MATH 562 Theory of Machine Learning
0 credits · Mathematics and Statistics · Faculty of Science · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
Concentration inequalities, PAC model, VC dimension, Rademacher complexity, convex optimization, gradient descent, boosting, kernels, support vector machines, regression and learning bounds. Further topics selected from: Gaussian processes, online learning, regret bounds, basic neural network theory…
Prerequisites
MATH 462 or COMP 451 or (COMP 551, MATH 222, MATH 223 and MATH 324) or ECSE 551.
Prerequisite courses: COMP 451, COMP 551, ECSE 551, MATH 222, MATH 223, MATH 324, MATH 462
Restrictions
Not open to students who have taken or are taking COMP 562. Not open to students who have taken COMP 599 when the topic was "Statistical Learning Theory" or "Mathematical Topics for Machine Learning". Not open to students who have taken COMP 598 when the topic was"Mathematical Foundations of Machine Learning".
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