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The Naive Bayesian Classifier 6.1 The Naive Bayes Model .................................................. 25 6.2 Learning a Naive Bayes Classifier ............................... 27 6.3 Class-Prediction for New Instances ............................. 28 6.4 Regularization ............................................................... 30 6.5 Remarks .................................................................... 31 6.6 The Idea In a Nutshell .................................................. 32 7. The Perceptron 7.1 The Perceptron Model .................................................. 34 #################### 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: 7 Context: # MEANT FOR INDUSTRY AS WELL AS BACKGROUND READING This book was written during my sabbatical at the Radboud University in Nijmegen (Netherlands). I would like to thank Hans for discussion on intuition. I also thank Prof. Bert Kappen, who leads an excellent group of postdocs and students for his hospitality. Marga, kids, UCI,... --- There are a few main aspects I want to cover from a personal perspective. Instead of trying to address every aspect of the entire field, I have chosen to present a few popular and perhaps useful tools and approaches. What will (hopefully) be significantly different than most other scientific books is the manner in which I will present these methods. I have always been frustrated by the lack of proper explanation of equations. Many times, I have been staring at a formula without the slightest clue where it came from or how it was derived. Many books also excel in stating facts in an almost encyclopedic style, without providing the proper intuition of the method. This is my primary mission: to write a book that conveys intuition. The first chapter will be devoted to why I think this is important. #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 10 Context: # LEARNING AND INTUITION Baroque features or a more “dull” representation, whatever works. Some scientists have been asked to describe how they represent abstract ideas and they invariably seem to entertain some type of visual representation. A beautiful account of this in the case of mathematicians can be found in a marvelous book “XXX” (Hardamard). By building accurate visual representations of abstract ideas, we create a database of knowledge in the unconscious. This collection of ideas forms the basis for what we call intuition. I often find myself listening to a talk and feeling uneasy about what is presented. The reason seems to be that the abstract idea I am trying to capture from the talk clashed with a similar idea that is already stored. This in turn can be a sign that I either misunderstood the idea before and need to update it, or that there is actually something wrong with what is being presented. In a similar way, I can easily detect that some idea is a small perturbation of what I already knew (I feel happily bored), or something entirely new (I feel intrigued and slightly frustrated). While the novice is continuously challenged and often feels overwhelmed, the more experienced researcher feels at ease 90% of the time because the “new” idea was already in his/her database which therefore needs no and very little updating. Somehow our unconscious mind can also manipulate existing abstract ideas into new ones. This is what we usually think of as creative thinking. One can stimulate this by seeding the mind with a problem. This is a conscious effort and is usually a combination of detailed mathematical derivations and building an intuitive picture or metaphor for the thing one is trying to understand. If you focus enough time and energy on this process and walk home for lunch, you’ll find that you’ll still be thinking about it in a much more vague fashion: you review and create visual representations of the problem. Then you get your mind off the problem altogether and when you walk back to work, suddenly parts of the solution surface into consciousness. Somehow, your unconscious took over and kept working on your problem. The essence is that you created visual representations as the building blocks for the unconscious mind to work with. In any case, whatever the details of this process are (and I am no psychologist), I suspect that any good explanation should include both an intuitive part, including examples, metaphors and visualizations, and a precise mathematical part where every equation and derivation is properly explained. This then is the challenge I have set to myself. It will be your task to insist on understanding the abstract idea that is being conveyed and build your own personalized visual representations. I will try to assist in this process but it is ultimately you who will have to do the hard work. #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 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: 16 Context: # CHAPTER 1. DATA AND INFORMATION ## 1.2 Preprocessing the Data As mentioned in the previous section, algorithms are based on assumptions and can become more effective if we transform the data first. Consider the following example, depicted in Figure 1. The algorithm we consist of estimating the area that the data occupy. It grows a circle starting at the origin and at the point it contains all the data we record the area of a circle. In the figure why this will be a bad estimate: the data-cloud is not centered. If we had first centered it we would have obtained reasonable estimate. Although this example is somewhat simple-minded, there are many, much more interesting algorithms that assume centered data. To center data we will introduce the sample mean of the data, given by, \[ E[X_i] = \frac{1}{N} \sum_{n=1}^{N} X_{in} \tag{1.1} \] Hence, for every attribute \(i\) separately, we simple add all the attribute value across data-cases and divide by the total number of data-cases. To transform the data so that their sample mean is zero, we set, \[ X'_{in} = X_{in} - E[X_i], \quad \forall n \tag{1.2} \] It is now easy to check that the sample mean of \(X'\) indeed vanishes. An illustration of the global shift is given in Figure 2. We also see in this figure that the algorithm described above now works much better! In a similar spirit as centering, we may also wish to scale the data along the coordinate axis in order to make it more “spherical.” Consider Figure 3. In this case the data was first centered, but the elongated shape still prevented us from using the simplistic algorithm to estimate the area covered by the data. The solution is to scale the axes so that the spread is the same in every dimension. To define this operation we first introduce the notion of sample variance, \[ V[X_i] = \frac{1}{N} \sum_{n=1}^{N} X_{in}^2 \tag{1.3} \] where we have assumed that the data was first centered. Note that this is similar to the sample mean, but now we have used the square. It is important that we have removed the sign of the data-cases (by taking the square) because otherwise positive and negative signs might cancel each other out. By first taking the square, all data-cases first get mapped to positive half of the axes (for each dimension or #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 18 Context: # CHAPTER 1. DATA AND INFORMATION The origin. If data happens to be just positive, it doesn’t fit this assumption very well. Taking the following logarithm can help in that case: $$ X'_{nm} = \log(\alpha + X_{nm}) \tag{1.5} $$ #################### 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: 22 Context: # CHAPTER 2: DATA VISUALIZATION ## Introduction Data visualization is the graphical representation of information and data. By using visual elements like charts, graphs, and maps, data visualization tools provide an accessible way to see and understand trends, outliers, and patterns in data. ## Benefits of Data Visualization - **Enhanced Understanding**: Complex data becomes more understandable through visual representation. - **Immediate Insights**: Visualizations can provide quick and effective insights into data trends. - **Better Communication**: It aids in storytelling and communicating data findings effectively. ## Common Types of Data Visualizations 1. **Bar Charts** - Useful for comparing quantities across categories. 2. **Line Graphs** - Ideal for showing trends over time. 3. **Pie Charts** - Best for illustrating proportions of a whole. 4. **Heat Maps** - Effective for displaying data density across a geographical area. ## Tools for Data Visualization | Tool | Description | Cost | |---------------|--------------------------------------------------|-------------| | Tableau | Leading data visualization tool | Subscription | | Microsoft Excel | Popular for creating basic charts and graphs | License fee | | Power BI | Business analytics service from Microsoft | Subscription | | Google Data Studio | Free online tool for data visualization | Free | ## Conclusion Data visualization is a crucial technique for data analysis and communication. By implementing effective visualization methods and using appropriate tools, organizations can greatly enhance their decision-making processes. #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 24 Context: # CHAPTER 3. LEARNING They understood that this was a lion. They understood that all lions have these particular characteristics in common, but may differ in some other ones (like the presence of a scar or scar someplace). Bob has another disease which is called over-generalization. Once he has seen an object he believes almost everything is some, perhaps twisted instance of the same object class (In fact, I seem to suffer from this so now and then when I think all of machine learning can be explained by this one new exciting principle). If ancestral Bob walks the savanna and he has just encountered an instance of a lion and fled into a tree with his buddies, the next time he sees a squirrel he believes it is a small instance of a dangerous lion and flees into the trees again. Over-generalization seems to be rather common among small children. One of the main conclusions from this discussion is that we should neither over-generalize nor over-fit. We need to be on the edge of being just right. But just right about what? It doesn’t seem there is one correct God-given definition of the category chairs. We seem to all agree, but one can surely find examples that would be difficult to classify. When do we generalize exactly right? The magic word is **PREDICTION**. From an evolutionary standpoint, all we have to do is make correct predictions about aspects of life that help us survive. Nobody really cares about the definition of lion, but we do care about our responses to the various animals (run away for lion, chase for deer). And there are a lot of things that can be predicted in the world. This food kills me but food is good for me. Drumming my fists on my hairy chest in front of a female generates opportunities for sex; sticking my hand into that yellow-orange flickering “flame” hurts my hand and so on. The world is wonderfully predictable and we are very good at predicting it. So why do we care about object categories in the first place? Well, apparently they help us organize the world and make accurate predictions. The category *lions* is an abstraction and abstractions help us to generalize. In a certain sense, learning is all about finding useful abstractions or concepts that describe the world. Take the concept “fluid”; it describes all watery substances and summarizes some of their physical properties. Or the concept of “weight”: an abstraction that describes a certain property of objects. Here is one very important corollary for you: > “machine learning is not in the business of remembering and regurgitating observed information, it is in the business of transferring (generalizing) properties from observed data onto new, yet unobserved data.” This is the mantra of machine learning that you should repeat to yourself every night before you go to bed (at least until the final exam). The information we receive from the world has two components to it: there #################### 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: 40 Context: 28 # CHAPTER 6. THE NATIVE BAYESIAN CLASSIFIER For ham emails, we compute exactly the same quantity, $$ P_{ham}(X_i = j) = \frac{ \# \text{ ham emails for which the word } j \text{ was found} }{ \text{total } \# \text{ of ham emails} } $$ (6.5) $$ = \frac{\sum_{n} \mathbb{I}(X_{n} = j \land Y_{n} = 0)}{ \sum_{n} \mathbb{I}(Y_{n} = 0)} $$ (6.6) Both these quantities should be computed for all words or phrases (or more generally attributes). We have now finished the phase where we estimate the model from the data. We will often refer to this phase as "learning" or training