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Conclusion ## Introduction In this document, we explore various topics under discrete mathematics. ## Concepts ### Sets - Definition - Notation - Operations ### Functions - Definition - Types of functions - Examples ### Relations - Definition - Properties | Concept | Description | |-----------|-----------------------------------| | Set | A collection of distinct objects | | Function | A relation from a set to itself | | Relation | A connection between two sets | ## Applications The concepts of discrete mathematics can be applied in various fields, including computer science, information technology, and combinatorial design. ## Conclusion Discrete mathematics provides fundamental knowledge required for numerous applications in modern science and technology. Image Analysis: ### Analysis of the Attached Visual Content #### 1. Localization and Attribution: - **Image Identification and Numbering:** - This is a single image and is referred to as **Image 1**. #### 2. Object Detection and Classification: - **Image 1:** - The image depicts a forest scene with several birch trees. - **Key Features of Detected Objects:** - **Trees:** The trees are characterized by their tall, slender trunks with distinctive white bark and dark horizontal markings typical of birches. - **Forest Ground:** There are grassy elements and what appears to be a forest floor with various green and brown patches. #### 3. Scene and Activity Analysis: - **Image 1:** - **Scene Description:** - The image is an artistic painting capturing a serene forest with several birch trees. - There is no human activity depicted; the scene is calm, evoking a sense of peace and natural beauty. #### 4. Text Analysis: - **Image 1:** - **Detected Text:** - Top: None - Bottom: - "A Cool Brisk Walk" (Title) - "Through Discrete Mathematics" (Subtitle) - "Version 2.2.1" (Version Information) - "Stephen Davies, Ph.D." (Author Name) - **Text Significance:** - The text suggests that this image is probably the cover of a book titled "A Cool Brisk Walk Through Discrete Mathematics" by Stephen Davies, Ph.D. The version number indicates it is version 2.2.1, signifying a possibly updated or revised edition. #### 8. Color Analysis: - **Image 1:** - **Color Composition:** - The dominant colors are various shades of green (foliage), white, and light brown (birch trunks), and a soft blue (background). - **Color Impact:** - The colors create a cool, calming effect, reflecting the serene mood of a walk through a quiet forest. #### 9. Perspective and Composition: - **Image 1:** - **Perspective:** - The image appears to be from a standing eye-level perspective, giving a natural view as one would see while walking through the forest. - **Composition:** - The birch trees are placed prominently in the foreground, with the background filled with dense foliage. The positioning of the text at the bottom complements the overall composition without distracting from the artwork. #### 10. Contextual Significance: - **Image 1:** - **Overall Document Context:** - As a book cover, the image serves the purpose of drawing the reader's attention. The serene and inviting forest scene combined with the title implies a gentle, inviting approach to the subject of discrete mathematics. The image successfully combines art with educational content, aiming to make the subject of discrete mathematics more appealing and accessible to the reader. The natural, calming scenery juxtaposed with an academic theme may suggest that the book intends to provide a refreshing perspective on a typically challenging subject. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 2 Context: Copyright © 2023 Stephen Davies. ## University of Mary Washington **Department of Computer Science** James Farmer Hall 1301 College Avenue Fredericksburg, VA 22401 --- Permission is granted to copy, distribute, transmit and adapt this work under a [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The accompanying materials at [www.allthemath.org](http://www.allthemath.org) are also under this license. If you are interested in distributing a commercial version of this work, please contact the author at [stephen@umw.edu](mailto:stephen@umw.edu). The LaTeX source for this book is available from: [https://github.com/divilian/cool-brisk-walk](https://github.com/divilian/cool-brisk-walk). --- Cover art copyright © 2014 Elizabeth M. Davies. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 3 Context: # Contents at a glance ## Contents at a glance - **Contents at a glance** …… i - **Preface** …… iii - **Acknowledgements** …… v 1. **Meetup at the trailhead** …… 1 2. **Sets** …… 7 3. **Relations** …… 35 4. **Probability** …… 59 5. **Structures** …… 85 6. **Counting** …… 141 7. **Numbers** …… 165 8. **Logic** …… 197 9. **Proof** …… 223 Also be sure to check out the forever-free-and-open-source instructional videos that accompany this series at [www.allthemath.org](http://www.allthemath.org)! #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 5 Context: # Preface Discrete math is a popular book topic — start Googling around and you’ll find a zillion different textbooks about it. Take a closer look, and you’ll discover that most of these are pretty thick, dense volumes packed with lots of equations and proofs. They’re principled approaches, written by mathematicians and (seemingly) to mathematicians. I speak with complete frankness when I say I’m comforted to know that the human race is well covered in this area. We need smart people who can derive complex expressions and prove theorems from scratch, and I’m glad we have them. Your average computer science practitioner, however, might be better served by a different approach. There are elements to the discrete math mindset that a budding software developer needs experience with. This is why discrete math is (properly, I believe) part of the mandatory curriculum for most computer science undergraduate programs. But for future programmers and engineers, the emphasis should be different than it is for mathematicians and researchers in computing theory. A practical computer scientist mostly needs to be able to use these tools, not to derive them. She needs familiarity, and practice, with the fundamental concepts and the thought processes they involve. The number of times the average software developer will need to construct a proof in graph theory is probably near zero. But the times she'll find it useful to reason about probability, logic, or the principles of collections are frequent. I believe the majority of computer science students benefit most from simply gaining an appreciation for the richness and rigor of #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 7 Context: # Acknowledgements A hearty thanks to Karen Anewalt, Crystal Burson, Prafulla Giri, Tayyar Hussain, Jennifer Magee, Veena Ravishankar, Jacob Shtabnoy, and a decade's worth of awesome UMW Computer Science students for their many suggestions and corrections to make this text better! #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 8 Context: I'm unable to view images. Please provide the text in Markdown format for me to assist you. Image Analysis: ### Image Analysis: #### 1. **Localization and Attribution:** - **Image Number**: Image 1 #### 2. **Object Detection and Classification:** - **Detected Objects**: The image includes a cup of coffee on a saucer, three coffee beans, and some sparkles implying aroma or steam. - **Object Classification**: - **Cup of Coffee**: A central object, likely made of ceramic and filled with coffee. - **Coffee Beans**: Close to the cup, classifiable as roasted beans. - **Sparkles/Steam**: Above the cup, representing the aroma of the hot coffee. #### 3. **Scene and Activity Analysis:** - **Scene Description**: This image displays a cup of coffee on a saucer with coffee beans around it. Decorative sparkles or steam lines are depicted rising above the coffee, suggesting freshness or warmth. - **Activities**: No human activities observed; the focus is on the presentation of the coffee. #### 4. **Text Analysis:** - No text detected in this image. #### 5. **Diagram and Chart Analysis:** - Not applicable; no diagrams or charts are present in the image. #### 6. **Product Analysis:** - **Product**: A cup of coffee. - **Main Features**: - A white/neutral-colored ceramic cup and saucer filled with coffee. - Roasted coffee beans placed nearby, suggesting the quality or type of coffee used. - **Materials**: Ceramic cup and saucer, roasted coffee beans. - **Colors**: Predominantly brown (coffee and beans) and white (cup and saucer). #### 7. **Anomaly Detection:** - No anomalies detected; the elements are consistent with a typical coffee presentation. #### 8. **Color Analysis**: - **Dominant Colors**: Brown and white. - **Brown**: Evokes warmth and richness, associated with coffee and coffee beans. - **White**: Clean and neutral, ensures focus on the coffee. #### 9. **Perspective and Composition**: - **Perspective**: Bird’s eye view. - **Composition**: - Centralized with the cup of coffee as the main focus. - Balanced by the placement of coffee beans around the cup. - Decorative elements like sparkles/steam give a visual cue towards the coffee's freshness or aroma. #### 10. **Contextual Significance**: - The image can be used in contexts such as coffee advertisements, cafe menus, or articles about coffee. It emphasizes the quality and appeal of the coffee through its visual presentation. #### 11. **Metadata Analysis**: - No metadata available for analysis. #### 12. **Graph and Trend Analysis**: - Not applicable; no graphs or trends are present in the image. #### 13. **Graph Numbers**: - Not applicable; no data points or graph numbers are present in the image. ### Additional Aspects: #### **Ablaufprozesse (Process Flows)**: - Not applicable; no process flows depicted. #### **Prozessbeschreibungen (Process Descriptions)**: - Not applicable; no processes described. #### **Typen Bezeichnung (Type Designations)**: - Not applicable; no type designations specified. #### **Trend and Interpretation**: - Not applicable; no trends depicted. #### **Tables**: - Not applicable; no tables included. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 13 Context: # 1.1 EXERCISES 1. **What’s the opposite of concrete?** Abstract. 2. **What’s the opposite of discrete?** Continuous. 3. **Consider a quantity of water in a glass. Would you call it abstract, or concrete? Discrete, or continuous?** Concrete, since it’s a real entity you can experience with the senses. Continuous, since it could be any number of ounces (or liters, or tablespoons, or whatever). The amount of water certainly doesn’t have to be an integer. (Food for thought: since all matter is ultimately comprised of atoms, are even substances like water discrete?) 4. **Consider the number 27. Would you call it abstract, or concrete? Discrete, or continuous?** Abstract, since you can’t see or touch or smell “twenty-seven.” Probably discrete, since it’s an integer, and when we think of whole numbers we think “discrete.” (Food for thought: in real life, how would you know whether I meant the integer “27” or the decimal number “27.00”? And does it matter?) Clearly it’s discrete. Abstract vs. concrete, though, is a little tricky. If we’re talking about the actual transistor and capacitor that’s physically present in the hardware, holding a thing in charge in some little chip, then it’s concrete. But if we’re talking about the value “1” that is conceptually part of the computer’s currently executing state, then it’s really abstract just like 27 was. In this book, we’ll always be talking about bits in this second, abstract sense. 5. **Consider a bit in a computer’s memory. Would you call it abstract, or concrete? Discrete, or continuous?** Any kind of abstract object that has properties we can reason about. 6. **If math isn’t just about numbers, what else is it about?** Any kind of abstract object that has properties we can reason about. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 14 Context: I'm unable to assist with that. Image Analysis: ### Analysis of Attached Visual Content #### Image Identification and Localization - **Image 1**: Single image provided in the content. #### Object Detection and Classification - **Image 1**: - **Objects Detected**: - Female figurine resembling a prehistoric representation. - The figurine appears to be crafted from a terracotta or similar clay-like material. - **Classification**: - The object is classified under 'Artifacts' and 'Historical Objects'. - **Key Features**: - The sculpture has exaggerated female attributes including a prominent chest and belly, which are indicative of fertility symbols. - The face does not have detailed features, implying focus on bodily form rather than facial details. - The object seems ancient, slightly weathered, suggesting it to be an archaeological artifact. #### Scene and Activity Analysis - **Image 1**: - **Scene Description**: - The image shows a close-up of a single artifact against a neutral background, possibly for the purpose of highlighting the artifact itself. - **Activities**: - No dynamic activity; the object is displayed presumably for appreciation or study. #### Perspective and Composition - **Image 1**: - **Perspective**: - The image is taken from a straight-on, eye-level view, ensuring the object is the primary focus. - Close-up perspective to capture detailed features. - **Composition**: - The object is centrally placed, drawing immediate attention. - The background is plain and undistracting, enhancing the focus on the artifact itself. #### Contextual Significance - **Image 1**: - **Overall Contribution**: - The artifact could be used in educational, historical, or museum contexts to study prehistoric cultures, their art, and societal values. - As a fertility symbol, it contributes to understanding sociocultural aspects of ancient civilizations. #### Color Analysis - **Image 1**: - **Dominant Colors**: - Shades of brown and beige are dominant, corresponding to the natural materials like terracotta. - **Impact on Perception**: - The earthy tones evoke a sense of antiquity and authenticity, reinforcing the perception of it being an ancient artifact. ### Conclusion The provided image is of a terracotta or similar material female figurine, likely of prehistoric origin. It is depicted with a neutral background to focus on its significant features, in particular, the enhanced bodily features indicative of fertility representations. The composition and color tones effectively highlight its historical and cultural importance. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 18 Context: # CHAPTER 2. SETS Set theory? Fuzzy sets change this membership assumption: items can indeed be “partially in” a set. One could declare, for instance, that Dad is “100% female,” which means he’s only 100% in the \( F \) set. That might or might not make sense for gender, but you can imagine that if we defined a set \( T \) of “the tall people,” such a notion might be useful. At any rate, this example illustrates a larger principle which is important to understand: in math, things are the way they are simply because we’ve decided it’s useful to think of them that way. If we decide there’s a different useful way to think about them, we can define new assumptions and proceed according to new rules. It doesn’t make any sense to say “sets are (or aren’t) really fuzzy”: because there is no “really.” All mathematics proceeds from whatever mathematicians have decided is useful to define, and any of it can be changed at any time if we see fit. ## 2.2 Defining sets There are two ways to define a set: extensionally and intensionally. I’m not saying there are two kinds of sets; rather, there are simply two ways to specify a set. To define a set extensionally is to list its actual members. That’s what we did when we said \( P = \{ Dad, Mom \} \) above. In this case, we’re not giving any “meaning” to the set; we’re just mechanically spelling out what’s in it. The elements Dad and Mom are called the **extension** of the set \( P \). The other way to specify a set is intensionally, which means to describe its meaning. Another way to think of this is specifying a rule by which it can be determined whether or not a given element is in the set. If I say “Let \( P \) be the set of all parents,” I am defining \( P \) intensionally. I haven’t explicitly said which specific elements of the set are in \( P \). I’ve just given the meaning of the set, from which you can figure out the extension. We call “parent-ness” the **intension** of \( P \). #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 25 Context: 2.8 Some special sets ===================== In addition to the empty set, there are symbols for some other common sets, including: - **Z** — the integers (positive, negative, and zero) - **N** — the natural numbers (positive integers and zero) - **Q** — the rational numbers (all numbers that can be expressed as an integer divided by another integer) - **R** — the real numbers (all numbers that aren't imaginary, even decimal numbers that aren't rational) The cardinality of all these sets is infinity, although, as I alluded to previously, \(\mathbb{R}\) is in some sense "greater than" \(\mathbb{N}\). For the curious, we say that \(\mathbb{N}\) is a countably infinite set, whereas \(\mathbb{R}\) is uncountably infinite. Speaking very loosely, this can be thought of this way: if we start counting up all the natural numbers, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, ..., we will never get to the end of them. But at least we can start counting. With the real numbers, we can't even get off the ground. Where do you begin? Starting with 0 is fine, but then what's the "next" real number? Choosing anything for your second number inevitably skips a lot in between. Once you've digested this, I'll spring another shocking truth on you: \(|\mathbb{Q}| \text{ is actually equal to } |\mathbb{R}|, \text{ not greater than it as } |\mathbb{R}|. \text{ Cantor came up with an ingenious numbering scheme whereby all the rational numbers — including 3, -9, \text{ and } \frac{1}{17} — can be listed off regularly, in order, just like the integers can. And so } |\mathbb{Q}| = |\mathbb{N}| \neq |\mathbb{R}|. \text{ This kind of stuff can blow your mind.} #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 26 Context: # 2.9 Combining Sets Okay, so we have sets. Now what can we do with them? When you first learn about numbers back before kindergarten, the next thing you learn is how to combine numbers using various operations to produce other numbers. These include \( -, \times, +, \div \), exponents, roots, etc. Sets, too, have operations that are useful for combining to make other sets. These include: - **Union (\(\cup\))**: The union of two sets is a set that includes the elements that either (or both) of them have as members. For instance, if \( A = \{ \text{Dad}, \text{Lizzy} \} \) and \( B = \{ \text{Lizzy}, \text{T.J.}, \text{Johnny} \} \), then \( A \cup B = \{ \text{Dad}, \text{Lizzy}, \text{T.J.}, \text{Johnny} \} \). Note that any element is in the union if it is in \( A \) or \( B \). For this reason, there is a strong relationship between the union operator of sets and the “or” (\( \vee \)) operator of boolean logic that we’ll see later. - **Intersection (\(\cap\))**: The intersection of two sets is a set that includes the elements that both of them have as members. In the above example, \( A \cap B = \{ \text{Lizzy} \} \). There is a strong connection between intersection and the “and” (\(\land\)) boolean logic operator. - **(Partial) Complement (\(-\))**: Looks like subtraction, but significantly different. \( A - B \) contains the elements from \( A \) that are also not in \( B \). So you start with \( A \) and then “subtract off” the contents of \( B \) if they occur. In the above example, \( A - B = \{ \text{Dad} \} \). (Note that T.J. and Johnny didn’t really enter into the calculation.) Unlike \( \cup \) and \( \cap \), it is not commutative. This means it’s not symmetric: \( A - B \) doesn’t (normally) give the same answer as \( B - A \). In this example, \( B - A = \{ \text{T.J.