Machine Learning

Postgraduate course, ATU Donegal, Department of Computing, 2022

A 10 ECTS module on the MSc in Data Science, covering a range of topics across supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning, as well as model development and refinement techniques.

Topics include:

  • Nearest neighbour models;
  • Regression;
  • Decision trees and ensemble models;
  • Support vector machines;
  • Principal component analysis;
  • Bayesian models;
  • Clustering models;
  • Expectation maximisation;
  • The curse of dimensionality;
  • Regularisation;
  • Bias-variance tradeoff;
  • Cross validation;
  • Reinforcement learning;
  • Neural networks;
  • Generative models.