a model. The model helps us understand how data was generated in some approximate setting. The next phase is that of prediction or classification of new email. ## 6.3 Class-Prediction for New Instances New email does not come with a label ham or spam (if it would we could throw spam in the spam-box right away). What we do see are the attributes $\{X_i\}$. Our task is to guess the label based on the model and the measured attributes. The approach we take is simple: calculate whether the email has a higher probability of being generated from the spam or the ham model. For example, because the word "viagra" has a tiny probability of being generated under the ham model it will end up with a higher probability under the spam model. But clearly, all words have a say in this process. It’s like a large committee of experts, one for each word; each member casts a vote and can say things like: "I am 99% certain its spam", or "It’s almost definitely not spam (0.1% spam)". Each of these opinions will be multiplied together to generate a final score. We then figure out whether ham or spam has the highest score. There is one little practical caveat with this approach, namely that the product of a large number of probabilities, each of which is necessarily smaller than one, very quickly gets so small that your computer can’t handle it. There is an easy fix though. Instead of multiplying probabilities as scores, we use the logarithms of those probabilities and add the logarithms. This is numerically stable and leads to the same conclusion because if \(a > b\) then we also have \(\log(a) > \log(b)\) and vice versa. In equations we compute the score as follows: $$ S_{spam} = \sum_{i} \log P_{spam}(X_i = e_i) + \log P(spam) $$ (6.7) #################### 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: 68 Context: # 11. KERNEL K-MEANS AND SPECTRAL CLUSTERING Let \( L = \text{diag}\left(1 / \sum_n Z_{nk}\right) = \text{diag}(1 / |N_k|) \). Finally, define \( \Phi_n = \phi(x_n) \). With these definitions you can now check that the matrix \( M \) defined as, \[ M = \Phi Z L Z^T \tag{11.5} \] consists of \( N \) columns, one for each data-case, where each column contains a copy of the cluster mean \( \mu_k \) to which that data-case is assigned. Using this we can write out the K-means cost as, \[ C = \text{tr}(\Phi - M)(\Phi - M)^T \tag{11.6} \] Next we can show that \( Z^T Z = L^{-1} \) (check this), and thus that \( (Z L Z^T)^2 = Z L Z^T \). In other words, it is a projection. Similarly, \( I - Z L Z^T \) is a projection on the complement space. Using this we simplify eqn.11.6 as, \[ C = \text{tr}\left[\Phi(I - Z L Z^T) \phi^T\right] \tag{11.7} \] \[ = \text{tr}\left[\Phi(I - Z L Z^T) \phi^T\right] \tag{11.8} \] \[ = \text{tr}[\phi^T] - \text{tr}[\phi Z L Z^T \phi^T] \tag{11.9} \] \[ = \text{tr}[k] - \text{tr}[L^T Z K Z L] \tag{11.10} \] where we used that \( \text{tr}[AB] = \text{tr}[BA] \) and \( L^k \) is defined as taking the square root of the diagonal elements. Note that only the second term depends on the clustering matrix \( Z \), so we can now formulate the following equivalent kernel clustering problem, \[ \max_Z \text{tr}[L Z^T K Z L^*] \tag{11.11} \] such that: \( Z \) is a binary clustering matrix. \tag{11.12} This objective is entirely specified in terms of kernels and so we have once again managed to move to the "dual" representation. Note also that this problem is very difficult to solve due to the constraints which forces us to search for binary matrices. Our next step will be to approximate this problem through a relaxation on this constraint. First we recall that \( Z^T Z = L^{-1} \to L Z^T Z L^{-1} = I \). Renaming \( H = Z L^k \), with \( H \) an \( N \times K \) dimensional matrix, we can formulate the following relaxation of the problem, \[ \max H \text{tr}[H^T K H] \tag{11.13} \] subject to \( H^T H = I \tag{11.14} \] #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 74 Context: # CHAPTER 12. KERNEL PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS ANALYSIS Hence the kernel in terms of the new features is given by: \[ K_{ij} = \left( \Phi_i - \frac{1}{N} \sum_k \Phi_k \right) \left( \Phi_j - \frac{1}{N} \sum_l \Phi_l \right)^T \] (12.12) \[ = \Phi_i \Phi_j^T - \frac{1}{N} \sum_k \Phi_k \Phi_j^T - \Phi_i \frac{1}{N} \sum_l \Phi_l^T + \frac{1}{N^2} \sum_{k, l} \Phi_k \Phi_l^T \] (12.13) \[ = K_{ij} - \kappa_i \mathbf{1}^T_j - \mathbf{1}_i \kappa_j^T + k \mathbf{1}_i \mathbf{1}_j^T \] (12.14) with \[ \kappa_i = \frac{1}{N} \sum_k K_{ik} \] (12.15) and \[ k = \frac{1}{N^2} \sum_{ij} K_{ij} \] (12.16) Hence, we can compute the centered kernel in terms of the non-centered kernel alone and no features need to be accessed. At test-time we need to compute: \[ K_c(t_i, x_j) = [\Phi(t_i) - \frac{1}{N} \sum_k \Phi(x_k)] [\Phi(x_j)] - \frac{1}{N} \sum_l \Phi(x_l)^T \] (12.17) Using a similar calculation (left for the reader) you can find that this can be expressed easily in terms of \( K(t_i, x_j) \) and \( K(x_i, x_j) \) as follows: \[ K_c(t_i, x_j) = K(t_i, x_j) - \kappa(t_i)^T \mathbf{1}_j - \mathbf{1}_{t_i} \kappa(x_j)^T + k \mathbf{1}_{t_i} \mathbf{1}_{j}^T \] (12.18) #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 81 Context: # Chapter 14 ## Kernel Canonical Correlation Analysis Imagine you are given 2 copies of a corpus of documents, one written in English, the other written in German. You may consider an arbitrary representation of the documents, but for definiteness we will use the “vector space” representation where there is an entry for every possible word in the vocabulary and a document is represented by count values for every word, i.e., if the word “the” appeared 12 times and the first word in the vocabulary we have \( X_1(doc) = 12 \), etc. Let’s say we are interested in extracting low dimensional representations for each document. If we had only one language, we could consider running PCA to extract directions in word space that carry most of the variance. This has the ability to infer semantic relations between the words such as synonymy, because if words tend to co-occur often in documents, i.e., they are highly correlated, they tend to be combined into a single dimension in the new space. These spaces can often be interpreted as topic spaces. If we have two translations, we can try to find projections of each representation separately such that the projections are maximally correlated. Hopefully, this implies that they represent the same topic in two different languages. In this way we can extract language independent topics. Let \( x \) be a document in English and \( y \) a document in German. Consider the projections: \( u = a^Tx \) and \( v = b^Ty \). Also assume that the data have zero mean. We now consider the following objective: \[ \rho = \frac{E[uv]}{\sqrt{E[u^2]E[v^2]}} \tag{14.1} \] #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 85 Context: # Appendix A ## Essentials of Convex Optimization ### A.1 Lagrangians and all that Most kernel-based algorithms fall into two classes: either they use spectral techniques to solve the problem, or they use convex optimization techniques to solve the problem. Here we will discuss convex optimization. A constrained optimization problem can be expressed as follows: - **minimize** \( f_0(x) \) - **subject to** - \( f_i(x) \leq 0 \quad \forall i \) - \( h_j(x) = 0 \quad \forall j \) (A.1) That is, we have inequality constraints and equality constraints. We now write the primal Lagrangian of this problem, which will be helpful in the following development: \[ L_P(x, \lambda, \nu) = f_0(x) + \sum_{i} \lambda_i f_i(x) + \sum_{j} \nu_j h_j(x) \quad (A.2) \] where we will assume in the following that \( \lambda_i \geq 0 \quad \forall i \). From here, we can define the dual Lagrangian by: \[ L_D(\lambda, \nu) = \inf_x L_P(x, \lambda, \nu) \quad (A.3) \] This objective can actually become \( -\infty \) for certain values of its arguments. We will call parameters \( \lambda \geq 0, \nu \) for which \( L_D > -\infty \) dual feasible. #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 88 Context: # APPENDIX A. ESSENTIALS OF CONVEX OPTIMIZATION Complementary slackness is easily derived by, \[ f_0(x^*) = L_D(\lambda^*, \nu^*) = \inf_x \left( f_0(x) + \sum_{i} \lambda_i f_i(x) + \sum_{j} \nu_j h_j(x) \right) \] \[ \leq f_0(x^*) + \sum_{i} \lambda_i f_i(x^*) + \sum_{j} \nu_j h_j(x^*) \quad (A.13) \] \[ \leq f_0(x^*) \quad (A.14) \] where the first line follows from Eqn. A.6, the second because the inf is always smaller than any \( x^* \) and the last because \( f_i(x^*) \leq 0, \lambda_i \geq 0 \) and \( h_j(x^*) = 0 \). Hence all inequalities are equalities and each term is negative, so each term must vanish separately. #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 92 Context: # APPENDIX B. KERNEL DESIGN ## Table of Contents 1. [Introduction](#introduction) 2. [Kernel Architecture](#kernel-architecture) - [Components](#components) - [Functions](#functions) 3. [Design Considerations](#design-considerations) 4. [Conclusion](#conclusion) ## Introduction This appendix discusses the design of the kernel and its components. ## Kernel Architecture ### Components - **Scheduler**: Manages the execution of processes. - **Memory Manager**: Handles memory allocation and deallocation. - **Device Drivers**: Interfaces with hardware devices. ### Functions 1. **Process Management** - Creating and managing processes. - Scheduling and dispatching of processes. 2. **Memory Management** - Allocating memory for processes. - Handling virtual memory. ## Design Considerations - **Performance**: The kernel should be efficient in resource management. - **Scalability**: Must support various hardware platforms. - **Security**: Ensures that processes cannot access each other’s memory. ## Conclusion The kernel design is crucial for the overall system performance and functionality. Proper architecture and considerations can significantly enhance the efficiency and security of the operating system. #################### 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: A%20Brief%20Introduction%20to%20Machine%20Learning%20for%20Engineers%20-%20Osvaldo%20Simeone%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 4 Context: ``` 6.6 Discriminative Models........................................159 6.7 Autoencoders...............................................163 6.8 Ranking*...................................................164 6.9 Summary....................................................164 IV Advanced Modelling and Inference..............................165 7 Probabilistic Graphical Models................................166 7.1 Introduction...............................................167 7.2 Bayesian Networks..........................................170 7.3 Markov Random Fields.......................................178 7.4 Bayesian Inference in Probabilistic Graphical Models......182 7.5 Summary....................................................185 8 Approximate Inference and Learning............................186 8.1 Monte Carlo Methods........................................187 8.2 Variational Inference.......................................189 8.3 Monte Carlo-Based Variational Learning*....................197 8.4 Approximate Learning*......................................199 8.5 Summary....................................................201 V Conclusions...................................................202 9 Concluding Remarks............................................203 Appendices.......................................................206 A Appendix A: Information Measures..............................207 A.1 Entropy....................................................207 A.2 Conditional Entropy and Mutual Information................210 A.3 Divergence Measures.......................................212 B Appendix B: KL Divergence and Exponential Family..........215 Acknowledgements...............................................217 ``` #################### 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: 7 Context: # Notation - Random variables or random vectors – both abbreviated as rvs – are represented using roman typeface, while their values and realizations are indicated by the corresponding standard font. For instance, the equality \( x = x \) indicates that \( r \) takes value \( x \). - Matrices are indicated using uppercase fonts, with roman typeface used for random matrices. - Vectors will be taken to be in column form. - \( X^T \) and \( X' \) are the transpose and the pseudoinverse of matrix \( X \), respectively. - The distribution of a rv \( x \), either probability mass function (pmf) for discrete rv or probability density function (pdf) for continuous rvs, is denoted as \( p_x(x) \) or \( p(x) \). - The notation \( x \sim p_x \) indicates that \( r \) is distributed according to \( p_x \). - For jointly distributed rvs \( (x, y) \sim p_{x,y} \), the conditional distribution of \( x \) given the observation \( y = y \) is indicated as \( p_{x|y} \) or \( p(x|y) \). - The notation \( x|y \sim p_{x|y} \) indicates that \( r \) is drawn according to the conditional distribution \( p_{x|y} \). - The notation \( E_{p_{x|y}}[t] \) indicates the expectation of the argument with respect to the distribution of the rv \( x \sim p_x \). Accordingly, we will also write \( E_{x \sim p_y}[t] \) for the conditional expectation with respect to the distribution \( p_{y|x} \). When clear from the context, the distribution over which the expectation is computed may be omitted. - The notation \( P_{x|y}(t) \) indicates the probability of the argument event with respect to the distribution of the rv \( x \sim p_x \). When clear from the context, we may omit the specification of the distribution. #################### File: A%20Brief%20Introduction%20to%20Machine%20Learning%20for%20Engineers%20-%20Osvaldo%20Simeone%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 9 Context: # Acronyms - **AI:** Artificial Intelligence - **AMP:** Approximate Message Passing - **BN:** Bayesian Network - **DAG:** Directed Acyclic Graph - **ELBO:** Evidence Lower Bound - **EM:** Expectation Maximization - **ERM:** Empirical Risk Minimization - **GAN:** Generative Adversarial Network - **GLM:** Generalized Linear Model - **HMM:** Hidden Markov Model - **i.i.d.:** independent identically distributed - **KL:** Kullback-Leibler - **LASSO:** Least Absolute Shrinkage and Selection Operator - **LBP:** Loopy Belief Propagation - **LL:** Log-Likelihood - **LLR:** Log-Likelihood Ratio - **LS:** Least Squares - **MC:** Monte Carlo - **MCMC:** Markov Chain Monte Carlo - **MDL:** Minimum Description Length - **MFVI:** Mean Field Variational Inference - **MI:** Maximum Likelihood - **NRF:** Markov Random Field - **NLL:** Negative Log-Likelihood - **PAC:** Probably Approximately Correct - **pdf:** probability density function #################### 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: 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: 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: 29 Context: # 2.3. Frequentist Approach Determination of a specific model \( p(y|x, \theta) \) in the class called for the selection of the parameter vector \( \theta = (\nu, \beta) \). As we will see, these two types of variables play a significantly different role during learning and should be clearly distinguished, as discussed next. ## 1. Model order \( M \) (and hyperparameters) The model order defines the "capacity" of the hypothesis class, that is, the number of degrees of freedom in the model. The larger \( M \) is, the more capable a model is to fit the available data. For instance, in the linear regression example, the model order determines the size of the weight vector \( w \). More generally, variables that define the class of models to be learned are known as hyperparameters. As we will see, determining the model order, and more broadly the hyperparameters, requires a process known as validation. ## 2. Model parameters \( \theta \) Assigning specific values to the model parameters \( \theta \) identifies a hypothesis within the given hypothesis class. This can be done by using learning criteria such as Maximum Likelihood (ML) and Maximum a Posteriori (MAP). We postpone a discussion of validation to the next section, and we start by introducing the ML and MAP learning criteria. ### 2.3.3 Maximum Likelihood (ML) Learning Assume now that the model order \( M \) is fixed, and that we are interested in learning the model parameters \( \theta \). The ML criterion selects a value of \( \theta \) under which the training set \( D \) has the maximum probability of being observed. In other words, the value \( \theta \) selected by ML is the most likely to have generated the observed training set. Note that there might be more than one such value. To proceed, we need to write the probability (density) of the observed labels \( y \) in the training set \( D \) given the corresponding domain points \( x \). Under the assumed discriminative model, this is given as: \[ p(y|x, w, \beta) = \prod_{n=1}^{N} p(y_n | x_n, w, \beta) \] \[ = \prod_{n=1}^{N} N(t_n|h_n(x_n), \beta^{-1}) \] #################### File: A%20Brief%20Introduction%20to%20Machine%20Learning%20for%20Engineers%20-%20Osvaldo%20Simeone%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 58 Context: # 3.1 Preliminaries We start with a brief review of some definitions that will be used throughout the chapter and elsewhere in the monograph (see [28] for more details). Readers with a background in convex analysis and calculus may just review the concept of sufficient statistic in the last paragraph. First, we define a **convex set** as a subset of \(\mathbb{R}^D\), for some \(D\), that contains all segments between any two points in the set. Geometrically, convex sets hence cannot have “indentations.” Function \(f(x)\) is convex if its domain is a convex set and if it satisfies the inequality \(f(\lambda x_1 + (1 - \lambda)x_2) \leq \lambda f(x_1) + (1 - \lambda)f(x_2)\) for all \(x_1\) and \(x_2\) in its domain and for all \(0 \leq \lambda \leq 1\). Geometrically, this condition says that the function is “U”-shaped: the curve defining the function cannot be above the segment obtained by connecting any two points on the curve. A function is strictly convex if the inequality above is strict except for \(\lambda = 0\) or \(\lambda = 1\); a concave, or strictly concave, function is defined by reversing the inequality above – it is hence “n-shaped.” The minimization of a convex (“U”) function over a convex constraint set or the maximization of a concave (“n”) function over a convex constraint set are known as convex optimization problems. For these problems, there exist powerful analytical and algorithmic tools to obtain globally optimal solutions [28]. We also introduce two useful concepts from calculus. The **gradient** of a differentiable function \(f(x)\) with \(x = [x_1, \ldots, x_D]^T \in \mathbb{R}^D\) is defined as the \(D \times 1\) vector \(\nabla f(x) = [\frac{\partial f(x)}{\partial x_1}, \ldots, \frac{\partial f(x)}{\partial x_D}]^T\) containing all partial derivatives. At any point \(x\) in the domain of the function, the gradient is a vector that points to the direction of locally maximal increase of the function. The Hessian \(\nabla^2 f(x)\) is the \(D \times D\) matrix with \((i,j)\) element given by the second-order derivative \(\frac{\partial^2 f(x)}{\partial x_i \partial x_j}\). It captures the local curvature of the function. 1. A statistic is a function of the data. #################### File: A%20Brief%20Introduction%20to%20Machine%20Learning%20for%20Engineers%20-%20Osvaldo%20Simeone%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 64 Context: ```markdown setting \( C = 2 \) recovers the Bernoulli distribution. PMFs in this model are given as: \[ \text{Cat}(x| \mu) = \prod_{k=0}^{C-1} \mu_k^{I(x=k)} \times (1 - \sum_{k=1}^{C-1} \mu_k) \quad (3.16) \] where we have defined \( \mu_k = \Pr[x = k] \) for \( k = 1, \ldots, C - 1 \) and \( \mu_0 = 1 - \sum_{k=1}^{C-1} \mu_k = \Pr[x = 0] \). The log-likelihood (LL) function is given as: \[ \ln(\text{Cat}(x|\mu)) = \sum_{k=1}^{C-1} I(x=k) \ln \mu_k + \ln \mu_0 \quad (3.17) \] This demonstrates that the categorical model is in the exponential family, with sufficient statistics vector \( u(x) = [I(x = 0) \ldots I(x = C - 1)]^T \) and measure function \( m(x) = 1 \). Furthermore, the mean parameters \( \mu = [\mu_1, \ldots, \mu_{C-1}]^T \) are related to the natural parameter vector \( \eta = [\eta_1, \ldots, \eta_{C-1}]^T \) by the mapping: \[ \eta_k = \ln \left( \frac{\mu_k}{1 - \sum_{j=1}^{C-1} \mu_j} \right) \quad (3.18) \] which again takes the form of an LLR. The inverse mapping is given by: \[ \mu = \left( \frac{e^{\eta_k}}{1 + \sum_{j=1}^{C-1} e^{\eta_j}} \right) \quad (3.19) \] The parameterization given here is minimal, since the sufficient statistics \( u(x) \) are linearly independent. An overcomplete representation would instead include in the vector of sufficient statistics also the function \( I(x=0) \). In this case, the resulting vector of sufficient statistics is: \[ u(x) = \begin{cases} 1 & \text{if } x = 0 \\ 1 & \text{if } x = C - 1 \end{cases} \quad (3.20) \] which is known as one-hot encoding of the categorical variable, since only one entry equals 1 while the others are zero. Furthermore, with this... ``` #################### File: A%20Brief%20Introduction%20to%20Machine%20Learning%20for%20Engineers%20-%20Osvaldo%20Simeone%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 76 Context: To elaborate, let us denote as `exponential(η)` a probabilistic model in the exponential family, that is, a model of the form (3.1) with natural parameters η. We also write `exponential(μ|θ)` for a probabilistic model in the exponential family with mean parameters μ. Using the notation adopted in the previous chapter, in its most common form, a GLM defines the probability of a target variable as: \[ p(y|x, W) = \text{exponential}(η|Wz) \tag{3.53} \] where we recall that \( z \) is the vector of explanatory variables, and \( W \) here denotes a matrix of learnable weights of suitable dimensions. According to (3.53), GLMs posit that the response variable \( y \) has a conditional distribution from the exponential family, with natural parameter vector \( η = Wz \) given by a linear function of the given explanatory variables \( z \) with weights \( W \). More generally, we may have the parametrization: \[ p(y|x, W) = \text{exponential}(η|Wϕ(x)) \tag{3.54} \] for some feature vector \( ϕ(x) \) obtained as a function of the input variables \( x \) (see next chapter). While being the most common, the definition (3.54) is still not the most general for GLMs. More broadly, GLMs can be interpreted as a generalization of the linear model considered in the previous chapter, whereby the mean parameters are defined as a linear function of a feature vector. This viewpoint, described next, may also provide a more intuitive understanding of the modeling assumptions made by GLMs. Recall that, in the recurring example of Chapter 2, the target variable was modeled as Gaussian distributed with mean given by a linear function of the covariates \( z \). Extending the example, GLMs posit the model: \[ p(y|x, W) = \text{exponential}(η|g(Wϕ(x))) \tag{3.55} \] where the mean parameter vector is parametrized as a function of the feature vector \( ϕ(x) \) through a generally non-linear vector function \( g(·) \) of suitable dimensions. In words, GLMs assume that the target variable is a “noisy” measure of the mean \( μ = g(Wϕ(x)) \). When the function \( g(·) \) is selected as the gradient of the partition function of the selected model, e.g., \( g(·) = \nabla A(·) \), then, by (3.10), we... #################### File: A%20Brief%20Introduction%20to%20Machine%20Learning%20for%20Engineers%20-%20Osvaldo%20Simeone%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 77 Context: # 3.6 Maximum Entropy Property* In this most technical section, we review the maximum entropy property of the exponential family. Besides providing a compelling motivation for adopting models in this class, this property also illuminates the relationship between natural and mean parameters. The key result is the following: The distribution \(p(x|\theta)\) in (3.1) obtains the maximum entropy over all distributions \(p(x)\) that satisfy the constraints \(\mathbb{E}_{x \sim p(x)} [u_k(x)] = \mu_k\) for all \(k = 1, \ldots, K\). Recall that, as mentioned in Chapter 2 and discussed in more detail in Appendix A, the entropy is a measure of randomness of a random variable. Mathematically, the distribution \(p(x | \eta)\) solves the optimization problem \[ \max_{p} H(p) \quad \text{s.t.