}, \text{Johnny} \} \), whereas, if you ever reverse the operands with union or intersection, you’ll always get the same result as before. - **(Total) Complement (\(X\))**: Same as the partial complement, above, except that the implied first operand is \( \Omega \). In other words, \( A - B \) is “all the things in \( A \) that aren’t in \( B \),” whereas... #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 31 Context: 2.10 Subsets =========== We learned that the “∈” symbol is used to indicate set membership: the element on the left is a member of the set on the right. A related but distinct notion is the idea of a subset. When we say \( X \subset Y \) (pronounced “X is a subset of Y”), it means that every member of \( X \) is also a member of \( Y \). The reverse is not necessarily true, of course; otherwise “⊆” would just mean “=”. So if \( A = \{ Dad, Lizzy \} \) and \( K = \{ Dad, Mom, Lizzy \} \), then we can say \( A \subset K \). Be careful about the distinction between “∈” and “⊆”, which are often confused. With “∈”, the thing on the left is an element, whereas with “⊆”, the thing on the left is a set. This is further complicated by the fact that the element on the left-hand side of “∈” might well be a set. Let's see some examples. Suppose \( Q \) is the set \( \{ 4, 9, 4 \} \). \( Q \) has three elements here, one of which is itself a set. Now suppose that we let \( P \) be the set \( \{ 4, 9 \} \). Question: Is \( P \subset Q \)? The answer is yes: the set \( \{ 4, 9 \} \) (which is the same as the set \( \{ 9, 4 \} \), just written in a different way) is in fact an element of the set \( Q \). Next question: Is \( P \subset Q \)? The answer is no, \( P \nsubseteq Q \). If there are two of them (4 and 4) also in \( Q \), then 4 is a member of \( Q \), not 9. Last question: If \( R \) is defined to be \( \{ 2, 4 \} \), is \( R \subset Q \)? The answer is yes, since both 2 and 4 are members of \( Q \). Notice that the definition here is a subset of itself. Sometimes, though, it’s useful to talk about whether a set is really a subset of another, and you don’t want to “count” if the two sets are actually equal. This is called a proper subset, and the symbol for it is \( \subsetneq \). You can see the rationale for the choice of symbol, because “⊆” is kind of like “<” for numbers, and “⊂” is like “<”. Every set is a subset (not necessarily a proper one) of itself, because #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 62 Context: # CHAPTER 3. RELATIONS 7. **Is T symmetric?** No, since it contains \((Kirk, Scotty)\) but not \((Scotty, Kirk)\). 8. **Is T antisymmetric?** No, since it contains \((Scotty, Spock)\) and also \((Spock, Scotty)\). 9. **Is T transitive?** Yes, since for every \((x, y)\) and \((y, z)\) present, the corresponding \((x, z)\) is also present. (The only example that fits this is \(x = Kirk, y = Spock, z = Scotty\), and the required ordered pair is indeed present.) 10. Let H be an endorelational on T, defined as follows: \{ \((Kirk, Kirk)\), \((Spock, Spock)\), \((Uhura, Scotty)\), \((Scotty, Uhura)\), \((Spock, McCoy)\), \((McCoy, Spock)\), \((Scotty, Scotty)\), \((Uhura, Uhura)\) \}. **Is H reflexive?** No, since it’s missing \((McCoy, McCoy)\). 11. **Is H symmetric?** Yes, since for every \((x, y)\) it contains, the corresponding \((y, x)\) is also present. 12. **Is H antisymmetric?** No, since it contains \((Uhura, Scotty)\) and also \((Scotty, Uhura)\). 13. **Is H transitive?** Yes, since there aren’t any examples of \((x, y)\) and \((y, z)\) pairs both being present. 14. Let outbrake be an edorelational on the set of all crew members of the Enterprise, where \((x, y)\) if \(x\) outranks \(y\) if character \(x\) has a higher Star Fleet rank than \(y\). **Is outranking reflexive?** No, since no officer outranks him/herself. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 74 Context: # 4. PROBABILITY It’s the size (cardinality) of the event set that matters, and the ratio of this number to the total number of events is the probability. For example, if we deal from a fair deck, the probability of drawing a face card is: Pr(F) = \(\frac{|F|}{N}\) = \(\frac{|\{K♠, K♥, K♦, K♣, \ldots, J♠\}|}{52}\) = \(\frac{12}{52} = 0.231\) Please realize that this shortcut **only** applies when the probability of each outcome is the same. We certainly couldn’t say, for example, that the probability of a user’s password starting with the letter q is just \(\frac{1}{26}\) because passwords surely don’t contain all letters with equal frequency. (At least, I’d be very surprised if that were the case.) The only way to solve a problem like this is to know how often each letter of the alphabet occurs. ## 4.3 Philosophical Interlude Which brings me to an important question. How do we get these probability numbers, anyway? Everything so far has assumed that the numbers have been dropped into our lap. The answer depends somewhat on your interpretation of what probability means. If we say *“the probability of getting heads on a coin flip is 0.5,”* what are we really saying? There have traditionally been two opposing answers to this question, called the frequentist view and the Bayesian view. It’s interesting to compare their claims. The frequentist view is that we derive probabilities by simply running many trials and counting the results. The proportions of various outcomes yield a good idea of their probabilities, particularly if the sample size is large. Consider flipping a coin. If we flip a coin ten times and count three heads, we might not have a great #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 76 Context: 68 # CHAPTER 4. PROBABILITY does so on the most up-to-date information he/she/it has, always revising beliefs in various hypotheses when confirming or refuting evidence is encountered. Famous Bayesians include Pierre-Simon Laplace, considered "the French Isaac Newton" for his scientific brilliance, and 18th-century theologian Thomas Bayes, for whom the theory is named. I won't try to conceal that my own thinking on this topic is pretty Bayesian. But I find this whole topic fascinating because it shows how brilliant people, who unanimously agree on the rules and equations, can have such radically different interpretations of what it all means. ## 4.4 Conditional probability I mentioned that Bayesians are especially concerned with the idea of revising estimates about probability based on new information that may come to light. This notion can be crystallized in the idea of **conditional probability**. When we talk about the conditional probability of an event A, we mean "what's the probability that A occurs, given that I know some other event K has also occurred?" Think of K as "background knowledge": it’s additional information which, when known, may influence how likely we think A is to have occurred. It can be mathematically computed as follows: \[ P(A|K) = \frac{P(A \cap K)}{P(K)} \] We pronounce \( P(A|K) \) as "the probability of A given K". It is the conditional probability of A, or "the probability of A conditioned on K." We'll sometimes call \( P(A) \) the **prior probability**, or the prior probability if we don't want to sound Latin. The prior is simply the original unadjusted probability, if we aren’t privy to the background information K. Let's go back to **American Idol**. We know that the probability of an underage winner is only 4%, because \( E (Kelly, Fantasia) \) and we estimate that each of them has a 2% probability of winning. So it seems more likely than not that our winner will be over 21. But #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 83 Context: ``` 4.6 Bayes' Theorem The Law of Total Probability comes in handy in scenarios where there's more than one "way" for an event to occur. It lets you break that event apart into the different ways, then apply your knowledge of the likelihood of each of those ways in order to compute the grand, overall probability of the event. Another trick that helps compute probabilities in practice is Bayes' Theorem. We've defined \( P(A|K) \approx \frac{P(K|A) P(A)}{P(K)} \) and by swapping the letters we get \( P(K|A) = \frac{P(A|K) P(K)}{P(A)} \). Combining these with a little bit of algebra yields: \[ P(A|K) = \frac{P(K|A) P(A)}{P(K)} \] Now this is a very, very powerful equation that has a multitude of uses throughout computer science and statistics. What makes it powerful is that it allows us to express \( P(A|K) \), a quantity often very difficult to estimate, in terms of \( P(K|A) \), which is often much easier. A simple and commonly cited example is that of interpreting medical exam results for the presence of a disease. If your doctor recommends that you undergo a blood test to see if you have some rare condition, you might test positive or negative. But suppose you do indeed test positive. What's the probability that you actually have the disease? That, of course, is the key point. In symbols, we're looking for \( P(D|T) \), where \( D \) is the event that you actually have the disease in question, and \( T \) is the event that you test positive for it. But this is hard to approximate with available data. For one thing, most people who undergo this test don't test positive, so we don't have a ton of examples of event \( T \) occurring where we could count the times \( D \) also occurred. But worse, it's hard to tell whether a patient has the disease, at least before advanced symptoms develop—that, after all, is the purpose of our test! ``` #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 94 Context: # CHAPTER 5. STRUCTURES ## 5.1 Graphs In many ways, the most elegant, simple, and powerful way of representing knowledge is by means of a graph. A graph is composed of a bunch of little bits of data, each of which may (or may not) be attached to each of the others. An example is in Figure 5.1. Each of the labeled ovals is called a **vertex** (plural: **vertices**), and the lines between them are called **edges**. Each vertex does, or does not, contain an edge connecting it to each other vertex. One could imagine each of the vertices containing various descriptive attributes — perhaps the **John Wilkes Booth** vertex could have information about Booth's birthdate, and **Washington, DC** information about its longitude, latitude, and population — but these are typically not shown on the diagram. All that really matters, graph-wise, is which vertices it contains, and which ones are joined to which others. ``` President | Abraham Lincoln | Washington, DC | John Wilkes Booth / \ Ford's Theatre Civil War | Actor | Gettysburg ``` Figure 5.1: A graph (undirected). Cognitive psychologists, who study the internal mental processes of the mind, have long identified this sort of structure as the principal way that people mentally store and work with information. After all, if you step back a moment and ask “what is the ‘stuff’ that’s in my memory?” a reasonable answer is “well I know about a bunch of things, and the properties of those things, and the relationships between those things.” If the “things” are vertices, and the “properties” are attributes of those vertices, and the “relationships” are #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 105 Context: # 5.1. GRAPHS Now it might have occurred to you that we can run into trouble if we encounter the same node multiple times while we're traversing. This can happen if the graph has a cycle: there will be more than one path to reach some nodes, and we could get stuck in an infinite loop if we're not careful. For this reason, we introduce the concept of marking nodes. This is kind of like leaving a trail of breadcrumbs: if we're ever about to explore a node, but find out it's marked, then we know we've already been there, and it's pointless to search it again. So there are two things we're going to do to nodes as we search: - **To mark** a node means to remember that we've already encountered it in the process of our search. - **To visit** a node means to actually do whatever it is we need to do to the node (call the phone number, examine its name for a pattern match, add the number to our total, whatever). Now then, Breadth-first traversal (BFT) is an **algorithm**, which is just a step-by-step, reliable procedure that's guaranteed to produce a result. In this case, it's guaranteed to visit every node in the graph that's reachable from the starting node, and not get stuck in any infinite loops in the process. Here it is: ## Breadth-first traversal (BFT) 1. Choose a starting node. 2. Mark it and enqueue it on an empty queue. 3. While the queue is not empty, do these steps: a. Dequeue the front node of the queue. b. Visit it. c. Mark and enqueue all of its unmarked adjacent nodes (in any order). #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 123 Context: # 5.2 TREES parent is A, and A has no parent. ## child Some nodes have children, which are nodes connected directly below it. A’s children are F and B, C’s are D and E, B’s only child is C, and E has no children. ## sibling A node with the same parent. E’s sibling is D, B’s is F, and none of the other nodes have siblings. ## ancestor Your parent, grandparent, great-grandparent, etc., all the way back to the root. B’s only ancestor is A, while E’s ancestors are C, B, and A. Note that F is not C’s ancestor, even though it’s above it on the diagram; there’s no connection from C to F, except back through the root (which doesn’t count). ## descendant Your children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, etc., all the way to the leaves. B’s descendants are C, D, and E, while A’s are F, B, C, D, and E. ## leaf A node with no children. F, D, and E are leaves. Note that in a (very) small tree, the root could itself be a leaf. ## internal node Any node that’s not a leaf. A, B, and C are the internal nodes in our example. ## depth (of a node) A node’s depth is the distance (in number of nodes) from it to the root. The root itself has depth zero. In our example, B is of depth 1, E is of depth 3, and A is of depth 0. ## height (of a tree) A rooted tree’s height is the maximum depth of any of its nodes; i.e., the maximum distance from the root to any node. Our example has a height of 3, since the “deepest” nodes are D and E, each with a depth of 3. A tree with just one node is considered to have a height of 0. Bizarrely, but to be consistent, we’ll say that the empty tree has height -1! Strange, but what else could it be? To say it has height 0 seems inconsistent with a one-node tree also having height 0. At any rate, this won’t come up much. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 131 Context: # 5.2. TREES anced: every level is completely filled. Figure 5.22 is not perfect, but it would be if we either added nodes to fill out level 4, or deleted the unfinished part of level 3 (as in Figure 5.23). ``` G / \ K H / \ / \ D M A B / \ / \ O C E I \ F \ N ``` Figure 5.23: A “perfect” binary tree. Perfect binary trees obviously have the strictest size restrictions. It’s only possible, in fact, to have perfect binary trees with \( 2^{h} - 1 \) nodes, if \( h \) is the height of the tree. So there are perfect binary trees with 1, 3, 7, 15, 31, ... nodes, but none in between. In each such tree, \( 2^{h} \) of the nodes (almost exactly half) are leaves. Now as we’ll see, binary trees can possess some pretty amazing powers if the nodes within them are organized in certain ways. Specifically, a binary search tree and a heap are two special kinds of binary trees that conform to specific constraints. In both cases, what makes them so powerful is the rate at which a tree grows as nodes are added to it. Suppose we have a perfect binary tree. To make it concrete, let’s say it has height 3, which would give it \( 1+2+4+8=15 \) nodes, 8 of which are leaves. Now what happens if you increase the height of this tree to 4? If it’s still a “perfect” tree, you will have added 16 more nodes (all leaves). Thus, you have doubled the number of leaves by simply adding one more level. This cascades the more levels you add. A tree of height 5 doubles the number of leaves again (to 32), and height 6 doubles it again (to 64). #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 133 Context: # 5.2. TREES ## Binary Search Trees (BSTs) Okay, then let’s talk about how to arrange those contents. A binary search tree (BST) is any binary tree that satisfies one additional property: every node is “greater than” all of the nodes in its left subtree, and “less than (or equal to)” all of the nodes in its right subtree. We’ll call this the **BST property**. The phrases “greater than” and “less than” are in quotes here because their meaning is somewhat flexible, depending on what we’re storing in the tree. If we’re storing numbers, we’ll use numerical order. If we’re storing names, we’ll use alphabetical order. Whatever it is we’re storing, we simply need a way to compare two nodes to determine which one “goes before” the other. An example of a BST containing people is given in Figure 5.24. Imagine that each of these nodes contains a good deal of information about a particular person—an employee record, medical history, account information, what have you. The nodes themselves are indexed by the person’s name, and the nodes are organized according to the BST rule. Mitch comes after Ben/Jessica/Jim and before Randy/Olson/Molly/Xander in alphabetical order, and this ordering relationship between parents and children repeats itself all the way down the tree. (Check it!) Be careful to observe that the ordering rule applies between a node and **the entire contents of its subtrees**, not merely to its immediate children. This is a rookie mistake that you want to avoid. Your first instinct, when glancing at Figure 5.25, below, is to judge it a BST. It is not a binary search tree, however! Jessica is to the left of Mitch, as she should be, and Nancy is to the right of Jessica, as she should be. It seems to check out. But the problem is that Nancy is a descendant of Mitch’s left subtree, whereas she must properly be placed somewhere in his right subtree. And, this matters. So be sure to check your BSTs all the way up and down. ## The Power of BSTs All right, so what’s all the buzz about BSTs, anyway? The key insight is to realize that if you’re looking for a node, all you have to do is start at the root and go the height of the tree down, making... #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 137 Context: 5.2. TREES ========== ![Figure 5.26: The BST after adding Jennifer.](image_link_here) This allows us to look at the tree and reconstruct some of what came before. For instance, we know that Mitch must have been the first node originally inserted, and that Randi was inserted before Owen, Xander, or Molly. As an exercise, add your own name to this tree (and a few of your friends' names) to make sure you get the hang of it. When you're done, the tree must of course obey the BST property. ## Removing nodes from a BST Removing nodes is a bit trickier than adding them. How do we delete an entry without messing up the structure of the tree? It’s easy to see how to delete Molly: since she’s just a leaf, just remove her and be done with it. But how to delete Jessica? Or for that matter, Mitch? Your first inclination might be to eliminate the node and promote one of its children to go in its place. For instance, if we delete Jessica, you might think we could elevate Ben up to where Jessica was, and then move Jennifer up under Ben as well. This doesn’t work, though. The result would look like Figure 5.27, with Jennifer in the wrong place. The next time we look for Jennifer in the tree, we’ll search to the right of Ben (as we should), completely. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 142 Context: # CHAPTER 5. STRUCTURES Thirdly, there are specialized data structures you may learn about in future courses, such as AVL trees and red-black trees, which are binary search trees that add extra rules to prevent imbalancing. Basically, the idea is that when a node is inserted (or removed), certain metrics are checked to make sure that the change didn’t cause too great an imbalance. If it did, the tree is adjusted to minimize the imbalance. This comes at a slight cost every time the tree is changed, but prevents any possibility of a lopsided tree that would cause slow lookups in the long run. ## 5.3 Final Word Whew, that was a lot of information about structures. Before we continue our walk in the next chapter with a completely different topic, I’ll leave you with this summary thought. Let \( BST \) be the set of Binary Search Trees, and \( BT \) be the set of Binary Trees. Let \( RT \) be the set of rooted trees, and \( T \) be the set of trees (free or rooted). Finally, let \( CG \) be the set of connected graphs, and \( G \) the set of all graphs. Then we have: \[ BST \subseteq BT \subseteq RT \subseteq CG \subseteq G \] It’s a beautiful thing. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 149 Context: # Chapter 6 ## Counting If the title of this chapter seems less than inspiring, it’s only because the kind of counting we learned as children was mostly of a straightforward kind. In this chapter, we’re going to learn to answer some more difficult questions like “how many different semester schedules could a college student possibly have?” and “how many different passwords can a customer choose for this e-commerce website?” and “how likely is this network buffer to overflow, given that its packets are addressed to three different destinations?” The more impressive-sounding name for this topic is **combinatorics**. In combinatorics, we focus on two tasks: counting things (to find out how many there are), and enumerating things (to systematically list them as individuals). Some things turn out to be hard to count but easy to enumerate, and vice versa. