Certificate in Machine Learning offered by University of Washington
- Public University
- 1 Campus
- Estd. 1861
Certificate in Machine Learning at University of Washington Overview
Duration | 8 months |
Mode of learning | Online |
Course Level | UG Certificate |
Certificate in Machine Learning at University of Washington Course details
- Machine learning -the ability for computers to detect patterns in data and use it to make predictions -is changing our world in profound ways
- As the technology becomes faster and more accessible, machine learning is sparking innovations big and small, from customer service chatbots to predictive medicine. Future applications are limited only by the imagination
Certificate in Machine Learning at University of Washington Curriculum
QUARTER 1
INTRODUCTION TO MACHINE LEARNING
Foundational concepts from linear algebra, probability, calculus and statistics
Linear, graphical, nearest neighbor and generalized additive models
Model building, evaluation, tuning and performance improvement
QUARTER 2
ADVANCED MACHINE LEARNING
Trees, bootstrap aggregation, random forests, gradient boosting and support vector machines for classification and regression
Ensemble methods and gradient boosting
How to identify frequent item sets and association rules
Clustering data using k-means and hierarchical clustering
Natural language processing, recommendation systems and forecasting
QUARTER 3
DEEP LEARNING
The underlying conceptual principles of neural networks
Modern deep learning techniques such as dropout and batch normalization
How to select appropriate loss functions, optimizers and activation functions
The application of CNNs, RNNs, VAE and more
How to build computer vision models, machine translation system and game playing agents