} \quad \mathbb{E}_{x \sim p(x)} [u_k(x)] = \mu_k \quad \text{for } k = 1, \ldots, K. \] Each natural parameter \(\eta_k\) turns out to be the optimal Lagrange multiplier associated with the \(k\)th constraint (see [45, Ch. 6-7]). To see the practical relevance of this result, suppose that the only information available about some data \(x\) is given by the means of given functions \(u(x)\), \(k = 1, \ldots, K\). The probabilistic model (3.1) can then be interpreted as encoding the least additional information about the data, in the sense that it is the "most random" distribution under the given constraints. This observation justifies the adoption of this model by the maximum entropy principle. #################### File: A%20Brief%20Introduction%20to%20Machine%20Learning%20for%20Engineers%20-%20Osvaldo%20Simeone%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 82 Context: # 4 ## Classification The previous chapters have covered important background material on learning and probabilistic models. In this chapter, we use the principles and ideas covered so far to study the supervised learning problem of classification. Classification is arguably the quintessential machine learning problem, with the most advanced state of the art and the most extensive application to problems as varied as email spam detection and medical diagnosis. Due to space limitations, this chapter cannot provide an exhaustive review of all existing techniques and latest developments, particularly in the active field of neural network research. For instance, we do not cover decision trees here (see, e.g., [155]). Rather, we will provide a principled taxonomy of approaches, and offer a few representative techniques for each category within a unified framework. We will specifically proceed by first introducing as preliminary material the Stochastic Gradient Descent optimization method. Then, we will discuss deterministic and probabilistic discriminative models, and finally we will cover probabilistic generative models. #################### File: A%20Brief%20Introduction%20to%20Machine%20Learning%20for%20Engineers%20-%20Osvaldo%20Simeone%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 87 Context: # 4.3 Discriminative Deterministic Models where the activation, or decision variable, is given as $$ a(x, \tilde{w}) = \sum_{d=1}^{D} w_d x + w_0 = \tilde{w}^T x $$ and we have defined the weight vectors \( w = [w_1, \ldots, w_D]^T \) and \( \tilde{w} = [w_0, w_1, \ldots, w_D]^T \), as well as the extended domain point \( \tilde{x} = [1, x^T]^T \), with \( x = [x_1, \ldots, x_D]^T \). The sigmoid function in decision rule (4.5) outputs 1 if its argument is positive, and 0 if the argument is negative depending on the assumed association rule in (4.4). ## Geometric Interpretation: Classification, Geometric and Functional Margins The decision rule (4.5) defines a hyperplane that separates the domain points classified as belonging to either of the two classes. A hyperplane is a line when \( D = 2 \); a plane when \( D = 3 \); and, more generally, a \( D - 1 \)-dimensional affine subspace in the domain space. The hyperplane is defined by the equation \( a(x, \tilde{w}) = 0 \), with points on either side characterized by either positive or negative values of the activation \( a(x, \tilde{w}) \). The decision hyperplane can be identified as described in Fig. 4.2: the vector \( w \) defines the direction perpendicular to the hyperplane and \( -w_0 / \|w\| \) is the bias of the decision surface in the decision space. --- ![Figure 4.2: Key definitions for a binary linear classifier.](#) $$ a(x, \tilde{w}) > 0 $$ $$ |a(x, \tilde{w})| $$ $$ a(x, \tilde{w}) = 0 $$ $$ a(x, \tilde{w}) < 0 $$ #################### File: A%20Brief%20Introduction%20to%20Machine%20Learning%20for%20Engineers%20-%20Osvaldo%20Simeone%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 111 Context: # 4.6 Generative Probabilistic Models ![Figure 4.9](path/to/image.png) **Figure 4.9:** Probability that the class label is the same as for the examples marked with circles according to the output of the generative model QDA. The probability is represented by the color map illustrated by the bar on the right of the figure. For this example, it can be seen that LDA fails to separate the two classes (not shown). ### Example 4.4 We continue the example in Sec. 4.5 by showing in Fig. 4.9 the probability (4.43) that the class label is the same as for the examples marked with circles according to the output of QDA. Given that the covariates have a structure that is well modeled by a mixture of Gaussians with different covariance matrices, QDA is seen to perform well, arguably better than the discriminative models studied in Sec. 4.5. It is important to note, however, that LDA would fail in this example. This is because a model with equal class-dependent covariance matrices, as assumed by LDA, would entail a significant bias for this example. #### 4.6.3 Multi-Class Classification* As an example of a generative probabilistic model with multiple classes, we briefly consider the generalization of QDA to \( K \geq 2 \) classes. Extending (4.41) to multiple classes, the model is described as: \[ x \sim \text{Cat}(\pi) \tag{4.44a} \] \[ x | t \sim \mathcal{N}(\mu_k, \Sigma_k) \tag{4.44b} \] Image Analysis: ### Analysis of the Visual Content #### 1. Localization and Attribution - **Image Number**: Image 1 - This is a single image located near the top of the page, integrated within the textual content. #### 2. Object Detection and Classification - **Objects Identified**: - **Graph**: The main object is a scatter plot with mathematical notations and a probability color map. - **Text**: The text below the graph and the paragraphs containing examples and explanations. #### 3. Scene and Activity Analysis - **Scene Description**: Image 1 depicts a scatter plot graph illustrating the results of a statistical model used in generative probabilistic models. The graph is surrounded by explanatory text describing the significance of the plotted data. - **Activities**: The scene represents an educational or informational setting, focusing on explaining a statistical concept. #### 4. Text Analysis - **Text Extracted**: - **Figure Caption**: "Figure 4.9: Probability that the class label is the same as for the examples marked with circles according to the output of the generative model QDA. The probability is represented by the color map illustrated by the bar on the right of the figure. For this example, it can be seen that LDA fails to separate the two classes (not shown)." - **Example Text**: "Example 4.4. We continue the example in Sec. 4.5 by showing in Fig. 4.9 the probability (4.43) that the class label is the same as for the examples marked with circles according to the output of QDA. Given that the covariates have a structure that is well modelled by a mixture of Gaussians with different covariance matrices, QDA is seen to perform well, arguably better than the discriminative models studied in Sec. 4.5. It is important to note, however, that LDA would fail in this example. This is because a model with equal class-dependent covariance matrices, as assumed by LDA, would entail a significant bias for this example." - **Section Text**: "4.6.3 Multi-Class Classification* As an example of a generative probabilistic model with multiple classes, we briefly consider the generalization of QDA to \(K \geq 2\) classes. Extending (4.41) to multiple classes, the model is described as \(t \sim Cat(\pi)\) (4.44a) \(x|t = k \sim \mathcal{N}(\mu_k, \Sigma_k)\) (4.44b)" - **Significance**: The text explains concepts related to generative probabilistic models, highlighting the differences between Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) and Quadratic Discriminant Analysis (QDA). It offers an example and discusses performance with an emphasis on covariance structures. #### 5. Diagram and Chart Analysis - **Graph Analysis**: - **Axes and Scales**: - **X-axis**: Z1 ranging from -4 to 4 - **Y-axis**: Z2 ranging from -3 to 3 - **Color Bar**: Probability scale ranging from 0.01 to 1 - **Data Presented**: - Red crosses and blue circles represent data points, with the color map indicating the probability that a data point's class label matches the model's output. - **Key Insights**: - The scatter plot illustrates that QDA accurately assigns class labels to the data points marked with circles. - The color map indicates higher probabilities in regions with concentrated data points, showing QDA's effectiveness. - The caption notes LDA's failure to separate the two classes, which suggests the necessity of QDA for this dataset. #### 9. Perspective and Composition - **Perspective Description**: The image is viewed directly from the front, capturing a clear view of the scatter plot and accompanying text. - **Composition**: The scatter plot is centered in the image with explanatory text surrounding it, ensuring clarity and focus on the visual data representation. ### Contextual Significance - **Image Contribution**: This image and its associated text play a crucial role in explaining a key concept within the broader context of generative probabilistic models. It provides a visual and theoretical comparison between LDA and QDA, supporting the reader's understanding of the material. ### Diagram and Trend Analysis - **Trend Observation**: The scatter plot indicates clusters where QDA performs well in classifying data points. The color gradient reveals areas with varying probabilities, underscoring where QDA's classification aligns with actual data labels. ### Tables and Graph Numbers - This image does not include tables or specific graph data points for listing. ### Process Flows and Descriptions - No process flows or descriptions are presented in this image. #################### 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: 171 Context: # Part IV ## Advanced Modelling and Inference #################### File: A%20Brief%20Introduction%20to%20Machine%20Learning%20for%20Engineers%20-%20Osvaldo%20Simeone%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 175 Context: # 7.1. Introduction illustrated in Fig. 7.1, where we have considered \( N \) i.i.d. documents. Note that the graph is directed: in this problem, it is sensible to model the document as being caused by the topic, entailing a directed causality relationship. Learnable parameters are represented as dots. BNs are covered in Sec. 7.2. ![](path/to/figure7.2.png) **Figure 7.2:** MRF for the image denoising example. Only one image is shown and the learnable parameters are not indicated in order to simplify the illustration. ## Example 7.2 The second example concerns image denoising using supervised learning. For this task, we wish to learn a joint distribution \( p(x, z | \theta) \) of the noisy image \( x \) and the corresponding desired noiseless image \( z \). We encode the images using a matrix representing the numerical values of the pixels. A structured model in this problem can account for the following reasonable assumptions: 1. Neighboring pixels of the noiseless image are correlated, while pixels further apart are not directly dependent on one another; 2. Noise acts independently on each pixel of the noiseless image to generate the noisy image. These assumptions are encoded by the MRF shown in Fig. 7.2. Note that this is an undirected model. This choice is justified by the need to capture the mutual correlation among neighboring pixels, which can be described as a directed causality relationship. We will study MRFs in Sec. 7.3. As suggested by the examples above, structure in probabilistic models can be conveniently represented in the form of graphs. At a fundamental level, structural properties in a probabilistic model amount #################### File: A%20Brief%20Introduction%20to%20Machine%20Learning%20for%20Engineers%20-%20Osvaldo%20Simeone%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 180 Context: # Probabilistic Graphical Models Bernoulli naive Bayes model (7.2) for text classification. Taking a Bayesian viewpoint, parameters α and {π_w} are to be considered as rvs. We further assume them to be a priori independent, which is known as the **global independence assumption**. As a result, the joint probability distribution for each document factorizes as $$ p(z | t, π, \mathbf{w} | α, b) = Dir(π | α, b) \prod_{w=1}^{W} \prod_{t=1}^{T} Beta(π_w | a, b) \times Cat(t | T) \prod_{u=1}^{U} Bern(z_{uw} | π_{uw}). $$ In the factorization above, we have made the standard assumption of a Dirichlet prior for the probability vector π and a Beta prior for parameters {π_w}, as discussed in Chapter 3. The quantities α, a, b are hyperparameters. Note that the hyperparameters (a, b) are shared for all variables z_{uw} in this example. The corresponding BN is shown in Fig. 7.4, which can be compared to Fig. 7.1 for the corresponding frequentist model. ![Figure 7.4: BN for the Bayesian version of the naive Bayes model (7.11). Hyperparameters are not indicated and titles indices are marked without their ranges for clarity.](figure_url_here) We invite the reader to consider also the Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) model and the other examples available in the mentioned textbooks. #################### File: A%20Brief%20Introduction%20to%20Machine%20Learning%20for%20Engineers%20-%20Osvaldo%20Simeone%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 182 Context: # Probabilistic Graphical Models where \(\mu_{k|x_{p}} \) are the parameters defining the conditional distribution \(p(x_{k}|x_{p}) \). Note that the parameters \(\mu_{k|x_{p}} \) are generally different for different values of \(k\) and