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  Welcome & Learning Outcomes

  Welcome to Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition (2021-2022)[SEM1]

  Hello Blackboard Guest, welcome to the Learn page of Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition (2021-2022)[SEM1] (MLPR).

  The main source of information about MLPR is the webpage for the course (it's easy to remember: mlpr.inf.ed.ac.uk). Please go there to read about who the course is for, and what you might do to prepare. The sidebar also gives some deep links into this site.

  The first class session is online on Monday 20 September 2021, 4:10pm. It will be recorded. See the website for details. In-person tutorials are scheduled to start in week 3.

  Learning Outcomes

  On completion of this course, the student will be able to:

  1. Frame an applied problem as a machine learning task, identifying appropriate methods.
  2. Critically compare and contrast alternative machine learning methods for a given task.
  3. Derive and motivate novel variants of machine learning methods.
  4. Create accessible and useful explanations of the workings and failure modes of machine learning methods.
  5. Check and refine implementations of learning algorithms, while applying them in practice.