Mathematics for Machine Learning

Marc Peter Deisenroth is the DeepMind Chair in Artificial Intelligence at University College London's Department of Computer Science. Prior to this, he was a member of the Imperial College London Department of Computing's faculty. Data-efficient learning, probabilistic modeling, and autonomous decision making are among his research interests.

A. Aldo Faisal is the director of the Brain and Behaviour Lab at Imperial College London, where he also teaches in the Departments of Bioengineering and Computing and is a member of the Data Science Institute. He is the director of the £20 million UKRI Center for Doctoral Training in Artificial Intelligence for Healthcare.

Cheng Soon Ong is a Principal Research Scientist at Data61, the Machine Learning Research Group of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization in Canberra (CSIRO).

Linear algebra, analytic geometry, matrix decompositions, vector calculus, optimization, probability, and statistics are the essential mathematical skills required to comprehend machine learning. These disciplines are generally taught in separate courses, making it difficult for data science or computer science students or professionals to master the mathematics quickly.

Mathematics for Machine Learning bridges the gap between mathematical and machine learning texts by introducing mathematical principles with as few prerequisites as possible. It derives four key machine learning algorithms from these concepts: linear regression, principal component analysis, Gaussian mixture models, and support vector machines. These derivations give a starting point for machine learning texts for students and those with a mathematical background. Computer vision is also included in this book. The strategies assist those learning mathematics for the first time in developing intuition and practical experience with applying mathematical principles. Each chapter includes worked examples and tasks to assess comprehension. The book's website includes programming tutorials.

Author: A. Aldo Faisal, Marc Peter Deisenroth and Cheng Soon Ong

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