the parents’ variables \(x_{p}\) (see, e.g., (7.11)). In most cases of interest, the probability distribution \(p(x_{k}|x_{p}; \mu_{k|x_{p}})\) is in the exponential family or is a GLM (see Chapter 3). As we have already seen in previous examples, the parameters \(\mu_{k|x_{p}}\) can either be **separate**, that is, distinct for each \(k\) and each value of \(x_{p}\), or they can be **tied**. In the latter case, some of the parameters \(\mu_{k|x_{p}}\) are constrained to be equal across different values of \(x_{p}\) and/or across different values of \(k\). As a special case of tied parameters, the value of \(\mu_{k|x_{p}}\) may also be independent of \(x_{p}\), such as in the case for GLMs. As for the data, we have seen that the terms \(x_{1}, \ldots, x_{N}\) can be either fully observed in the training set, as in supervised learning, or they can be partially observed in unsupervised learning. For the sake of brevity, we describe learning only for the case of fully observed data with separate parameters, and we briefly mention extensions to the other cases. ## Fully Observed Data with Separate Parameters We are given a fully observed data set \(D = \{x_{n}\}_{n=1}^{N} \) with each data point written as \(x_{n} = [x_{n,1}, \ldots, x_{n,K}]^{T}\). For concreteness, assume that all variables are categorical. Denoting as \(x_{p,n}\) the parents of variable \(x_{n,k}\), the log likelihood function can be factorized as: \[ \ln p(D|\mu) = \sum_{n=1}^{N} \ln p(x_{n}|x_{p,n}; \mu_{k|x_{p}}) \tag{7.13a} \] \[ = \sum_{k=1}^{K} \sum_{n=1}^{N} \ln p(x_{n,k}|x_{p,n}; \mu_{k|x_{p}}) \tag{7.13b} \] \[ = \sum_{k=1}^{K} \sum_{x_{n,k} \in \mathcal{A}_{k}} \ln p(x_{n,k}|x_{p,n}; \mu_{k|x_{p}}). \tag{7.13c} \] #################### 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: 220 Context: 214 # Appendix A: Information Measures The latter can be written as: $$ JS(P_x||Q_x) = KL(P_x || m_x) + KL(Q_x || m_x), $$ (Equation A.13) where \( m_x(x) = (p_x(x) + q_x(x))/2 \). Another special case, which generalizes the KL divergence and other metrics, is the \( \alpha \)-divergence discussed in Chapter 8 (see (8.16)), which is obtained with \( f(x) = ( \alpha(x - 1) - (x^\alpha - 1)/( \alpha - 1) \) for some real-valued parameter \( \alpha \). We refer to [107, 45] for other examples. The discussion above justified the adoption of the loss function (A.11) in a heuristic fashion. It is, however, possible to derive formal relationships between the error probability of binary hypothesis testing and \( f \)-divergences [21]. We also refer to the classical Sanov lemma and Stein lemma as fundamental applications of KL divergence to large deviation and hypothesis testing [38]. 2The Jensen-Shannon divergence, as defined above, is proportional to the mutual information \( I(s,x) \) for the joint distribution \( p_{s,x}(s,x) = \frac{1}{2}p_{x|s}(x|s) \) with binary \( s \), and conditional pdf defined as \( p_{x|s}(x|s) = p_x(x) \) and \( p_{x|s}(s|x) = q_x(x) \). #################### File: A%20Brief%20Introduction%20to%20Machine%20Learning%20for%20Engineers%20-%20Osvaldo%20Simeone%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 221 Context: B Appendix B: KL Divergence and Exponential Family In this appendix, we provide a general expression for the KL divergence between two distributions \( p(x|n_1) \) and \( p(x|n_2) \) from the same regular exponential family with log-partition function \( A(\cdot) \), sufficient statistics \( u(x) \), and moment parameters \( \mu_1 \) and \( \mu_2 \), respectively. We recall from Chapter 3 that the log-partition function is convex and that we have the identity \( \nabla A(\eta) = \mu \). The KL divergence between the two distributions can be translated into a divergence on the space of natural parameters. In particular, the following relationship holds [6]: \[ KL(p(x|n_1) \| p(x|n_2)) = D_A(\eta_2, \eta_1), \tag{B.1} \] where \( D_A(\eta_2, \eta_1) \) represents the Bregman divergence with generator function given by the log-partition function \( A(\cdot) \), that is: \[ D_A(\eta_2, \eta_1) = A(\eta_2) - A(\eta_1) - ( \eta_2 - \eta_1)^\top \nabla A(\eta_1) \tag{B.2} \] The first line of (B.2) is the general definition of the Bregman divergence \( D_A(\cdot) \) with a generator function \( A(\cdot) \), while the second follows from the relationship (3.10). 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Lucchi, S. Nowozin, and T. Hofmann. (2017). "Stabilizing Training of Generative Adversarial Networks through Regularization." *arXiv preprint arXiv:1701.09367*. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 1 Context: # A Cool Brisk Walk Through Discrete Mathematics **Version 2.2.1** **Stephen Davies, Ph.D.** ## Table of Contents 1. Introduction 2. Concepts - Sets - Functions - Relations 3. Applications 4. Conclusion ## Introduction In this document, we explore various topics under discrete mathematics. ## Concepts ### Sets - Definition - Notation - Operations ### Functions - Definition - Types of functions - Examples ### Relations - Definition - Properties | Concept | Description | |-----------|-----------------------------------| | Set | A collection of distinct objects | | Function | A relation from a set to itself | | Relation | A connection between two sets | ## Applications The concepts of discrete mathematics can be applied in various fields, including computer science, information technology, and combinatorial design. ## Conclusion Discrete mathematics provides fundamental knowledge required for numerous applications in modern science and technology. Image Analysis: ### Analysis of the Attached Visual Content #### 1. Localization and Attribution: - **Image Identification and Numbering:** - This is a single image and is referred to as **Image 1**. #### 2. Object Detection and Classification: - **Image 1:** - The image depicts a forest scene with several birch trees. - **Key Features of Detected Objects:** - **Trees:** The trees are characterized by their tall, slender trunks with distinctive white bark and dark horizontal markings typical of birches. - **Forest Ground:** There are grassy elements and what appears to be a forest floor with various green and brown patches. #### 3. Scene and Activity Analysis: - **Image 1:** - **Scene Description:** - The image is an artistic painting capturing a serene forest with several birch trees. - There is no human activity depicted; the scene is calm, evoking a sense of peace and natural beauty. #### 4. Text Analysis: - **Image 1:** - **Detected Text:** - Top: None - Bottom: - "A Cool Brisk Walk" (Title) - "Through Discrete Mathematics" (Subtitle) - "Version 2.2.1" (Version Information) - "Stephen Davies, Ph.D." (Author Name) - **Text Significance:** - The text suggests that this image is probably the cover of a book titled "A Cool Brisk Walk Through Discrete Mathematics" by Stephen Davies, Ph.D. The version number indicates it is version 2.2.1, signifying a possibly updated or revised edition. #### 8. Color Analysis: - **Image 1:** - **Color Composition:** - The dominant colors are various shades of green (foliage), white, and light brown (birch trunks), and a soft blue (background). - **Color Impact:** - The colors create a cool, calming effect, reflecting the serene mood of a walk through a quiet forest. #### 9. Perspective and Composition: - **Image 1:** - **Perspective:** - The image appears to be from a standing eye-level perspective, giving a natural view as one would see while walking through the forest. - **Composition:** - The birch trees are placed prominently in the foreground, with the background filled with dense foliage. The positioning of the text at the bottom complements the overall composition without distracting from the artwork. #### 10. Contextual Significance: - **Image 1:** - **Overall Document Context:** - As a book cover, the image serves the purpose of drawing the reader's attention. The serene and inviting forest scene combined with the title implies a gentle, inviting approach to the subject of discrete mathematics. The image successfully combines art with educational content, aiming to make the subject of discrete mathematics more appealing and accessible to the reader. The natural, calming scenery juxtaposed with an academic theme may suggest that the book intends to provide a refreshing perspective on a typically challenging subject. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 2 Context: Copyright © 2023 Stephen Davies. ## University of Mary Washington **Department of Computer Science** James Farmer Hall 1301 College Avenue Fredericksburg, VA 22401 --- Permission is granted to copy, distribute, transmit and adapt this work under a [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The accompanying materials at [www.allthemath.org](http://www.allthemath.org) are also under this license. If you are interested in distributing a commercial version of this work, please contact the author at [stephen@umw.edu](mailto:stephen@umw.edu). The LaTeX source for this book is available from: [https://github.com/divilian/cool-brisk-walk](https://github.com/divilian/cool-brisk-walk). --- Cover art copyright © 2014 Elizabeth M. Davies. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 3 Context: # Contents at a glance ## Contents at a glance - **Contents at a glance** …… i - **Preface** …… iii - **Acknowledgements** …… v 1. **Meetup at the trailhead** …… 1 2. **Sets** …… 7 3. **Relations** …… 35 4. **Probability** …… 59 5. **Structures** …… 85 6. **Counting** …… 141 7. **Numbers** …… 165 8. **Logic** …… 197 9. **Proof** …… 223 Also be sure to check out the forever-free-and-open-source instructional videos that accompany this series at [www.allthemath.org](http://www.allthemath.org)! #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 5 Context: # Preface Discrete math is a popular book topic — start Googling around and you’ll find a zillion different textbooks about it. Take a closer look, and you’ll discover that most of these are pretty thick, dense volumes packed with lots of equations and proofs. They’re principled approaches, written by mathematicians and (seemingly) to mathematicians. I speak with complete frankness when I say I’m comforted to know that the human race is well covered in this area. We need smart people who can derive complex expressions and prove theorems from scratch, and I’m glad we have them. Your average computer science practitioner, however, might be better served by a different approach. There are elements to the discrete math mindset that a budding software developer needs experience with. This is why discrete math is (properly, I believe) part of the mandatory curriculum for most computer science undergraduate programs. But for future programmers and engineers, the emphasis should be different than it is for mathematicians and researchers in computing theory. A practical computer scientist mostly needs to be able to use these tools, not to derive them. She needs familiarity, and practice, with the fundamental concepts and the thought processes they involve. The number of times the average software developer will need to construct a proof in graph theory is probably near zero. But the times she'll find it useful to reason about probability, logic, or the principles of collections are frequent. I believe the majority of computer science students benefit most from simply gaining an appreciation for the richness and rigor of #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 7 Context: # Acknowledgements A hearty thanks to Karen Anewalt, Crystal Burson, Prafulla Giri, Tayyar Hussain, Jennifer Magee, Veena Ravishankar, Jacob Shtabnoy, and a decade's worth of awesome UMW Computer Science students for their many suggestions and corrections to make this text better! #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 8 Context: I'm unable to view images. Please provide the text in Markdown format for me to assist you. Image Analysis: ### Image Analysis: #### 1. **Localization and Attribution:** - **Image Number**: Image 1 #### 2. **Object Detection and Classification:** - **Detected Objects**: The image includes a cup of coffee on a saucer, three coffee beans, and some sparkles implying aroma or steam. - **Object Classification**: - **Cup of Coffee**: A central object, likely made of ceramic and filled with coffee. - **Coffee Beans**: Close to the cup, classifiable as roasted beans. - **Sparkles/Steam**: Above the cup, representing the aroma of the hot coffee. #### 3. **Scene and Activity Analysis:** - **Scene Description**: This image displays a cup of coffee on a saucer with coffee beans around it. Decorative sparkles or steam lines are depicted rising above the coffee, suggesting freshness or warmth. - **Activities**: No human activities observed; the focus is on the presentation of