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Mitchell 6.12 also has a nice description of EM and k-means.
 
Mitchell 6.12 also has a nice description of EM and k-means.
  
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=== What You Should Know Afterward ===
 
You should know how to implement these methods, and what their relative advantages and disadvantages are.
 
You should know how to implement these methods, and what their relative advantages and disadvantages are.
 
* Overview of clustering
 
* Overview of clustering

Revision as of 10:05, 12 August 2014

This a lecture used in the Syllabus for Machine Learning 10-601 in Fall 2014

Slides

Slides in PDF

Readings

Bishop's Chapter 9

Mitchell 6.12 also has a nice description of EM and k-means.

What You Should Know Afterward

You should know how to implement these methods, and what their relative advantages and disadvantages are.

  • Overview of clustering
  • Distance functions and similarity measures and their impact
  • K-means algorithms
  • How to chose k and what is the impact of large and small k's
  • EM
  • Differences between GM and K-means