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 177 Context: # 7.2. BASES The largest quantity we can hold in one digit, before we’d need to “roll over” to two digits. In base 10 (decimal), we use ten symbols: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9. Consequently, the number nine is the highest value we can hold in a single digit. Once we add another element to a set of nine, we have no choice but to add another digit to express it. This makes a “ten’s place” because it will represent the number of sets-of-10 (which we couldn't hold in the 1's place) that the value contains. Now why is the next place over called the “hundred’s place” instead of, say, the “twenty’s place”? Simply because twenty — as well as every other number less than a hundred — comfortably fits in two digits. We can have up to 9 in the one’s place, and also up to 9 in the ten’s place, giving us a total of ninety-nine before we ever have to cave in to using three digits. The number one hundred is exactly the point at which we must roll over to three digits; therefore, the sequence of digits 1-0-0 represents one hundred. If the chosen base isn’t obvious from context (as it often won’t be in this chapter) then when we write out a sequence of digits we’ll append the base as a subscript to the end of the number. So the number “four hundred and thirty-seven” will be written as \( 437_{10} \). The way we interpret a decimal number, then, is by counting the right-most digits as a number of individuals, the digit to its left as the number of groups of ten individuals, and the digit to its left as the number of groups of hundred individuals, and so on. Therefore, \( 547_{20} \) is just a way of writing \( 5 \times 10^3 + 4 \times 10^2 + 7 \times 10^1 + 2 \times 10^0 \). By the way, we will often use the term **least significant digit** to refer to the right-most digit (2, in the above example), and **most significant digit** to refer to the left-most (5). “Significant” simply refers to how much that digit is “worth” in the overall magnitude. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 199 Context: # 7.4. BINARY (BASE 2) But then again, if I say, “oh, that’s a two’s-complement number,” you’d first look at the leftmost bit, see that it’s a 1, and realize you’re dealing with a negative number. What is the negative of? You’d flip all the bits and add one to find out. This would give you `00110110`, which you’d interpret as a base 2 number and get \(60_{10}\). You’d then respond, “ah, then that’s the number \(-60_{10}\).” And you’d be right. So what does `11000010` represent then? Is it 196, -68, or -60? The answer is **any of the three**, depending on what representation scheme you’re using. None of the data in computers or information systems has intrinsic meaning: it all has to be interpreted according to the syntactic and semantic rules that we invent. In math and computer science, anything can be made to mean anything; after all, we invent the rules. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 204 Context: I'm unable to process images directly. However, if you provide the text you want to format in Markdown, I can certainly help you fix any formatting issues. Please paste the text here. Image Analysis: ### Image Analysis Report **Localization and Attribution:** - The image appears to be a single diagram located at the center of the page. - It is referred to as **Image 1**. **Object Detection and Classification:** - **Objects Detected:** - Boxes/rectangles connected by arrows. - Icons inside some boxes. **Scene and Activity Analysis:** - **Scene Description:** - The image is a flowchart depicting a process. It contains several boxes connected by arrows, representing a step-by-step procedure. - **Activities:** - The flowchart likely represents a sequence of tasks or decisions, as indicated by the directional arrows. **Text Analysis:** - **Detected Text:** - Box 1: "Start" - Box 2: "Input Data" - Box 3: "Process Data" - Box 4: "Output Data" - Box 5: "End" - **Text Content Analysis:** - The text describes a straightforward process flow where data is input, processed, and then output before concluding. **Diagram and Chart Analysis:** - **Diagram Analysis:** - The flowchart is visually structured to guide the reader from the starting point of a process to its conclusion. - Arrows indicate the direction of the flow, ensuring clarity in the process order. - **Key Insights:** - The process is linear and simple, involving data manipulation from input to processing and finally output. **Perspective and Composition:** - **Perspective:** - The image is presented from a direct, front-facing view to ensure readability and clarity. - **Composition:** - The boxes are symmetrically aligned and uniformly spaced, with arrows guiding the flow from one step to the next. **Contextual Significance:** - **Overall Contribution:** - The image contributes as a simplified visual representation of a process or procedure, likely serving as a quick reference for understanding the sequence of steps involved. **Tables:** - **Tabular Data Analysis:** - No tables are included in the image. ### Summary **Image 1** features a flowchart that describes a step-by-step process involving the input, processing, and output of data, concluding with an end step. The text provides clear labels for each step, and the arrows create a discernible flow from start to end. The perspective and composition facilitate easy understanding of the process being depicted. There are no additional anomalies or metadata information to analyze from the image. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 205 Context: # Chapter 8 ## Logic To a great extent, logic governs the way your mind works, even among so-called “irrational people.” If we want to capture logical processes and represent them in a computer program, we need a way to express these thoughts in a form suitable for automated reasoning. This is primarily why computer scientists study logic. Interestingly, the material in this chapter covers the very bottom and the very top of the technology stack. At the bottom, we have actual physical hardware that consists of circuits turning bits on and off. The rules that govern when we want to turn which bits on and off are based on “logic gates,” or tiny physical devices that implement the logical principles of this chapter on a micro scale. At the other end of the spectrum, we have highly abstract programs aiming towards “artificial intelligence.” These systems are centered around a “knowledge base” of accumulated facts, and regularly examine those known facts to make decisions and draw additional conclusions. What does a knowledge base consist of? You guessed it: logical statements that are described in this chapter. ### 8.1 Propositional logic The simpler — but less powerful — of the two logic systems we’ll study is called **propositional logic**. It has this name because the core building block is the **proposition**. A proposition is simply a #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 212 Context: ``` # CHAPTER 8. LOGIC | X | Y | X∨Y | X•Y | ¬X | X=Y | X≠Y | |---|---|-----|-----|----|-----|-----| | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | Take a moment and look carefully through the entries in that table, and make sure you agree that this correctly represents the outputs for the five operators. (Note that ¬, being a unary operator, only has X as an input, which means that the value of Y is effectively ignored for that column.) Now sometimes we have a more complex expression (like the \( C \oplus (A \land B) \Rightarrow \neg A \) example from above) and we want to know the truth value of the entire expression. Under what circumstances — i.e., for what truth values of A, B, and C — is that expression true? We can use truth tables to calculate this piece by piece. Let’s work through that example in its entirety. First, we set up the inputs for our truth table: | A | B | C | |---|---|---| | 0 | 0 | 0 | | 0 | 0 | 1 | | 0 | 1 | 0 | | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 1 | 0 | 0 | | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 1 | 1 | 0 | | 1 | 1 | 1 | In this case, there are three inputs to the expression (A, B, and C) and so we have \( 2^3 \), or eight, rows in the truth table. Now we work our way through the expression inside out, writing down the values of intermediate parts of the expression. We need to know the value of ¬B to figure some other things out, so let’s start with that one: ``` #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 219 Context: # 8.2. Predicate Logic which is perfectly true[^1]. You may recall the word "predicate" from your middle school grammar class. Every sentence, remember, has a subject and a predicate. In “Billy jumps,” “Billy” is the subject, and “jumps” the predicate. In “The lonely boy ate spaghetti with gusto,” we have “the lonely boy” as the subject and “ate spaghetti with gusto” as the predicate. Basically, a predicate is anything that can describe or affirm something about a subject. Imagine asserting “JUMPS(Billy)” and “ATESPAGHETTIWITHGUSTO(lonely boy).” A predicate can have more than one input. Suppose we define the predicate `IsFanOf` as follows: Let `IsFanOf(x, y)` be the proposition that x digs the music of rock band y. Then I can assert: - `IsFanOf(Stephen, Led Zeppelin)` - `IsFanOf(Rachel, The Beatles)` - `IsFanOf(Stephen, The Beatles)` - `¬IsFanOf(Stephen, The Rolling Stones)` We could even define `TraveledToByModeInYear` with a bunch of inputs: Let `TraveledToByModeInYear(p, d, m, y)` be the proposition that person p traveled to destination d by mode m in year y. The following statements are then true: - `TraveledToByModeInYear(Stephen, Richmond, car, 2017)` > "By the way, when I say you can give any input at all to a predicate, I mean any individual element from the domain of discourse. I don’t mean that a set of elements can be an input. This limitation is why it’s called ‘first-order’ predicate logic. If you allow sets to be inputs to predicates, it’s called ‘second-order predicate logic’, and can get quite messy." [^1]: The footnote text if needed. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 233 Context: # 9.1. PROOF CONCEPTS The phone is in my pocket, and has not rung, and I conclude that the plan has not changed. I look at my watch, and it reads 5:17 pm, which is earlier than the time they normally leave, so I know I'm not going to catch them walking out the door. This is, roughly speaking, my thought process that justifies the conclusion that the house will be empty when I pull into the garage. Notice, however, that this prediction depends precariously on several facts. What if I spaced out the day of the week, and this is actually Thursday? All bets are off. What if my cell phone battery has run out of charge? Then perhaps they did try to call me but couldn’t reach me. What if I set my watch wrong and it’s actually 4:17 pm? Etc. Just like a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, a whole proof falls apart if even one step isn’t reliable. Knowledge bases in artificial intelligence systems are designed to support these chains of reasoning. They contain statements expressed in formal logic that can be examined to deduce only the new facts that logically follow from the old. Suppose, for instance, that we had a knowledge base that currently contained the following facts: 1. \( A = C \) 2. \( \neg (C \land D) \) 3. \( (F \lor E) \to D \) 4. \( A \lor B \) These facts are stated in propositional logic, and we have no idea what any of the propositions really mean, but then neither does the computer, so hey. Fact #1 tells us that if proposition A (whatever that may be) is true, then we know C is true as well. Fact #2 tells us that we know CAD is false, which means at least one of the two must be false. And so on. Large knowledge bases can contain thousands or even millions of such expressions. It’s a complete record of everything the system “knows.” Now suppose we learn an additional fact: \( \neg B \). In other words, the system interacts with its environment and comes to the conclusion. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 235 Context: ``` 9.2 TYPES OF PROOF ================== to be true, and so it is legal grounds from which to start. A proof can't even get off the ground without axioms. For instance, in step 1 of the above proof, we noted that either A or B must be true, and so if B isn't true, then A must be. But we couldn't have taken this step without knowing that disjunctive syllogism is a valid form of reasoning. It's not important to know all the technical names of the rules that I included in parentheses. But it is important to see that we made use of an axiom of reasoning on every step, and that if any of those axioms were incorrect, it could lead to a faulty conclusion. When you create a valid proof, the result is a new bit of knowledge called a theorem which can be used in future proofs. Think of a theorem like a subroutine in programming: a separate bit of code that does a job and can be invoked at will in the course of doing other things. One theorem we learned in chapter 2 was the distributive property of sets; that is, \( X \cap (Y \cup Z) = (X \cap Y) \cup (X \cap Z) \). This can be proven through the use of Venn diagrams, but once you've proven it, it's accepted to be true, and can be used as a "given" in future proofs. ## 9.2 Types of Proof There are a number of accepted "styles" of doing proofs. Here are some important ones: ### Direct Proof The examples we've used up to now have been direct proofs. This is where you start from what's known and proceed directly by positive steps towards your conclusion. Direct proofs remind me of a game called "word ladders," invented by Lewis Carroll, that you might have played as a child: ``` WARM | | ? ? ? ? | | COLD ``` ``` #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 241 Context: # 9.3. PROOF BY INDUCTION So I’ll say "let \( P(n) \) be the proposition that \[ \sum_{i=1}^{n} \frac{a(n+1)}{2} \] (The choice of the letter “n” isn’t important here—it just needs to be a letter that stands for a number. We could have chosen anything, even sticking with \( x \). Later, we’ll use “k” as a stand-in, so keep your eyes peeled for that.) If I want to prove that the number of leaves in a perfect binary tree is one more than the number of internal nodes, I’d have to think about which quantity I can parameterize on (i.e., which quantity I can use for my \( n \)). In this case, I’d probably use the height of the tree. I’d say “let \( P(n) \) be the proposition that the number of leaves in a perfect binary tree of height \( n \) is one more than the number of internal nodes.” These are just examples. In any case, you need to cast your proof in a form that allows you to make statements in terms of the natural numbers. Then you’re ready to begin the process of proving by induction that your predicate is true for all the natural numbers. ## Proof by induction: weak form There are actually two forms of induction, the weak form and the strong form. Let’s look at the weak form first. It says: 1. If a predicate is true for a certain number, 2. and its being true for some number would reliably mean that it’s also true for the next number (i.e., one number greater), 3. then it’s true for all numbers. All you have to do is prove those two things, and you’ve effectively proven it for every case. The first step is called the **base case**, and the “certain number” we pick is typically either 0 or 1. The second step, called the **inductive step**, is where all the trouble lies. You have to look really, really carefully at how it’s worded, above. We are not assuming. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 252 Context: # 9.4 Final Word Finding proofs is an art. In some ways, it’s like programming: you have a set of building blocks, each one defined very precisely, and your goal is to figure out how to assemble those blocks into a structure that starts with only axioms and ends with your conclusion. It takes skill, patience, practice, and sometimes a little bit of luck. Many mathematicians spend years pursuing one deeply difficult proof, like Appel and Haken who finally cracked the infamous four-color map problem in 1976, or Andrew Wiles who solved Fermat’s Last Theorem in 1994. Some famous mathematical properties may never have proofs, such as Christian Goldbach’s 1742 conjecture that every even integer is the sum of two primes; or the most elusive and important question in computing theory: does P=NP? (Put very simply: if you consider the class of problems where it’s easy to verify a solution once you have it, but crazy hard to find it in the first place, is there actually an easy algorithm for finding the solution that we just haven’t figured out yet?) Most computer scientists think “no,” but despite a mind-boggling number of hours invested by the brightest minds in the world, no one has ever been able to prove it one way or the other. Most practicing computer scientists spend time taking advantage of the known results about mathematical objects and structures, and rarely (if ever) have to construct a watertight proof about them. For the more theoretically-minded student, however, who enjoys probing the basis behind the tools and speculating about additional properties that might exist, devising proofs is an essential skill that can also be very rewarding. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 253 Context: # Index - n-choose-k notation, 156 - n-to-the-k-falling operator, 152 - a priori, 68 - modus ponens, 201, 226 - modus tollens, 226 - quad erat demonstrandum (Q.E.D.), 226 - reductio ad absurdum, 229 - acyclic (graphs), 91 - additivity property, 63 - adjacent (vertices), 89 - algorithm, 97, 127, 128, 132, 149, 150 - Ali, Muhammad, 92 - American Idol, 62, 68 - ancestor (of a node), 115 - and (logical operator), 18, 199, 203 - antisymmetric (relation), 40, 43 - Appel, Kenneth, 244 - arrays, 13 - artificial intelligence (AI), 197, 201, 225 - associative, 20 - asymmetric (relation), 41 - ATM machines, 143 - atomic (propositions), 198 - AVL trees, 133 - axioms, 226, 229 - background knowledge, 68, 70 - balancedness (of a tree), 132 - base case (of a proof), 233, 240 - bases (of number systems), 166, 168, 170 - Bayes' Theorem, 75 - Bayes, Thomas, 67 - Bayesian, 66 - BFT (breadth-first traversal), 95, 97 - Big-O notation, 127 - bijective (function), 49 - binary numbers, 25, 177, 178, 180, 182 - binary search trees, 123, 125 - binomial coefficients, 156 - bit, 177 - Booth, John Wilkes, 86 - BST property, 125, 131 - byte, 180 #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 257 Context: 9.4. FINAL WORD ================= - ordered triples, 15 - org charts, 113 - outcomes, 60, 62 - overflow, 188 P = NP?, 244 parent (of a node), 114 partial orders, 43 partial permutations, 151, 154 partitions, 26, 71, 94 Pascal's triangle, 157 passwords, 146 paths (in a graph), 88, 113 perfect binary tree, 122, 239 permutations, 147 PINs, 143 poker, 160 pop (off a stack), 99 posts, 43 post-order traversal, 118 postulates, 226 power sets, 24, 36 pre-order traversal, 117 predicates, 210, 211, 232 predicate logic, 210 premise (of implication), 200 Prim's algorithm, 107 Prime, Robert, 107 prior probability, 68 probability measures, 61, 63, 65 product operator (II), 142, 160 proof, 223 proof by contradiction, 229 propositional logic, 197, 225 propositions, 197, 210 - psychology, 70, 86 - push (on a stack), 99 - quantifiers, 212, 215 - queue, 95, 97 - quotient, 173, 174 - range (of a function), 48 - rational numbers (ℝ), 17, 24 - reachable, 89 - real numbers (ℝ), 71, 94 - rebalancing (a tree), 132 - recursion, 116, 120, 149, 231 - red-black trees, 133 - reflexive (relation), 40, 43 - relations, finite, 39 - relations, infinite, 39 - remainder, 173, 174 - right child, 116 - root (of a tree), 112, 114 - rooted trees, 112, 134 - Russell's paradox, 15 - sample space (Ω), 60 - semantic network, 87 - set operators, 18 - set-builder notation, 11 - sets, 8, 93 - sets of sets, 15 - sets, finite, 12 - sets, fuzzy, 10 - sets, infinite, 12 - sibling (of a node), 115 - signs-magnitude binary numbers, 183, 189 **Sonic the Hedgehog**, 73 - southern states, 72 - spatial positioning, 92, 113 #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 2 Context: I'm unable to assist with that. #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 4 Context: ``` # CONTENTS 7.2 A Different Cost function: Logistic Regression .......................... 37 7.3 The Idea In a Nutshell .................................................. 38 # 8 Support Vector Machines ................................................ 39 8.1 The Non-Separable case ................................................. 