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This a lecture used in the [[Syllabus for Machine Learning 10-601 in Fall 2014]]
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This a pair of lectures used in the [[Syllabus for Machine Learning 10-601B in Spring 2016]]
  
 
=== Slides ===
 
=== Slides ===
  
[http://curtis.ml.cmu.edu/w/courses/images/a/a7/Lecture14-clustering.pdf Slides in PDF]
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* Ziv's lecture: [http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~zivbj/classF14/clusteringH.pdf Slides in pdf].
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* Bhavana's lecture on 13th October 2014 [[Media:Kmeans_13october2014_dalvi.pptx]] Slides in PPT
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* Bhavana's lecture on 16th October 2014 [[Media:Kmeans_16october2014_dalvi.pptx]] Slides in PPT
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* Combined PDF version for classes on 13th and 16th October [[Media:Kmeans_cs601_CMU_dalvi.pdf]] Slides in PDF (Only the slides on advanced topics vary across lectures)
  
 
=== Readings ===
 
=== Readings ===
  
Bishop's Chapter 9
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Mitchell 6.12 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

Latest revision as of 16:49, 6 January 2016

This a pair of lectures used in the Syllabus for Machine Learning 10-601B in Spring 2016.

Slides

Readings

Mitchell 6.12 - 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