Introduction to Machine Learning for the Sciences
This is an introductory machine-learning course specifically developed with STEM students in mind. Our goal is to provide the interested reader with the basics to employ machine learning in their own projects and to familiarize themself with the terminology as a foundation for further reading of the relevant literature. In these lecture notes, we discuss supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning. The notes start with an exposition of machine learning methods without neural networks, such as principle component analysis, t-SNE, clustering, as well as linear regression and linear classifiers. We continue with an introduction to both basic and advanced neural-network structures such as dense feed-forward and conventional neural networks, recurrent neural networks, restricted Boltzmann machines, (variational) autoencoders, generative adversarial networks. Questions of interpretability are discussed for latent-space representations and using the examples of dreaming and adversarial attacks. The final section is dedicated to reinforcement learning, where we introduce basic notions of value functions and policy learning.
Code (0)
등록된 구현이 없습니다.
Tasks
BIG-bench Machine Learningreinforcement-learningReinforcement LearningReinforcement Learning (RL)Similar Papers 제목 키워드 기반
Advances in Machine Learning for the Behavioral Sciences
The areas of machine learning and knowledge discovery in databases have considerably matured in recent years. In this article, we briefly review recent developments as well as classical algorithms that stood the test of …
BIG-bench Machine LearningIs machine learning good or bad for the natural sciences?
Machine learning (ML) methods are having a huge impact across all of the sciences. However, ML has a strong ontology - in which only the data exist - and a strong epistemology - in which a model is considered good if it …
Causal InferencePhilosophyThe Need for Ethical, Responsible, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Sciences
Given the growing use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) methods across all aspects of environmental sciences, it is imperative that we initiate a discussion about the ethical and responsible use o…
Knowledge-guided Machine Learning: Current Trends and Future Prospects
This paper presents an overview of scientific modeling and discusses the complementary strengths and weaknesses of ML methods for scientific modeling in comparison to process-based models. It also provides an introductio…
An Introduction to Causal Discovery
In social sciences and economics, causal inference traditionally focuses on assessing the impact of predefined treatments (or interventions) on predefined outcomes, such as the effect of education programs on earnings. C…
Causal DiscoveryCausal InferenceSurvey