MANAV RACHNA INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH AND STUDIES
(Deemed to be University under section 3 of the UGC Act 1956)
NAAC 'A' Grade University
BCS-DS-737:Applied Machine Learning
Periods/week Credits Max. Marks :200
L : 2 T: 0 2.0 Continuous Evaluation
:100
Duration of Exam: 3 Hrs End Term Examination :
100
Pre-Requisite: Machine Learning, Python
Course Type: Programme Elective
Course Outcomes: The students will be able to-
BCS-DS-737.1. Understand and implement the most popular learning
algorithms.
BCS-DS-737.1Analyze and suggest the appropriate machine learning approach
for the various types of health-related problems
BCS-DS-737.1Evaluate multiple learning algorithms across several tasks.
BCS-DS-737.1Gain working knowledge of supervised and unsupervised
techniques and their relevant trade-offs in practical usage.
PART- A
Unit-1: Traditional Software Development and Agile Methodologies
1.1 Introduction to machine learning, types of machine learning: supervised,
unsupervised, reinforcement learning, Real life applications, learning process.
1.2 Natural Language processing: Understanding dataset, Data Cleaning:
Deduplication,
1.3 Bag of Words (BoW),Text Preprocessing: Stemming, Stop-word removal,
Tokenization, Lemmatization, Tf-idf
1.4 Evaluation metrics: Confusion matrix, AUC, ROC, Root means Square
Unit-2:Linear Regression & Logistic Regression
2.1 Predicting numeric values: regression – Finding the best fit lines with linear
regression,
2.2 Locally weighted linear regression, Shrinking Coefficients, The bias / Variance
tradeoff.
2.3 Logistic Regression: Classification with logistic regression and the sigmoid
function,
2.4 Using optimization to find the best regression coefficients.
2.5 Solving optimization problems: gradient descent, vector calculus
Unit-3: Support vector machines & Dimensionality Reduction techniques
3.1 Separating data with the maximum margin, finding the maximum margin, loss
3.2 function-based interpretation, optimization, kernel trick for complex data.
3.3 Dimensionality Reduction techniques: Principal Component analysis, Example.
3.4 Naïve Bayes: Bayes Theorem, Algorithm
PART –B
Unit-4: Instance-Based Learning
4.1 Introduction, k -Nearest Neighbor Learning, Locally Weighted Regression, Radial
Basis Functions,
4.2 Case-Based Reasoning, Remarks on Lazy and Eager Learning.
4.3 Decision tree: Building a decision tree, overfitting, underfitting, regression using
decision trees, AdaBoost
Unit-5:Unsupervised Learning[
5.1 Clustering, K-Means: Geometric intuition, Centroids, Mathematical formulation,
5.2 Hierarchal clustering proximity methods DBSCAN, Recommender Systems and
Matrix Factorization
Unit-6:Artificial Neural Networks
6.1 Neural network representation, Appropriate problems for neural network learning,
Perceptions,
6.2 Multilayer networks and the back propagation algorithm, ,
6.3 An illustrative example face recognition.
6.4 Deep Learning: Deep Belief Networks, CNN,RNN
Text Books / Reference Books:
1. Tom M. Mitchell, Machine Learning, McGraw-Hill Education (India) Private Limited, 2013.
2. Machine Learning in Action, Peter Harington, 2012, Cengage
Software required/Weblinks:
.1. Introduction to Machine Learning, EthemAlpaydin, PHI, 2004
2. tutorial point
3. www.analyticsvidhya.com
Instructions for paper setting: Seven questions are to be set in total. First question
will be conceptual covering entire syllabus and will be compulsory to attempt. Three
questions will be set from each Part A and Part B (one from each unit) Student needs to
attempt two questions out of three from each part. Each question will be of 20 marks.
Distribution of Continuous Evaluation:
Sessional- I 30%
Sessional- II 30%
Assignment/Tutorial 20%
Class Work/ Performance 20%
Evaluation Tools:
Assignment/Tutorials
Sessional tests
Surprise questions during lectures/Class Performance
Term end examination
COURSE ARTICULATION MATRIX :
CO P P P P P P P P P P P P PS PS PS
Statemen O O O O O O O O O O O O O1 O2 O3
t 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
(RIC-500)
BCS-DS- 3 3 2 2 1 2 2 2 2 2
737.1
BCS-DS- 2 2 3 3 1 2 2 2 1 3 2
737.2
BCS-DS- 2 2 2 3 2 2 1 2 2
737.3
BCS-DS- 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 2 3
737.4
