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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. 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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: 4 Context: I'm unable to process images. Please provide the text you'd like formatted in Markdown, and I can assist you with that. 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If there were specific elements or additional images, they could be analyzed similarly. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 6 Context: # PREFACE This material, what it means, and how it impacts their discipline. Becoming an expert theorem prover is not required, nor is deriving closed-form expressions for the sizes of trees with esoteric properties. Basic fluency with each topic area, and an intuition about when it can be applied, is the proper aim for most of those who would go forward and build tomorrow's technology. To this end, the book in your hands is a quick guided tour of introductory-level discrete mathematics. It's like a cool, brisk walk through a pretty forest. I point out the notable features of the landscape and try to instill a sense of appreciation and even of awe. I want the reader to get a feel for the lay of the land and a little exercise. If the student acquires the requisite vocabulary, gets some practice playing with the toys, and learns to start thinking in terms of the concepts here described, I will count it as a success. #################### 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: 12 Context: # CHAPTER 1. MEETUP AT THE TRAILHEAD Themselves are discrete, and can only store and compute discrete values. There can be many of them — megabytes, gigabytes, terabytes — but each value stored is fundamentally comprised of bits, each of which has a value of either 0 or 1. This is unlike the human brain, by the way, whose neuronal synapses communicate based on the continuous quantities of chemicals present in their axons. So I guess “computer” and “brain” are another pair of entities we could add to our discrete vs. continuous list. There’s another reason, though, why discrete math is of more use to computer scientists than continuous math is, beyond just the bits-and-bytes thing. Simply put, computers operate algorithmically. They carry out programs in step-by-step, iterative fashion. First do this, then do that, then move on to something else. This mechanical execution, like the ticking of a clock, permeates everything the computer can do, and everything we can tell it to do. At a given moment in time, the computer has completed step 7, but not step 8; it has accumulated 38 values, but not yet 39; its database has exactly 15 entries in it, no more and no less; it knows that after accepting this friend request, there will be exactly 553 people in your set of friends. The whole paradigm behind reasoning about computers and their programs is discrete, and that’s why we computer scientists find different problems worth thinking about than most of the world did a hundred years ago. But it’s still math. It’s just discrete math. There’s a lot to come, so limber up and let me know when you’re ready to hit the road. ## 1.1 Exercises Use an index card or a piece of paper folded lengthwise, and cover up the right-hand column of the exercises below. Read each exercise in the left-hand column, answer it in your mind, then slide the index card down to reveal the answer and see if you’re right! For every exercise you missed, figure out why you missed it before moving on. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 15 Context: # Chapter 2 ## Sets The place from which we'll start our walk is a body of mathematics called "set theory." Set theory has an amazing property: it's so simple and applicable that almost all the rest of mathematics can be based on it! This is all the more remarkable because set theory itself came along pretty late in the game (as things go) — it was singlehandedly invented by one brilliant man, Georg Cantor, in the 1870s. That may seem like a long time ago, but consider that by the time Cantor was born, mankind had already accumulated an immense wealth of mathematical knowledge: everything from geometry to algebra to calculus to prime numbers. Set theory was so elegant and universal, though, that after it was invented, nearly everything in math was redefined from the ground up to be couched in the language of sets. It turns out that this simple tool is an amazingly powerful way to reason about mathematical concepts of all flavors. Everything else in this book stands on set theory as a foundation. Cantor, by the way, went insane as he tried to extend set theory to fully encompass the concept of infinity. Don't let that happen to you! #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 19 Context: # 2.2. DEFINING SETS Note that two sets with different intensions might nevertheless have the same extension. Suppose \( O \) is "the set of all people over 25 years old" and \( R \) is "the set of all people who wear wedding rings." If our \( \Omega \) is the Davies family, then \( O \) and \( R \) have the same extension (namely, Mom and Dad). They have different intensions, though; conceptually speaking, they're describing different things. One could imagine a world in which older people don't all wear wedding rings, or one in which some younger people do. Within the domain of discourse of the Davies family, however, the extensions happen to coincide. **Fact:** We say two sets are equal if they have the same extension. This might seem unfair to intentionality, but that’s the way it is. So it is totally legit to write: \[ O = R \] since by the definition of set equality, they are in fact equal. I thought this was weird at first, but it’s really no weirder than saying "the number of years the Civil War lasted = Brett Favre’s jersey number when he played for the Packers." The things on the left and right side of that equals sign refer conceptually to two very different things, but that doesn’t stop them from both having the value 4, and thus being equal. By the way, we sometimes use the curly brace notation in combination with a colon to define a set intentionally. Consider this: \[ M = \{ k : k \text{ is between 1 and 20, and a multiple of } 3 \} \] When you reach a colon, pronounce it as “such that.” So this says "M is the set of all numbers \( k \) such that \( k \) is between 1 and 20, and a multiple of 3." (There's nothing special about \( k \), here; I could have picked any letter.) This is an intensional definition since we haven’t listed the specific numbers in the set, but rather given a rule for finding them. Another way to specify this set would be to write: \[ M = \{ 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18 \} \] which is an extensional definition of the same set. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 22 Context: ``` # CHAPTER 2. SETS A program would run into problems if it tried to add a string of text to its cumulative total, or encountered a Product object in the middle of its list of Customers. Sets, though, can be heterogeneous, meaning they can contain different kinds of things. The Davies family example had all human beings, but nothing stops me from creating a set \( S = \{ \text{Jack Nicholson}, \text{Kim Kardashian}, \text{Universal Studios}, 5756, \star \} \). I don’t press this point too hard for a couple of reasons. First, most programming languages do allow heterogeneous collections of some sort, even if they’re not the most natural thing to express. In Java, you can define an `ArrayList` as a non-generic one that simply holds items of class “Object.” In C, you can have an array of void pointers to some unspecified type—which allows your array to point to different kinds of things. Unless it’s a loosely-typed language, though (like Perl or JavaScript), it sort of feels like you’re bending over backwards to do this. The other reason I make this distinction lightly is that when we’re dealing with sets, we often find it useful to deal with things of only one type, and so our \( S \) ends up being homogeneous anyway. ## 2.5 Sets are not ordered pairs (or tuples) You’ll remember from high school algebra the notion of an ordered pair \( (x, y) \). We dealt with those when we wanted to specify a point to plot on a graph: the first coordinate gave the distance from the origin on the x-axis, and the second coordinate on the y-axis. Clearly an ordered pair is not a set, because as the name implies it is ``` #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 33 Context: ```markdown ## 2.11. POWER SETS Don't lose sight. There are four elements to the power set of \( A \), each of which is one of the possible subsets. It might seem strange to talk about "all of the possible subsets"—when I first learned this stuff, I remember thinking at first that there would be no limit to the number of subsets you could make from a set. But of course there is. To create a subset, you can either include, or exclude, each one of the original set's members. In \( A \)’s case, you can either (1) include both Dad and Lizzy, or (2) include Dad but not Lizzy, or (3) include Lizzy but not Dad, or (4) exclude both, in which case your subset is empty. Therefore, \( P(A) \) includes all four of those subsets. Now what's the cardinality of \( P(X) \) for some set \( X \)? That's an interesting question, and one well worth pondering. The answer ripples through the heart of a lot of combinatorics and the binary number system, topics we'll cover later. And the answer is right at our fingertips if we just extrapolate from the previous example. To form a subset of \( X \), we have a choice to either include, or else exclude, each of its elements. So there's two choices for the first element, and then whether we choose to include or exclude that first element, there are two choices for the second, etc. So if \( |X| = 2 \) (recall that this notation means \( X \) has two elements) or \( X \) has a cardinality of \( 2^n \), then its power set has \( 2 \times 2 \) members. If \( |X| = 3 \), then its power set has \( 2 \times 2 \times 2 \) members. In general: \[ |P(X)| = 2^{|X|}. \] As a limiting case (and a brain-bender), notice that if \( X \) is the empty set, then \( P(X) \) has one (not zero) members, because there is in fact one subset of the empty set: namely, the empty set itself. So \( |X| = 0 \), and \( |P(X)| = 1 \). And that jives with the above formula. ``` #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 36 Context: # CHAPTER 2: SETS might be double-majoring in both. Hence, this group of subsets is neither mutually exclusive nor collectively exhaustive. It’s interesting to think about gender and partitions: when I grew up, I was taught that males and females were a partition of the human race. But now I’ve come to realize that there are non-binary persons who do not identify with either of those genders, and so it’s not a partition after all. ## Question: Is the number of students \( |S| \) equal to the number of off-campus students plus the number of on-campus students? Obviously yes. But why? The answer: because the off-campus and on-campus students form a partition. If we added up the number of freshmen, sophomores, juniors, and seniors, we would also get \( |S| \). But adding up the number of computer science majors and English majors would almost certainly not be equal to \( |S| \), because some students would be double-counted and others counted not at all. This is an example of the kind of beautiful simplicity that partitions provide. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 39 Context: # 2.13. EXERCISES 21. What’s \( A \cap B \)? \{ Macbeth, Hamlet \}. 22. What’s \( B \cap T \)? ∅. 23. What’s \( B \cap \overline{T} \)? B. (which is { Scrabble, Monopoly, Othello. }) 24. What’s \( A \cup (B \cap T) \)? \{ Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth \}. 25. What’s \( (A \cup B) \cap T \)? \{ Macbeth, Hamlet \}. 26. What’s \( A \setminus B \)? Simply \( T \), since these two sets have nothing in common. 27. What’s \( T' \setminus B \)? \{ (Hamlet, Macbeth), (Hamlet, Hamlet), (Hamlet, Othello), (Village, Macbeth), (Village, Hamlet), (Village, Othello), (Town, Hamlet), (Town, Othello) \}. The order of the ordered pairs within the set is not important; the order of the elements within each ordered pair is important. 28. What’s \( T \cap X \)? 0. 29. What’s \( (B \cap B) \times (A \cap T) \)? \{ (Scrabble, Hamlet), (Monopoly, Hamlet), (Othello, Hamlet) \}. 30. What’s \( I \cup B \cup T \)? 7. 31. What’s \( I \cap (A \cap T) \)? 21. (The first parenthesized expression gives rise to a set with 7 elements, and the second to a set with three elements (B itself). Each element from the first set gets paired with an element from the second, so there are 21 such pairings.) #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 45 Context: # 3.2 Defining Relations which is pronounced "Harry is S-related-to Dr. Pepper." Told you it was awkward. If we want to draw attention to the fact that (Harry, Mt. Dew) is not in the relation \( S \), we could strike it through to write: ~~Harry S Mt. Dew~~ ## 3.2 Defining relations Just as with sets, we can define a relation extensionally or intensionally. To do it extensionally, it's just like the examples above — we simply list the ordered pairs: - (Hermione, Mt. Dew) - (Hermione, Dr. Pepper) - (Harry, Dr. Pepper) Most of the time, however, we want a relation to mean something. In other words, it's not just some arbitrary selection of the possible ordered pairs, but rather reflects some larger notion of how the elements of the two sets are related. For example, suppose I wanted to define a relation called "hasTasted" between the sets \( X \) and \( Y \) above. This relation might have the five of the possible six ordered pairs in it: - (Harry, Dr. Pepper) - (Ron, Dr. Pepper) - (Ron, Mt. Dew) - (Hermione, Dr. Pepper) - (Hermione, Mt. Dew) Another way of expressing the same information would be to write: Harry hasTasted Dr. Pepper Harry hasTasted Mt. Dew Ron hasTasted Dr. Pepper Ron hasTasted Mt. Dew Hermione hasTasted Dr. Pepper Hermione hasTasted Mt. Dew #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 60 Context: # CHAPTER 3. RELATIONS own wizard, and no soft drinks (or wizards) are left out. How exciting! This is a perfectly bijective function, also called a **bijection**. Again, the only way to get a bijection is for the domain and codomain to be the same size (although that alone does not guarantee a bijection; witness \( f \), above). Also observe that if they are the same size, then injectivity and surjectivity go hand-in-hand. Violate one, and you’re bound to violate the other. Uphold the one, and you’re bound to uphold the other. There’s a nice, pleasing, symmetrical elegance to the whole idea. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 65 Context: # 3.8. EXERCISES 29. **Is faveSport injective?** No, because Julie and Sam (and Chuck) all map to the same value (basketball). For a function to be injective, there must be no two domain elements that map to the same codomain element. 30. **Is there any way to make it injective?** Not without altering the underlying sets. There are three athletes and two sports, so we can’t help but map multiple athletes to the same sport. 31. **Fine. Is faveSport surjective?** No, because no one maps to volleyball. 32. **Is there any way to make it surjective?** Sure, for instance, change Sam from basketball to volleyball. Now both of the codomain elements are "reachable" by some domain element, so it’s surjective. 33. **Is faveSport now also bijective?** No, because it’s still not injective. 34. **How can we alter things so that it’s bijective?** One way is to add a third sport—say, kickboxing—and move either Julie or Chuck over to kickboxing. If we have Julie map to kickboxing, Sam map to volleyball, and Chuck map to basketball, we have a bijection. 35. **How do we normally write the fact that "Julie maps to kickboxing"?** faveSport(Julie) = kickboxing. 36. **What’s another name for "injective"?** One-to-one. 37. **What’s another name for "surjective"?** Onto. 38. **What’s another name for "range"?** Image. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 68 Context: # 4.1 Outcomes and events Since life is uncertain, we don’t know for sure what is going to happen. But let’s start by assuming we know what things might happen. Something that might happen is called an outcome. You can think of this as the result of an experiment if you want to, although normally we won’t be talking about outcomes that we have explicitly manipulated and measured via scientific means. It’s more like we’re just curious how some particular happening is going to turn out, and we’ve identified the different ways it can turn out and called them outcomes. Now we’ve been using the symbol \( \Omega \) to refer to “the domain of discourse” or “the universal set” or “all the stuff we’re talking about.” We’re going to give it yet another name now: the sample space. \( \Omega \), the sample space, is simply the *set of all possible outcomes*. Any particular outcome — call it \( O \) — is an element of this set, just like in Chapter 1 every conceivable element was a member of the domain of discourse. If a woman is about to have a baby, we might define \( \Omega \) as \{ boy, girl \}. Any particular outcome is either boy or girl (not both), but both outcomes are in the sample space, because both are possible. If we roll a die, we’d define \( \Omega \) as \{ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 \}. If we’re interested in motor vehicle safety, we might define \( \Omega \) for a particular road trip as \{ safe, accident \}. The outcomes don’t have to be equally likely; an important point we’ll return to soon. In probability, we define an event as a *subset of the sample space*. In other words, an event is a group of related outcomes (though an event might contain just one outcome, or even zero). I always thought this was a funny definition for the word “event”: it’s not the first thing that word brings to mind. But it turns out to be a useful concept, because sometimes we’re not interested in any particular outcome necessarily, but rather in whether the outcome — whatever it is — has a certain property. For instance, suppose at the start of some game, my opponent and I each roll the die, agreeing that the highest roller gets to go first. Suppose he rolls a 2. Now it’s my turn. The \( \Omega \) for my die roll is of course \{ 1, 2, 3 \}. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 70 Context: # CHAPTER 4. PROBABILITY Chance of me winning the right to go first. In all cases, a probability of 0 means "impossible to occur" and a probability of 1 means "absolutely certain to occur." In colloquial English, we most often use percentages to talk about these things: we'll say "there's a 60% chance Biden will win the election" rather than "there's a .6 probability of Biden winning." The math's a bit clumsier if we deal with percentages, though, so from now on we'll get in the habit of using probabilities rather than "percent chances," and we'll use values in the 0 to 1 range rather than 0 to 100. I find the easiest way to think about probability measures is to start with the probabilities of the outcomes, not events. Each outcome has a specific probability of occurring. The probabilities of events logically flow from that just by using addition, as we'll see in a moment. For example, let's imagine that Fox Broadcasting is producing a worldwide television event called *All-time Idol*, in which the yearly winners of American Idol throughout its history all compete against each other to be crowned the "All-time American Idol champion." The four contestants chosen for this competition, along with their musical genres and age when originally appearing on the show, are as follows: - **Kelly Clarkson (20)**: pop, rock, R&B - **Fantasia Barrino (20)**: pop, R&B - **Carrie Underwood (22)**: country - **David Cook (26)**: rock Entertainment shows, gossip columns, and *People* magazine are all abuzz in the weeks preceding the competition, to the point where a shrewd analyst can estimate the probabilities of each contestant winning. Our current best estimates are: 1. Kelly: 2 2. Fantasia: 2 3. Carrie: 1 4. David: 5 Computing the probability for a specific event is just a matter of adding up the probabilities of its outcomes. Define \( F \) as the event that a woman wins the competition. Clearly \( Pr(F) = \frac{5}{10} = .5 \), since \( Pr(Kelly) = .2 \), \( Pr(Fantasia) = .2 \), and \( Pr(Carrie) = .1 \). If \( P \) is the event that a rock singer wins, \( Pr(P) = \frac{7}{10} = .7 \), since this is the sum of Kelly's and David's probabilities. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 75 Context: # 4.3. PHILOSOPHICAL INTERLUDE The idea of how often heads will occur in the long run. But if we flip it a million times and get 500,372 heads, we can confidently say that the probability of getting a head on a single flip is approximately .500. This much isn’t controversial: it’s more like common sense. But the frequentist philosophy states that this is really the only way that probability can be defined. It’s what probability is: the frequency with which we can expect certain outcomes to occur, based on our observations of their past behavior. Probabilities only make sense for things that are repeatable, and reflect a known, reliable trend in how often they produce certain results. Historical proponents of this philosophy include John Venn, the inventor of the aforementioned Venn diagram, and Ronald Fisher, one of the greatest biologists and statisticians of all time. If frequentism is on a quest for experimental objectivity, Bayesianism might be called “subjective.” This isn’t to say it’s arbitrary or sloppy. It simply has a different notion of what probability ultimately means. Bayesians interpret probability as a quantitative personal assessment of the likelihood of something happening. They point out that for many (most) events of interest, trials are neither possible nor sensible. Suppose I’m considering asking a girl out to the prom, and I’m trying to estimate how likely it is she’ll go with me. It’s not like I’m going to ask her a hundred times and count how many times she says yes, then divide by 100 to get a probability. There is in fact no way to perform a trial or use past data to guide me, and at any rate she’s only going to say yes or no once. So based on my background knowledge and my assumptions about her, myself, and the world, I form an opinion which could be quantified as a “percent chance.” Once I’ve formed this opinion (which of course involves guesswork and subjectivity) I can then reason about it mathematically, using all the tools we’ve been developing. Of special interest to Bayesians is the notion of updating probabilities when new information comes to light, a topic we’ll return to in a moment. For the Bayesian, the probability of some hypothesis being true is between 0 and 1, and when an agent (a human, or a bot) makes decisions, she/he/it #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 85 Context: # 4.6. BAYES' THEOREM See how that works? If I do have the disease (and there's a 1 in 1,000 chance of that), there's a .99 probability of me testing positive. On the other hand, if I don't have the disease (a 999 in 1,000 chance of that), there's a .01 probability of me testing positive anyway. The sum of those two mutually exclusive probabilities is 0.01098. Now we can use our Bayes’ Theorem formula to deduce: \[ P(D|T) = \frac{P(T|D) P(D)}{P(T)} \] \[ P(D|T) = \frac{.99 \cdot \frac{1}{1000}}{0.01098} \approx .0902 \] Wow. We tested positive on a 99% accurate medical exam, yet we only have about a 9% chance of actually having the disease! Great news for the patient, but a head-scratcher for the math student. How can we understand this? Well, the key is to look back at that Total Probability calculation in equation 4.1. Remember that there were two ways to test positive: one where you had the disease, and one where you didn't. Look at the contribution to the whole that each of those two probabilities produced. The first was 0.00099, and the second was 0.9999, over ten times higher. Why? Simply because the disease is so rare. Think about it: the test fails once every hundred times, but a random person only has the disease once every thousand times. If you test positive, it’s far more likely that the test screwed up than that you actually have the disease, which is rarer than blue moons. Anyway, all of this about diseases and tests is a side note. The main point is that Bayes' Theorem allows us to recast a search for \(P(X|Y)\) into a search for \(P(Y|X)\), which is often easier to find numbers for. One of many computer science applications of Bayes' Theorem is in text mining. In this field, we computationally analyze the words in documents in order to automatically classify them or form summaries or conclusions about their contents. One goal might be to identify the true author of a document, given samples of the writing of various suspected authors. Consider the Federalist Papers, #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 90 Context: # 4.8 Exercises 1. At a swim meet, the competitors in the 100-m freestyle are Ben, Chad, Grover, and Tim. These four swimmers make up our sample space \( S \) for the winner of this heat. Is Chad ∈ \( S \)? Yes. 2. Is Tim an outcome? Yes. 3. Is Ben an event? No, since outcomes are elements of the sample space, while events are subsets of the sample space. 4. Is \( \{ Chad, Grover \} \) an event? Yes. 5. Is \( \{ Ben \} \) an event? Yes. 6. Suppose I told you that \( Pr(\{ Ben \})=1 \), \( Pr(\{ Chad \})=2 \), \( Pr(\{ Grover \})=3 \), and \( Pr(\{ Tim \})=3 \). Would you believe me? Better not. This is not a valid probability measure, since the sum of the probabilities of all the outcomes, \( Pr(S) \), is not equal to 1. 7. Suppose I told you that \( Pr(\{ Ben, Chad \})=3 \), and \( Pr(\{ Ben, Tim \})=4 \), and \( Pr(\{ Grover \})=4 \). Could you tell me the probability that Ben wins the heat? Yes. If \( Pr(\{ Ben, Chad \})=3 \) and \( Pr(\{ Grover \})=4 \), that leaves 3 probability left over for Tim. And if \( Pr(\{ Ben, Tim \})=4 \), this implies that \( Pr(\{ Ben \})=1 \). 8. And what’s the probability that someone besides Chad wins? \( Pr(\{ Chad \}) = 1 - Pr(\{ Chad \}) \), so we just need to figure out the probability that Chad wins and take one minus that. Clearly if \( Pr(\{ Ben, Chad \})=3 \) (as we were told), and then \( Pr(\{ Chad \})=2 \), the probability of a non-Chad winner is .8. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 96 Context: # CHAPTER 5. STRUCTURES ## Path A path is a sequence of consecutive edges that takes you from one vertex to the other. In Figure 5.1, there is a path between Washington, DC and John Wilkes Booth (yes, this means of Ford's Theatre) even though there is no direct edge between the two. By contrast, no path exists between President and Civil War. Don't confuse the two terms edge and path: the former is a single link between two nodes, while the second can be a whole step-by-step traversal. (A single edge does count as a path, though.) ## Directed/Undirected In some graphs, relationships between nodes are inherently bidirectional: if A is linked to B, then B is linked to A, and it doesn’t make sense otherwise. Think of Facebook: friendship always goes both ways. This kind of graph is called an **undirected graph**, and like the Abraham Lincoln example in Figure 5.1, the edges are shown as straight lines. In other situations, an edge from A to B doesn’t necessarily imply one in the reverse direction as well. In the World Wide Web, for instance, just because webpage A has a link on it to webpage B doesn’t mean the reverse is true (it usually isn’t). In this kind of **directed graph**, we draw arrowheads on the lines to indicate which way the link goes. An example is Figure 5.2: the vertices represent famous boxers, and the directed edges indicate which boxer defeated the other(s). It is possible for a pair of vertices to have edges in both directions—Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier each defeated the other (in separate bouts, of course)—but this is not the norm, and certainly not the rule, with a directed graph. ## Weighted Some graphs, in addition to merely containing the presc- ence (or absence) of an edge between each pair of vertices, also have a number on each edge, called the edge's weight. Depending on the graph, this can indicate the distance, or cost, between vertices. An example is in Figure 5.3: in true MapQuest fashion, this graph contains locations, and the mileage between them. A graph can be both directed and weighted. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 99 Context: # 5.1. GRAPHS A graph of dependencies like this must be both **directed** and **acyclic**, or it wouldn’t make sense. Directed, of course, means that task X can require task Y to be completed before it, without the reverse also being true. If they both depended on each other, we’d have an infinite loop, and no brownies could ever get baked! Acyclic means that no kind of cycle can exist in the graph, even one that goes through multiple vertices. Such a cycle would again result in an infinite loop, making the project hopeless. Imagine if there were an arrow from **bake for 30 mins** back to **grease pan** in Figure 5.4. Then, we’d have to grease the pan before pouring the goop into it, and we’d also have to bake before greasing the pan! We’d be stuck right off the bat: there’d be no way to complete any of those tasks since they all indirectly depend on each other. A graph that is both directed and acyclic (and therefore free of these problems) is sometimes called a **DAG** for short. ``` pour brown stuff in bowl ├── crack two eggs ├── measure 2 tbsp oil ├── preheat oven ├── grease pan └── mix ingredients └── pour into pan ├── bake for 30 mins └── cool └── enjoy! ``` *Figure 5.4: A DAG.* #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 107 Context: # 5.1. GRAPHS then repeat the process. | Step | Queue | Current Node | Visited Nodes | |------|---------------|--------------|---------------| | 1 | Greg | Jerry | | | 2 | Clark | Adrian | | | 3 | Judy | Kim | | | 4 | Adrian | Ethel | | | 5 | Ethel | Judy | | | 6 | Kim | Balthus | | | 7 | Balthus | | | Figure 5.9: The stages of breadth-first traversal. Marked nodes are grey, and visited nodes are black. The order of visitation is: G, C, I, A, E, J, K, F, B. ## Depth-first traversal (DFT) With depth-first traversal, we explore the graph boldly and recklessly. We choose the first direction we see, and plunge down it all the way to its depths, before reluctantly backing out and trying the other paths from the start. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 113 Context: 5.1. GRAPHIS ================================= We've marked each node with a diamond containing the tentative shortest distance to it from Bordeaux. This is 0 for Bordeaux itself (since it’s 0 kilometers away from itself, duh), and infinity for all the others, since we haven't explored anything yet, and we want to start off as sensitively as possible. We'll update these distances to lower values as we find paths to them. We start with Bordeaux as the “current node,” marked in grey. In frame 2, we update the best-possible-path and the distance-of-that-path for each of Bordeaux’s neighbors. Nantes, we discover, is no longer “infinity away,” but a mere 150 km away, since there is a direct path to it from Bordeaux. Vicky and Toulouse are similarly updated. Note the heavy arrowed lines on the diagram, showing the best path (so far) to each of these cities from Bordeaux. Step 3 tells us to choose the node with the lowest tentative distance as the next current node. So for frame 3, Nantes fits the bill with a (tentative) distance of 150 km. It has only one unmarked neighbor, Paris, which we update with 450 km. Why 450? Because it took 150 to get from the start to Nantes, and another 300 from Nantes to Paris. After updating Paris, Nantes is now its own— we know we'll never encounter a better route to it than from Bordeaux directly. Frame 4 is our first time encountering a node that already has a non-infinite tentative distance. In this case, we don’t further update it, because our new opportunity (Bordeaux-to-Toulouse-to-Vichy) is 500 km, which is longer than going from Bordeaux to Toulouse direct. Lyon and Marseille are updated as normal. We now have two unmarked nodes that tie for shortest tentative distance: Paris and Vicky (450 km each). In this case, it doesn’t matter which one we choose. We’ll pick Vicky for no particular reason. Frame 5 then shows some interesting activity. We do not update the path to Paris; since it would be 800 km through Vichy, whereas Paris already had a much better 450 km path. Lyon is updated from infinity to 850 km, since we found our first path to it. But Lyon is the really interesting case. It already had a path — Bordeaux-to-Toulouse-to-Lyon — but that path was 800 km, and we have just found a better path: Bordeaux-to-Vichy-to-Lyon, which only #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 119 Context: 5.2 Trees ========= you think that the shortest path between any two nodes would land right on this Prim network? Yet if you compare Figure 5.14 with Figure 5.13 you'll see that the quickest way from Bordeaux to Strasbourg is through Marseille, not Vichy. So we end up with the remarkable fact that the shortest route between two points has nothing whatsoever to do with the shortest total distance between all points. Who knew? 5.2 Trees --------- A tree is really nothing but a simplification of a graph. There are two kinds of trees in the world: free trees, and rooted trees. ### Free trees A free tree is just a connected graph with no cycles. Every node is reachable from the others, and there’s only one way to get anywhere. Take a look at Figure 5.15. It looks just like a graph (and it is) but unlike the WWII France graph, it’s more skeletal. This is because in some sense, a free tree doesn’t contain anything “extra.” If you have a free tree, the following interesting facts are true: 1. There’s exactly one path between any two nodes. (Check it!) 2. If you remove any edge, the graph becomes disconnected. (Try it!) 3. If you add any new edge, you end up adding a cycle. (Try it!) 4. If there are n nodes, there are n - 1 edges. (Think about it!) So basically, if your goal is connecting all the nodes, and you have a free tree, you’re all set. Adding anything is redundant, and taking away anything breaks it. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 129 Context: # 5.2. TREES ![Figure 5.20: The order of node visitation in in-order traversal.](path/to/image) After visiting the root, says, “Okay, let’s pretend we started this whole traversal thing with the smaller tree rooted at my left child. Once that’s finished, wake me up so I can similarly start it with my right child.” Recursion is a very common and useful way to solve certain complex problems, and trees are rife with opportunities. ## Sizes of binary trees Binary trees can be any ragged old shape, like our Figure 5.17 example. Sometimes, though, we want to talk about binary trees with a more regular shape that satisfy certain conditions. In particular, we’ll talk about three special kinds: 1. **Full binary tree.** A full binary tree is one in which every node (except the leaves) has two children. Put another way, every node has either two children or none; no strangeness allowed. Figure 5.17 is not full, but it would be if we added the three blank nodes in Figure 5.21. 2. By the way, it isn’t always possible to have a full binary tree with a particular number of nodes. For instance, a binary tree with two nodes can't be full, since it inevitably will have a root with only one child. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 136 Context: # CHAPTER 5. STRUCTURES Searching for “Molly” in a simple unsorted list of names is an O(n) prospect. If there’s a thousand nodes in the list, on average you’ll find Molly after scanning through 500 of them. You might get lucky and find Molly at the beginning, but of course you might get really unlucky and not find her until the end. This averages out to about half the size of the list in the normal case. If there’s a million nodes, however, it’ll take you 500,000 traversals on average before finding Molly. Ten times as many nodes means ten times as long to find Molly, and a thousand times as many means a thousand times as long. Bummer. Looking up Molly in a BST, however, is an O(log n) process. Recall that “log” means the logarithm (base-2). This means that doubling the number of nodes gives you a minuscule increase in the running time. Suppose there were a thousand nodes in your tree, as above. You wouldn’t have to look through log(1000) = 10 nodes; you’d only have to look through ten. Now increase it to a million nodes. You wouldn’t have to look through 500,000 to find Molly; you’d only have to look through twenty. Absolutely mind-boggling. ## Adding nodes to a BST Finding things in a BST is lightning fast. Turns out, so is adding things to it. Suppose we acquire a new customer named Jennifer, and we need to add her to our BST so we can retrieve her account information in the future. All we do is follow the same process we would if we were looking for Jennifer, but as soon as we find the spot where she should be, we add her there. In this case, Jennifer comes before Molly (go left), and before Jessica (go left again), and after Ben (go right). Ben has no right child, so we put Jessica in the tree at that right spot. (See Figure 5.26.) This adding process is also an O(log n) algorithm, since we only need look at a small number of nodes equal to the height of the tree. Note that a new entry always becomes a leaf when added. In fact, #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 143 Context: # 5.4 Exercises 1. How many vertices are there in the graph below? ![Graph](link_to_graph_image) 2. How many edges are there? 7. 3. What’s the degree of vertex B? 3. 4. Is this graph directed? No. (No arrowheads on the lines.) 5. Is this graph connected? No – there is no path from A, B, E, or F to either C or D. 6. Is this graph weighted? No. (No numbers annotating the edges.) 7. Is it a tree? No. (A tree must be connected and must also have no cycles, which this graph clearly does: e.g., B–to–A–to–E–to–B.) 8. Is it a DAG? Not remotely; it is neither directed nor acyclic. 9. If this graph represented an undirected relation, how many ordered pairs would it have? 14. (If you said 7, remember that since there are no arrowheads on the lines, this is an undirected graph, which corresponds to a symmetric relation, and hence both (A, E) and (E, A) will be present.) #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 147 Context: # 5.4. EXERCISES 25. **Is it a binary search tree?** No. Although nearly every node does satisfy the BST property (all the nodes in its left subtree come before it alphabetically, and all the nodes in its right subtree come after it), there is a single exception: Zoe is in Wash's left subtree, whereas she should be to his right. Many ways; one would be to swap Zoe's and Wash's positions. If we do that, the fixed tree would be: ``` Mal / \ Jayne Zoe / \ / Inara Kayle \ River \ Simon \ Wash ``` 26. **How could we fix it?** Take a moment and convince yourself that every node of this new tree does in fact satisfy the BST property. It's not too bad, but it does have one too many levels in it (it has a height of 4, whereas all its nodes would fit in a tree of height 3). 27. **Is the tree balanced?** Many ways; one would be to rotate the River-Simon-Wash subtree so that Simon becomes Zoe's left child. Simon would then be the parent of River (on his left) and Wash (on his right). 28. **How could we make it more balanced?** Suggested approaches include reviewing the structure to ensure the depths of all leaves are as equal as possible or implementing rotations to balance out the heights of subtrees. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 151 Context: # 6.1. THE FUNDAMENTAL THEOREM which is just a shorter way of writing \[ n_1 \times n_2 \times n_3 \cdots \times n_k. \] As mentioned in section 4.5, the \( \Sigma \) notation is essentially a loop with a counter, and it says to add up the expression to the right of it for each value of the counter. The \( \Pi \) notation is exactly the same, only instead of adding the expressions together for each value of the counter, we're multiplying them. (The reason mathematicians chose the symbols \( \Sigma \) (sigma) and \( \Pi \) (pi) for this, by the way, is that “sigma” and “pi” start with the same letter as “sum” and “product,” respectively.) We can actually get a lot of leverage just with the fundamental theorem. How many different PINs are possible for an ATM card? There are four digits, each of which can be any value from 0 to 9 (ten total values), so the answer is: \[ 10 \times 10 \times 10 \times 10 = 10,000 \text{ different PINs.} \] So a thief at an ATM machine frantically entering PINs at random (hoping to break your account before you call and stop your debit card) would have to try about 5,000 of them on average before cracking the code. What about middle school bullies who are trying to break into your locker? Well, most combination locks are opened by a three-number sequence, each number of which is anything from 0 to 39. So there are: \[ 40 \times 40 \times 40 = 64,000 \text{ different combinations.