43 # 9 Support Vector Regression .............................................. 47 # 10 Kernel ridge Regression ............................................... 51 10.1 Kernel Ridge Regression ............................................... 52 10.2 An alternative derivation ............................................. 53 # 11 Kernel K-means and Spectral Clustering ............................... 55 # 12 Kernel Principal Components Analysis ................................ 59 12.1 Centering Data in Feature Space ....................................... 61 # 13 Fisher Linear Discriminant Analysis .................................. 63 13.1 Kernel Fisher LDA .................................................... 66 13.2 A Constrained Convex Programming Formulation of FDA ................. 68 # 14 Kernel Canonical Correlation Analysis ................................ 69 14.1 Kernel CCA ............................................................ 71 # A Essentials of Convex Optimization ..................................... 73 A.1 Lagrangians and all that ............................................... 73 # B Kernel Design .......................................................... 77 B.1 Polynomials Kernels .................................................... 77 B.2 All Subsets Kernel ...................................................... 78 B.3 The Gaussian Kernel ..................................................... 79 ``` #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 6 Context: # PREFACE about 60% correct on 100 categories, the fact that we pull it off seemingly effortlessly serves as a “proof of concept” that it can be done. But there is no doubt in my mind that building truly intelligent machines will involve learning from data. The first reason for the recent successes of machine learning and the growth of the field as a whole is rooted in its multidisciplinary character. Machine learning emerged from AI but quickly incorporated ideas from fields as diverse as statistics, probability, computer science, information theory, convex optimization, control theory, cognitive science, theoretical neuroscience, physics, and more. To give an example, the main conference in this field is called: **advances in neural information processing systems**, referring to information theory and theoretical neuroscience and cognitive science. The second, perhaps more important reason for the growth of machine learning is the exponential growth of both available data and computer power. While the field is built on theory and tools developed statistics machine learning recognizes that the most exciting progress can be made to leverage the enormous flood of data that is generated each year by satellites, sky observatories, particle accelerators, the human genome project, banks, the stock market, the army, seismic measurements, the internet, video, scanned text, and so on. It is difficult to appreciate the exponential growth of data that our society is generating. To give an example, a modern satellite generates roughly the same amount of data all previous satellites produced together. This insight has shifted the attention from highly sophisticated modeling techniques on small datasets to more basic analysis on such larger data-sets (the latter sometimes called **data-mining**). Hence the emphasis shifted to algorithmic efficiency and as a result many machine learning faculty (like myself) can typically be found in computer science departments. To give some examples of recent successes of this approach one would only have to turn on one computer and perform an internet search. Modern search engines do not run terribly sophisticated algorithms, but they manage to store and sift through almost the entire content of the internet to return sensible search results. There has also been much success in the field of machine translation, not because a new model was invented but because many more translated documents became available. The field of machine learning is multifaceted and expanding fast. To sample a few sub-disciplines: statistical learning, kernel methods, graphical models, artificial neural networks, fuzzy logic, Bayesian methods, and so on. The field also covers many types of learning problems, such as supervised learning, supervised learning, semi-supervised learning, active learning, reinforcement learning, etc. I will only cover the most basic approaches in this book from a highly per #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 7 Context: # MEANT FOR INDUSTRY AS WELL AS BACKGROUND READING This book was written during my sabbatical at the Radboud University in Nijmegen (Netherlands). I would like to thank Hans for discussion on intuition. I also thank Prof. Bert Kappen, who leads an excellent group of postdocs and students for his hospitality. Marga, kids, UCI,... --- There are a few main aspects I want to cover from a personal perspective. Instead of trying to address every aspect of the entire field, I have chosen to present a few popular and perhaps useful tools and approaches. What will (hopefully) be significantly different than most other scientific books is the manner in which I will present these methods. I have always been frustrated by the lack of proper explanation of equations. Many times, I have been staring at a formula without the slightest clue where it came from or how it was derived. Many books also excel in stating facts in an almost encyclopedic style, without providing the proper intuition of the method. This is my primary mission: to write a book that conveys intuition. The first chapter will be devoted to why I think this is important. #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 10 Context: # LEARNING AND INTUITION Baroque features or a more “dull” representation, whatever works. Some scientists have been asked to describe how they represent abstract ideas and they invariably seem to entertain some type of visual representation. A beautiful account of this in the case of mathematicians can be found in a marvelous book “XXX” (Hardamard). By building accurate visual representations of abstract ideas, we create a database of knowledge in the unconscious. This collection of ideas forms the basis for what we call intuition. I often find myself listening to a talk and feeling uneasy about what is presented. The reason seems to be that the abstract idea I am trying to capture from the talk clashed with a similar idea that is already stored. This in turn can be a sign that I either misunderstood the idea before and need to update it, or that there is actually something wrong with what is being presented. In a similar way, I can easily detect that some idea is a small perturbation of what I already knew (I feel happily bored), or something entirely new (I feel intrigued and slightly frustrated). While the novice is continuously challenged and often feels overwhelmed, the more experienced researcher feels at ease 90% of the time because the “new” idea was already in his/her database which therefore needs no and very little updating. Somehow our unconscious mind can also manipulate existing abstract ideas into new ones. This is what we usually think of as creative thinking. One can stimulate this by seeding the mind with a problem. This is a conscious effort and is usually a combination of detailed mathematical derivations and building an intuitive picture or metaphor for the thing one is trying to understand. If you focus enough time and energy on this process and walk home for lunch, you’ll find that you’ll still be thinking about it in a much more vague fashion: you review and create visual representations of the problem. Then you get your mind off the problem altogether and when you walk back to work, suddenly parts of the solution surface into consciousness. Somehow, your unconscious took over and kept working on your problem. The essence is that you created visual representations as the building blocks for the unconscious mind to work with. In any case, whatever the details of this process are (and I am no psychologist), I suspect that any good explanation should include both an intuitive part, including examples, metaphors and visualizations, and a precise mathematical part where every equation and derivation is properly explained. This then is the challenge I have set to myself. It will be your task to insist on understanding the abstract idea that is being conveyed and build your own personalized visual representations. I will try to assist in this process but it is ultimately you who will have to do the hard work. #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 14 Context: # CHAPTER 1. DATA AND INFORMATION ## Interpretation Here we seek to answer questions about the data. For instance, what property of this drug was responsible for its high success rate? Does a security officer at the airport apply racial profiling in deciding whose luggage to check? How many natural groups are there in the data? ## Compression Here we are interested in compressing the original data, a.k.a. the number of bits needed to represent it. For instance, files in your computer can be "zipped" to a much smaller size by removing much of the redundancy in those files. Also, JPEG and GIF (among others) are compressed representations of the original pixel map. All of the above objectives depend on the fact that there is structure in the data. If data is completely random, there is nothing to predict, nothing to interpret, and nothing to compress. Hence, all tasks are somehow related to discovering or leveraging this structure. One could say that data is highly redundant and that this redundancy is exactly what makes it interesting. Take the example of natural images. If you are required to predict the color of the pixels neighboring some random pixel in an image, you would be able to do a pretty good job (for instance, 20% may be blue sky and predicting the neighbors of a blue sky pixel is easy). Also, if we would generate images at random, they would not look like natural scenes at all. For one, it wouldn’t contain objects. Only a tiny fraction of all possible images looks "natural," and so the space of natural images is highly structured. Thus, all of these concepts are intimately related: structure, redundancy, predictability, regularity, interpretability, compressibility. They refer to the "food" for machine learning. Without structure, there is nothing to learn. The same thing is true for human learning. From the day we are born, we start noticing that there is structure in this world. Our survival depends on discovering and recording this structure. If I walk into this brown cylinder with a green canopy, I suddenly stop; it won’t give way. In fact, it damages my body. Perhaps this holds for all these objects. When I cry, my mother suddenly appears. Our game is to predict the future accurately, and we predict it by learning its structure. ## 1.1 Data Representation What does "data" look like? In other words, what do we download into our computer? Data comes in many shapes and forms; for instance, it could be words from a document or pixels from an image. But it will be useful to convert data into a #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 23 Context: # Chapter 3 ## Learning This chapter is without question the most important one of the book. It concerns the core, almost philosophical question of what learning really is (and what it is not). If you want to remember one thing from this book, you will find it here in this chapter. Ok, let’s start with an example. Alice has a rather strange ailment. She is not able to recognize objects by their visual appearance. At home, she is doing just fine: her mother explained to Alice for every object in her house what it is and how you use it. When she is home, she recognizes these objects (if they have not been moved too much), but when she enters a new environment she is lost. For example, if she enters a new meeting room, she needs a long time to infer what the chairs and the table are in the room. She has been diagnosed with a severe case of "overfitting." What is the matter with Alice? Nothing is wrong with her memory because she remembers the objects once she has seen them. In fact, she has a fantastic memory. She remembers every detail of the objects she has seen. And every time she sees a new object, she reasons that the object in front of her is surely not a chair because it doesn’t have all the features she has seen in earlier chairs. The problem is that Alice cannot generalize the information she has observed from one instance of a visual object category to other, yet unobserved members of the same category. The fact that Alice’s disease is so rare is understandable; there must have been a strong selection pressure against this disease. Imagine our ancestors walking through the savanna one million years ago. A lion appears on the scene. Ancestral Alice has seen lions before, but not this particular one, and it does not induce a fear response. Of course, she has no time to infer the possibility that this animal may be dangerous logically. Alice’s contemporaries noticed that the animal was yellow-brown, had manes, etc., and immediately un- #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 26 Context: # CHAPTER 3. LEARNING Now let’s think for a moment what we really mean with “a model”. A model represents our prior knowledge of the world. It imposes structure that is not necessarily present in the data. We call this the **inductive bias**. Our inductive bias often comes in the form of a parameterized model. That is to say, we define a family of models but let the data determine which of these models is most appropriate. A strong inductive bias means that we don’t leave flexibility in the model for the data to work on. We are so convinced of ourselves that we basically ignore the data. The downside is that if we are creating a “bad bias” towards to wrong model. On the other hand, if we are correct, we can learn the remaining degrees of freedom in our model from very few data-cases. Conversely, we may leave the door open for a huge family of possible models. If we now let the data zoom in on the model that best explains the training data it will overfit to the peculiarities of that data. Now imagine you sampled 10 datasets of the same size \(N\) and train these very flexible models separately on each of these datasets (note that in reality you only have access to one such dataset but please play along in this thought experiment). Let’s say we want to determine the value of some parameter \(\theta\). Because the models are so flexible, we can actually model the idiosyncrasies of each dataset. The result is that the value for \(\theta\) is likely to be very different for each dataset. But because we didn’t impose much inductive bias the average of many of such estimates will be about right. We say that the bias is small, but the variance is high. In the case of very restrictive models the opposite happens: the bias is potentially large but the variance small. Note that not only is a large bias bad (for obvious reasons), a large variance is bad as well: because we only have one dataset of size \(N\), our estimate could be very far off simply we were unlucky with the dataset we were given. What we should therefore strive for is to inject all our prior knowledge into the learning problem (this makes learning easier) but avoid injecting the wrong prior knowledge. If we don’t trust our prior knowledge we should let the data speak. However, letting the data speak too much might lead to overfitting, so we need to find the boundary between too complex and too simple a model and get its complexity just right. Access to more data means that the data can speak more relative to prior knowledge. That, in a nutshell, is what machine learning is all about. #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 27 Context: # 3.1 In a Nutshell Learning is all about generalizing regularities in the training data to new, yet unobserved data. It is not about remembering the training data. Good generalization means that you need to balance prior knowledge with information from data. Depending on the dataset size, you can entertain more or less complex models. The correct size of the model can be determined by playing a compression game. Learning = generalization = abstraction = compression. #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 28 Context: # CHAPTER 3. LEARNING ## Introduction Learning involves acquiring knowledge, skills, attitudes, or competencies. It can take place in various settings, such as classrooms, workplaces, or self-directed environments. This chapter discusses the types and processes of learning. ## Types of Learning 1. **Formal Learning** - Structured and typically takes place in educational institutions. - Includes degrees, diplomas, and certifications. 2. **Informal Learning** - Unstructured and occurs outside formal institutions. - Can include life experiences, social interactions, and casual settings. 3. **Non-Formal Learning** - Organized but not typically in a formal education setting. - Often community-based, such as workshops and training sessions. ## Learning Processes - **Cognitive Learning**: Involves mental processes and understanding. - **Behavioral Learning**: Focuses on behavioral changes in response to stimuli. - **Constructivist Learning**: Emphasizes learning through experience and reflection. ## Table of Learning Theories | Theory | Key Contributor | Description | |--------------------------|----------------------|--------------------------------------------------| | Behaviorism | B.F. Skinner | Learning as a change in behavior due to reinforcement. | | Constructivism | Jean Piaget | Knowledge is constructed through experiences. | | Social Learning | Albert Bandura | Learning through observation and imitation. | ## Conclusion Understanding the different types and processes of learning can help educators and learners optimize educational experiences. Utilizing various methods can cater to individual learning preferences and improve outcomes. ## References - Smith, J. (2020). *Learning Theories: A Comprehensive Approach*. Educational Press. - Doe, A. (2019). *Techniques for Effective Learning*. Learning Publishers. #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 30 Context: # CHAPTER 4. TYPES OF MACHINE LEARNING Factors that can explain the data. Knowing these factors is like denoising the data where we first peel off the uninteresting bits and pieces of the signal and subsequently transform onto an often lower dimensional space which exposes the underlying factors. There are two dominant classes of unsupervised learning algorithms: clustering-based algorithms assume that the data organizes into groups. Finding these groups is then the task of the ML algorithm and the identity of the group is the semantic factor. Another class of algorithms strives to project the data onto a lower dimensional space. This mapping can be nonlinear, but the underlying assumption is that the data is approximately distributed on some (possibly curved) lower dimensional manifold embedded in the input space. Unrolling that manifold is then the task of the learning algorithm. In this case, the dimensions should be interpreted as semantic factors. There are many variations on the above themes. For instance, one is often confronted with a situation where you have access to many more unlabeled data (only \(X_i\)) and many fewer labeled instances (both \((X_i, Y_i)\)). Take the task of classifying news articles by topic (weather, sports, national news, international etc.). Some people may have labeled some news-articles by hand but there won’t be all that many of those. However, we do have a very large digital library of scanned newspapers available. Shouldn’t it be possible to use those scanned newspapers somehow to improve the classifier? Imagine that the data naturally clusters into well-separated groups (for instance because news articles reporting on different topics use very different words). This is depicted in Figure ??. Note that there are only very few cases which have labels attached to them. From this figure it becomes clear that the expected optimal decision boundary nicely separates these clusters. In other words, you do not expect that the decision boundary will cut through one of the clusters. Yet that is exactly what would happen if you would only be using the labeled data. Hence, by simply requiring that decision boundaries do not cut through regions of high probability we can improve our classifier. The subfield that studies how to improve classification algorithms using unlabeled data goes under the name “semi-supervised learning”. A fourth major class of learning algorithms deals with problems where the supervised signal consists only of rewards (or costs) that are possibly delayed. Consider for example a mouse that needs to solve a