[理学]MachineLearningTutorial-Introduction.pdf

A Brief Introduction to Machine Learning Tie-Yan Liu Microsoft Research Asia Tie-Yan Liu @ 北大数学中心数学、科学 2011/7/19 1 与技术暑期班 Outline • What is machine learning • Overview of supervised learning • Regression • Classification • Ranking • Summary Tie-Yan Liu @ 北大数学中心数学、科学 2011/7/19 2 与技术暑期班 What is Machine Learning Tie-Yan Liu @ 北大数学中心数学、科学 2011/7/19 3 与技术暑期班 Machine Learning • What is machine learning? – Machine learning is a scientific discipline that is concerned with the design and development of algorithms that allow computers to evolve behaviors based on empirical data. – A learner can take advantage of examples (data) to capture characteristics of interest of their unknown underlying probability distribution. – Data can be seen as examples that illustrate relations between observed variables. (from Wikipedia) Tie-Yan Liu @ 北大数学中心数学、科学 2011/7/19 4 与技术暑期班 Machine Learning Tie-Yan Liu @ 北大数学中心数学、科学 2011/7/19 5 与技术暑期班 Wide Application of Machine Learning • Machine learning already the preferred approach to – Speech recognition – Natural language processi