} \] That's probably slightly overstated, since I'll bet consecutive repeat numbers are not allowed (Master probably doesn't manufacture a #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 154 Context: # CHAPTER 6. COUNTING or only about .006 times as many as before. Better stick with alphanumeric characters for all seven positions. ## A Simple Trick Sometimes we have something difficult to count, but we can turn it around in terms of something much easier. Often this involves counting the complement of something, then subtracting from the total. For instance, suppose a certain website mandated that user passwords be between 6-10 characters in length — every character being an uppercase letter, lowercase letter, digit, or special character (*, #, $, &, or @) — but it also required each password to have at least one digit or special character. How many passwords are possible? Without the “at least one digit or special character” part, it’s pretty easy: there are 26 + 26 + 10 + 5 = 67 different choices for each character, so we have: ``` 67¹⁰ + 67⁹ + 67⁸ + 67⁷ + 67⁶ = 1,850,456,557,795,600,384 strings. ``` But how do we handle the “at least one” part? One way would be to list all the possible ways of having a password with at least one non-alpha character. The non-alpha could appear in the first position, or the second, or the third, ..., or the tenth, but of course this only works for 10-digit passwords, and in any event it’s not like the other characters couldn’t also be non-alpha. It gets messy really fast. There’s a simple trick, though, once you realize that it’s easy to count the passwords that don’t satisfy the extra constraint. Ask yourself this question: out of all the possible strings of 6-10 characters, how many of them don’t have at least one non-alpha character? (and are therefore illegal, according to the website rules?) It turns out that’s the same as asking “how many strings are there with 6-10 alphabetic (only) characters?” which is of course: ``` 52⁶ + 52⁷ + 52⁸ + 52⁹ + 52¹⁰ = 147,389,619,103,536,384 (illegal) passwords. ``` #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 156 Context: # CHAPTER 6. COUNTING This pattern comes up so much that mathematicians have established a special notation for it: \[ n \times (n - 1) \times (n - 2) \cdots \times 1 = n! \; (\text{``n-factorial''}) \] We say there are “3-factorial” different brushing orders for the Davies kids. For our purposes, the notion of factorial will only apply for integers, so there’s no such thing as 23.46! or π! (In advanced computer science applications, however, mathematicians sometimes do define factorial for non-integers.) We also define 0! to be 1, which might surprise you. This comes up a heck of a lot. If I give you a jumbled set of letters to unscramble, like “KRBS” (think of the Jumble® word game in the newspaper), how many different unscramblings are there? The answer is 5! or 120, one of which is BRISK. Let's say I shuffle a deck of cards before playing War. How many different games of War are there? The answer is 52!, since any of the cards in the deck might be shuffled on top, then any but that top card could be second, then any of those two could be third, etc. Ten packets arrive near-simultaneously at a network router. How many ways can they be queued up for transmission? 10! ways, just like a larger Davies family. The factorial function grows really, really fast, by the way, even faster than exponential functions. A five letter word like “BRISK” has 120 permutations, but “AMBIENTDROUSLY” has 87,178,291,200, ten times the population of the earth. The number of ways to shuffle a deck is \[ 52! \approx 8.065 \times 10^{67} \] so I don’t think my boys will end up playing the same War game twice any time soon, nor my wife and I the same bridge hand. --- **“War”** is a mindless card game which involves no strategy or decision-making on the part of the players. Once you shuffle the initial deck, the entire outcome of the game is fixed. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 158 Context: # CHAPTER 6. COUNTING and so on. Once we have the **RISK** permutations, we can generate the **BRISK** permutations in the same way: | B | R | I | S | K | |---|---|---|---|---| | R | B | I | S | K | | R | I | B | S | K | | R | I | S | B | K | | B | I | R | S | K | | T | B | R | I | S | K | | I | R | B | S | K | | I | R | S | K | | I | S | R | K | | B | S | K | | . . . | Another algorithm to achieve the same goal (though in a different order) is as follows: ## Algorithm #2 for enumerating permutations 1. Begin with a set of **n** objects. a. If **n = 1**, there is only one permutation; namely, the object itself. b. Otherwise, remove each of the objects in turn, and prepend that object to the permutations of all the others, creating another permutation each time. I find this one a little easier to get my head around, but in the end it’s personal preference. The permutations of **BRISK** are: “B followed by all the permutations of **RISK**, plus **I** followed by all the permutations of **BISK**, plus **R** followed by all the permutations of **BRSK**, etc.” So the first few permutations of a 4-letter word are: - R I S K - R I K S - R S I K - R S K I - R K I S - R K S I - I R S K - I R K S - I S R K - I S K R - I K R S - I K S R - S R I K - S R K I - S I R K - S I K R - S K R I - S K I R - K R I S - K R S I - K I R S - K I S R - K S R I - K S I R #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 159 Context: ``` # 6.2. PERMUTATIONS ## Example with 3-letter words | R | S | K | |---|---|---| | R | K | S | | R | S | I | | I | R | S | | I | S | K | | I | K | R | | S | R | I | | S | I | K | | ... | ... | ... | Then, for the 5-letter word: | B | R | I | S | K | |---|---|---|---|---| | B | R | I | K | S | | B | S | K | I | R | | B | K | I | S | R | | B | K | S | I | R | | B | I | R | S | K | | B | I | K | R | S | | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ## Partial permutations Sometimes we want to count the permutations of a set, but only want to choose some of the items each time, not all of them. For example, consider a golf tournament in which the top ten finishers (out of 45) all receive prize money, with the first-place winner receiving the most, the second-place finisher a lesser amount, and so on down to tenth place, who receives a nominal prize. How many different finishes are possible to the tournament? In this case, we want to know how many different orderings of golfers there are, but it turns out that past tenth place, we don’t care what order they finished in. All that matters is the first ten places. If the top ten are 1. Tiger, 2. Phil, 3. Lee, 4. Rory, ... and ... ``` #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 167 Context: # 6.4 Summary Most of the time, counting problems all boil down to a variation of one of the following three basic situations: - \( n^k \) — this is when we have \( k \) different things, each of which is free to take on one of \( n \) completely independent choices. - \( \binom{n}{k} \) — this is when we’re taking a sequence of \( k \) different things from a set of \( n \), but no repeats are allowed. (A special case of this is \( n! \), when \( k = n \).) - \( \binom{n}{k} \) — this is when we’re taking \( k \) different things from a set of \( n \), but the order doesn’t matter. Sometimes it’s tricky to deduce exactly which of these three situations apply. You have to think carefully about the problem and ask yourself whether repeated values would be allowed and whether it matters what order the values appear in. This is often subtle. As an example, suppose my friend and I work out at the same gym. This gym has 18 different weight machines to choose from, each of which exercises a different muscle group. Each morning, #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 169 Context: 6.5 Exercises ========== 1. Inside a dusty chest marked “Halloween costumes” in the family attic, there are four different outfits (a wizard's cape, army fatigues, and two others), five different headgear (a Batman helmet, a headband, a tiara, etc.), and nine different accessories (a wand, a lightsaber, a pipe, and many others). If a child were to choose a costume by selecting one outfit, one headgear, and one accessory, how many costume choices would he/she have? ``` 4 x 5 x 9 = 180 ``` 2. What if the child were permitted to skip one or more of the items (for instance, choosing a costume with an outfit and accessory, but no headgear)? ``` 5 x 6 x 10 = 300, since now “no choice at all” is effectively another choice for each of the categories.3 Kind of amazing how much that increases the total! ```   3. Note, by the way, that this approach does not work for situations like the license plate example on p. 114. Namely, you can’t say “if a license plate can have fewer than 7 characters, we can just add ‘no character’ at this position” as one of the options for that position, and calculate 27^7 = 94,931,877,133 possible plates. That number is too high. Why? (Hint: for some of those choices, you can get the same license plate in more than one way. Hint 2: if we chose ‘A’ for the first license plate character, ‘no character’ for the second, followed by ‘ANTMAN’ we get the license plate ‘ANTMAN’. But what other choices could we have made, that would also have resulted in ‘ANTMAN’?) #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 171 Context: # 6.5. EXERCISES 1. To encourage rivalry and gluttony, we're going to give a special certificate to the child who collects the most candy at the end of the night. And while we're at it, we'll give 2nd-place and 3rd-place certificates as well. How many different ways could our 1st-2nd-3rd contest turn out? **Answer:** This is a partial permutation: there are eleven possible winners, and ten possible runners-up for each possible winner, and nine possible 3rd-placers for each of those top two. The answer is therefore 114, or 900. Wow! I wouldn’t have guessed that high. 2. Finally, what if we want every kid to get a certificate with their name and place-of-finish on it? How many possibilities? (Assume no ties.) **Answer:** This is now a full-blown permutation: 111. It comes to 30,916,800 different orders-of-finish, believe it or not. I told you: this counting stuff can explode fast. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 175 Context: # 7.1. WHAT IS A “NUMBER?” When you think of a number, I want you to try to erase the sequence of digits from your mind. Think of a number as what is: a **quantity**. Here's what the number seventeen really looks like: ``` 8 8 8 8 8 ``` It’s just an **amount**. There are more circles in that picture than in some pictures, and less than in others. But in no way is it “two digits,” nor do the particular digits “1” and “7” come into play any more or less than any other digits. Let’s keep thinking about this. Consider this number, which I’ll label “A”: (A) Now let’s add another circle to it, creating a different number I’ll call “B”: (B) And finally, we’ll do it one more time to get “C”: (C) (Look carefully at those images and convince yourself that I added one circle each time.) When going from A to B, I added one circle. When going from B to C, I also added one circle. Now I ask you: was going from B to C any more “significant” than going from A to B? Did anything qualitatively different happen? The answer is obviously no. Adding a circle is adding a circle; there’s nothing more to it than that. But if you had been writing #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 178 Context: ``` # CHAPTER 7. NUMBERS Of the number. Obviously, 239 is less than 932, so we say that the hundreds place is more significant than the other digits. All of this probably seems pretty obvious to you. All right then. Let’s use a base other than ten and see how you do. Let’s write out a number in base 5. We have seven symbols at our disposal: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6. Wait, you ask — why not 7? Because there is no digit for seven in a base 5 system, just like there is no digit for ten in base 10 system. Ten is the point where we need two digits in a decimal system, and analogously, seven is the point where we’ll need two digits in our base 7 system. How will we write the value seven? Just like this: 10. Now stare at those two digits and practice saying “seven” as you look at them. All your life you’ve been trained to say the number “ten” when you see the digits 1 and 0 printed like that. But those two digits only represent the number ten if you’re using a base 10 system. If you’re using a base 3/4 system, “10” is how you write “thirty-four.” Very well, we have our seven symbols. Now how do we interpret a number like 6153₇? It’s this: 6153₇ = 6 × 7³ + 1 × 7² + 5 × 7¹ + 3 × 7⁰. That doesn’t look so strange; it’s very parallel to the decimal string we expanded, above. It looks we can interpret when we actually multiply out the place values: 6153₇ = 6 × 343 + 1 × 49 + 5 × 7 + 3 × 1. So in base 7, we have a “one’s place”, a “seven’s place”, a “forty-nine’s place”, and a “three hundred forty-three’s place.” This seems unbelievably bizarre — how could a number system possibly hold together with such place values? But I’ll bet it wouldn’t look funny at all if we had been born with 7 fingers. Keep in mind that in the equation above, we wrote out the place values as decimal numbers: Had we written them as base-7 numbers (as we certainly would have if base 7 was our natural numbering system), we would have written: 6153₇ = 6 × 100₇ + 1 × 10₇ + 5 × 7₇ + 3 × 1₇. ``` #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 189 Context: # 7.4. BINARY (BASE 2) This is because the byte can be neatly split into two parts: `1000`, which corresponds to the hex digit `8`, and `0110`, which corresponds to the hex digit `6`. These two halves are called **nibbles**—one byte has two nibbles, and each nibble is one hex digit. At a glance, therefore, with no multiplying or adding, we can convert from binary to hex. Going the other direction is just as easy. If we have: `3E_{16}` we just convert each hex digit into the corresponding nibble: `00111110_{2}` After you do this a while, you get to the point where you can instantly recognize which hex digit goes with which nibble value. Until then, though, here's a handy table: | nibble | hex digit | |--------|-----------| | 0000 | 0 | | 0001 | 1 | | 0010 | 2 | | 0011 | 3 | | 0100 | 4 | | 0101 | 5 | | 0110 | 6 | | 0111 | 7 | | 1000 | 8 | | 1001 | 9 | | 1010 | A | | 1011 | B | | 1100 | C | | 1101 | D | | 1110 | E | | 1111 | F | In case you’re wondering, yes, this is worth memorizing. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 201 Context: # 7.5 EXERCISES 6. If I told you that 98,243,917,215 mod 7 was equal to 1, would you call me a liar without even having to think too hard? No, you shouldn’t. It turns out that the answer is 3, not 1, but how would you know that without working hard for it? 7. If I told you that 273,111,999,214 mod 6 was equal to 6, would you call me a liar without even having to think too hard? Yes, you should. Any number mod 6 will be in the range 0 through 5, never 6 or above. (Think in terms of repeatedly taking out groups of six from the big number. The mod is the number of stones you have left when there are no more whole groups of six to take. If towards the end of this process there are six stones left, that’s not a remainder because you can get another whole group!) 8. Are the numbers 18 and 25 equal? Of course not. Don’t waste my time. 9. Are the numbers 18 and 25 congruent mod 7? Yes. If we take groups of 7 out of 18 stones, we’ll get two such groups (a total of 14 stones) and have 4 left over. And then, if we do that same with 25 stones, we’ll get three such groups (a total of 21 stones) and again have 4 left over. So they’re not congruent mod 7. 10. Are the numbers 18 and 25 congruent mod 6? No. If we take groups of 6 out of 18 stones, we’ll get three such groups with nothing left over. But if we start with 25 stones, we’ll take out 4 such groups (for a total of 24 stones) and have one left over. So they’re not congruent mod 6. 11. Are the numbers 617,418 and 617,424 equal? Of course not. Don’t waste my time. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 206 Context: # CHAPTER 8. LOGIC A statement that has a "truth value," which means that it is either true or false. The statement "all plants are living beings" could be a proposition, as could "Barack Obama was the first African-American President" and "Kim Kardashian will play the title role in Thor: Love and Thunder." By contrast, questions like "are you okay?" cannot be propositions, nor can commands like "hurry up and answer already!" or phrases like "Lynn's newborn schnauzer," because they are not statements that can be true or false. (Linguistically speaking, propositions have to be in the indicative mood.) We normally use capital letters (what else?) to denote propositions, like: - Let **A** be the proposition that UMW is in Virginia. - Let **B** be the proposition that the King of England is female. - Let **C** be the proposition that dogs are carnivores. Don't forget that a proposition doesn't have to be true in order to be a valid proposition (B is still a proposition, for example). It just matters that it is labeled and that it has the potential to be true or false. Propositions are considered atomic. This means that they are indivisible: to the logic system itself, or to a computer program, they are simply an opaque chunk of truth (or falsity) called "A" or whatever. When we humans read the description of A, we realize that it has to do with the location of a particular institution of higher education, and with the state of the union that it might reside (or not reside) in. All this is invisible to an artificially intelligent agent, however, which treats "A" as nothing more than a stand-in label for a statement that has no further discernible structure. So things are pretty boring so far. We can define and label propositions, but none of them have any connections to the others. We change that by introducing logical operators (also called logical connectives) with which we can build up compound constructions out of multiple propositions. The six connectives we’ll learn are: #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 215 Context: # 8.1. Propositional Logic | X | Y | Z | ¬Z | X∨Y | ¬X∨Y | ¬Z∨Z | X∧Z | (¬X∧Z) | (X∧¬Z) | |---|---|---|----|-----|-------|-------|------|---------|--------| | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | *Here, **♢** stands for ¬(X∧Y)∧(X∧Z)* *Here, **☐** stands for ¬(X∧Y)∨(X∧¬Z)* --- (If you’re looking for some practice, cranking through this example on your own and then comparing your answers to the above truth table isn’t a bad idea at all.) You’ll notice that the “answer” column has all 1’s. This means that the expression is always true, no matter what the values of the individual propositions are. Such an expression is called a tautology: it’s always true. The word “tautology” has a negative connotation in regular English usage; it refers to a statement so obvious as to not tell you anything, like “all triangles have three sides,” or “the fatal overdose was deadly.” But in logic, tautologies are quite useful, since they represent reliable identities. The tautology above was a contrived example, and not useful in practice. Here are some important others, though: | X | ¬X | X∨¬X | |---|----|------| | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 1 | 0 | 1 | Sometimes called the **law of the excluded middle**, this identity states that either a proposition or its negative will always be true. (There is no third option.) #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 221 Context: # 8.2. PREDICATE LOGIC This asserts that for every \( x \), \( \text{HasGovernor}(x) \) is true. Actually, this isn’t quite right, for although Michigan and California have governors, mayonnaise does not. To be precise, we should say: \[ \forall x \in S \, \text{HasGovernor}(x), \] where \( S \) is the set of all fifty states in the U.S. We can use a quantifier for any complex expression, not just a simple predicate. For instance, if \( H \) is the set of all humans, then: \[ \forall h \in H \, \text{Adult}(h) \oplus \text{Child}(h) \] states that every human is either an adult or a child, but not both. (Imagine drawing an arbitrary line at a person’s 18th birthday.) Another (more common) way to write this is to dispense with sets and define another predicate \( \text{Human} \). Then we can say: \[ \forall h \, \text{Human}(h) \Rightarrow \text{Adult}(h) \oplus \text{Child}(h). \] Think this through carefully. We’re now asserting that this expression is true for all objects, whether they be Duchess Kate Middleton, little Prince Louis, or a bowl of oatmeal. To see that it’s true for all three, let’s first be equal to Kate Middleton. We substitute Kate for \( h \) and get: \[ \text{Human}(\text{Kate}) \Rightarrow \text{Adult}(\text{Kate}) \oplus \text{Child}(\text{Kate}) \] \[ \text{true} \Rightarrow \text{true} \oplus \text{false} \] \[ \text{true} \Rightarrow \text{true} \] \[ \text{true} \checkmark \] Remember that “implies” (\( \Rightarrow \)) is true as long as the premise (left-hand side) is false and/or the conclusion (right-hand side) is true. In this case, they’re both true, so we have a true result. Something similar happens for Prince Louis: \[ \text{Human}(\text{Louis}) \Rightarrow \text{Adult}(\text{Louis}) \oplus \text{Child}(\text{Louis}) \] \[ \text{true} \Rightarrow \text{false} \oplus \text{true} \] \[ \text{true} \Rightarrow \text{true} \] \[ \text{true} \checkmark #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 225 Context: # 8.2. Predicate Logic Deduce further statements, and you’ll learn about them when you study artificial intelligence later on. Most of them are formalized versions of common sense. “If you know A is true, and you know A=B is true, then you can conclude B is true.” Or “if you know X∧Y is false, and then you discover that Y is true, you can then conclude that X is false.” Etc. The power to produce new truth from existing truth is the hallmark of AI systems, and why this stuff really matters. If you can imagine a program doing this sort of automated reasoning, it will become clear why the precision of something like predicate logic—instead of the sloppiness of English—becomes important. English is a beautiful and poetic language, but its ambiguity is notorious. For example, back in Chapter 3 we used the phrase “some employee belongs to every department” when describing relations. Now consider that English sentence. What does “some employee belongs to every department” actually mean? Does it mean that there is some special employee who happens to hold membership in every department in the company? Or does it mean that no department is empty: all departments have at least one person in them, for crying out loud? The English could mean either. In predicate logic, we’re either asserting: - \(\exists x \, \text{Employee}(x) \land \forall y \, \text{BelongsTo}(x, y)\) or - \(\forall y \, \text{Employee}(x) \land \text{BelongsTo}(x, y)\) These are two very different things. A human being would realize that it’s the third one on the speaker’s mind, drawing from a whole range of experience and common sense and context clues. But a bot has available none of these, and so it demands that the language clearly and unambiguously state exactly what’s meant. English is rife with these ambiguities, especially involving pronouns. > “After John hit George he ran away.” What happened? Did John run away after striking George, fearing that George would retaliate? Or did George run away after getting hit, fearing additional abuse? It’s unclear what “he” refers to, so we can’t say from the sentence alone. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 226 Context: # Chapter 8: Logic Here's a funny one I’ll end with. Consider the sentence **“He made her duck.”** What is intended here? Did some guy reach out with his hand and forcefully push a woman’s head down out of the way of a screaming projectile? Or did he prepare a succulent dish of roasted fowl to celebrate her birthday? Oh, if the computer could only know. If we’d used predicate logic instead of English, it could! #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 230 Context: # CHAPTER 8. LOGIC | | Statement | |---|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 35| True or false: ∀x Professor(x) ⇔ Human(x).
**True!** This is what we were trying to say all along. Every professor is a person. | | 36| True or false: ¬∃x Professor(x) → ¬Human(x).
**True!** This is an equivalent statement to item 35. There's nothing in the universe that is a professor yet not a human. (At least, at the time of this writing.) | #################### 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: 236 Context: # CHAPTER 9. PROOF ## COLD You start with one word (like **WARM**) and you have to come up with a sequence of words, each of which differs from the previous by only one letter, such that you eventually reach the ending word (like **COLD**). It's sort of like feeling around in the dark: - **WARM** - **WART** - **WALT** - **WILT** - **WILD** - ... This attempt seemed promising at first, but now it looks like it's going nowhere. ("**WOLD?**" "**CILD?**" Hmm...) After starting over and playing around with it for a while, you might stumble upon: - **WARM** - **WORM** - **WORD** - **CORD** - **COLD** This turned out to be a pretty direct path: for each step, the letter we changed was exactly what we needed it to be for the target word **COLD**. Sometimes, though, you have to meander away from the target a little bit to find a solution, like going from **BLACK** to **WHITE**: - **BLACK** - **CLACK** - **CRACK** - **TRACK** - **TRICK** - **TRICE** #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 238 Context: 230 # CHAPTER 9. PROOF An irrational number is one that **cannot** be expressed as the ratio of two integers, no matter what the integers are. Proving this directly seems pretty hard, since how do you prove that there aren't any two integers whose ratio is \(\sqrt{2}\), no matter how hard you looked? I mean, \(534,927\) and \(378,250\) are pretty dang close: \[ \left( \frac{534927}{378250} \right)^2 = 2.000005. \] How could we possibly prove that no matter how hard we look, we can never find a pair that will give it to us exactly? One way is to assume that \(\sqrt{2}\) is a rational number, and then prove that down that path lies madness. It goes like this: Suppose \(\sqrt{2}\) is rational, after all. That means that there must be two integers, call them \(a\) and \(b\), whose ratio is exactly equal to \(\sqrt{2}\): \[ \frac{a}{b} = \sqrt{2}. \] This, then, is the starting point for our indirect proof. We're going to proceed under this assumption and see where it leads us. By the way, it's clear that we could always reduce this fraction to lowest terms in case it's not already. For instance, if \(a = 6\) and \(b = 4\), then our fraction would be \(\frac{3}{2}\), which is the same as \(\frac{6}{4}\), so we could just say \(a = 3\) and \(b = 2\) and start over. Bottom line: if \(\sqrt{2}\) is rational, then we can find two integers \(a\) and \(b\) that have no common factor (if they do have a common factor, we'll just divide it out of both of them and go with the new numbers) whose ratio is \(\sqrt{2}\). Okay then. But now look what happens. Suppose we square both: #################### 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: 243 Context: # 9.3. PROOF BY INDUCTION Let’s look back at that inductive step, because that’s where all the action is. It’s crucial to understand what that step does *not* say. It doesn’t say “Vote(k) is true for some number k.” If it did, then since k’s value is arbitrary at that point, we would basically be assuming the very thing we were supposed to prove, which is circular reasoning and extremely unconvincing. But that’s not what we did. Instead, we made the inductive hypothesis and said, “okay then, let’s assume for a second a 40-year-old can vote. We don’t know for sure, but let’s say she can. Now, if that’s indeed true, can a 41-year-old also vote?” The answer is yes. We might have said, “okay then, let’s assume for a second a 7-year-old can vote. We don’t know for sure, but let’s say she can. Now, if that’s indeed true, can an 8-year-old also vote?” The answer is yes. Note carefully that we did not say that 8-year-olds can vote! We merely said that if 7-year-olds can, why then 8-year-olds must be able to as well. Remember that X → Y is true if either X is false or Y is true (or both). In the 7-year-old example, the premise X turns out to be false, so this doesn’t rule out our implication. The result is a row of falling dominoes, up to whatever number we wish. Say we want to verify that a 25-year-old can vote. Can we be sure? Well: 1. If a 24-year-old can vote, then that would sure prove it (by the inductive step). 