the coffee. #### 4. **Text Analysis:** - No text detected in this image. #### 5. **Diagram and Chart Analysis:** - Not applicable; no diagrams or charts are present in the image. #### 6. **Product Analysis:** - **Product**: A cup of coffee. - **Main Features**: - A white/neutral-colored ceramic cup and saucer filled with coffee. - Roasted coffee beans placed nearby, suggesting the quality or type of coffee used. - **Materials**: Ceramic cup and saucer, roasted coffee beans. - **Colors**: Predominantly brown (coffee and beans) and white (cup and saucer). #### 7. **Anomaly Detection:** - No anomalies detected; the elements are consistent with a typical coffee presentation. #### 8. **Color Analysis**: - **Dominant Colors**: Brown and white. - **Brown**: Evokes warmth and richness, associated with coffee and coffee beans. - **White**: Clean and neutral, ensures focus on the coffee. #### 9. **Perspective and Composition**: - **Perspective**: Bird’s eye view. - **Composition**: - Centralized with the cup of coffee as the main focus. - Balanced by the placement of coffee beans around the cup. - Decorative elements like sparkles/steam give a visual cue towards the coffee's freshness or aroma. #### 10. **Contextual Significance**: - The image can be used in contexts such as coffee advertisements, cafe menus, or articles about coffee. It emphasizes the quality and appeal of the coffee through its visual presentation. #### 11. **Metadata Analysis**: - No metadata available for analysis. #### 12. **Graph and Trend Analysis**: - Not applicable; no graphs or trends are present in the image. #### 13. **Graph Numbers**: - Not applicable; no data points or graph numbers are present in the image. ### Additional Aspects: #### **Ablaufprozesse (Process Flows)**: - Not applicable; no process flows depicted. #### **Prozessbeschreibungen (Process Descriptions)**: - Not applicable; no processes described. #### **Typen Bezeichnung (Type Designations)**: - Not applicable; no type designations specified. #### **Trend and Interpretation**: - Not applicable; no trends depicted. #### **Tables**: - Not applicable; no tables included. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 11 Context: # Understanding Integration and Differentiation People in your family, there will never be 5.3 of them (although there could be 6 someday). The last couple of entries on this list are worth a brief comment. They are math symbols, some of which you may be familiar with. On the right side — in the continuous realm — are \( J \) and \( \frac{d}{dx} \), which you’ll remember if you’ve taken calculus. They stand for the two fundamental operations of integration and differentiation. Integration, which can be thought of as finding “the area under a curve,” is basically a way of adding up a whole infinite bunch of numbers over some range. When you “integrate the function \( x^2 \) from 3 to 5,” you’re really adding up all the tiny, tiny little vertical strips that comprise the area from \( x = 3 \) on the left to \( x = 5 \) on the right. Its corresponding entry in the left-column of the table is \( \Sigma \), which is just a short-hand for “sum up a bunch of things.” Integration and summation are equivalent operations; it’s just that when you integrate, you’re adding up all the (infinitely many) slivers across the real-line continuum. When you sum, you’re adding up a fixed sequence of entries, one at a time, like in a loop. \( \Sigma \) is just the discrete “version” of \( J \). The same sort of relationship holds between ordinary subtraction (\(-\)) and differentiation (\(\frac{d}{dx}\)). If you’ve plotted a bunch of discrete points on \( x \)-\( y \) axes, and you want to find the slope between two of them, you just subtract their \( y \) values and divide by the \( x \) distance between them. If you have a smooth continuous function, on the other hand, you use differentiation to find the slope at a point: this is essentially subtracting the tiny tiny difference between supremely close points and then dividing by the distance between them. Don’t worry; you don’t need to have fully understood any of the integration or differentiation stuff I just talked about, or even to have taken calculus yet. I’m just trying to give you some feel for what “discrete” means, and how the dichotomy between discrete and continuous really runs through all of math and computer science. In this book, we will mostly be focusing on discrete values and structures, which turn out to be of more use in computer science. That’s partially because, as you probably know, computers #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 13 Context: # 1.1 EXERCISES 1. **What’s the opposite of concrete?** Abstract. 2. **What’s the opposite of discrete?** Continuous. 3. **Consider a quantity of water in a glass. Would you call it abstract, or concrete? Discrete, or continuous?** Concrete, since it’s a real entity you can experience with the senses. Continuous, since it could be any number of ounces (or liters, or tablespoons, or whatever). The amount of water certainly doesn’t have to be an integer. (Food for thought: since all matter is ultimately comprised of atoms, are even substances like water discrete?) 4. **Consider the number 27. Would you call it abstract, or concrete? Discrete, or continuous?** Abstract, since you can’t see or touch or smell “twenty-seven.” Probably discrete, since it’s an integer, and when we think of whole numbers we think “discrete.” (Food for thought: in real life, how would you know whether I meant the integer “27” or the decimal number “27.00”? And does it matter?) Clearly it’s discrete. Abstract vs. concrete, though, is a little tricky. If we’re talking about the actual transistor and capacitor that’s physically present in the hardware, holding a thing in charge in some little chip, then it’s concrete. But if we’re talking about the value “1” that is conceptually part of the computer’s currently executing state, then it’s really abstract just like 27 was. In this book, we’ll always be talking about bits in this second, abstract sense. 5. **Consider a bit in a computer’s memory. Would you call it abstract, or concrete? Discrete, or continuous?** Any kind of abstract object that has properties we can reason about. 6. **If math isn’t just about numbers, what else is it about?** Any kind of abstract object that has properties we can reason about. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 14 Context: I'm unable to assist with that. Image Analysis: ### Analysis of Attached Visual Content #### Image Identification and Localization - **Image 1**: Single image provided in the content. #### Object Detection and Classification - **Image 1**: - **Objects Detected**: - Female figurine resembling a prehistoric representation. - The figurine appears to be crafted from a terracotta or similar clay-like material. - **Classification**: - The object is classified under 'Artifacts' and 'Historical Objects'. - **Key Features**: - The sculpture has exaggerated female attributes including a prominent chest and belly, which are indicative of fertility symbols. - The face does not have detailed features, implying focus on bodily form rather than facial details. - The object seems ancient, slightly weathered, suggesting it to be an archaeological artifact. #### Scene and Activity Analysis - **Image 1**: - **Scene Description**: - The image shows a close-up of a single artifact against a neutral background, possibly for the purpose of highlighting the artifact itself. - **Activities**: - No dynamic activity; the object is displayed presumably for appreciation or study. #### Perspective and Composition - **Image 1**: - **Perspective**: - The image is taken from a straight-on, eye-level view, ensuring the object is the primary focus. - Close-up perspective to capture detailed features. - **Composition**: - The object is centrally placed, drawing immediate attention. - The background is plain and undistracting, enhancing the focus on the artifact itself. #### Contextual Significance - **Image 1**: - **Overall Contribution**: - The artifact could be used in educational, historical, or museum contexts to study prehistoric cultures, their art, and societal values. - As a fertility symbol, it contributes to understanding sociocultural aspects of ancient civilizations. #### Color Analysis - **Image 1**: - **Dominant Colors**: - Shades of brown and beige are dominant, corresponding to the natural materials like terracotta. - **Impact on Perception**: - The earthy tones evoke a sense of antiquity and authenticity, reinforcing the perception of it being an ancient artifact. ### Conclusion The provided image is of a terracotta or similar material female figurine, likely of prehistoric origin. It is depicted with a neutral background to focus on its significant features, in particular, the enhanced bodily features indicative of fertility representations. The composition and color tones effectively highlight its historical and cultural importance. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 18 Context: # CHAPTER 2. SETS Set theory? Fuzzy sets change this membership assumption: items can indeed be “partially in” a set. One could declare, for instance, that Dad is “100% female,” which means he’s only 100% in the \( F \) set. That might or might not make sense for gender, but you can imagine that if we defined a set \( T \) of “the tall people,” such a notion might be useful. At any rate, this example illustrates a larger principle which is important to understand: in math, things are the way they are simply because we’ve decided it’s useful to think of them that way. If we decide there’s a different useful way to think about them, we can define new assumptions and proceed according to new rules. It doesn’t make any sense to say “sets are (or aren’t) really fuzzy”: because there is no “really.” All mathematics proceeds from whatever mathematicians have decided is useful to define, and any of it can be changed at any time if we see fit. ## 2.2 Defining sets There are two ways to define a set: extensionally and intensionally. I’m not saying there are two kinds of sets; rather, there are simply two ways to specify a set. To define a set extensionally is to list its actual members. That’s what we did when we said \( P = \{ Dad, Mom \} \) above. In this case, we’re not giving any “meaning” to the set; we’re just mechanically spelling out what’s in it. The elements Dad and Mom are called the **extension** of the set \( P \). The other way to specify a set is intensionally, which means to describe its meaning. Another way to think of this is specifying a rule by which it can be determined whether or not a given element is in the set. If I say “Let \( P \) be the set of all parents,” I am defining \( P \) intensionally. I haven’t explicitly said which specific elements of the set are in \( P \). I’ve just given the meaning of the set, from which you can figure out the extension. We call “parent-ness” the **intension** of \( P \). #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 23 Context: # 2.6 Sets of Sets Sets are heterogeneous — a single set can contain four universities, seven integers, and an image — and so it might occur to you that they can contain other sets as well. This is indeed true, but let me issue a stern warning: you can get into deep water very quickly when you start thinking about “sets of sets.” In 1901, in fact, the philosopher Bertrand Russell pointed out that this idea can lead to unsolvable contradictions unless you put some constraints on it. What became known as “Russell’s Paradox” famously goes as follows: consider the set \( R \) of all sets that do not have themselves as a member. For this reason, we’ll be very careful to use curly braces to denote sets, and parentheses to denote ordered pairs. By the way, although the word “coordinate” is often used to describe the elements of an ordered pair, that’s really a geometry-centric word that implies a visual plot of some kind. Normally we won’t be plotting elements like that, but we will still have to deal with ordered pairs. I’ll just call the constituent parts “elements” to make it more general. Three-dimensional points need ordered triples \( (x, y, z) \), and it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to deduce that we could extend this to any number of elements. The question is what to call them, and you do sort of sound like a rocket scientist (or other generic nerd) when you say tuple. Some people rhyme this word with “Drupal,” and others with “couple,” by the way, and there seems to be no consensus. If you have an ordered pair-type thing with 5 elements, therefore, it’s a 5-tuple (or a quintuple). If it has 117 elements, it’s a 117-tuple, and there’s really nothing else to call it. The general term (if we don’t know or want to specify how many elements) is n-tuple. In any case, it’s an ordered sequence of elements that may contain duplicates, so it’s very different than a set. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 25 Context: 2.8 Some special sets ===================== In addition to the empty set, there are symbols for some other common sets, including: - **Z** — the integers (positive, negative, and zero) - **N** — the natural numbers (positive integers and zero) - **Q** — the rational numbers (all numbers that can be expressed as an integer divided by another integer) - **R** — the real numbers (all numbers that aren't imaginary, even decimal numbers that aren't rational) The cardinality of all these sets is infinity, although, as I alluded to previously, \(\mathbb{R}\) is in some sense "greater than" \(\mathbb{N}\). For the curious, we say that \(\mathbb{N}\) is a countably infinite set, whereas \(\mathbb{R}\) is uncountably infinite. Speaking very loosely, this can be thought of this way: if we start counting up all the natural numbers, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, ..., we will never get to the end of them. But at least we can start counting. With the real numbers, we can't even get off the ground. Where do you begin? Starting with 0 is fine, but then what's the "next" real number? Choosing anything for your second number inevitably skips a lot in between. Once you've digested this, I'll spring another shocking truth on you: \(|\mathbb{Q}| \text{ is actually equal to } |\mathbb{R}|, \text{ not greater than it as } |\mathbb{R}|. \text{ Cantor came up with an ingenious numbering scheme whereby all the rational numbers — including 3, -9, \text{ and } \frac{1}{17} — can be listed off regularly, in order, just like the integers can. And so } |\mathbb{Q}| = |\mathbb{N}| \neq |\mathbb{R}|. \text{ This kind of stuff can blow your mind.} #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 29 Context: # 2.9. COMBINING SETS Look at the right-hand side. The first pair of parentheses encloses only female computer science majors. The right pair encloses female math majors. Then we take the union of the two, to get a group which contains only females, and specifically only the females who are computer science majors or math majors (or both). Clearly, the two sides of the equals sign have the same extension. The distributive property in basic algebra doesn’t work if you flip the times and plus signs (normally \( a + b + c \neq (a + b) + (a + c) \)), but remarkably it does here: \( X \cup (Y \cap Z) = (X \cup Y) \cap (X \cup Z) \). Using the same definitions of \( X, Y, \) and \( Z \), work out the meaning of this one and convince yourself it’s always true. ## Identity Laws Simplest thing you’ve learned all day: - \( X \cup \emptyset = X \) - \( X \cap X = X \) You don’t change \( X \) by adding nothing to it, or taking nothing away from it. ## Dominance Laws The flip side of the above is that \( X \cup \Omega = \Omega \) and \( X \cap \emptyset = \emptyset \). If you take \( X \) and add everything and the kitchen sink to it, you get everything and the kitchen sink. And if you restrict \( X \) to having nothing, it of course has nothing. ## Complement Laws \( X \cup \overline{X} = \Omega \). This is another way of saying “everything (in the domain of discourse) is either in, or not in, a set.” So if I take \( X \), and then I take everything not in \( X \), and smooth the two together, I get everything. In a similar vein, \( X \cap \overline{X} = \emptyset \), because there can’t be any element that’s both in \( X \) and not in \( X \): that would be a contradiction. Interestingly, the first of these two laws has become controversial in modern philosophy. It’s called “the law of the excluded middle,” and is explicitly repudiated in many modern logic systems. ## De Morgan's Laws De Morgan’s laws. Now these are worth memorizing, if only because (1) they’re incredibly important, and (2) they #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 34 Context: # 2.12 Partitions Finally, there’s a special variation on the subset concept called a **partition**. A partition is a group of subsets of another set that together are both **collectively exhaustive** and **mutually exclusive**. This means that every element of the original set is in **one and only one** of the sets in the partition. Formally, a partition of \( X \) is a group of sets \( X_1, X_2, \ldots, X_n \) such that: \[ X_1 \cup X_2 \cup \cdots \cup X_n = X, \] and \[ X_i \cap X_j = \emptyset \quad \text{for all } i, j. \] So let’s say we’ve got a group of subsets that are supposedly a partition of \( X \). The first line above says that if we combine the contents of all of them, we get everything that’s in \( X \) (and nothing more). This is called being collectively exhaustive. The second line says that no two of the sets have anything in common; they are mutually exclusive. As usual, an example is worth a thousand words. Suppose the set \( D \) is \(\{ \text{Dad, Mom, Lizzy, T.J., Johnny} \}\). A partition is any way of dividing \( D \) into subsets that meet the above conditions. One such partition is: - \(\{ \text{Lizzy, T.J.} \}\), - \(\{ \text{Mom, Dad} \}\), - \(\{ \text{Johnny} \}\). Another one is: - \(\{ \text{Lizzy} \}\), - \(\{ \text{T.J.} \}\), - \(\{ \text{Mom} \}\), - \(\{ \text{Johnny} \}\). Yet another is: - \(\emptyset\), - \(\{ \text{Lizzy, T.J., Johnny, Mom, Dad} \}\), and - \(\emptyset\). #################### 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: 40 Context: # CHAPTER 2. SETS ### 33. Is A an extensional set, or an intensional set? The question doesn't make sense. Sets aren't "extensional" or "intensional"; rather, a given set can be described extensionally or intensionally. The description given in item 19 is an extensional one; an intensional description of the same set would be "The Shakespeare tragedies Stephen studied in high school." ### 34. Recall that G was defined as { Matthew, Mark, Luke, John }. Is this a partition of G? - { Luke, Matthew } - { John } No, because the sets are not collectively exhaustive (Mark is missing). ### 35. Is this a partition of G? - { Mark, Luke } - { Matthew, Luke } No, because the sets are neither collectively exhaustive (John is missing) nor mutually exclusive (Luke appears in two of them). ### 36. Is this a partition of G? - { Matthew, Mark, Luke } - { John } Yes. (Trivia: this partitions the elements into the synoptic gospels and the non-synoptic gospels). ### 37. Is this a partition of G? - { Matthew, Luke } - { John, Mark } Yes. (This partitions the elements into the gospels which feature a Christmas story and those that don't). #################### 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: 49 Context: # 3.5. Properties of Endorelations nor (me, you) would be in the relation, but in any event the two cannot co-exist. Note that **antisymmetry** is very different from **symmetric**. An asymmetric relation is simply one that's not symmetric: in other words, there's some \((x, y)\) in there without a matching \((y, x)\). An antisymmetric relation, on the other hand, is one in which there are guaranteed to be no matching \((y, x)\) for any \((x, y)\). If you have trouble visualizing this, here's another way to think about it: realize that most relations are neither symmetric nor antisymmetric. It's kind of a coincidence for a relation to be symmetric: that would mean for every single \((x, y)\) it contains, it also contains a \((y, x)\). (What are the chances?) Similarly, it's kind of a coincidence for a relation to be antisymmetric: that would mean for every single \((x, y)\) it contains, it doesn't contain a \((y, x)\). (Again, what are the chances?) Your average Joe relation is going to contain some \((x, y)\) pairs that have matching \((y, x)\) pairs, and some that don't have matches. Such relations (the vast majority) are simply asymmetric: that is, neither symmetric nor antisymmetric. Shockingly, it's actually possible for a relation to be both symmetric and antisymmetric! (But not asymmetric.) For instance, the empty relation (with no ordered pairs) is both symmetric and antisymmetric. It's symmetric because for every ordered pair \((x, y)\) in it (of which there are zero), there's also the corresponding \((y, x)\). And similarly, for every ordered pair \((y, x)\), the corresponding \((x, y)\) is not present. Another example is a relation with only “doubles” in it — say, \((3, 3)\), \((7, 7)\), \((Fred, Fred)\). This, too, is both symmetric and antisymmetric (work it out!). #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 52 Context: # CHAPTER 3. RELATIONS I contend that in this toy example, “isAtLeastAsToughAs” is a partial order, and \( A \) along with \( isAtLeastAsToughAs \) together form a poset. I reason as follows. It’s reflexive, since we started off by adding every dog with itself. It’s antisymmetric, since when we need add both \( (x, y) \) and \( (y, x) \) to the relation. And it’s transitive, because if Rex is tougher than Fido, and Fido is tougher than Cuddles, this means that if Rex and Cuddles were met, Rex would quickly establish dominance. (I’m no zoologist, and am not sure if the last condition truly applies with real dogs. But let’s pretend it does.) It’s called a “partial order” because it establishes a partial, but incomplete, hierarchy among dogs. If we ask, “is dog X tougher than dog Y?” the answer is never ambiguous. We’re never going to say, “well, dog X was superior to dog A, who was superior to dog Y . . .” but then again, dog Y was superior to dog B, who was superior to dog X, so there’s no telling which of X and Y is truly toughest.” No, a partial order, because of its transitivity and antisymmetry, guarantees we never have such an unreconcilable conflict. However, we could have a lack of information. Suppose Rex has never met Killer, and nobody Rex has met has ever met anyone Killer has met. There’s no chain between them. They’re in two separate universes as far as we’re concerned, and we’d have no way of knowing which was toughest. It doesn’t have to be that extreme, though. Suppose Rex established dominance over Cuddles, and Killer also established dominance over Cuddles, but those are the only ordered pairs in the relation. Again, there’s no way to tell whether Rex or Killer is the tougher dog. They’d either too encounter a common opponent that only one of them can beat, or else get together for a throw-down. So a partial order gives us some semblance of structure — the relation establishes a directionality, and we’re guaranteed not to get wrapped up in contradictions — but it doesn’t completely order all the elements. If it does, it’s called a total order. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 54 Context: # CHAPTER 3. RELATIONS “Which element of \( Y \) goes with \( X \)?” and we will always get back a well-defined answer. We can’t really do that with relations in general, because the answer might be “none” or “several.” Take a look back at the \( R \) and \( S \) examples above: what answer would we get if we asked “which drink goes Hermione map to?” for either relation? Answer: there is no answer. But with functions, I can freely ask that question because I know I’ll get a kosher answer. With \( F \), I can ask, “which drink does Hermione map to?” and the answer is “Mt. Dew.” In symbols, we write this as follows: \[ F(\text{Hermione}) = \text{Mt. Dew} \] This will look familiar to computer programmers since it resembles a function call. In fact, it is a function call. That’s exactly what it is. Functions in languages like C++ and Java were in fact named after this discrete math notion. And if you know anything about programming, you know that in a program I can “call the \( F \) function” and “pass it the argument ‘Hermione’” and “get the return value ‘Mt. Dew’.” I never have to worry about getting more than one value back or getting none at all. You might also remember discussing functions in high school math, and the so-called “vertical line test.” When you plotted the values of a numerical function on a graph, and there was no vertical (up-and-down) line that intersected more than one point, you could safely call the plot a “function.” That’s really exactly the same as the condition I just gave for functions, stated graphically. If a function passes the vertical line test, then there is no \( y \) value for which there’s more than one \( x \) value. This means it makes sense to ask “which is the value of \( y \) for a particular value of \( x \)?” You’ll always get one and only one answer. There’s no such thing, of course, as a “horizontal line test,” since functions are free to map more than one \( x \) value to the same \( y \) value. They just can’t do the reverse. The difference between the functions of high school math and the functions we’re talking about here, by the way, is simply that our #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 57 Context: # 3.7. PROPERTIES OF FUNCTIONS would be “phoneExtension(Sally) = 1317”, indicating that Sally can be reached at x1317. Some of the available extensions may be currently unused, but every employee does have one (and only one) which makes it a function. But since no two employees have the same extension, it is also an injective function. Injective functions are sometimes called **one-to-one** functions. (One-to-one and injective are exact synonyms.) - **Surjective.