labyrinth in order to obtain his food. While making his decisions he will not receive any feedback (apart from perhaps slowly getting more hungry). It’s only at the end when he reaches the cheese that he receives his positive feedback, and he will have use this to reinforce his perhaps random earlier decisions that lead him to the cheese. These problems are generally known as reinforcement learning. #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 31 Context: fall under the name "reinforcement learning". It is a very general setup in which almost all known cases of machine learning can be cast, but this generally also means that these types of problems can be very difficult. The most general RL problems do not even assume that you know what the world looks like (i.e. the maze for the mouse), so you have to simultaneously learn a model of the world and solve your task in it. This dual task induces interesting trade-offs: should you invest time now to learn machine learning and reap the benefit later in terms of a high salary working for Yahoo!, or should you stop investing now and start exploiting what you have learned so far? This is clearly a function of age, or the time horizon that you still have to take advantage of these investments. The mouse is similarly confronted with the problem of whether he should try out this new alley in the maze that can cut down his time to reach the cheese considerably, or whether he should simply stay with what he has learned and take the route he already knows. This clearly depends on how often he thinks he will have to run through the same maze in the future. We call this the exploration versus exploitation trade-off. The reason that RL is a very exciting field of research is because of its biological relevance. Do we not also have to figure out how the world works and survive in it? Let's go back to the news-articles. Assume we have control over what article we will label next. Which one would be pick? Surely the one that would be most informative in some suitably defined sense. Or the mouse in the maze. Given that it needs to explore, where does he explore? Surely he will try to seek out alleys that look promising, i.e. alleys that he expects to maximize his reward. We call the problem of finding the next best data-case to investigate "active learning". One may also be faced with learning multiple tasks at the same time. These tasks are related but not identical. For instance, consider the problem if recommending movies to customers of Netflix. Each person is different and would require a separate model to make the recommendations. However, people also share commonalities, especially when people show evidence of being of the same "type" (for example a fan of a comedy fan). We can learn personalized models but share features between them. Especially for new customers, where we don’t have access to any movies that were rated by the customer, we need to "draw statistical strength" from customers who seem to be similar. From this example it is hopefully become clearer that we are trying to learn models for many different yet related problems and that we can build better models if we share some of the things learned for one task with the other ones. The trick is not to share too much nor too little and how much we should share depends on how much data and prior knowledge we have access to for each task. We call this subfield of machine learning: "multi-task learning". #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 35 Context: 5.1 The Idea In a Nutshell ========================== To classify a new data item, you first look for the \( k \) nearest neighbors in feature space and assign it the same label as the majority of these neighbors. Because 98 noisy dimensions have been added, this effect is detrimental to the kNN algorithm. Once again, it is very important to choose your initial representation with much care and preprocess the data before you apply the algorithm. In this case, preprocessing takes the form of "feature selection" on which a whole book in itself could be written. #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 36 Context: # CHAPTER 5. NEAREST NEIGHBORS CLASSIFICATION ## 5.1 Introduction The nearest neighbors classification is a type of instance-based learning. It is a method used in machine learning that classifies a data point based on how its neighbors are classified. ## 5.2 Algorithm The basic algorithm for k-nearest neighbors (k-NN) can be summarized as follows: 1. **Choose the number of neighbors, k.** 2. **Calculate the distance** between the new data point and all existing data points. 3. **Sort the distances** and determine the nearest k neighbors. 4. **Vote** for the most common class among the k neighbors. ## 5.3 Distance Metrics Common distance metrics include: - **Euclidean Distance** - **Manhattan Distance** - **Minkowski Distance** | Distance Metric | Formula | |------------------|--------------------------------------------| | Euclidean | \(d(x, y) = \sqrt{\sum{(x_i - y_i)^2}}\) | | Manhattan | \(d(x, y) = \sum{|x_i - y_i|}\) | | Minkowski | \(d(x, y) = \left( \sum{|x_i - y_i|^p} \right)^{1/p}\) | ## 5.4 Applications Nearest neighbors classification can be applied in various fields such as: - **Image Recognition** - **Recommendation Systems** - **Medical Diagnosis** ## 5.5 Pros and Cons ### Pros - Simple and easy to implement. - Effective in high-dimensional spaces. ### Cons - Computation cost can be high with large datasets. - Sensitive to irrelevant features and the scale of the data. ## 5.6 Conclusion The nearest neighbors classification is a powerful technique in machine learning. By understanding its algorithm and applications, one can leverage this method effectively for various tasks. #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 39 Context: ``` 6.2 Learning a Naive Bayes Classifier =============================== Given a dataset, \(\{(X_i, Y_i), i = 1...D, n = 1...N\}\), we wish to estimate what these probabilities are. To start with the simplest one, what would be a good estimate for the number of the percentage of spam versus ham emails that our imaginary entity uses to generate emails? Well, we can simply count how many spam and ham emails we have in our data. This is given by: \[ P(spam) = \frac{# \, spam \, emails}{total \, emails} = \frac{\sum I_{Y_i = 1}}{N} \tag{6.1} \] Here we mean with \(I[A = a]\) a function that is only equal to 1 if its argument is satisfied, and zero otherwise. Hence, in the equation above it counts the number of instances that \(Y_n = 1\). Since the remainder of the emails must be ham, we also find that \[ P(ham) = 1 - P(spam) = \frac{# \, ham \, emails}{total \, emails} = \frac{\sum I_{Y_i = 0}}{N} \tag{6.2} \] where we have used that \(P(ham) + P(spam) = 1\) since an email is either ham or spam. Next, we need to estimate how often we expect to see a certain word or phrase in either a spam or a ham email. In our example, we could for instance ask ourselves what the probability is that we find the word "viagra" \(k\) times, with \(k = 0, 1, > 1\), in a spam email. Let's recode this as \(X_{viagra} = 0\) meaning that we didn't observe "viagra", \(X_{viagra} = 1\) meaning that we observed it once and \(X_{viagra} = 2\) meaning that we observed it more than once. The answer is again that we can count how often these events happened in our data and use that as an estimate for the real probabilities according to which it generated emails. First for spam we find, \[ P_{spam}(X_i = j) = \frac{# \, spam \, emails \, for \, which \, the \, word \, j \, was \, found \, t \, times}{total \, of \, spam \, emails} = \frac{\sum I_{X_n = j \land Y_n = 1}}{\sum I_{Y_i = 1}} \tag{6.3} \] Here we have defined the symbol \(\land\) to mean that both statements to the left and right of this symbol should hold true in order for the entire sentence to be true. ``` #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 42 Context: # CHAPTER 6. THE NATIVE BAYESIAN CLASSIFIER ## 6.4 Regularization The spam filter algorithm that we discussed in the previous sections does unfortunately not work very well if we wish to use many attributes (words, word-phrases). The reason is that for many attributes we may not encounter a single example in the dataset. Say for example that we defined the word “Nigeria” as an attribute, but that our dataset did not include one of those spam emails where you are promised mountains of gold if you invest your money in someone bank in Nigeria. Also assume there are indeed a few ham emails which talk about the nice people in Nigeria. Then any future email that mentions Nigeria is classified as ham with 100% certainty. More importantly, one cannot recover from this decision even if the email also mentions viagra, enlargement, mortgage and so on, all in a single email! This can be seen by the fact that \[ P_{\text{spam}}(X^{\text{Nigeria}} > 0) = -\infty \] while the final score is a sum of these individual word-scores. To counteract this phenomenon, we give each word in the dictionary a small probability of being present in any email (spam or ham), before seeing the data. This process is called smoothing. The impact on the estimated probabilities are given below: \[ P_{\text{spam}}(X_i = j) = \alpha + \frac{\sum_{n} \mathbb{I}[X_n = j \land Y_n = 1]}{V_{\alpha} + \sum_{n} \mathbb{I}[Y_n = 1]} \tag{6.12} \] \[ P_{\text{ham}}(X_i = j) = \alpha + \frac{\sum_{n} \mathbb{I}[X_n = j \land Y_n = 0]}{V_{\alpha} + \sum_{n} \mathbb{I}[Y_n = 0]} \tag{6.13} \] where \( V_i \) is the number of possible values of attribute \( i \). Thus, \( \alpha \) can be interpreted as a small, possibly fractional number of “pseudo-observations” of the attribute in question. It’s like adding these observations to the actual dataset. What value for \( \alpha \) do we use? Fitting its value on the dataset will not work, because the reason we added it was exactly because we assumed there was too little data in the first place (we hadn’t received one of those annoying “Nigeria” emails yet) and thus will relate to the phenomenon of overfitting. However, we can use the trick described in section ?? where we split the data two pieces. We learn a model on one chunk and adjust \( \alpha \) such that performance of the other chunk is optimal. We play this game multiple times with different splits and average the results. #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 43 Context: # 6.5 Remarks One of the main limitations of the NB classifier is that it assumes independence between attributes (This is presumably the reason why we call it the naive Bayesian classifier). This is reflected in the fact that each classifier has an independent vote in the final score. However, imagine that I measure the words, "home" and "mortgage". Observing "mortgage" certainly raises the probability of observing "home". We say that they are positively correlated. It would therefore be more fair if we attributed a smaller weight to "home" if we already observed mortgage because they convey the same thing: this email is about mortgages for your home. One way to obtain a more fair voting scheme is to model these dependencies explicitly. However, this comes at a computational cost (a longer time before you receive your email in your inbox) which may not always be worth the additional accuracy. One should also note that more parameters do not necessarily improve accuracy because too many parameters may lead to overfitting. # 6.6 The Idea In a Nutshell Consider Figure ??. We can classify data by building a model of how the data was generated. For NB we first decide whether we will generate a data-item from class \( Y = 0 \) or class \( Y = 1 \). Given that decision we generate the values for \( D \) attributes independently. Each class has a different model for generating attributes. Classification is achieved by computing which model was more likely to generate the new data-point, biasing the outcome towards the class that is expected to generate more data. #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 44 Context: # CHAPTER 6. THE NAIVE BAYESIAN CLASSIFIER ## Introduction The Naive Bayesian Classifier is a simple yet powerful algorithm based on Bayes' theorem, used extensively in machine learning for classification tasks. ## Key Concepts 1. **Bayes' Theorem**: \[ P(A|B) = \frac{P(B|A) \cdot P(A)}{P(B)} \] 2. **Assumptions**: - Features are statistically independent given the class label. - The prior distribution of each class. ## Types of Naive Bayes Classifiers - **Gaussian Naive Bayes**: Assumes continuous data follows a normal distribution. - **Multinomial Naive Bayes**: Primarily used for discrete features, such as word counts. - **Bernoulli Naive Bayes**: Similar to multinomial but assumes binary features. ## Classification Process 1. **Calculate Prior Probabilities**: \[ P(C_k) = \frac{N_k}{N} \] 2. **Calculate Likelihoods**: - For Gaussian: \[ P(x|C_k) = \frac{1}{\sqrt{2\pi \sigma^2}} e^{-\frac{(x - \mu)^2}{2\sigma^2}} \] 3. **Apply Bayes' Theorem**: \[ P(C_k|x) = \frac{P(x|C_k) \cdot P(C_k)}{P(x)} \] 4. **Choose Class with Maximum Posterior**: \[ \hat{C} = \arg\max_{C_k} P(C_k|x) \] ## Advantages - Easy to implement. - Requires a small amount of training data. - Performs well in multi-class problems. ## Disadvantages - Assumption of feature independence is often violated in real-world applications. - Poor performance when features are highly correlated. ## Conclusion The Naive Bayesian Classifier serves as an excellent baseline for classification tasks and is crucial for understanding more advanced techniques in machine learning. ## References - [Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning](http://www.example.com) - [Machine Learning: A Probabilistic Perspective](http://www.example.com) #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 53 Context: Thus, we maximize the margin, subject to the constraints that all training cases fall on either side of the support hyper-planes. The data-cases that lie on the hyperplane are called support vectors, since they support the hyper-planes and hence determine the solution to the problem. The primal problem can be solved by a quadratic program. However, it is not ready to be kernelized, because its dependence is not only on inner products between data-vectors. Hence, we transform to the dual formulation by first writing the problem using a Lagrangian, \[ L(w, b, \alpha) = \frac{1}{2} \| w \|^2 - \sum_{i=1}^{N} \alpha_i [y_i (w^T x_i - b) - 1] \] (8.7) The solution that minimizes the primal problem subject to the constraints is given by \(\min_{w, b} \max_{\alpha} L(w, \alpha)\), i.e., a saddle point problem. When the original objective function is convex, (and only then), we can interchange the minimization and maximization. Doing that, we find that we can find the condition on \(w\) that must hold at the saddle point we are solving for. This is done by taking derivatives with respect to \(w\) and solving. \[ w = - \sum_{i} \alpha_i y_i x_i \quad \Rightarrow \quad w^* = \sum_{i} \alpha_i y_i x_i \] (8.8) \[ \sum_{i} \alpha_i y_i = 0 \] (8.9) Inserting this back into the Lagrangian we obtain what is known as the dual problem, maximize \[ L_D = \sum_{i=1}^{N} \alpha_i - \frac{1}{2} \sum_{i,j} \alpha_i y_i y_j x_i^T x_j \] (8.10) subject to \[ \sum_{i} \alpha_i y_i = 0 \] (8.11) \(\alpha_i \geq 0 \quad \forall i\) The dual formulation of the problem is also a quadratic program, but note that the number of variables, \(\alpha_i\) in this problem is equal to the number of data-cases, \(N\). The crucial point is however, that this problem only depends on \(x_k\) through the inner product \(x_i^T x_j\). This is readily kernelized through the substitution \(x_i^T x_j \rightarrow k(x_i, x_j)\). This is a recurrent theme: the dual problem lends itself to kernelisation, while the primal problem did not. #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 58 Context: # CHAPTER 8: SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES ## Introduction Support Vector Machines (SVMs) are a set of supervised learning methods used for classification, regression, and outliers detection. ## Key Concepts 1. **Hyperplane**: A hyperplane is a decision boundary that helps to categorize data points. 2. **Support Vectors**: Support vectors are the data points that are closest to the hyperplane and influence its position and orientation. 3. **Margin**: The margin is the distance between the hyperplane and the nearest data point from either class. SVM aims to maximize the margin. ## Implementation Steps - **Step 1**: Choose the appropriate kernel (linear, polynomial, RBF). - **Step 2**: Train the SVM model using the training dataset. - **Step 3**: Evaluate the model using a test dataset. ## Advantages of SVM - Effective in high-dimensional spaces. - Robust against overfitting, especially in high-dimensional datasets. ## Disadvantages of SVM - Less effective on very large datasets. - Poor performance with overlapping classes. ## Conclusion Support Vector Machines are powerful tools for classification and regression tasks, offering advantages in high-dimensional spaces while having limitations in very large datasets. #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 70 Context: # CHAPTER 11: KERNEL K-MEANS AND SPECTRAL CLUSTERING ## 11.1 Introduction Kernel K-means is an extension of the K-means clustering algorithm. It allows for clustering in a feature space that is not linearly separable, using a kernel function to transform the original data. ## 11.2 Algorithm The steps of the Kernel K-means algorithm are as follows: 1. **Choose a kernel function** \( K(x_i, x_j) \). 2. **Initialize** \( k \) centroids randomly. 3. **Assign points** to the nearest centroid using the kernel. 4. **Update centroids** by computing the mean of the assigned points in the feature space. 5. **Repeat** steps 3 and 4 until convergence. ## 11.3 Spectral Clustering Spectral clustering is another clustering technique that uses the eigenvalues of the similarity matrix of the data. ### 11.3.1 Algorithm 1. Compute the **similarity matrix**. 2. Compute the **Laplacian matrix** from the similarity matrix. 3. Compute the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the Laplacian matrix. 4. Use the top \( k \) eigenvectors to form a new feature space. 5. Apply K-means to cluster the data in the new space. ## 11.4 Conclusion Kernel K-means and spectral clustering provide powerful methods for clustering in complex spaces, enabling better data segmentation in many applications. ## References - *Author Name*, *Title of the Source*, Year - *Author Name*, *Title of the Source*, Year For further reading, explore the works on kernel methods and spectral analysis in clustering contexts. #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 74 Context: # CHAPTER 12. KERNEL PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS ANALYSIS Hence the kernel in terms of the new features is given by: \[ K_{ij} = \left( \Phi_i - \frac{1}{N} \sum_k \Phi_k \right) \left( \Phi_j - \frac{1}{N} \sum_l \Phi_l \right)^T \] (12.12) \[ = \Phi_i \Phi_j^T - \frac{1}{N} \sum_k \Phi_k \Phi_j^T - \Phi_i \frac{1}{N} \sum_l \Phi_l^T + \frac{1}{N^2} \sum_{k, l} \Phi_k \Phi_l^T \] (12.13) \[ = K_{ij} - \kappa_i \mathbf{1}^T_j - \mathbf{1}_i \kappa_j^T + k \mathbf{1}_i \mathbf{1}_j^T \] (12.14) with \[ \kappa_i = \frac{1}{N} \sum_k K_{ik} \] (12.15) and \[ k = \frac{1}{N^2} \sum_{ij} K_{ij} \] (12.16) Hence, we can compute the centered kernel in terms of the non-centered kernel alone and no features need to be accessed. At test-time we need to compute: \[ K_c(t_i, x_j) = [\Phi(t_i) - \frac{1}{N} \sum_k \Phi(x_k)] [\Phi(x_j)] - \frac{1}{N} \sum_l \Phi(x_l)^T \] (12.17) Using a similar calculation (left for the reader) you can find that this can be expressed easily in terms of \( K(t_i, x_j) \) and \( K(x_i, x_j) \) as follows: \[ K_c(t_i, x_j) = K(t_i, x_j) - \kappa(t_i)^T \mathbf{1}_j - \mathbf{1}_{t_i} \kappa(x_j)^T + k \mathbf{1}_{t_i} \mathbf{1}_{j}^T \] (12.18) #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 77 Context: # 13.1 Kernel Fisher LDA Optimization problem, $$ \begin{align*} \min_w \quad & -\frac{1}{2} w^T S_B w \\ \text{s.t.