10-601B Neural networks and Backprop

This a lecture used in the Syllabus for Machine Learning 10-601B in Spring 2016

Slides

• Kernelized svm slides in pdf
• Kernelized svm slides in ppt

Readings

• Mitchell: Ch. 4, Murphy Ch 16.5

What You Should Know Afterward

• What functions can be expressed with multi-layer networks that a single layer cannot express
• The backpropagation algorithm, and what loss is associated with it
• In outline, how deep neural networks are trained