Author: maxalex
Preprocessing / Feature Extraction
Credit Assignment Problem
Sum-of-Squares Error Function
Model Comparison / Model Selection
Effective Number of Parameters
Validation Set / Hold-Out Set
Probability Density over x
Cumulative Distribution Function
Probability Mass Function
Densities and Continuous Variables
Expectations & Covariances
Variance of the variable x
Classical / Frequentist interpretation of probablity
The Guassian Distribution
Guassian / Normal Distribution
Mean, Variance, Standard Deviation, Precision
Independent & Identically distributed
Gaussian Noise Distribution
Sum of Squares Error Function
Akaike Information Criterion
Bayesian Information Criterion
The Curse of Dimensionality
Cartesian vs. Polar Coordinates
Reasons for effective techniques in high dimensional data
Subject of Decision Theory
Extract any quantities in Bayes Theorem
Minimizing the missclassification rate
Decision Boundaries or Surfaces
Minimizing the expected loss
Loss, Cost and Utility Function
Simple way for Prior Calculation
Advantages of Posterior Probability Estimation (4)
Loss functions for regression
Loss function in regression
Irreducible Minimum Value of Loss Function
Three distinct Approaches
Poor Results of Squared Loss
Idea of Information Theory
Definition of Information
Microstate, Macrostate, weight of Macrostate
Maximum Entropy Configuration
Maximum of Differential Entropy
Negativity of Differential Entropy
Relation between differential & conditional entropy
Relative entropy & mutual information
Rlative Entropy / KL divergence
Properties of KL divergence
Relationship to Data Compression
Relation of MI to Conditional Entropy