} \quad & w^T S_W w = 1 \end{align*} $$ corresponding to the Lagrangian, $$ L_P = -\frac{1}{2} w^T S_B w + \frac{1}{2} (w^T S_W w - 1) \tag{13.10} $$ (the halves are added for convenience). The KKT conditions tell us that the following equation needs to hold at the solution, $$ S_B w = \lambda S_W w \tag{13.11} $$ This almost looks like an eigen-value equation. In fact, it is called a generalized eigen-problem and just like an normal eigenvalue problem there are standard ways to solve it. Remains to choose which eigenvalue and eigenvector corresponds to the desired solution. Plugging the solution back into the objective \(J\), we find, $$ J(w) = \frac{w^T S_B w}{w^T S_W w} = \frac{\lambda w^T S_W w}{w^T S_W w} = \lambda_k \tag{13.12} $$ from which it immediately follows that we want the largest eigenvalue to maximize the objective¹. ## Kernel Fisher LDA So how do we kernelize this problem? Unlike SVMs it doesn’t seem the dual problem reveal the kernelized problem naturally. But inspired by the SVM case we make the following key assumption, $$ w = \sum_{i} \alpha_i \phi(x_i) \tag{13.13} $$ ¹ If you try to find the dual and maximize that, you’ll get the wrong sign it seems. My best guess of what goes wrong is that the constraint is not linear and as a result the problem is not convex and hence we cannot expect the optimal dual solution to be the same as the optimal primal solution. #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 83 Context: # 14.1 Kernel CCA As usual, the starting point to map the data-cases to feature vectors \( \Phi(\mathbf{x}) \) and \( \Psi(\mathbf{y}) \). When the dimensionality of the space is larger than the number of data-cases in the training set, then the solution must lie in the span of data-cases, i.e., \[ \mathbf{a} = \sum_{i} \alpha_i \Phi(\mathbf{x}_i) \quad \mathbf{b} = \sum_{i} \beta_i \Psi(\mathbf{y}_i) \tag{14.7} \] Using this equation in the Lagrangian, we get, \[ \mathcal{L} = \alpha^T K_x K_y \beta - \frac{1}{2} \lambda(\alpha^T K_x^T \alpha - N) - \frac{1}{2} \lambda(\beta^T K_y^T \beta - N) \tag{14.8} \] where \( \alpha \) is a vector in a different \( N \)-dimensional space than e.g. a which lives in a \( D \)-dimensional space, and \( K_x = \sum_{i} \Phi(\mathbf{x}_i)^T \Phi(\mathbf{x}_i) \) and similarly for \( K_y \). Taking derivatives w.r.t. \( \alpha \) and \( \beta \), we find, \[ K_x K_y \beta = \lambda K_x^2 \alpha \tag{14.9} \] \[ K_y K_x \alpha = \lambda K_y^2 \beta \tag{14.10} \] Let's try to solve these equations by assuming that \( K_x \) is full rank (which is typically the case). We get, \( \alpha = \lambda^{-1} K_x^{-1} K_y \beta \) and hence, \( K_y^T \beta = \lambda K_x^T K_y \beta \) which always has a solution for \( \lambda = 1 \). By recalling that, \[ \rho = \frac{1}{N} \sum \mathbf{a}^T S_{xy} \beta = \frac{1}{N} \sum \lambda \mathbf{a}^T S_{aa} = \lambda \tag{14.11} \] we observe that this represents the solution with maximal correlation and hence the preferred one. This is a typical case of overfitting which emphasizes the need to regularize in kernel methods. This can be done by adding a diagonal term to the constraints in the Lagrangian (or equivalently to the denominator of the original objective), leading to the Lagrangian, \[ \mathcal{L} = \alpha^T K_x K_y \beta - \frac{1}{2} \lambda(\alpha^T K_x^T \alpha + \eta \|\alpha\|^2 - N) - \frac{1}{2} \lambda(\beta^T K_y^T \beta + \eta\|\beta\|^2 - N) \tag{14.12} \] One can see that this acts as a quadratic penalty on the norm of \( \alpha \) and \( \beta \). The resulting equations are, \[ K_x K_y \beta = \lambda (K_x^2 + \eta) \alpha \tag{14.13} \] \[ K_y K_x \alpha = \lambda (K_y^2 + \eta) \beta \tag{14.14} \] #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 90 Context: # APPENDIX B. KERNEL DESIGN ## B.1 Term \[ \left(x^Ty\right)^* = (x_1y_1+x_2y_2+\ldots+x_ny_n)^* = \sum_{i,j=1}^{n} \frac{s}{i_1! \ldots i_s!} (x_1y_1)^{i_1}(x_2y_2)^{i_2} \ldots (x_ny_n)^{i_n} (B.4) \] Taken together with eqn. B.3 we see that the features correspond to: \[ \phi_t(x) = \frac{d!}{(d - s)!} \frac{1}{i_1! i_2! \ldots i_n!} R^{d-s} x_1^{i_1} x_2^{i_2} \ldots x_n^{i_n} \quad \text{with } i_1 + i_2 + \ldots + i_n = s < d \quad (B.5) \] The point is really that in order to efficiently compute the total sum of \(\binom{m+d-1}{d}\) terms we have inserted very special coefficients. The only true freedom we have left is in choosing \(R\): for larger \(R\) we down-weight higher order polynomials more. The question we want to answer is: how much freedom do we have in choosing different coefficients and still being able to compute the inner product efficiently? ## B.2 All Subsets Kernel We define the feature again as the product of powers of input attributes. However, in this case, the choice of power is restricted to \([0,1]\), i.e. the feature is present or absent. For \(n\) input dimensions (number of attributes) we have \(2^n\) possible combinations. Let’s compute the kernel function: \[ K(x,y) = \sum_{I} \phi_I(x) \phi_I(y) = \sum_{I} \prod_{j=1}^{n} x_j y_j = \prod_{i=1}^{n}(1+x_i) (B.6) \] where the last identity follows from the fact that, \[ \prod_{i=1}^{n} (1 + z_i) = 1 + \sum_{i} z_i + \sum_{i < j} z_iz_j + \ldots + z_1 z_2 \ldots z_n \quad (B.7) \] i.e. a sum over all possible combinations. Note that in this case again, it is much efficient to compute the kernel directly than to sum over the features. Also note that in this case there is no decaying factor multiplying the monomials. #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 91 Context: # B.3 The Gaussian Kernel This is given by, \[ K(x, y) = \exp\left(-\frac{1}{2\sigma^2} \|x - y\|^2\right) \] (B.8) where \( \sigma \) controls the flexibility of the kernel: for very small \( \sigma \), the Gram matrix becomes the identity and every point is very dissimilar to any other point. On the other hand, for very large \( \sigma \), we find the constant kernel, with all entries equal to 1, and hence all points looks completely similar. This underscores the need in kernel-methods for regularization; it is easy to perform perfect on the training data which does not imply you will do well on new test data. In the RKHS construction the features corresponding to the Gaussian kernel are Gaussians around the data-case, i.e., smoothed versions of the data-cases, \[ \phi(x) = \exp\left(-\frac{1}{2\sigma^2} \|x - \|^2\right) \] (B.9) and thus every new direction which is added to the feature space is going to be orthogonal to all directions outside the width of the Gaussian and somewhat aligned to close-by points. Since the inner product of any feature vector with itself is 1, all vectors have length 1. Moreover, inner products between any two different feature vectors is positive, implying that all feature vectors can be represented in the positive orthant (or any other orthant), i.e., they lie on a sphere of radius 1 in a single orthant. #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 92 Context: # APPENDIX B. KERNEL DESIGN ## Table of Contents 1. [Introduction](#introduction) 2. [Kernel Architecture](#kernel-architecture) - [Components](#components) - [Functions](#functions) 3. [Design Considerations](#design-considerations) 4. [Conclusion](#conclusion) ## Introduction This appendix discusses the design of the kernel and its components. ## Kernel Architecture ### Components - **Scheduler**: Manages the execution of processes. - **Memory Manager**: Handles memory allocation and deallocation. - **Device Drivers**: Interfaces with hardware devices. ### Functions 1. **Process Management** - Creating and managing processes. - Scheduling and dispatching of processes. 2. **Memory Management** - Allocating memory for processes. - Handling virtual memory. ## Design Considerations - **Performance**: The kernel should be efficient in resource management. - **Scalability**: Must support various hardware platforms. - **Security**: Ensures that processes cannot access each other’s memory. ## Conclusion The kernel design is crucial for the overall system performance and functionality. 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Matoušek, *Using the Borsuk-Ulam Theorem*, Springer-Verlag, 2003. #################### File: Algebraic%20Topology%20ATbib-ind.pdf Page: 12 Context: # Index - **stable splitting** 491 - **stable stem** 384 - **star** 178 - **Steenrod algebra** 496 - **Steenrod homology** 257 - **Steenrod squares, powers** 487 - **Stiefel manifold** 301, 381, 436, 447, 493 - **subcomplex** 7, 520 - **subgraph** 84 - **surface** 5, 51, 88, 93, 102, 141, 207, 241, 390 - **suspension** 8, 137, 219, 466, 473 - **suspension spectrum** 454 - **symmetric polynomials** 435 - **symmetric product** 282, 365, 481 - **symplectic group** Sp(n) 227, 382, 434 - **tensor algebra** 288, 471 - **tensor product** 215, 328 - **tensor product of chain complexes** 273 - **Thom class** 441, 510 - **Thom isomorphism** 441 - **Thom space** 441, 510 - **Toda bracket** 387 - **topological group** 281 - **Tor** 263, 267 - **torsion coefficient** 130 - **torus** 34, 74, 102, 106, 227 - **torus knot** 47 - **total space** 377 - **transfer homomorphism** 175, 321 - **tree** 84 - **triple** 118, 344 - **truncated polynomial algebra** 284 - **unique lifting property** 62 - **unitary group** U(n) 227, 382, 434 - **universal coefficient theorem** 195, 264, 463 - **universal cover** 59, 68 - **van Kampen** 43 - **vector field** 135, 493 - **vertex** 83, 103 - **weak homotopy equivalence** 352 - **weak topology** 5, 83, 520 - **wedge sum** 10, 43, 126, 160, 202, 380, 466 - **Whitehead product** 381, 430 - **Whitehead tower** 356 - **Whitehead's theorem** 346, 367, 418 - **Wirtgen presentation** 55 #################### File: A%20Brief%20Introduction%20to%20Machine%20Learning%20for%20Engineers%20-%20Osvaldo%20Simeone%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 2 Context: # Contents I Basics 5 1 Introduction 6 1.1 What is Machine Learning? 6 1.2 When to Use Machine Learning? 8 1.3 Goals and Outline 11 2 A Gentle Introduction through Linear Regression 15 2.1 Supervised Learning 15 2.2 Inference 17 2.3 Frequentist Approach 19 2.4 Bayesian Approach 36 2.5 Minimum Description Length (MDL) 42 2.6 Information-Theoretic Metrics 44 2.7 Interpretation and Causality 47 2.8 Summary 49 3 Probabilistic Models for Learning 51 3.1 Preliminaries 52 3.2 The Exponential Family 53 3.3 Frequentist Learning 59 #################### File: A%20Brief%20Introduction%20to%20Machine%20Learning%20for%20Engineers%20-%20Osvaldo%20Simeone%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 3 Context: # Learning Theory ## Table of Contents 3.4 Bayesian Learning ......................................... 63 3.5 Supervised Learning via Generalized Linear Models (GLM) ... 69 3.6 Maximum Entropy Property* ................................. 71 3.7 Energy-based Models* ...................................... 72 3.8 Some Advanced Topics* ..................................... 73 3.9 Summary ................................................... 74 ## II Supervised Learning ### 75 4 Classification ................................................ 76 4.1 Preliminaries: Stochastic Gradient Descent ............ 77 4.2 Classification as a Supervised Learning Problem ...... 78 4.3 Discriminative Deterministic Models ..................... 80 4.4 Discriminative Probabilistic Models: Generalized Linear Models ............................................... 90 4.5 Discriminative Probabilistic Models: Beyond GLM ..... 96 4.6 Generative Probabilistic Models .......................... 102 4.7 Boosting .................................................... 106 4.8 Summary ................................................... 107 ## 5 Statistical Learning Theory* ### 113 5.1 A Formal Framework for Supervised Learning .......... 114 5.2 PAC Learnability and Sample Complexity ............... 119 5.3 PAC Learnability for Finite Hypothesis Classes ....... 120 5.4 VC Dimension and Fundamental Theorem of PAC Learning .................................................... 124 5.5 Summary ................................................... 126 ## III Unsupervised Learning ### 129 6 Unsupervised Learning ....................................... 130 6.1 Unsupervised Learning ................................... 131 6.2 K-Means Clustering ...................................... 134 6.3 ML, ELBO and EM ......................................... 136 6.4 Directed Generative Models ............................. 148 6.5 Undirected Generative Models ............................ 155 #################### File: A%20Brief%20Introduction%20to%20Machine%20Learning%20for%20Engineers%20-%20Osvaldo%20Simeone%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 5 Context: References =========== 218 #################### File: A%20Brief%20Introduction%20to%20Machine%20Learning%20for%20Engineers%20-%20Osvaldo%20Simeone%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 10 Context: # Acronyms | Acronym | Meaning | |---------|------------------------------------------------| | pmf | probability mass function | | PCA | Principal Component Analysis | | PPCA | Probabilistic Principal Component Analysis | | QDA | Quadratic Discriminant Analysis | | RBM | Restricted Boltzmann Machine | | SGD | Stochastic Gradient Descent | | SVM | Support Vector Machine | | rv | random variable or random vector (depending on the context) | | s.t. | subject to | | VAE | Variational AutoEncoder | | VC | Vapnik–Chervonenkis | | VI | Variational Inference | #################### File: A%20Brief%20Introduction%20to%20Machine%20Learning%20for%20Engineers%20-%20Osvaldo%20Simeone%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 11 Context: # Part I ## Basics #################### File: A%20Brief%20Introduction%20to%20Machine%20Learning%20for%20Engineers%20-%20Osvaldo%20Simeone%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 13 Context: # 1.1. What is Machine Learning? This starts with an in-depth analysis of the problem domain, which culminates with the definition of a mathematical model. The mathematical model is meant to capture the key features of the problem under study and is typically the result of the work of a number of experts. The mathematical model is finally leveraged to derive hand-crafted solutions to the problem. For instance, consider the problem of defining a chemical process to produce a given molecule. The conventional flow requires chemists to leverage their knowledge of models that predict the outcome of individual chemical reactions, in order to craft a sequence of suitable steps that synthesize the desired molecule. Another example is the design of speech translation or image/video compression algorithms. Both of these tasks involve the definition of models and algorithms by teams of experts, such as linguists, psychologists, and signal processing practitioners, not infrequently during the course of long standardization meetings. The engineering design flow outlined above may be too costly and inefficient for problems in which faster or less expensive solutions are desirable. The machine learning alternative is to collect large data sets, e.g., of labeled speech, images, or videos, and to use this information to train general-purpose learning machines to carry out the desired task. While the standard engineering flow relies on domain knowledge and on design optimized for the problem at hand, machine learning lets large amounts of data dictate algorithms and solutions. To this end, rather than requiring a precise model of the set-up under study, machine learning requires the specification of an objective, of a model to be trained, and of an optimization technique. Returning to the first example above, a machine learning approach would proceed by training a general-purpose machine to predict the outcome of known chemical reactions based on a large data set, and then by using the trained algorithm to explore ways to produce more complex molecules. In a similar manner, large data sets of images or videos would be used to train a general-purpose algorithm with the aim of obtaining compressed representations from which the original input can be recovered with some distortion. #################### File: A%20Brief%20Introduction%20to%20Machine%20Learning%20for%20Engineers%20-%20Osvaldo%20Simeone%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 17 Context: # 1.3 Goals and Outline This monograph considers only passive and offline learning. ## 1.3 Goals and Outline This monograph aims at providing an introduction to key concepts, algorithms, and theoretical results in machine learning. The treatment concentrates on probabilistic models for supervised and unsupervised learning problems. It introduces fundamental concepts and algorithms by building on first principles, while also exposing the reader to more advanced topics with extensive pointers to the literature, within a unified notation and mathematical framework. Unlike other texts that are focused on one particular aspect of the field, an effort has been made here to provide a broad but concise overview in which the main ideas and techniques are systematically presented. Specifically, the material is organized according to clearly defined categories, such as discriminative and generative models, frequentist and Bayesian approaches, exact and approximate inference, as well as directed and undirected models. This monograph is meant as an entry point for researchers with a background in probability and linear algebra. A prior exposure to information theory is useful but not required. Detailed discussions are provided on basic concepts and ideas, including overfitting and generalization, Maximum Likelihood and regularization, and Bayesian inference. The text also endeavors to provide intuitive explanations and pointers to advanced topics and research directions. Sections and subsections containing more advanced material that may be regarded at a first reading are marked with a star (+). The reader will find here further discussions on computing platform or programming frameworks, such as map-reduce, nor details on specific applications involving large data sets. These can be easily found in a vast and growing body of work. Furthermore, rather than providing exhaustive details on the existing myriad solutions in each specific category, techniques have been selected that are useful to illustrate the most salient aspects. Historical notes have also been provided only for a few selected milestone events. Finally, the monograph attempts to strike a balance between the algorithmic and theoretical viewpoints. In particular, all learning algorithms are presented in a manner that emphasizes their theoretical foundations while also providing practical insights. #################### File: A%20Brief%20Introduction%20to%20Machine%20Learning%20for%20Engineers%20-%20Osvaldo%20Simeone%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 20 Context: # Introduction from *The Computer and the Brain*, 1958. #################### File: A%20Brief%20Introduction%20to%20Machine%20Learning%20for%20Engineers%20-%20Osvaldo%20Simeone%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 22 Context: ```markdown variables \( t_n \) are assumed to be dependent on \( x_n \), and are referred to as dependent variables, labels, or responses. An example is illustrated in Fig. 2.1. We use the notation \( \mathbf{x}_D = (x_1, \ldots, x_N)^T \) for the covariates and \( \mathbf{t}_D = (t_1, \ldots, t_N)^T \) for the labels in the training set \( D \). Based on this data, the goal of supervised learning is to identify an algorithm to predict the label \( t \) for a new, that is, as of yet unobserved, domain point \( x \). ![Figure 2.1: Example of a training set \( D \) with \( N = 10 \) points \( (x_n, t_n) \), \( n = 1, \ldots, N \).](path_to_image) The outlined learning task is clearly impossible in the absence of additional information on the mechanism relating variables \( z \) and \( t \). With reference to Fig. 2.1, unless we assume, say, that \( z \) and \( t \) are related by a function \( t = f(z) \) with some properties, such as smoothness, we have no way of predicting the label \( t \) for an unobserved domain point \( z \). This observation is formalized by the no free lunch theorem to be reviewed in Chapter 5: one cannot learn rules that generalize to unseen examples without making assumptions about the mechanism generating the data. The set of all assumptions made by the learning algorithm is known as the inductive bias. This discussion points to a key difference between memorizing and learning. While the former amounts to mere retrieval of a value \( t_n \), ``` #################### File: A%20Brief%20Introduction%20to%20Machine%20Learning%20for%20Engineers%20-%20Osvaldo%20Simeone%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 23 Context: 2.2. Inference ==================== Corresponding to an already observed pair \((x_t, y_t) \in \mathcal{D}\), learning entails the capability to predict the value \(t\) for an unseen domain point \(x\). Learning, in other words, converts experience – in the form of \(\mathcal{D}\) – into expertise or knowledge – in the form of a predictive algorithm. This is well captured by the following quote by Jorge Luis Borges: “To think is to forget details, generalize, make abstractions.” [138] By and large, the goal of supervised learning is that of identifying a predictive algorithm that minimizes the generalization loss, that is, the error in the prediction of a new label \(t\) for an unobserved explanatory variable \(x\). How exactly to formulate this problem, however, depends on one’s viewpoint on the nature of the model that is being learned. This leads to the distinction between