the new model on the residual errors of previous models.

 Builds model stage by stage to minimize loss function.

 More flexible and powerful than AdaBoost.

10. Stacking (Stacked Generalization)

 Combines multiple models by training a meta-model.

 Level 0 models make predictions.

 A level 1 model (meta-model) uses these predictions as input to make final predictions.

 Can outperform individual models.

✅ Suggested Algorithms Covered:

 Logistic Regression

 Decision Tree

 k-NN

 Random Forest

 AdaBoost

 Gradient Boosting

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📘 UNIT III – THE NEURAL NETWORK (VERY DETAILED EXPLANATION)

🧠 1. Building Intelligent Machines

Traditional software is based on:

Input + Explicit Rules = Output

But many real-world tasks (like speech recognition or image classification) are too complex to be
programmed with clear rules. Instead, we can:

Input + Output examples = Machine learns the rules

That’s what neural networks do—they learn patterns from data, allowing machines to make
intelligent decisions.

🔍 2. Limits of Traditional Computer Programs

 Hard to define every rule for complex problems (e.g., how to recognize a cat in a photo).

 Too many conditions and variations.

 Doesn't generalize well to new/unseen situations.

 Can't improve automatically without manual rule updates.

Neural networks overcome this by learning directly from data—like the human brain.

🧠 3. Mechanics of Machine Learning

Machine Learning = Optimization

 Define a model (e.g., neural network).

 Define a loss function (measures error).

 Use optimization algorithm (like gradient descent) to adjust model weights to minimize the
loss.

🧬 4. The Neuron – Basic Building Block

Inspired by the biological neuron:

 Takes input signals (features).

 Multiplies each input with a weight.

 Sums the weighted inputs.

 Applies an activation function to decide output.

Mathematical Form:

y = f(w1·x1 + w2·x2 + ... + wn·xn + b)

Where:

 x1, x2, ..., xn: Input features

 w1, w2, ..., wn: Weights

 b: Bias term
  f: Activation function

 y: Output

🔁 5. Expressing Linear Perceptrons as Neurons

Perceptron: The simplest kind of artificial neuron (1940s-50s).

 Works with binary classification (e.g., YES/NO).

 Output is either 0 or 1 based on weighted input.

Limitation: Can only solve linearly separable problems.

Example:

 Can separate cats vs dogs based on size and weight if a line can be drawn between them.

 Fails on problems like XOR where no straight line can separate classes.

🔗 6. Feed-Forward Neural Networks

Definition: A neural network where connections between nodes do not form cycles.

Layers:

 Input Layer: Receives raw data (e.g., pixel values).

 Hidden Layers: Do computations using neurons.

 Output Layer: Gives the final prediction (class, score, etc.).

Forward Pass: Data moves from input → hidden → output.

⚠️7. Limitations of Linear Neurons

If a neuron just does:

y = w·x + b

Then it’s just linear regression. It cannot capture non-linear patterns.

So we use non-linear activation functions to solve complex tasks.

🧮 8. Activation Functions

a) Sigmoid:

f(x) = 1 / (1 + e^(-x))

 Output between 0 and 1.

 Good for probabilities.

  Problem: Saturates for large inputs (gradients become 0).

b) Tanh:

f(x) = (e^x - e^(-x)) / (e^x + e^(-x))

 Output between -1 and 1.

 Zero-centered.

c) ReLU (Rectified Linear Unit):

f(x) = max(0, x)

 Faster convergence.

 Popular in deep networks.

 Problem: Can “die” if too many negative inputs (outputs 0).

🎯 9. Softmax Output Layer

Used in multi-class classification.

Converts output scores into probabilities:

softmax(z_i) = e^(z_i) / Σ e^(z_j)

Properties:

 Outputs sum to 1.

 Best class = highest softmax score.

🔧 10. Training Feed-Forward Neural Networks

🧟‍♂️The Fast-Food Problem

Analogy: A fast-food worker blindly follows instructions without understanding.

Traditional software works like this—it follows exact rules.

ML is better: The system learns from examples rather than just following static instructions.

11. Gradient Descent

Goal: Minimize the loss function.