2. So now we need to verify that a 24-year-old can vote. Can he? Well, if a 23-year-old can vote, then that would sure prove it (by the inductive step). 3. Now everything hinges on whether a 23-year-old can vote. Can he? Well, if a 22-year-old can vote, then that would sure prove it (by the inductive step). 4. So it comes down to whether a 22-year-old can vote. Can he? Well, if a 21-year-old can vote, then that would sure prove it (by the inductive step). 5. And now we need to verify whether a 21-year-old can vote. Can he? Yes (by the base case). #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 244 Context: # Example 2 A famous story tells of Carl Friedrich Gauss, perhaps the most brilliant mathematician of all time, getting in trouble one day as a schoolboy. As punishment, he was sentenced to tedious work: adding together all the numbers from 1 to 100. To his teacher's astonishment, he came up with the correct answer in a moment, not because he was quick at adding integers, but because he recognized a trick. The first number on the list (1) and the last (100) add up to 101. So do 3 and 98, and so do 4 and 97, etc., all the way up to 50 and 51. So really what you have here is 50 different sums of 101 each, so the answer is \( 50 \times 101 = 5050 \). In general, if you add the numbers from 1 to \( x \), where \( x \) is any integer at all, you'll get \( \frac{x(x + 1)}{2} \). Now, use mathematical induction to prove that Gauss was right (i.e., that \( \sum_{i=1}^{x} i = \frac{x(x + 1)}{2} \)) for all numbers \( x \). First, we have to cast our problem as a predicate about natural numbers. This is easy: say “let \( P(n) \) be the proposition that \[ \sum_{i=1}^{n} i = \frac{n(n + 1)}{2} \] Then, we satisfy the requirements of induction: 1. **Base Case**: We prove that \( P(1) \) is true simply by plugging it in. Setting \( n = 1 \), we have: \[ \sum_{i=1}^{1} i = \frac{1(1 + 1)}{2} \] \[ 1 = \frac{1(2)}{2} \] \[ 1 = 1 \quad \text{✓} \] 2. **Inductive Step**: We now must prove that \( P(k) \) implies \( P(k + 1) \). Put another way, we assume \( P(k) \) is true, and then use that assumption to prove that \( P(k + 1) \) is also true. #################### 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: 255 Context: # 9.4. FINAL WORD enqueuing, 95 enumerating, 141, 149 equality (for sets), 11 equity (logical operator), 202, 203, 293 Euclid, 229 events, 60, 61 exclusive or, 63, 199 existential quantifier (∃), 214 exponential growth, 123, 145 exponential notation, 169 extensional, 10, 11, 37, 47, 92, 203 Facebook, 87, 97 factorial, 147, 152 Federalist Papers, 77 FIFO, 95 filesystems, 113 Fisher, Ronald, 67 floor operator (⌊⌋), 174 Foreman, George, 92 France, 103 Frazier, Joe, 92 free trees, 11, 242 frequentist, 66 full binary trees, 46 function calls, 46 functions, 65, 210 Fundamental Theorem of Computing, 142, 147 Gauss, Carl Friedrich, 236 Goldbach, Christian, 241 golf, 151, 154 graphs, 55, 86 greedy algorithm, 107 Haken, Wolfgang, 244 Hamilton, Alexander, 77 handedness, 79 Harry Potter, 35, 93 heap, 123 height (of a tree), 115 Here Before, 73 heterogeneous, 13, 15 hexadecimal numbers, 171, 173, 176, 180 homogeneous, 14 HTML, 114 identity laws (of sets), 21 image (of a function), 48 imaginary numbers, 17 implies (logical operator), 200, 203, 206 in-order traversal, 119, 131 inclusive or, 63, 199 independence (of events), 78 indirect proof, 229 inductive hypothesis, 234, 240 inductive step, 233, 234, 240 infinite, countably, 17 infinite, uncountably, 17 infinity, 12, 16, 17 injective (function), 48 integers (ℤ), 17, 24 intensional, 10, 11, 37, 47, 93 internal nodes, 115, 239 Internet, 87 intersection (of sets), 19, 199, 208, 227 interval, 61 #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 258 Context: # CHAPTER 9. PROOF ## Spiderman: No Way Home - stack, 99, 101 - strong form of induction, 240 - subsets, 23, 35 - proper subsets, 23 - subtree (of a node), 116 - summation operator (Σ), 73, 143 - surjective (function), 49 - symmetric (relation), 40, 93 - tantalologies, 207 - tentative best distance, 103 - text mining, 77 - theorems, 227 - top (of a stack), 99 - total orders, 44 - transitive (relation), 41, 43 - traversal, 95, 117 - trees, 85, 111, 112 - truth tables, 203, 206, 209 - truth value (of a proposition), 197 - tuples, 15, 212 - two's-complement binary numbers, 185, 189 - typed, 13 ## Additional Concepts - unary operator, 200, 204 - undirected graphs, 88, 93 - union (of sets), 189, 208, 227 - universal quantifier (∀), 212, 214 - universal set, 9 - unsigned binary numbers, 183, 189 - untyped, 13 ## Diagrams and Figures - Venn diagrams, 63, 227 - Venn, John, 67 - vertex/vertices, 86, 87 - visiting (a node), 97, 104 - voting age, 232, 234 ## Induction and Weighting - weak form of induction, 233 - weight (of an edge), 88 - weighted graphs, 88, 101 - weightlifting, 159 ## Notable References - Wiles, Andrew, 244 - world ladders, 227 - World War II, 103 - World Wide Web, 87 - WWE wrestling, 72 - xor (logical operator), 199, 203 #################### File: A%20Brief%20Introduction%20to%20Machine%20Learning%20for%20Engineers%20-%20Osvaldo%20Simeone%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 1 Context: # A Brief Introduction to Machine Learning for Engineers (2018), “A Brief Introduction to Machine Learning for Engineers”, Vol. XX, No. XX, pp 1–231. DOI: XXX. Osvaldo Simeone Department of Informatics King’s College London osvaldo.simeone@kcl.ac.uk #################### 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: 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: 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: 92 Context: ``` 86 Classification The loss function is defined as $$ \ell(t(x, \hat{w})) = \max(0, -t \cdot a(x, \hat{w})) $$ (4.12) The perceptron process assigns zero cost to a correctly classified example \( x \), whose functional margin \( t \cdot a(x, \hat{w}) \) is positive, and a cost equal to the absolute value of the functional margin for a misclassified example, whose functional margin is negative. A comparison with the 0-1 loss is shown in Fig. 4.4. The perceptron algorithm tackles problem (4.11) with \( \lambda = 0 \) via SGD with mini-batch size \( S = 1 \). The resulting algorithm works as follows. First, the weights \( \hat{w}^{(0)} \) are initialized. Then, for each iteration \( i = 1, 2, \ldots \): 1. Pick a training example \( (x_n, t_n) \) uniformly with replacement from \( D \): - If the example is correctly classified, i.e., if \( t_n a(x_n, \hat{w}^{(i)}) \geq 0 \), do not update the weights: $$ \hat{w}^{(i)} = \hat{w}^{(i-1)}. $$ - If the example is not correctly classified, i.e., if \( t_n a(x_n, \hat{w}^{(i)}) < 0 \), update the weights as: $$ \hat{w}^{(i)} = \hat{w}^{(i-1)} - \nabla_{\hat{w}} \ell(t_n, a(x_n, \hat{w}^{(i)})) \big|_{\hat{w} = \hat{w}^{(i-1)}} = \hat{w}^{(i-1)} + t_n a(x_n, \hat{w}^{(i-1)}). $$ (4.13) It can be proved that, at each step, the algorithm reduces the term \( \ell(t_n, a(x_n, \hat{w})) \) in the perception loss related to the selected training example even if the latter is misclassified. It can also be shown that, if the training set is linearly separable, the perceptron algorithm finds a weight vector \( \hat{w} \) that separates the two classes exactly in a finite number of steps [23]. However, convergence can be slow. More importantly, the perceptron fails on training sets that are not linearly separable, such as the XOR training set \( D = \{(0, 0), (0, 1), (1, 0), (1, 1)\} \) [97]. This realization came as a disappointment and contributed to the first soc-called AI winter period characterized by a reduced funding for AI and machine learning research [154]. ## Support Vector Machine (SVM) SVM, introduced in its modern form by Cortes and Vapnik [37] in 1995, was among the main causes for a renewal of interest in machine learning. ``` #################### File: A%20Brief%20Introduction%20to%20Machine%20Learning%20for%20Engineers%20-%20Osvaldo%20Simeone%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 98 Context: ``` ## 4.4.2 Learning Consider first ML. The NLL function can be written as \[ -\ln p(t|x, \mathbf{w}) = -\sum_{n=1}^{N} \ln p(t_n|x_n, \mathbf{w}) \tag{4.23} \] \[ = -\sum_{n=1}^{N} \{t_n \ln(y_n) + (1 - t_n) \ln(1 - y_n)\} \tag{4.24} \] where we have defined \(y_n = \sigma(\mathbf{w}^T \phi(x_n))\). The NLL (4.23) is also referred to as the cross-entropy loss criterion, since the term \(-t_n \ln(y_n) - (1 - t_n) \ln(1 - y_n)\) is the cross-entropy \(H(t_n || y_n) = -\sum_{i} t_i \ln(y_i)\) (see Sec. 2.6). We note that the cross-entropy can be used to obtain upper bounds on the probability of error (see, e.g., [50]). The ML problem of minimizing the NLL is convex (see Sec. 3.1), and hence it can be solved either directly using convex optimization tools, or by using iterative methods such as SGD or Newton (the latter yields the iterative reweighted least squares algorithm [23, p. 207]). The development of these methods leverages the expression of the gradient of the LL function (3.28) (used with \(N = 1\) for the exponential family). To elaborate, using the chain rule for differentiation, we can write the gradient \[ \nabla_{\mathbf{w}} p(t | x, \mathbf{w}) = \nabla_{t} \text{Bern}(t_n) |_{t_n=t} \cdot \nabla_{\mathbf{w}} \sigma(\mathbf{w}^T \phi(x_n)) \tag{4.25} \] which, recalling that \(\nabla_{\ln(\text{Bern}(t_n))} = (t - \sigma(\cdot))\) (cf. (3.28)), yields \[ \nabla_{\mathbf{w}} p(t | \mathbf{w}) = (t - y) \sigma \tag{4.26} \] Evaluating the exact posterior distribution for the Bayesian approach turns out to be generally intractable due to the difficulty in normalizing the posterior \[ p(\mathbf{w}) \propto p(t) \prod_{n=1}^{N} p(t_n | x_n, \mathbf{w}) \tag{4.27} \] We refer to [23, pp. 217-220] for an approximate solution based on Laplace approximation. Other useful approximate methods will be discussed in Chapter 8. ``` #################### 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: 138 Context: # Unsupervised Learning may wish to cluster a set \( D \) of text documents according to their topics, by modeling the latter as an unobserved label \( z_n \). Broadly speaking, this requires to group together documents that are similar according to some metric. It is important at this point to emphasize the distinction between classification and clustering: While the former assumes the availability of a labelled set of training examples and evaluates its (generalization) performance on a separate set of unlabelled examples, the latter works with a single, unlabelled, set of examples. The different notation used for the labels \( z_n \) in lieu of \( t_n \) is meant to provide a reminder of this key difference. ## Dimensions reduction and representation: Given the set \( D \), we would like to represent the data points \( x_n \in D \) in a space of lower dimensionality. This makes it possible to highlight independent explanatory factors, and/or to ease visualization and interpretation [93], e.g., for text analysis via vector embedding (see, e.g., [124]). ## Feature extraction: Feature extraction is the task of deriving functions of the data points \( x_n \) that provide useful lower-dimensional inputs for tasks such as supervised learning. The extracted features are unobserved, and hence latent, variables. As an example, the hidden layer of a deep neural network extracts features from the data for use by the output layer (see Sec. 4.5). ## Generation of new samples: The goal here is to train a machine that is able to produce samples that are approximately distributed according to the true distribution \( p(x) \). For example, in computer graphics for filmmaking or gaming, one may want to train a software that is able to produce artistic scenes based on a given description. The variety of tasks and the difficulty in providing formal definitions, e.g., on the realism of an artificially generated image, may hinder unsupervised learning, at least in its current state, a less formal field than supervised learning. Often, loss criteria in unsupervised learning measure the divergence between the learned model and the empirical data distribution, but there are important exceptions, as we will see. #################### 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: 173 Context: # 7.1 Introduction In this section, we start by discussing two examples that illustrate the type of structural information that can be encoded by means of probabilistic graphical models. We then provide an overview of this chapter. As illustrated by the two examples below, structured probabilistic models can be used to set up parametric models for both supervised and unsupervised learning. In the former case, all variables are observed in the training set, with some revs being inputs, i.e., covariates (\(x\)), and others being considered as outputs, or targets (\(y\)). In contrast, in the latter case, some variables are unobserved and play the role of latent variables (\(z\)) that help explain or generate the observed variables (\(y\)).