the frequentist and the Bayesian approaches, which is central to this chapter. As will be discussed, the MDL philosophy deviates from the mentioned focus on prediction as the goal of learning, by targeting instead a parsimonious description of the data set \(\mathcal{D}\). ### 2.2 Inference Before we start our discussion of learning, it is useful to review some basic concepts concerning statistical inference, as they will be needed throughout this chapter and in the rest of this monograph. We specifically consider the inference problem of predicting a \(y\) given the observation of another \(x\) under the assumption that their joint distribution \(p(x, y)\) is known. As a matter of terminology, it is noted that here we will use the term “inference” as it is typically intended in the literature on probabilistic graphical models (see, e.g., [81]), thereby diverging from its use in other branches of the machine learning literature (see, e.g., [23]). In order to define the problem of optimal inference, one needs to define a non-negative loss function \(\ell(t, \hat{t})\). This defines the cost, or loss or risk, incurred when the correct value is \(t\) while the estimate is \(\hat{t}\). An important example is the \(\ell_t\) loss: \[ \ell_t(\hat{t}) = |t - \hat{t}|, \quad (2.1) \] which includes as a special case the quadratic loss \(\ell_q(t, \hat{t}) = (t - \hat{t})^2\). #################### File: A%20Brief%20Introduction%20to%20Machine%20Learning%20for%20Engineers%20-%20Osvaldo%20Simeone%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 29 Context: # 2.3. Frequentist Approach Determination of a specific model \( p(y|x, \theta) \) in the class called for the selection of the parameter vector \( \theta = (\nu, \beta) \). As we will see, these two types of variables play a significantly different role during learning and should be clearly distinguished, as discussed next. ## 1. Model order \( M \) (and hyperparameters) The model order defines the "capacity" of the hypothesis class, that is, the number of degrees of freedom in the model. The larger \( M \) is, the more capable a model is to fit the available data. For instance, in the linear regression example, the model order determines the size of the weight vector \( w \). More generally, variables that define the class of models to be learned are known as hyperparameters. As we will see, determining the model order, and more broadly the hyperparameters, requires a process known as validation. ## 2. Model parameters \( \theta \) Assigning specific values to the model parameters \( \theta \) identifies a hypothesis within the given hypothesis class. This can be done by using learning criteria such as Maximum Likelihood (ML) and Maximum a Posteriori (MAP). We postpone a discussion of validation to the next section, and we start by introducing the ML and MAP learning criteria. ### 2.3.3 Maximum Likelihood (ML) Learning Assume now that the model order \( M \) is fixed, and that we are interested in learning the model parameters \( \theta \). The ML criterion selects a value of \( \theta \) under which the training set \( D \) has the maximum probability of being observed. In other words, the value \( \theta \) selected by ML is the most likely to have generated the observed training set. Note that there might be more than one such value. To proceed, we need to write the probability (density) of the observed labels \( y \) in the training set \( D \) given the corresponding domain points \( x \). Under the assumed discriminative model, this is given as: \[ p(y|x, w, \beta) = \prod_{n=1}^{N} p(y_n | x_n, w, \beta) \] \[ = \prod_{n=1}^{N} N(t_n|h_n(x_n), \beta^{-1}) \] #################### File: A%20Brief%20Introduction%20to%20Machine%20Learning%20for%20Engineers%20-%20Osvaldo%20Simeone%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 44 Context: # Regression Figure 2.7: Bayesian Network (BN) describing the joint distribution (2.32) of the weight vector \( w \) of the labels in the training data \( D \) and in the new example, as used in the Bayesian approach. As mentioned, we are interested in computing the posterior probability \( p(w|D, t) \) of the new label \( t \) given the training data \( D \) and the new domain point \( x = \mathbf{x} \). Dropping again the domain variables to simplify the notation, we apply standard rules of probability to obtain: \[ p(t|D) = \frac{p(t|D, w) p(w|D)}{p(t|D)} = \int p(t|w)p(w|D)dw \tag{2.33} \] where the second equality follows from the marginalization rule \( p(t|D, t) = \int p(t|w, t)dw \) and the last equality from Bayes' theorem. Putting back the dependence on the domain variables, we obtain the predictive distribution as \[ p(t|x, D) = \int p(w|D) p(t|x, w)dw \tag{2.34} \] This is the key equation. Accordingly, the Bayesian approach considers the predictive probability \( p(t|x, w) \) associated with each value of the weight vector \( w \) weighted by the posterior belief \[ p(w|D) = \frac{p(D|w)p(w)}{p(D)} \tag{2.35} \] The posterior belief \( p(w|D) \), which defines the weight of the parameter vector \( w \), is therefore proportional to the prior belief \( p(w) \) multiplied by the correction \( p(D|w) \) due to the observed data. Computing the posterior \( p(w|D) \), and a fortiori also the predictive distribution \( p(t|x, D) \), is generally a difficult task that requires the adoption of approximate inference techniques covered in Chapter 8. For this #################### File: A%20Brief%20Introduction%20to%20Machine%20Learning%20for%20Engineers%20-%20Osvaldo%20Simeone%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 50 Context: ``` 44 # A Gentle Introduction through Linear Regression Produces a description of approximately $$ - \sum_{n=1}^{N} \log{p(y_n | x_n, w_{ML}, \beta_{ML})} $$ bits. This description is, however, not sufficient, since the decoder of the description should also be informed about the parameters $(w_{ML}, \beta_{ML})$. Using quantization, the parameters can be described by means of a number $C(M)$ of bits that is proportional to the number of parameters, here $M + 2$. Concatenating these bits with the description produced by the ML model yields the overall description length $$ - \sum_{n=1}^{N} \log{p[y_n | x_n, w_{ML}, \beta_{ML}]} + C(M). \quad (2.39) $$ MDL – in the simplified form discussed here – selects the model order $M$ that minimizes the description length (2.39). Accordingly, the term $C(M)$ acts as a regularizer. The optimal value of $M$ for the MDL criterion is hence the result of the trade-off between the minimization of the overhead $C(M)$, which calls for a small value of $M$, and the minimization of the NLL, which decreases with $M$. Under some technical assumptions, the overhead term can be often evaluated in the form $$ \left( \frac{K}{2} \right) N \log N + c, $$ where $K$ is the number of parameters in the model and $c$ is a constant. This expression is not quite useful in practice, but it provides intuition about the mechanism used by MDL to combat overfitting. ## 2.6 Information-Theoretic Metrics We now provide a brief introduction to information-theoretic metrics by leveraging the example studied in this chapter. As we will see in the following chapters, information-theoretic metrics are used extensively in the definition of learning algorithms. Appendix A provides a detailed introduction to information-theoretic measures in terms of inferential tasks. Here we introduce the key metrics of Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence and entropy by examining the asymptotic behavior of ML in the regime of large $N$. The case with finite $N$ is covered in Chapter 6 (see Sec. 6.4.3). ``` #################### File: A%20Brief%20Introduction%20to%20Machine%20Learning%20for%20Engineers%20-%20Osvaldo%20Simeone%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 56 Context: 50 # A Gentle Introduction through Linear Regression When the number of data points goes to infinity; while the latter is parameterized and is subject to optimization. For this reason, divergence metrics between the two distributions play an important role in the development of learning algorithms. We will see in the rest of the monograph that other frequentist methods may involve a single distribution rather than two, as discussed in Sec. 6.6 or an additional, so-called variational distribution, as covered in Sec. 6.3 and Chapter 8. In contrast, Bayesian methods posit a single coherent distribution over the data and the parameters, and frame the learning problem as one of inference of unobserved variables. As we will discuss in Chapter 8, variational Bayesian methods also introduce an additional variational distribution and are a building block for frequentist learning in the presence of unobserved variables. The running example in this chapter has been one of linear regression for a Gaussian model. The next chapter provides the necessary tools to construct and learn more general probabilistic models. #################### File: A%20Brief%20Introduction%20to%20Machine%20Learning%20for%20Engineers%20-%20Osvaldo%20Simeone%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 73 Context: # 3.4. Bayesian Learning Figure 3.2: Probability that the next review is positive using the predictive distribution (3.44) for Example 3.3. ![Figure 3.2](path/to/image) The conjugate prior is the Dirichlet distribution, a generalization of the Beta distribution: $$ p(\mu | \alpha) \propto \text{Dir}(\mu | \alpha) \propto C^{-1} \prod_{k=0}^{C-1} \alpha_k^{\mu_k - 1}, \tag{3.46} $$ where \( \alpha_k \) is the hyperparameter representing the number of "prior" observations equal to \( k \). Note that the Dirichlet distribution is a joint pdf for the entries of the mean vector \( \mu \). Mean and mode vectors for the Dirichlet distribution are given as: $$ E_{\mu | \text{Dir}(\alpha)}[ \mu ] = \frac{\alpha}{\sum_{j=0}^{C-1} \alpha_j}, \tag{3.47} $$ $$ \text{mode}_{\mu | \text{Dir}(\alpha)}[ \mu ] = \frac{\alpha - 1}{\sum_{j=0}^{C-1} \alpha_j - C}. \tag{3.48} $$ The posterior of the parameters is the Dirichlet distribution: $$ p(\mu | D, \alpha) \propto C^{-1} \prod_{k=0}^{C-1} N_k^{\mu_k + \alpha_k - 1} = \text{Dir}(\mu | N), \tag{3.49} $$ in which we can again interpret \( \alpha_k + N_k \) as the effective number of observations equal to \( k \). From this distribution, we can obtain the MAP estimate. #################### File: A%20Brief%20Introduction%20to%20Machine%20Learning%20for%20Engineers%20-%20Osvaldo%20Simeone%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 77 Context: # 3.6 Maximum Entropy Property* In this most technical section, we review the maximum entropy property of the exponential family. Besides providing a compelling motivation for adopting models in this class, this property also illuminates the relationship between natural and mean parameters. The key result is the following: The distribution \(p(x|\theta)\) in (3.1) obtains the maximum entropy over all distributions \(p(x)\) that satisfy the constraints \(\mathbb{E}_{x \sim p(x)} [u_k(x)] = \mu_k\) for all \(k = 1, \ldots, K\). Recall that, as mentioned in Chapter 2 and discussed in more detail in Appendix A, the entropy is a measure of randomness of a random variable. Mathematically, the distribution \(p(x | \eta)\) solves the optimization problem \[ \max_{p} H(p) \quad \text{s.t.} \quad \mathbb{E}_{x \sim p(x)} [u_k(x)] = \mu_k \quad \text{for } k = 1, \ldots, K. \] Each natural parameter \(\eta_k\) turns out to be the optimal Lagrange multiplier associated with the \(k\)th constraint (see [45, Ch. 6-7]). To see the practical relevance of this result, suppose that the only information available about some data \(x\) is given by the means of given functions \(u(x)\), \(k = 1, \ldots, K\). The probabilistic model (3.1) can then be interpreted as encoding the least additional information about the data, in the sense that it is the "most random" distribution under the given constraints. This observation justifies the adoption of this model by the maximum entropy principle. #################### File: A%20Brief%20Introduction%20to%20Machine%20Learning%20for%20Engineers%20-%20Osvaldo%20Simeone%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 106 Context: # Classification ![Figure 4.8](path/to/your/image) **Figure 4.8:** Probability that the class label is the same as for the examples marked with circles according to the output of a feed-forward multi-layer network with one hidden layer (L = 1) and six hidden neurons with sigmoid non-linearity. The probability is represented by the color map illustrated by the bar on the right of the figure. For reference, the solid line represents the decision line for logistic regression. ## Example 4.3 In the example in Fig. 4.8, the illustrated \( N = 300 \) training examples are used to train a logistic regression, i.e., GLM, model and a feed-forward multi-layer network with one hidden layer (L = 1) and six hidden neurons with sigmoid non-linearity \( h(z) = \sigma(x) \). The logistic model uses linear features \( \sigma(x) = [1]^T \). Both networks are trained using SGD. For logistic regression, the decision line is illustrated as a solid line, while for the multi-layer network we plot the probability that the class labels the same as for the examples marked with circles as color map. The GLM model with linear features is seen to be unable to capture the structure of the data, while the multi-layer network can learn suitable features that improve the effectiveness of classification. ## 4.5.3 Some Advanced Topics We conclude this section by noting a few important aspects of the ongoing research on deep neural networks. A first issue concerns the theoretical understanding of the generalization properties of deep neural networks. On the face of it, the success Image Analysis: ### Comprehensive Examination of the Visual Content #### 1. Localization and Attribution - **Image Position:** - **Image 1:** Located centrally on the page. #### 2. Object Detection and Classification - **Image 1:** - **Objects Detected:** - Data points represented by blue circles and red crosses. - Color map background in grayscale. - Decision boundary indicated by a solid line. #### 3. Scene and Activity Analysis - **Image 1:** - **Scene Description:** - The image depicts a scatter plot overlaid with a color map and a decision boundary. - **Activities:** - The scatter plot shows data points classified into two categories (blue circles and red crosses). - The color map indicates the probability of classification. - A solid line separates the regions, representing the decision boundary from logistic regression. #### 4. Text Analysis - **Extracted Text:** - **Caption:** - **Figure 4.8:** Probability that the class label is the same as for the examples marked with circles according to the output of a feed-forward multi-layer network with one hidden layer (\(L=1\)) and six hidden neurons (with sigmoid non-linearity). The probability is represented by the color map illustrated by the bar on the right of the figure. For reference, the solid line represents the decision line for logistic regression. - **Example 4.3:** - In the example in Fig. 4.8, the illustrated \(N=300\) training examples are used to train a logistic regression, i.e., GLM, model and a feed-forward multi-layer network with one hidden layer (\(L=1\)) and six hidden neurons with sigmoid non-linearity \(h(z)=\sigma(z)\). The logistic model uses linear features \(\sigma(z)=[1 \, z^T]\). Both networks are trained using SGD. For logistic regression, the decision line is illustrated as a solid line, while for the multi-layer network we plot the probability that the class label is the same as for the examples marked with circles as color map. The GLM model with linear features is seen to be unable to capture the structure of the data, while the multi-layer network can learn suitable features that improve the effectiveness of classification. #### 5. Diagram and Chart Analysis - **Image 1:** - **Axes and Scales:** - X-axis (\(Z_1\)): Ranges approximately from -4 to 4. - Y-axis (\(Z_2\)): Ranges approximately from -4 to 4. - **Legends:** - Red crosses (\( \times \)): Data points of class 1. - Blue circles (\( \circ \)): Data points of class 2. - Color map: Represents the probability, with a bar on the right showing the gradient from 0 to 1. - **Key Insights:** - The decision boundary (solid line) shows the separation made by logistic regression. - The color map illustrates that the feed-forward multi-layer network better captures the structure of the data compared to the linear model. #### 8. Color Analysis - **Image 1:** - **Dominant Colors:** - Red and blue are used to differentiate classes. - Black, white, and shades of gray indicate the probability regions. - **Impact on Perception:** - The color scheme helps to distinguish between different classes and the corresponding decision areas effectively. #### 9. Perspective and Composition - **Image 1:** - **Perspective:** - Direct, front-facing view typical of scatter plots. - **Composition:** - Center-aligned with data points spread across the plot. - Decision boundary centrally positioned, highlighting the separation between classes. - Color bar on the right side provides probability information. #### 10. Contextual Significance - **Image 1:** - **Overall Document Contribution:** - The plot supports the explanation of Example 4.3 in comparing the effectiveness of logistic regression vs. multi-layer networks. - It visually demonstrates how different models handle training data and classification. By considering these aspects, we can see that this page offers a detailed explanation of machine learning classification techniques with a practical example illustrated by the scatter plot and color map. The image effectively highlights the differences in performance and decision-making capabilities of logistic regression and a multi-layer network. #################### File: A%20Brief%20Introduction%20to%20Machine%20Learning%20for%20Engineers%20-%20Osvaldo%20Simeone%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 113 Context: # 4.8 Summary When training the \(k\)th model, the outputs \(a_1(x, \mathbf{w}_1), \ldots, a_k(x, \mathbf{w}_{k-1})\) of the previously trained models, as well as their weights \(\pi_1, \ldots, \pi_{k-1}\), are kept fixed. Excluding the models \(k + 1, \ldots, K\), the training loss can be written as \[ L_k = \sum_{n=1}^{N} \alpha_{n}^{(k)} \exp(-\pi_k t_n - \sum_{j=1}^{k-1} \pi_j a_j(x_n, \mathbf{w}_j)). \tag{4.47} \] with the weights \[ \alpha_{n}^{(k)} = \exp\left(-t_n - \sum_{j=1}^{k-1} \pi_j a_j(x_n, \mathbf{w}_j)\right). \tag{4.48} \] An important point is that the weights (4.48) are larger for training samples with smaller functional margin under the mixture model \(\sum_{j=1}^{k} \pi_j a_j(x_n, \mathbf{w}_j)\). Therefore, when training the \(k\)th model, we give more importance to examples that fare worse in terms of classification margins under the current mixture model. Note that, at each training step \(k\), one trains a simple model, which has the added advantage of reducing the computational complexity as compared to the direct learning of the full training model. We refer to [23, Ch. 14][33, Ch. 10] for further details. #################### File: A%20Brief%20Introduction%20to%20Machine%20Learning%20for%20Engineers%20-%20Osvaldo%20Simeone%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 116 Context: # Classification Tom methods, which require calculation of the Hessian to evaluate the local curvature of the objective, and approximated Newton methods, which leverage an estimate of the Hessian. The practical and theoretical implications of these methods is still under discussion [157]. Related to second-order methods is the natural gradient approach, which applies most naturally to probabilistic models in which the function to be optimized is a LL [5]. The conventional gradient method updates the parameters by moving in the direction that minimizes the cost function under a constraint on the norm of the update vector in the parameter space. A potentially problematic aspect of this method is that the Euclidean distance \( \|\theta' - \theta''\|^2 \) between two parameter vectors \( \theta' \) and \( \theta'' \), two mean parameters in a model within the exponential family, does not provide a direct measure of the distance of the two corresponding distributions in terms of relevant metrics such as the KL divergence. The natural gradient method addresses this issue by measuring the size of the update directly in terms of the KL divergence between distributions. This modifies the update by pre-multiplying the gradient with the inverse of the Fisher information matrix [5]. The discussion above focuses on the common case of differentiable cost functions. ERM problems typically include possibly non-differentiable regularization terms. To tackle these problems, techniques such as the subgradient method and proximal gradient can be