Course Logistics and Introduction

CS771: Introduction to Machine Learning

Piyush Rai
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Course Logistics
 Course Name: Introduction to Machine Learning – CS771
 An introductory course – supposed to be your first intro to the subject

 Usually 3 lectures every week in form of videos (hosted on mooKIT)

 Think can these as Mon/Wed/Fri lectures in the usual classroom setting
 mooKIT URL: https://hello.iitk.ac.in/cs771a/ (CC id and password to be used for login)

 An additional discussion session every Monday, 6pm-7pm (via YouTube Live)

 All material will be posted on the mooKIT page for the course

 Q/A and announcements on Piazza. Please sign up

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Course Team

Soumya Banerjee Shivam Bansal Dhanajit Brahma

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Amit Chandak Neeraj Matiyali Pratik Mazumder

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Course Team

Avik Pal Niravkumar Panchal Hemant Sadana

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Rahul Sharma Piyush Rai

[email protected] [email protected]

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Workload and Grading Policy
 4 homework assignments (theory + programming) worth 50%
 Theory part: Derivations/analysis
 Programming part: Implement/use ML algos, analysis of results. Must be done in
Python (learn if not already familiar)
 Must be typeset in LaTeX (learn if not already familiar)
 To be submitted via Gradescope (login details will be provided)

 Quizzes and exams (mid-sem and end-sem) worth 50%

 Will be held online – details later
 Exact break-up of individual components will be announced in a few days
Python: https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/python-programming-language/

LaTeX: www.sharelatex.com/blog/latex-guides/beginners-tutorial.html
www.overleaf.com/learn/latex/Tutorials
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Textbook and References
 Many excellent texts but none “required”. Some include:

 Different books might vary in terms of

 Set of topics covered
 Flavor (e.g., classical statistics, deep learning, probabilistic/Bayesian, theory)
 Terminology and notation (beware of this especially)

 We will provide you the reading material from the relevant sources
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Course Goals

Credit: Rishika Agarwal (EE, graduated 2017) CS771: Intro to ML

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Course Real Goals..
 Introduction to the foundations of machine learning models and algos

 Focus on developing the ability to

 Understand the underlying principles behind ML models and algos
 Understand how to implement and evaluate them
 Understand/develop intuition on choosing the right ML model/algo for your problem

 (Hopefully) inspire you to work on and learn more about ML

 Not an introduction to popular software frameworks and libraries, such as

scikit-learn, PyTorch, Tensorflow, etc
 Can explore once you have some understanding of various ML techniques
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Introduction to Machine Learning

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Machine Learning (ML)
 Designing algorithms that ingest data and learn a model of the data
 The learned model can be used to
 Detect patterns/structures/themes/trends etc. in the data
 Make predictions about future data and make decisions

 Modern ML algorithms are heavily “data-driven”

 No need to pre-define and hard-code all the rules (infeasible/impossible anyway)
 The rules are not “static”; can adapt as the ML algo ingests more and more data
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ML: From What It Does to How It Does It?
 ML enables intelligent systems to be data-driven rather than rule-driven
 How: By supplying training data and building statistical models of data
 Pictorial illustration of an ML model for binary classification:

A Linear Classifier (the statistical model)

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ML: From What It Does to How It Does It?
 ML enables intelligent systems to be data-driven rather than rule-driven
 How: By supplying training data and building statistical models of data
 Pictorial illustration of an ML model for binary classification:

A Probabilistic Classifier (the statistical model)

P(“cat”|image) P(“dog”|image)

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Overfitting = Bad ML
 Doing perfectly on training data is not good enough

 A good ML model must generalize well on unseen (test data)

 Simpler models should be preferred over more complex ones!

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ML Applications Abound..

Picture courtesy: gizmodo.com,rcdronearena.com,www.wiseyak.com,www.charlesdong.com CS771: Intro to ML

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Key Enablers for Modern ML
 Availability of large amounts of data to train ML models

 Increased computing power (e.g., GPUs)

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ML: Some Success Stories

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ML: Some Success Stories

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ML: Some Success Stories

Picture courtesy: https://news.microsoft.com/ CS771: Intro to ML

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ML: Some Success Stories
 Automatic Program Correction

Example from “Compilation error repair: for the student programs, from the student programs”, Ahmed et al (2018) CS771: Intro to ML
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ML: Some Success Stories
 ML based colorimetry for water quality assessment

 Take uncontaminated water sample

 Spike it with known concentration of various compounds

(e.g., lead, iron, fluoride, etc)

 Dip a test strip (one square to measure each compound)

in the contaminated water for some time.

 Take a picture of the strip using a phone camera to

capture how the colors have changed

 Train an ML model to predict concentration levels of

various compounds based on color levels in the images
(work being done at IITK in collaboration with two startups - Earthface Analytics Pvt Ltd and Kritsnam Technologies Pvt Ltd) CS771: Intro to ML
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Good ML Systems Should be Fair and Unbiased
 Good ML should not just be about getting high accuracies

 Should also ensure that the ML models are fair and unbiased
Criminals?

Not Criminals?

An image captioning system Don’t want a self-driving car Don’t want a predictive policing
should not always assume a that is more likely to hit black system that predicts criminality
specific gender in examples people than white people using facial features
like the above

 A lot of recent focus on Fairness and Transparency of ML systems

Picture courtesy: Bhargava and Forsyth (2019), https://www.thestranger.com/, Xiaolin Wu and Xi Zhang, “Automated Inference on Criminality Using Face Images” CS771: Intro to ML
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Looking Back Before We Start: History of ML

- Human-like text generators (GPT-3)

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Next Class
 Various Flavors of ML problems

 Data and features

 Basic mathematical operations on data and features

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