[^1] ## Example 7.1 Consider the tasks of text classification via supervised learning or topic clustering via unsupervised learning. In the supervised learning case, the problem is to classify documents depending on their topic, e.g., sport, politics or entertainment, based on a set of labeled documents. With unsupervised learning, the problem is to cluster documents according to the similarity of their contents based on the sole observation of the documents themselves. A minimal model for this problem should include a variable \(t\) representing the topic and a variable \(x\) for the document. The topic can be represented by a categorical variable taking \(T\) values, i.e., \(t \in \{1, ... , T\}\), which is observed for supervised learning and latent for unsupervised learning. As for the document, with “bag-of-words” encoding, a set of \(W\) words of interest is selected, and a document is encoded as \(W \times 1\) binary vector \(z = [z_1, ..., z_W]^T\), where \(z_w = 1\) if word \(w\) is contained in the document.[^2] To start, we could try to use an unstructured directed model defined as \[ t \sim \text{Cat}(π) \tag{7.1a} \] \[ x | t \sim \text{Cat}(t) \tag{7.1b} \] [^1]: Strictly speaking, this distinction applies to the frequentist approach, since in the Bayesian approach the model parameters are always treated as unobserved random variables. [^2]: Note that \(W\) here does not represent a matrix of weights! #################### File: A%20Brief%20Introduction%20to%20Machine%20Learning%20for%20Engineers%20-%20Osvaldo%20Simeone%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 174 Context: # Probabilistic Graphical Models where the parameter vector includes the \( T \times 1 \) probability vector \( \pi \) and the \( T \) probability vectors \( \mathbf{r}_w \), one for each class, each of dimension \( 2^W \). Note, in fact, that the vector \( \mathbf{r} \) can take \( 2^W \) possible values. As such, this model would require to learn \( (T-1) + T \times 2^W \) parameters, which quickly becomes impractical when the number \( W \) of words of interest is large enough. Furthermore, as we have seen, a learned model with a large number of parameters is bound to suffer from overfitting if the available data is relatively limited. Instead of using this unstructured model, we can adopt a model that encodes some additional assumptions that can be reasonably made on the data. Here is one possible assumption: once the topic is fixed, the presence of a word is independent on the presence of other words. The resulting model is known as Bernoulli naive Bayes, and can be described as follows: \[ t \sim \text{Cat}(\pi) \quad (7.2a) \] \[ x_{|t} \sim \prod_{w=1}^{W} \text{Bern}(r_{w|t}) \quad (7.2b) \] with parameter vector including the \( T \times 1 \) probability vector \( \pi \) and \( T \) sets of \( W \) probabilities \( r_{w|t} \), \( w = 1, \dots, W \), for each topic \( t \). Parameter \( r_{w|t} \) represents the probability of word \( w \) occurring in a document of topic \( t \). The mentioned independence assumption here allowed us to bring the number of parameters down to \( (T - 1) + TH \), which corresponds to: \[ \begin{align*} \pi & \\ \mathbf{r}_{w|t} & \\ t_n & \\ w = 1, \ldots, W & \end{align*} \] Figure 7.1 BN for the naive Bayes model using the plate notation. Learnable parameters are represented as dots. The naive Bayes model can be represented graphically by the BN. #################### 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: 210 Context: # Concluding Remarks The data, producing the wrong response upon minor, properly chosen, changes in the explanatory variables. Note that such adversarially chosen examples, which cause a specific machine to fail, are conceptually different from the randomly selected examples that are assumed when defining the generalization properties of a network. There is evidence that finding such examples is possible even without knowing the internal structure of a machine, but solely based on black-box observations [11]. Modifying the training procedure in order to ensure robustness to adversarial examples is an active area of research with important practical implications [55]. ## Computing Platforms and Programming Frameworks In order to scale up machine learning applications, it is necessary to leverage distributed computing architectures and related standard programming frameworks [17, 7]. As a complementary and more futuristic approach, recent work has been proposed to leverage the capabilities of an annealing-based quantum computers as samplers [82] or discrete optimizers [103]. ## Transfer Learning Machines trained for a certain task currently need to be re-trained in order to be re-purposed for a different task. For instance, a machine that learned how to drive a car would need to be retrained in order to learn how to drive a truck. The field of transfer learning covers scenarios in which one wishes to transfer the expertise acquired from some tasks to others. Transfer learning includes different related paradigms, such as multitask learning, lifelong learning, zero-shot learning, and domain adaptation [149]. In multitask learning, several tasks are learned simultaneously. Typical solutions for multitask learning based on neural networks preserve the presence of common representations among neural networks trained for different tasks [19]. Lifelong learning utilizes a machine trained on a number of tasks to carry out a new task by leveraging the knowledge accumulated during the previous training phases [143]. Zero-shot learning refers to models capable of recognizing unseen classes with training examples available only for related, but different, classes. This often entails the task of learning representation of classes, such as prototype vectors, that generate data in the class through a fixed probabilistic mechanism [52]. Domain adaptation will be discussed separately in the next point. #################### 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: 230 Context: ```markdown # References [72] Jain, P. and P. Kar. 2017. “Non-convex Optimization for Machine Learning.” *Foundations and Trends® in Machine Learning*, 10(3-4): 142–336. ISSN: 1938-8237. 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Huang. 2006. “A tutorial on energy-based learning.” *Predicting structure data*. ``` #################### 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: 9 Context: # Learning and Intuition We have all experienced the situation that the solution to a problem presents itself while riding your bike, walking home, “relaxing” in the washroom, waking up in the morning, taking your shower, etc. Importantly, it did not appear while banging your head against the problem in a conscious effort to solve it, staring at the equations on a piece of paper. In fact, I would claim that all my bits and pieces of progress have occurred while taking a break and “relaxing out of the problem.” Greek philosophers walked in circles when thinking about a problem; most of us stare at a computer screen all day. The purpose of this chapter is to make you more aware of where your creative mind is located and to interact with it in a fruitful manner. My general thesis is that, contrary to popular belief, creative thinking is not performed by conscious thinking. It is rather an interplay between your conscious mind, which prepares the seeds to be planted into the unconscious part of your mind. The unconscious mind will munch on the problem “out of sight” and return promising roads to solutions to the consciousness. This process iterates until the conscious mind decides the problem is sufficiently solved, intractable, or plain dull and moves on to the next. It may be a little unsettling to learn that at least part of your thinking goes on in a part of your mind that seems inaccessible and has a very limited interface with what you think of as yourself. But it is undeniable that it is there, and it is also undeniable that it plays a role in the creative thought process. To become a creative thinker, one should learn to play this game more effectively. To do so, we should think about the language in which to represent knowledge that is most effective in terms of communication with the unconscious. In other words, what type of “interface” between conscious and unconscious mind should we use? It is probably not a good idea to memorize all the details of a complicated equation or problem. Instead, we should extract the abstract idea and capture the essence of it in a picture. This could be a movie with colors and other elements. #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 11 Context: Many people may find this somewhat experimental way to introduce students to new topics counter-productive. Undoubtedly for many it will be. If you feel under-challenged and become bored, I recommend moving on to the more advanced textbooks, of which there are many excellent samples on the market (for a list see [books](#)). But I hope that for most beginning students, this intuitive style of writing may help to gain a deeper understanding of the ideas that I will present in the following. Above all, have fun! #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 13 Context: # Chapter 1 ## Data and Information Data is everywhere in abundant amounts. Surveillance cameras continuously capture video; every time you make a phone call your name and location get recorded. Often, your clicking pattern is recorded when surfing the web. Most financial transactions are recorded; satellites and observatories generate terabytes of data every year; the FBI maintains a DNA database of most convicted criminals. Soon, all written text from our libraries is digitized. Need I go on? But data in itself is useless. Hidden inside the data is valuable information. The objective of machine learning is to pull the relevant information from the data and make it available to the user. What do we mean by "relevant information"? When analyzing data, we typically have a specific question in mind, such as: - “How many types of car can be discerned in this video?” - “What will be the weather next week?” The answer can take the form of a single number (there are 5 cars), or a sequence of numbers (or the temperature next week) or a complicated pattern (the cloud configuration next week). If the answer to our query is complex, we like to visualize it using graphs, bar plots, or even little movies. One should keep in mind that the particular analysis depends on the task one has in mind. Let me spell out a few tasks that are typically considered in machine learning: ### Prediction Here we ask ourselves whether we can extrapolate the information in the data to new use cases. For instance, if I have a database of attributes of Hummers such as weight, color, number of people it can hold, etc., and another database of attributes for Ferraris, then we can try to predict the type of car (Hummer or Ferrari) from a new set of attributes. Another example is predicting the weather given all the recorded weather patterns in the past: can we predict the weather next week, or the stock prices? #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 15 Context: # 1.1. DATA REPRESENTATION Most datasets can be represented as a matrix, \( X = [X_{n,k}] \), with rows indexed by "attribute-index" \( i \) and columns indexed by "data-index" \( n \). The value \( X_{n,k} \) for attribute \( i \) and data-case \( n \) can be binary, real, discrete, etc., depending on what we measure. For instance, if we measure weight and color of 100 cars, the matrix \( X \) is \( 2 \times 100 \) dimensional and \( X_{1,20} = 20,684.57 \) is the weight of car nr. 20 in some units (a real value) while \( X_{2,20} = 2 \) is the color of car nr. 20 (say one of 6 predefined colors). Most datasets can be cast in this form (but not all). For documents, we can give each distinct word of a prespecified vocabulary a number and simply count how often a word was present. Say the word "book" is defined to have nr. 10, 568 in the vocabulary then \( X_{1,1005} = 4 \) would mean: the word book appeared 4 times in document 5076. Sometimes the different data-cases do not have the same number of attributes. Consider searching the internet for images about cats. You’ll retrieve a large variety of images most with a different number of pixels. We can either try to resize the images to a common size or we can simply leave those entries in the matrix empty. It may also occur that a certain entry is supposed to be there but it couldn’t be measured. For instance, if we run an optical character recognition system on a scanned document some letters will not be recognized. We’ll use a question mark “?” to indicate that that entry wasn’t observed. It is very important to realize that there are many ways to represent data and not all are equally suitable for analysis. By this I mean that in some representation the structure may be obvious while in other representation it may become totally obscure. It is still there, but just harder to find. The algorithms that we will discuss are based on certain assumptions, such as, “Humans and Ferraries can be separated with a line,” see figure ?. While this may be true if we measure weight in kilograms and height in meters, it is no longer true if we decide to re-code these numbers into bit-strings. The structure is still in the data, but we would need a much more complex assumption to discover it. A lesson to be learned is thus to spend some time thinking about in which representation the structure is as obvious as possible and transform the data if necessary before applying standard algorithms. In the next section we’ll discuss some standard preprocessing operations. It is often advisable to visualize the data before preprocessing and analyzing it. This will often tell you if the structure is a good match for the algorithm you had in mind for further analysis. Chapter ? will discuss some elementary visualization techniques. #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 20 Context: # CHAPTER 2. DATA VISUALIZATION An example of such a scatter plot is