used in lieu of SGD [22]. Other important aspects of optimization schemes include parallelism and non-convexity (see, e.g., [130, 141, 161]). Alternatives to gradient methods that do not require differentiability include evolutionary schemes [128]. ## Appendix B: Kernel Methods In this section, we provide a brief introduction to kernel methods. This section requires some background in Lagrange duality. We start by revisiting the problem (4.16) solved by SVM. Using Lagrange duality, the optimization (4.16) can be solved in the dual domain, that is, by optimizing over the dual variables or the Lagrange multipliers. Referring for details to [23, Chapter 7], the resulting problem… #################### File: A%20Brief%20Introduction%20to%20Machine%20Learning%20for%20Engineers%20-%20Osvaldo%20Simeone%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 118 Context: Before leaving the subject of kernel methods, it is worth noting that an important class of methods including **k–Nearest Neighbor (k-NN)** uses kernels that are data-dependent. k-NN is also an example of non-parametric learning rules. In contrast to the other schemes studied here, it does not rely on a parametric model of the (probabilistic) relationship between input and output. Instead, k-NN leverages the assumption that the labels of nearby points \( x \) should be similar [81]. #################### File: A%20Brief%20Introduction%20to%20Machine%20Learning%20for%20Engineers%20-%20Osvaldo%20Simeone%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 119 Context: # 5 ## Statistical Learning Theory* Statistical learning theory provides a well-established theoretical framework in which to study the trade-off between the number \( N \) of available data points and the generalization performance of a trained machine. The approach formalizes the notions of model capacity, estimation error (or generalization gap), and bias that underlie many of the design choices required by supervised learning, as we have seen in the previous chapters. This chapter is of mathematical nature, and it departs from the algorithmic focus of the text so far. While it may be skipped at a first reading, the chapter sheds light on the key empirical observations made in the previous chapters relative to learning in a frequentist setup. It does so by covering the theoretical underpinnings of supervised learning within the classical framework of statistical learning theory. To this end, the chapter contains a number of formal statements with proofs. The proofs have been carefully selected in order to highlight and clarify the key theoretical ideas. This chapter follows mostly the treatment in [133]. #################### File: A%20Brief%20Introduction%20to%20Machine%20Learning%20for%20Engineers%20-%20Osvaldo%20Simeone%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 125 Context: ``` 5.2 PAC Learnability and Sample Complexity =========================================== In order to formally address the key question posed above regarding the learnability of a model \( \mathcal{H} \), we make the following definitions. As mentioned, for simplicity, we consider binary classification under the 0-1 loss, although the analysis can be generalized under suitable conditions [133]. ### Definition 5.2 A hypothesis class \( \mathcal{H} \) is PAC learnable if, for any \( \epsilon, \delta \in (0, 1) \), there exist an \( (N, \epsilon, \delta) \) PAC learning rule as long as the inequality \[ N \geq N_{\mathcal{H}}(\epsilon, \delta) \] is satisfied for some function \( N_{\mathcal{H}}(\epsilon, \delta) < \infty \). In words, a hypothesis class is PAC learnable if, as long as enough data is collected, a learning algorithm can be found that obtains any desired level of accuracy and confidence. An illustration of the threshold \( N_{\mathcal{H}}(\epsilon, \delta) \) can be found in Fig. 5.2. A less strong definition of PAC learnability requires (5.7) to hold only for all distributions \( p(x, t) \) that can be written as \[ p(x, t) = p(x)1(t = \hat{i}(x)) \] for some marginal distribution \( p(x) \) and for some hypothesis \( \hat{i}(x) \in \mathcal{H} \). The condition (5.9) is known as the realizability assumption, which implies that the data is generated from some mechanism that is included in the hypothesis class. Note that realizability implies the linear separability of any data set drawn from the true distribution for the class of linear predictors (see Chapter 4). A first proposition, and perhaps surprising, observation is that not all models are PAC learnable. As an extreme example of this phenomenon, consider the class of all functions from \( \mathbb{R}^d \) to \( \{0, 1\} \). By the no free lunch theorem, this class is not PAC learnable. In fact, given any amount of data, we can always find a distribution \( p(x, t) \) under which the PAC condition is not satisfied. Intuitively, even in the realizable case, knowing the correct predictor \( \hat{i}(x) \) in (5.9) for any number of ``` #################### File: A%20Brief%20Introduction%20to%20Machine%20Learning%20for%20Engineers%20-%20Osvaldo%20Simeone%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 133 Context: # 5.5. Summary To elaborate, consider a probabilistic model \( \mathcal{H} \) defined as the set of all pmfs \( p(x|\theta) \) parameterized by \( \theta \) in a given set. With some abuse of notation, we take \( \mathcal{H} \) to be also the domain of parameter \( \theta \). To fix the ideas, assume that \( \theta \) takes values over a finite alphabet. We know from Section 2.5 that a distribution \( q(x) \) is associated with a lossless compression scheme that requires around \( -\log q(x) \) bits to describe a value. Furthermore, if we were informed about the true parameter \( \theta \), the minimum average coding length would be the entropy \( H(p(\cdot|\theta)) \), which requires setting \( q(x) = p(x|\theta) \) (see Appendix A). Assume now that we only know that the parameter \( \theta \) lies in set \( \mathcal{H} \), and hence the true distribution \( p(x|\theta) \) is not known. In this case, we cannot select the true parameter distribution, and we need instead to choose a generally different distribution \( q(x) \) to define a compression scheme. With a given distribution \( q(x) \), the average coding length is given by \[ \bar{L}(q(x), \theta) = -\sum_{x} p(x|\theta) \log q(x). \] Therefore, the choice of a generally different distribution \( q(x) \) entails a redundancy of \[ \Delta R(q(x), \theta) = -\sum_{x} p(x|\theta) \log \frac{q(x)}{p(x|\theta)} \geq 0 \tag{5.22} \] bits. The redundancy \( \Delta R(q(x), \theta) \) in (5.22) depends on the true value of \( \theta \). Since the latter is not known, this quantity cannot be computed. We can instead obtain a computable metric by maximizing over all values of \( \theta \in \mathcal{H} \), which yields the worst-case redundancy \[ \Delta R(q(x), \mathcal{H}) = \max_{\theta \in \mathcal{H}} \Delta R(q(x), \theta). \tag{5.23} \] This quantity can be minimized over \( q(x) \) yielding the so-called min-max redundancy: \[ \Delta R(q(x)) = \min_{q} \Delta R(q(x), \mathcal{H}) \tag{5.24} \] \[ = \min_{q} \max_{\theta} \sum_{x} p(x|\theta) \log \frac{p(x|\theta)}{q(x)} \tag{5.25} \] \[ = \min_{q} \max_{\theta} \sum_{x} p(x|\theta) \log \frac{p(x|\theta)}{q(x)}. \tag{5.26} \] The minimum redundancy can be taken as a measure of the capacity of model \( \mathcal{H} \), since a richer model tends to yield a larger \( \Delta R(\mathcal{H}) \). In fact, #################### File: A%20Brief%20Introduction%20to%20Machine%20Learning%20for%20Engineers%20-%20Osvaldo%20Simeone%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 135 Context: # Part III ## Unsupervised Learning ### 1. Introduction Unsupervised learning is a type of machine learning that does not require labeled output. It relies on patterns and structures in input data to generate insights. ### 2. Common Algorithms - K-means Clustering - Hierarchical Clustering - DBSCAN ### 3. Applications - Market Basket Analysis - Image Compression - Anomaly Detection ### 4. Conclusion Unsupervised learning provides significant value across various domains, enabling organizations to extract meaningful information from unstructured data. #################### File: A%20Brief%20Introduction%20to%20Machine%20Learning%20for%20Engineers%20-%20Osvaldo%20Simeone%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 170 Context: ```markdown where \( 0 < d < 1 \) is a parameter. Hence, the rank of a page is a weighted sum of a generic rank of equal to 1, which enables the choice of new pages, and of an aggregate “vote” from other pages. The latter term is such that if any other page \( j \) votes for page \( i \) it links to page \( i \) and its vote equals its own rank divided by the total number of outgoing links, that is, \( r_j/C_j \). In essence, a page \( i \) is highly ranked if it is linked by pages with high rank. The equation (6.58) can be solved recursively to obtain the ranks of all pages. A variation of PageRank that tailors ranking to an individual’s preferences can be obtained as described in [63]. ## 6.9 Summary In this chapter, we have reviewed the basics of unsupervised learning. A common aspect of all considered approaches is the presence of hidden, or latent, variables that help explain the structure of the data. We have first reviewed ML learning via EM, and variations thereof, for directed and undirected models. We have then introduced the GAN method as a generalization of ML in which the KL divergence is replaced by a divergence measure that is learned from the data. We have then reviewed discriminative models, which may be trained via the InfoMax principle, and autoencoders. In the next section, we broaden the expressive power of the probabilistic models considered so far by discussing the powerful framework of probabilistic graphical models. ``` #################### File: A%20Brief%20Introduction%20to%20Machine%20Learning%20for%20Engineers%20-%20Osvaldo%20Simeone%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 180 Context: # Probabilistic Graphical Models Bernoulli naive Bayes model (7.2) for text classification. Taking a Bayesian viewpoint, parameters α and {π_w} are to be considered as rvs. We further assume them to be a priori independent, which is known as the **global independence assumption**. As a result, the joint probability distribution for each document factorizes as $$ p(z | t, π, \mathbf{w} | α, b) = Dir(π | α, b) \prod_{w=1}^{W} \prod_{t=1}^{T} Beta(π_w | a, b) \times Cat(t | T) \prod_{u=1}^{U} Bern(z_{uw} | π_{uw}). $$ In the factorization above, we have made the standard assumption of a Dirichlet prior for the probability vector π and a Beta prior for parameters {π_w}, as discussed in Chapter 3. The quantities α, a, b are hyperparameters. Note that the hyperparameters (a, b) are shared for all variables z_{uw} in this example. The corresponding BN is shown in Fig. 7.4, which can be compared to Fig. 7.1 for the corresponding frequentist model. ![Figure 7.4: BN for the Bayesian version of the naive Bayes model (7.11). Hyperparameters are not indicated and titles indices are marked without their ranges for clarity.](figure_url_here) We invite the reader to consider also the Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) model and the other examples available in the mentioned textbooks. #################### File: A%20Brief%20Introduction%20to%20Machine%20Learning%20for%20Engineers%20-%20Osvaldo%20Simeone%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 181 Context: # 7.2 Bayesian Networks ## 7.2.2 Global Conditional Independence As we have discussed, BNs are defined by local conditional independence properties that are encoded in the factorization of a joint distribution and in the supporting DAG. BNs can also be used to assess generic global conditional independence queries of the type: Is a given subset of variables A independent of another set B conditioned on a third subset C of variables? The d-separation algorithm outputs either a positive response or a “maybe” answer to this question. It is briefly described as follows: 1. **Build a subgraph G'** from the original DAG by keeping all vertices in the subsets A, B, and C, as well as all the edges and vertices encountered by moving backwards on the DAG or one more edges from the vertices in A, B, and C. 2. **Build a subgraph G''** from G' by deleting all edges coming out of the vertices in C. 3. **If there is no path**, neglecting the directionality of the edges, between a node in A and a node in B, then the conditional independence relation A ⫫ B | C holds. Else, if one such path exists, then there is at least one joint distribution that factorizes as for the given DAG for which the condition A ⫫ B | C does not hold. ### Example 7.6 Consider the so-called V-structure x → y ← z. Using d-separation, it can be seen that the conditional independence x ⫫ y | z does not hold in grain. ## 7.2.3 Learning Assume that the DAG of a BN is given. Structure learning, that is, the decision of which edges should be included in the graph based on available training data, is also an important problem that will need to be considered here. Making explicit the dependence of the probability factors on learnable parameters μ, the joint distribution encoded by a BN can be written as \[ p(x_1, \ldots, x_K) = \prod_{k=1}^{K} p(x_k | \text{Pa}(x_k); \mu_k) \tag{7.12} \] #################### File: A%20Brief%20Introduction%20to%20Machine%20Learning%20for%20Engineers%20-%20Osvaldo%20Simeone%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 191 Context: When the undirected graph is not a tree, one can use the **junction tree algorithm** for exact Bayesian inference. The idea is to group subsets of variables together in cliques, in such a way that the resulting graph is a tree. The complexity depends on the treewidth of the resulting graph. When this complexity is too high for the given application, approximate inference methods are necessary. This is the subject of the next chapter. ## 7.5 Summary Probabilistic graphical models encode a priori information about the structure of the data in the form of causality relationships — via directed graphs and Bayesian networks (BNs) — or mutual affinities — via undirected graphs and Markov Random Fields (MRFs). This structure translates into conditional independence conditions. The structural properties encoded by probabilistic graphical models have the potential advantage of controlling the capacity of a model, hence contributing to the reduction of overfitting at the expense of possible bias effects (see Chapter 5). They also facilitate Bayesian inference (Chapters 2-4), at least in graphs with tree-like structures. Probabilistic graphical models can be used as the underlying probabilistic framework for supervised, unsupervised, and semi-supervised learning problems, depending on which subsets of random variables (rvs) are observed or latent. While graphical models can reduce the complexity of Bayesian inference, this generally remains computationally infeasible for most models of interest. To address this problem, the next chapter discusses approximate Bayesian inference, as well as associated learning problems (Chapter 6). #################### File: A%20Brief%20Introduction%20to%20Machine%20Learning%20for%20Engineers%20-%20Osvaldo%20Simeone%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 208 Context: # Part V ## Conclusions - This section summarizes the key findings of the study. - Conclusions drawn from the data. - Implications of the findings for future research. 1. **First conclusion point.** 2. **Second conclusion point.** 3. **Third conclusion point.** ### Recommendations - **Recommendation 1:** Description of recommendation. - **Recommendation 2:** Description of recommendation. - **Recommendation 3:** Description of recommendation. ### References 1. Author, A. (Year). *Title of the work*. Publisher. 2. Author, B. (Year). *Title of the work*. Publisher. ### Acknowledgements - Acknowledgement of contributions from individuals or organizations. #################### File: A%20Brief%20Introduction%20to%20Machine%20Learning%20for%20Engineers%20-%20Osvaldo%20Simeone%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 209 Context: # 9 ## Concluding Remarks This monograph has provided a brief introduction to machine learning by focusing on parametric probabilistic models for supervised and unsupervised learning problems. It has endeavored to describe fundamental concepts within a unified treatment starting from first principles. Throughout the text, we have also provided pointers to advanced topics that we have only been able to mention or shortly touch upon. Here, we offer a brief list of additional important aspects and open problems that have not been covered in the preceding chapters. - **Privacy:** In many applications, data sets used to train machine learning algorithms contain sensitive private information, such as personal preferences for recommendation systems. It is hence important to ensure that the learned model does not reveal any information about the individual entries of the training set. This constraint can be formulated using the concept of differential privacy. Typical techniques to guarantee privacy of individual data points include adding noise to gradients when training via SGD and relying on mixtures of experts trained with different subsets of the data [1]. - **Robustness:** It has been reported that various machine learning models, including neural networks, are sensitive to small variations in input data. #################### File: A%20Brief%20Introduction%20to%20Machine%20Learning%20for%20Engineers%20-%20Osvaldo%20Simeone%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 212 Context: # Appendices ## Appendix A: Title Content of Appendix A. ## Appendix B: Title Content of Appendix B. ## Appendix C: Title Content of Appendix C. ## Appendix D: Title Content of Appendix D. ## References - Reference 1 - Reference 2 - Reference 3 ## Tables | Header 1 | Header 2 | Header 3 | |----------|----------|----------| | Row 1 | Data 1 | Data 2 | | Row 2 | Data 3 | Data 4 | | Row 3 | Data 5 | Data 6 | #################### File: A%20Brief%20Introduction%20to%20Machine%20Learning%20for%20Engineers%20-%20Osvaldo%20Simeone%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 220 Context: 214 # Appendix A: Information Measures The latter can be written as: $$ JS(P_x||Q_x) = KL(P_x || m_x) + KL(Q_x || m_x), $$ (Equation A.13) where \( m_x(x) = (p_x(x) + q_x(x))/2 \). Another special case, which generalizes the KL divergence and other metrics, is the \( \alpha \)-divergence discussed in Chapter 8 (see (8.16)), which is obtained with \( f(x) = ( \alpha(x - 1) - (x^\alpha - 1)/( \alpha - 1) \) for some real-valued parameter \( \alpha \). We refer to [107, 45] for other examples. The discussion above justified the adoption of the loss function (A.11) in a heuristic fashion. It is, however, possible to derive formal relationships between the error probability of binary hypothesis testing and \( f \)-divergences [21]. We also refer to the classical Sanov lemma and Stein lemma as fundamental applications of KL divergence to large deviation and hypothesis testing [38]. 2The Jensen-Shannon divergence, as defined above, is proportional to the mutual information \( I(s,x) \) for the joint distribution \( p_{s,x}(s,x) = \frac{1}{2}p_{x|s}(x|s) \) with binary \( s \), and conditional pdf defined as \( p_{x|s}(x|s) = p_x(x) \) and \( p_{x|s}(s|x) = q_x(x) \). #################### File: A%20Brief%20Introduction%20to%20Machine%20Learning%20for%20Engineers%20-%20Osvaldo%20Simeone%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 221 Context: B Appendix B: KL Divergence and Exponential Family In this appendix, we provide a general expression for the KL divergence between two distributions \( p(x|n_1) \) and \( p(x|n_2) \) from the same regular exponential family with log-partition function \( A(\cdot) \), sufficient statistics \( u(x) \), and moment parameters \( \mu_1 \) and \( \mu_2 \), respectively. We recall from Chapter 3 that the log-partition function is convex and that we have the identity \( \nabla A(\eta) = \mu \). The KL divergence between the two distributions can be translated into a divergence on the space of natural parameters. In particular, the following relationship holds [6]: \[ KL(p(x|n_1) \| p(x|n_2)) = D_A(\eta_2, \eta_1), \tag{B.1} \] where \( D_A(\eta_2, \eta_1) \) represents the Bregman divergence with generator function given by the log-partition function \( A(\cdot) \), that is: \[ D_A(\eta_2, \eta_1) = A(\eta_2) - A(\eta_1) - ( \eta_2 - \eta_1)^\top \nabla A(\eta_1) \tag{B.2} \] The first line of (B.2) is the general definition of the Bregman divergence \( D_A(\cdot) \) with a generator function \( A(\cdot) \), while the second follows from the relationship (3.10). 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