CS 445 Machine Learning

Fall 2020

Week 7 Study Guide

Learning Objectives

  • Probability computations including:marginalization (summing out), conditional probabilities, chain rule, and bayes therom
  • Define boosting and how it addresses hard to classify examples in the training data.
  • Define and describe a random forest and list how they can be used to improve generalization error.

Resources

  • Lecture Slides

Deliverables

Topic Description
Bias Variance Lab Complete the in-class assignment and submit to Canvas
Random Forest lab Complete the in-class assignment and submit to Canvas