 Loss function: Measures how wrong predictions are.

 Gradient descent uses derivatives to follow the slope downhill to the minimum error.

🔁 12. The Delta Rule and Learning Rates

The delta rule updates weights:

Δw = - η * ∂L/∂w

Where:

 η is the learning rate (step size).

 ∂L/∂w is the gradient of the loss function with respect to the weight.

Choosing Learning Rate:

 Too small → slow learning.

 Too large → overshoot, never converge.

📉 13. Gradient Descent with Sigmoidal Neurons

 As inputs grow large, the sigmoid function flattens.

 Gradient becomes very small → vanishing gradients.

 Learning slows down or stops.

This is why ReLU became popular—it doesn’t saturate.

🔙 14. Backpropagation Algorithm

Used to train multilayer networks.

Steps:

1. Do forward pass to calculate outputs.

2. Compute error/loss.

3. Use chain rule of calculus to calculate gradients from output to input.

4. Update all weights using gradient descent.

Backpropagation uses partial derivatives layer by layer (backwards).

🔁 15. Stochastic and Minibatch Gradient Descent

 Batch GD: Uses all data to compute gradient (slow for large datasets).

 Stochastic GD (SGD): Uses 1 example at a time (noisy, but faster).

 Mini-batch GD: Uses small batches (10s to 100s of samples) – best of both worlds.

🧪 16. Test Sets, Validation Sets, and Overfitting

 Training Set: Data used to train the model.

  Validation Set: Used to tune hyperparameters.

 Test Set: Used to evaluate final model’s real-world performance.

Overfitting: Model learns noise in training data → poor generalization.

17. Preventing Overfitting in Deep Neural Networks

Techniques:

1. Early Stopping: Stop training when validation loss increases.

2. Regularization:

o L1/L2 penalty on weights.

o Encourages smaller weights → simpler model.

3. Dropout:

o Randomly disable neurons during training.

o Forces network to be redundant and robust.

4. Data Augmentation:

o Rotate, flip, crop images to create more training samples.

5. Cross-Validation: Use K-folds to test model robustness.

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📘 UNIT IV – IMPLEMENTING NEURAL NETWORKS IN TENSORFLOW (VERY DETAILED)

🔶 1. What Is TensorFlow?

TensorFlow is an open-source end-to-end platform developed by Google for building and deploying
machine learning and deep learning models.

 It uses computational graphs to represent mathematical operations.

 Operations are executed within sessions, and computations are optimized for CPUs, GPUs,
or TPUs.

 You can build simple models like linear regression to complex deep neural networks using
TensorFlow.
🧠 Core Idea: TensorFlow creates a graph of all operations in a model. Once the graph is defined, you
run a session to execute computations.

🔶 2. How Does TensorFlow Compare to Alternatives?

Feature TensorFlow PyTorch Keras (API)

Graph Execution Static (TF1), Dynamic (TF2) Dynamic API on top of TF

Ease of Use Moderate Easy Very Easy

Deployment Excellent (TF Lite, TF.js, TF Serving) Moderate Good (via TF)

Community Support Very Large Large Tied to TF

🧪 TensorFlow 2.x is more Pythonic and easier to use than TF 1.x and integrates tightly with Keras, its
high-level API.

🔶 3. Installing TensorFlow

pip install tensorflow

You can verify installation using:

import tensorflow as tf

print(tf.__version__)

📌 Note: Use tensorflow-cpu for CPU-only systems.

🔶 4. Creating and Manipulating TensorFlow Variables

➤ Constants

a = tf.constant(3)

b = tf.constant(4)

➤ Variables

x = tf.Variable(5.0)

x.assign(6.0) # Update variable value

➤ Random Variables

rand = tf.random.normal(shape=(2,2), mean=0, stddev=1)

💡 Variables are mutable and change during training, while constants remain fixed.

🔶 5. TensorFlow Operations (Ops)

TensorFlow supports mathematical, matrix, and element-wise operations:

c = tf.add(a, b)

d = tf.multiply(a, b)

Also supports:

 Slicing

 Broadcasting

 Reshaping (tf.reshape)

 Matrix multiplication (tf.matmul)

These operations form nodes in the computation graph.

