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Probabilistic Graphical Models 3: Learning
- Self-paced
- Free Access
- Fee-based Certificate
- 5 Sequences
- Advanced Level
Course details
Syllabus
- Week 1 - Learning: Overview
This module presents some of the learning tasks for probabilistic graphical models that we will tackle in this course. - Week 1 - Review of Machine Learning Concepts from Prof. Andrew Ng's Machine Learning Class (Optional)
This module contains some basic concepts from the general framework of machine learning, taken from Professor Andrew Ng's Stanford class offered on Coursera. Many of these concepts are highly relevant to the problems we'll tackle in this course. - Week 1 - Parameter Estimation in Bayesian Networks
This module discusses the simples and most basic of the learning problems in probabilistic graphical models: that of parameter estimation in a Bayesian network. We discuss maximum likelihood estimation, and the issues with it. We then discuss Bayesian estimati... - Week 2 - Learning Undirected Models
In this module, we discuss the parameter estimation problem for Markov networks - undirected graphical models. This task is considerably more complex, both conceptually and computationally, than parameter estimation for Bayesian networks, due to the issues pre... - Week 3 - Learning BN Structure
This module discusses the problem of learning the structure of Bayesian networks. We first discuss how this problem can be formulated as an optimization problem over a space of graph structures, and what are good ways to score different structures so as to tra... - Week 4 - Learning BNs with Incomplete Data
In this module, we discuss the problem of learning models in cases where some of the variables in some of the data cases are not fully observed. We discuss why this situation is considerably more complex than the fully observable case. We then present the Expe... - Week 5 - Learning Summary and Final
This module summarizes some of the issues that arise when learning probabilistic graphical models from data. It also contains the course final. - Week 5 - PGM Wrapup
This module contains an overview of PGM methods as a whole, discussing some of the real-world tradeoffs when using this framework in practice. It refers to topics from all three of the PGM courses.
Prerequisite
None.
Instructors
Daphne Koller
Professor
School of Engineering
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