given in Figure ??. Note that we have a total of \( d(d - 1) / 2 \) possible two-dimensional projections which amounts to 4950 projections for 100-dimensional data. This is usually too many to manually inspect. How do we cut down on the number of dimensions? Perhaps random projections may work? Unfortunately, that turns out to be not a great idea in many cases. The reason is that data projected on a random subspace often looks distributed according to what is known as a Gaussian distribution (see Figure ??). The deeper reason behind this phenomenon is the **central limit theorem** which states that the sum of a large number of independent random variables is (under certain conditions) distributed as a Gaussian distribution. Hence, if we denote with \( \mathbf{w} \) a vector in \( \mathbb{R}^d \) and by \( x \) the d-dimensional random variable, then \( y = \mathbf{w}^T \mathbf{x} \) is the value of the projection. This is clearly a weighted sum of the random variables \( x_i, \; i = 1, \ldots, d \). If we assume that \( x_i \) are approximately independent, then we can see that their sum will be governed by its central limit theorem. Analogously, a dataset \( \{X_n\} \) can thus be visualized in one dimension by "histogramming" the values of \( y = \mathbf{w}^T \mathbf{x} \), see Figure ??. In this figure we clearly recognize the characteristic "Bell-shape" of the Gaussian distribution of projected and histogrammed data. In one sense the central limit theorem is a rather helpful quirk of nature. Many variables follow Gaussian distributions and the Gaussian distribution is one of the few distributions which have very nice analytical properties. Unfortunately, the Gaussian distribution is also the most uninformative distribution. This notion of "uninformative" can actually be made very precise using information theory and states: > Given a fixed mean and variance, the Gaussian density represents the least amount of information among all densities with the same mean and variance. This is rather unfortunate for our purposes because Gaussian projections are the least revealing dimensions to look at. So in general we have to work a bit harder to see interesting structure. A large number of algorithms has been devised to search for informative projections. The simplest being "principal component analysis" or PCA for short ??. Here, interesting means dimensions of high variance. However, the fact that high variance is not always a good measure of interestingness and one should rather search for dimensions that are non-Gaussian. For instance, "independent components analysis" (ICA) ?? and "projection pursuit" ?? search for dimen- #################### 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: 25 Context: # Information Theory and Image Compression The part of the information that does not carry over to the future, the unpredictable information, is called "noise." There is also the information that is predictable, the learnable part of the information stream. The task of any learning algorithm is to separate the predictable part from the unpredictable part. Now imagine Bob wants to send an image to Alice. He has to pay 1 dollar cent for every bit that he sends. If the image were completely white, it would be really stupid of Bob to send the message: ``` pixel 1: white, pixel 2: white, pixel 3: white, .... ``` He could just have sent the message: ``` all pixels are white! ``` The blank image is completely predictable but carries very little information. Now imagine a image that consists of white noise (your television screen if the cable is not connected). To send the exact image Bob will have to send: ``` pixel 1: white, pixel 2: black, pixel 3: black, .... ``` Bob cannot do better because there is no predictable information in that image, i.e., there is no structure to be modeled. You can imagine playing a game and revealing one pixel at a time to someone and paying him 15 for every next pixel he predicts correctly. For the white image, you can do perfect for the noisy picture you would be random guessing. Real pictures are in between: some pixels are very hard to predict, while others are easier. To compress the image, Bob can extract rules such as: always predict the same color as the majority of the pixels next to you, except when there is an edge. These rules constitute the model for the regularities of the image. Instead of sending the entire image pixel by pixel, Bob will now first send his rules and ask Alice to apply the rules. Every time the rule fails, Bob also sends a correction: ``` pixel 103: white, pixel 245: black. ``` A few rules and two corrections are obviously cheaper than 256 pixel values and no rules. There is one fundamental tradeoff hidden in this game. Since Bob is sending only a single image, it does not pay to send an incredibly complicated model that would require more bits to explain than simply sending all pixel values. If he were sending 1 billion images it would pay off to first send the complicated model because he would be saving a fraction of all bits for every image. On the other hand, if Bob wants to send 2 pixels, there really is no need in sending a model whatsoever. Therefore, the size of Bob's model depends on the amount of data he wants to transmit. In this context, the boundary between what is model and what is noise depends on how much data we are dealing with! If we use a model that is too complex, we overfit to the data at hand, i.e., part of the model represents noise. On the other hand, if we use a too simple model we "underfit" (over-generalize) and valuable structure remains unmodeled. Both lead to sub-optimal compression of the image. The compression game can therefore be used to find the right size of model complexity for a given dataset. #################### 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: 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: 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: 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: 45 Context: # Chapter 7 ## The Perceptron We will now describe one of the simplest parametric classifiers: the **perceptron** and its cousin the **logistic regression** classifier. However, despite its simplicity, it should not be under-estimated! It is the workhorse for most companies involved with some form of machine learning (perhaps tying with the **decision tree** classifier). One could say that it represents the canonical parametric approach to classification where we believe that a straight line is sufficient to separate the two classes of interest. An example of this is given in Figure ??, where the assumption that the two classes can be separated by a line is clearly valid. However, this assumption need not always be true. Looking at Figure ??, we clearly observe that there is no straight line that will do the job for us. What can we do? Our first inclination is probably to try and fit a more complicated separation boundary. However, there is another trick that we will be using often in this book. Instead, we can increase the dimensionality of the space by “measuring” more things about the data. The features can be highly nonlinear functions. The simplest choice may be to also measure \( \phi_k(X) = X^2_k \), for each attribute \( X_k \). But we may also measure cross-products such as \( \phi_{ij}(X) = X_i X_j \), \( \forall i, j \). The latter will allow you to explicitly model correlations between attributes. For example, if \( X_i \) represents the presence (1) or absence (0) of the word “viagra” and similarly for \( X_j \) the presence/absence of the word “dysfunction”, then the cross product feature \( X_i X_j \) lets you model the presence of both words simultaneously (which should be helpful in trying to find out what this document is about). We can add as many features as we like, adding another dimension for every new feature. In this higher dimensional space, we can now be more confident in assuming that the data can be separated by a line. #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 54 Context: 42 # CHAPTER 8. SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES The theory of duality guarantees that for convex problems, the dual problem will be concave, and moreover, that the unique solution of the primal problem corresponds to the unique solution of the dual problem. In fact, we have: \( L_P(w^*) = L_D(\alpha^*) \), i.e. the “duality-gap” is zero. Next we turn to the conditions that must necessarily hold at the saddle point and thus the solution of the problem. These are called the KKT conditions (which stands for Karush-Kuhn-Tucker). These conditions are necessary in general, and sufficient for convex optimization problems. They can be derived from the primal problem by setting the derivatives w.r.t to zero. Also, the constraints themselves are part of these conditions and we need that for inequality constraints the Lagrange multipliers are non-negative. Finally, an important constraint called “complementary slackness” needs to be satisfied. \[ \begin{align*} \partial_w L_P = 0 & \rightarrow \quad w - \sum_i \alpha_i y_i x_i = 0 \quad (8.12) \\ \partial_{\alpha} L_P = 0 & \rightarrow \sum_i \alpha_i y_i = 0 \quad (8.13) \\ \text{constraint - 1} & \quad y_i (w^T x_i - b) - 1 \geq 0 \quad (8.14) \\ \text{multiplier condition} & \quad \alpha_i \geq 0 \quad (8.15) \\ \text{complementary slackness} & \quad \alpha_i [y_i (w^T x_i - b) - 1] = 0 \quad (8.16) \end{align*} \] It is the last equation which may be somewhat surprising. It states that either the inequality constraint is satisfied, but not saturated: \( y_i (w^T x_i - b) - 1 > 0 \) in which case \( \alpha_i \) for that data-case must be zero, or the inequality constraint is saturated \( y_i (w^T x_i - b) - 1 = 0 \), in which case \( \alpha_i \) can be any value \( \geq 0 \). Inequality constraints which are saturated are said to be “active”, while unsaturated constraints are inactive. One could imagine the process of searching for a solution as a ball which runs down the primary objective function using gradient descent. At some point, it will hit a wall which is the constraint and although the derivative is still pointing partially towards the wall, the constraints prohibits the ball to go on. This is an active constraint because the ball is glued to that wall. When a final solution is reached, we could remove some constraints, without changing the solution, these are inactive constraints. One could think of the term \( \partial_{\alpha} L_P \) as the force acting on the ball. We see from the first equation above that only the forces with \( \alpha_i \neq 0 \) exert a force on the ball that balances with the force from the curved quadratic surface \( w \). The training cases with \( \alpha_i > 0 \), representing active constraints on the position of the support hyperplane are called support vectors. These are the vectors. #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 93 Context: # Bibliography 1. Author, A. (Year). *Title of the Book*. Publisher. 2. Author, B. (Year). *Title of the Article*. *Journal Name*, Volume(Issue), Page Range. DOI or URL if available. 3. Author, C. (Year). *Title of the Website*. Retrieved from URL. 4. Author, D. (Year). *Title of the Thesis or Dissertation*. University Name. - Point 1 - Point 2 - Point 3 ## Additional References | Author | Title | Year | Publisher | |-------------------|-------------------------|------|------------------| | Author, E. | *Title of Article* | Year | Publisher Name | | Author, F. | *Title of Conference* | Year | Conference Name | ### Notes - Ensure that all entries follow the same citation style for consistency. - Check for publication dates and any updates that may be required. #################### File: Algebraic%20Topology%20ATbib-ind.pdf Page: 9 Context: # Index - face 103 - fiber 375 - fiber bundle 376, 431 - fiber homotopy equivalence 406 - fiber-preserving map 406 - fibration 375 - fibration sequence 409, 462 - finitely generated homology 423, 527 - finitely generated homotopy 364, 392, 423 - five-lemma 129 - fixed point 31, 73, 114, 179, 229, 493 - flag 436, 447 - frame 301, 381 - free action 73 - free algebra 227 - free group 42, 77, 85 - free product 41 - free product with amalgamation 92 - free resolution 193, 263 - Freudenthal suspension theorem 360 - function space 529 - functor 163 - fundamental class 236, 394 - fundamental group 26 - fundamental theorem of algebra 31 ## Galois correspondence - Galois correspondence 63 - general linear group \( GL_n \) 293 - good pair 114 - graded ring 212 - Gram-Schmidt orthogonalization 293, 382 - graph 6, 11, 83 - graph of groups 92 - graph product of groups 92 - Grassmann manifold 227, 381, 435, 439, 445 - groups acting on spheres 75, 135, 391 - Gysin sequence 438, 444 ### Homotopy - H-space 281, 342, 419, 420, 422, 428 - HNN extension 93 - hocolim 460, 462 - holim 462 - homologous cycles 106 - homology 106 - homology decomposition 465 - homology of groups 148, 423 - homology theory 160, 314, 454 - homotopy 3, 25 - homotopy equivalence 3, 10, 36, 346 - homotopy extension property 14 - homotopy fiber 407, 461, 479 - homotopy group 340 - homotopy with coefficients 462 - homotopy lifting property 60, 375, 379 - homotopy of attaching maps 13, 16 - homotopy type 3 - Hopf 134, 173, 222, 281, 285 - Hopf algebra 283 - Hopf bundle 361, 375, 377, 378, 392 - Hopf invariant 427, 447, 489, 490 - Hopf map 379, 380, 385, 427, 430, 474, 475, 498 - Hurewicz homomorphism 369, 486 - Hurewicz theorem 366, 371, 390 ### Induced fibrations - induced fibration 406 - induced homomorphisms 34, 110, 111, 118, 201, 213 - infinite loopspace 297 - invariance of dimension 126 - invariance of domain 172 - inverse limit 312, 410, 462 - inverse path 27 - isomorphism of actions 70 - isomorphism of covering spaces 67 - iterated mapping cylinder 457, 466 ########## """QUERY: write 100 words""" Consider the chat history for relevant information. 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