🔶 6. Placeholder Tensors

🛑 Note: Placeholders are deprecated in TensorFlow 2.x, but were used in TF 1.x to feed data at
runtime.

In TF 1.x:

x = tf.placeholder(tf.float32, shape=(None, 3))

In TF 2.x, use tf.function and tf.keras.Input() or directly pass data.

🔶 7. Sessions in TensorFlow

TF 1.x:

 Use sessions to execute the graph:

with tf.Session() as sess:

result = sess.run(c)

TF 2.x:

 Eager execution is enabled by default (you don’t need sessions).

🧠 Important: Session-based execution helps optimize computation across devices but adds
complexity. TF 2.x simplified this.

🔶 8. Navigating Variable Scopes and Sharing Variables

Used to:

 Organize the graph into logical blocks.

 Reuse variables across layers.

with tf.variable_scope("my_scope"):
 w = tf.get_variable("weights", shape=[2, 2])

TF 2.x uses tf.name_scope() or object-oriented layers with tf.keras.layers.

🔶 9. Managing Models Over CPU and GPU

TensorFlow automatically detects available devices:

tf.config.list_physical_devices('GPU')

To place tensors on devices:

with tf.device('/GPU:0'):

a = tf.constant([1.0, 2.0])

📌 You can switch between CPU and GPU with minimal code changes.

🔶 10. Specifying the Logistic Regression Model in TensorFlow

Logistic regression is a classification algorithm used when the output is binary (0 or 1).

Steps in TensorFlow:

# Import

import tensorflow as tf

from tensorflow.keras import layers, models

# Model

model = tf.keras.Sequential([

layers.Dense(1, activation='sigmoid', input_shape=(input_features,))

])

# Compile

model.compile(optimizer='sgd', loss='binary_crossentropy', metrics=['accuracy'])

# Train

model.fit(X_train, y_train, epochs=100)

🔶 11. Logging and Training the Logistic Regression Model

To log progress during training:

history = model.fit(X_train, y_train, validation_data=(X_val, y_val), epochs=10)

You can access:

 history.history['loss']

 history.history['accuracy']

This helps in tracking how well your model is training.

🔶 12. Leveraging TensorBoard to Visualize Computation Graphs and Learning

TensorBoard is TensorFlow’s visualization toolkit to:

 Track training metrics

 Visualize computation graphs

 Compare different runs

 View images, histograms, and more

Steps:

1. Add callback during training:

tensorboard_cb = tf.keras.callbacks.TensorBoard(log_dir="./logs")

model.fit(X, y, epochs=10, callbacks=[tensorboard_cb])

2. Launch TensorBoard:

tensorboard --logdir=./logs

3. Visit http://localhost:6006

🔶 13. Case Study: Building a Multilayer Model for MNIST in TensorFlow

MNIST: Dataset of handwritten digits (0–9). Each image is 28x28 pixels.

➤ Steps:

1. Load Data:

from tensorflow.keras.datasets import mnist

(X_train, y_train), (X_test, y_test) = mnist.load_data()

X_train = X_train / 255.0

X_test = X_test / 255.0

2. Build Model:

model = tf.keras.models.Sequential([

layers.Flatten(input_shape=(28,28)),
 layers.Dense(128, activation='relu'),

layers.Dense(10, activation='softmax')

])

3. Compile Model:

model.compile(optimizer='adam',

loss='sparse_categorical_crossentropy',

metrics=['accuracy'])

4. Train Model:

model.fit(X_train, y_train, epochs=5, validation_split=0.2)

5. Evaluate:

test_loss, test_acc = model.evaluate(X_test, y_test)

🧠 Softmax in the output layer gives probabilities for each digit (0–9).

✅ Summary of Key Concepts

Concept Description

TensorFlow Open-source ML framework by Google

Variables & Ops Tensors manipulated using math operations

Logistic Regression Binary classification model using sigmoid function

GPU Support TensorFlow utilizes GPU for fast training

TensorBoard Visualize loss, accuracy, computation graph, etc.

MNIST Model Real-world example of multilayer neural network

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