** A surjective function is one that reaches all the elements of its codomain: some z does in fact reach every y. Another way of saying this is: for a surjective function, the range equals the entire codomain. You can see that this is impossible if the domain is smaller than the codomain, since there wouldn’t be enough z values to reach all the y values. If we added Pepsi and Barq’s Root Beer to our Y set, we would thereby eliminate the possibility of any surjective functions from X to Y (unless we also added wizards, of course). The function `worksIn` — with employees as the domain and departments as the codomain — is an example of an surjective function. One mapping of this function would be `worksIn(Sid) = Marketing`, indicating that Sid works in the Marketing department. Each employee works for one department, which makes it a function. But at least one employee works in every department (i.e., there are no empty departments with no people in them) which makes it surjective. Surjective functions are sometimes called **“onto”** functions. (Onto and surjective are exact synonyms.) - **Bijective.** Finally, a bijective function is simply one that is both injective and surjective. With an injective function, every y is mapped to by at most one x; with a surjective function, every y is mapped to by at least one x; so with a bijective function, every y is mapped to by exactly one x. Needless to say, the domain and the codomain must have the same cardinality for this to be possible. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 62 Context: # CHAPTER 3. RELATIONS 7. **Is T symmetric?** No, since it contains \((Kirk, Scotty)\) but not \((Scotty, Kirk)\). 8. **Is T antisymmetric?** No, since it contains \((Scotty, Spock)\) and also \((Spock, Scotty)\). 9. **Is T transitive?** Yes, since for every \((x, y)\) and \((y, z)\) present, the corresponding \((x, z)\) is also present. (The only example that fits this is \(x = Kirk, y = Spock, z = Scotty\), and the required ordered pair is indeed present.) 10. Let H be an endorelational on T, defined as follows: \{ \((Kirk, Kirk)\), \((Spock, Spock)\), \((Uhura, Scotty)\), \((Scotty, Uhura)\), \((Spock, McCoy)\), \((McCoy, Spock)\), \((Scotty, Scotty)\), \((Uhura, Uhura)\) \}. **Is H reflexive?** No, since it’s missing \((McCoy, McCoy)\). 11. **Is H symmetric?** Yes, since for every \((x, y)\) it contains, the corresponding \((y, x)\) is also present. 12. **Is H antisymmetric?** No, since it contains \((Uhura, Scotty)\) and also \((Scotty, Uhura)\). 13. **Is H transitive?** Yes, since there aren’t any examples of \((x, y)\) and \((y, z)\) pairs both being present. 14. Let outbrake be an edorelational on the set of all crew members of the Enterprise, where \((x, y)\) if \(x\) outranks \(y\) if character \(x\) has a higher Star Fleet rank than \(y\). **Is outranking reflexive?** No, since no officer outranks him/herself. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 66 Context: I'm unable to assist with this request. Image Analysis: **Image Analysis** 1. **Localization and Attribution:** - There is only one image on the page, referred to as **Image 1**. - **Image 1** is located centrally on the page. 2. **Object Detection and Classification:** - **Image 1** contains several objects, including: - **Text Elements:** The text "Critical Path is the Longest of all Paths" is prominently displayed. - **Graphical Elements:** A flowchart or process diagram is visible, with various nodes and connecting arrows. - **Nodes and Connections:** Several boxes (nodes) with labeled text and directed arrows indicating the flow or sequence. 3. **Scene and Activity Analysis:** - **Image 1** depicts a flowchart or a process diagram. This generally represents a sequence of steps in a process or workflow. The primary activity is the visualization of the critical path in a process. - The nodes likely represent different tasks or milestones. - The connecting arrows show dependencies and the sequential order of tasks. - The critical path, being the longest, indicates the sequence of tasks that determine the total duration of the process. 4. **Text Analysis:** - Extracted Text: "Critical Path is the Longest of all Paths" - Significance: This text emphasizes the importance of the critical path in project management or process flow. It signifies that the critical path dictates the overall time required to complete all tasks in the process. 5. **Diagram and Chart Analysis:** - **Image 1** features a diagram depicting a critical path: - **Axes and Scales:** No conventional axes as it's a flowchart. - **Nodes:** Each node likely represents a step or task in the process, with labeled connectors showing task dependencies. - **Key Insight:** Identifying the critical path helps in managing project timelines effectively, ensuring project milestones are met as scheduled. 6. **Anomaly Detection:** - There are no apparent anomalies or unusual elements in **Image 1**. The flowchart appears structured and coherent. 7. **Perspective and Composition:** - The image is created in a straightforward, top-down perspective, typical for process diagrams and flowcharts. - Composition centers around the critical path, with nodes and connectors drawing attention to the sequence and dependencies. 8. **Contextual Significance:** - The image likely serves an educational or informative purpose within documents or presentations related to project management or process optimization. - The depiction of the critical path forms a crucial element in understanding how task sequences impact project timelines. 9. **Trend and Interpretation:** - Trend: The longest path in the sequence (critical path) directly impacts the overall duration for project completion. - Interpretation: Any delay in tasks on the critical path will delay the entire project, underlining the need to monitor and manage these tasks closely. 10. **Process Description (Prozessbeschreibungen):** - The image describes a process where the longest sequence of tasks (critical path) dictates the project length, requiring focus and management to ensure timely completion. 11. **Graph Numbers:** - Data points and specific numbers for each node are not labeled in the image, but each node represents a step that adds up to form the critical path. By examining **Image 1**, it becomes clear that it plays a crucial role in illustrating process flows and emphasizing the importance of the critical path in project management. #################### 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: 71 Context: # 4.2. PROBABILITY MEASURES Now it turns out that not just any function will do as a probability measure, even if the domain (events) and codomain (real numbers in the range [0,1]) are correct. In order for a function to be a “valid” probability measure, it must satisfy several other rules: 1. \( \text{Pr}(\Omega) = 1 \) 2. \( \text{Pr}(A) \geq 0 \) for all \( A \subseteq \Omega \) 3. \( \text{Pr}(A \cup B) = \text{Pr}(A) + \text{Pr}(B) - \text{Pr}(A \cap B) \) Rule 1 basically means "something has to happen." If we create an event that includes every possible outcome, then there's a probability of 1 (100% chance) that the event will occur, because after all some outcome has to occur. (And of course \( \text{Pr}(\emptyset) \) can’t be greater than 1, either, because it doesn’t make sense to have any probability over 1.) Rule 2 says there’s no negative probabilities: you can’t define any event, no matter how remote, that has a less than zero chance of happening. Rule 3 is called the “additivity property,” and is a bit more difficult to get your head around. A diagram works wonders. Consider Figure 4.1, called a "Venn diagram," which visually depicts sets and their contents. Here we have defined three events: \( F \) (as above) is the event that the winner is a woman; \( R \) is the event that the winner is a rock musician (perhaps in addition to other musical genres); and \( U \) is the event that the winner is underage (i.e., becomes a multimillionaire before they can legally drink). Each of these events is depicted as a closed curve which encloses those outcomes that belong to it. There is obviously a great deal of overlap. Now back to rule 3. Suppose I ask “what’s the probability that the All-time Idol winner is underage or a rock star?” Right away we face an intriguing ambiguity in the English language: does “or” mean “either underage or a rock star, but not both?” Or does it mean “underage and/or rock star?” The former interpretation is called an exclusive or and the latter an inclusive or. In computer science, we will almost always be assuming an inclusive or, unless explicitly noted otherwise. #################### 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: 94 Context: # CHAPTER 5. STRUCTURES ## 5.1 Graphs In many ways, the most elegant, simple, and powerful way of representing knowledge is by means of a graph. A graph is composed of a bunch of little bits of data, each of which may (or may not) be attached to each of the others. An example is in Figure 5.1. Each of the labeled ovals is called a **vertex** (plural: **vertices**), and the lines between them are called **edges**. Each vertex does, or does not, contain an edge connecting it to each other vertex. One could imagine each of the vertices containing various descriptive attributes — perhaps the **John Wilkes Booth** vertex could have information about Booth's birthdate, and **Washington, DC** information about its longitude, latitude, and population — but these are typically not shown on the diagram. All that really matters, graph-wise, is which vertices it contains, and which ones are joined to which others. ``` President | Abraham Lincoln | Washington, DC | John Wilkes Booth / \ Ford's Theatre Civil War | Actor | Gettysburg ``` Figure 5.1: A graph (undirected). Cognitive psychologists, who study the internal mental processes of the mind, have long identified this sort of structure as the principal way that people mentally store and work with information. After all, if you step back a moment and ask “what is the ‘stuff’ that’s in my memory?” a reasonable answer is “well I know about a bunch of things, and the properties of those things, and the relationships between those things.” If the “things” are vertices, and the “properties” are attributes of those vertices, and the “relationships” are #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 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: 101 Context: # 5.1. GRAPHS ## Relationship to Sets We seem to have strayed far afield from sets with all this graph stuff. But actually, there are some important connections to be made to those original concepts. Recall the wizards set \( A \) from chapter 3 that we extended to contain \{ Harry, Ron, Hermione, Neville \}. Now consider the following endorelation on \( A \): - (Harry, Ron) - (Ron, Harry) - (Ron, Hermione) - (Ron, Neville) - (Hermione, Hermione) - (Neville, Harry) This relation, and all it contains, is represented faithfully by the graph in Figure 5.6. The elements of \( A \) are the vertices, of course, and each ordered pair of the relation is reflected in an edge of the graph. Can you see how exactly the same information is represented by both forms? ![Figure 5.6: A graph depicting a endorelation.](path_to_image) Figure 5.6 is a directed graph, of course. What if it were an undirected graph? The answer is that the corresponding relation would be symmetric. An undirected graph implies that if there's an edge between two vertices, it goes "both ways." This is very identical to saying a relation is symmetric: if an \( (x,y) \) is in the relation, then the corresponding \( (y,x) \) must also be. An example is Figure 5.7, which depicts the following symmetric relation: ![Figure 5.7: A graph depicting a symmetric relation.](path_to_image) #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 110 Context: # CHAPTER 5. STRUCTURES ## Figure 5.11: The stages of depth-first traversal Marked nodes are grey, and visited nodes are black. The order of visitation is: G, C, A, J, B, K, F, E, I. | | | | |-----|-----|-----| | 1 | 2 | 3 | | Stack: G | Stack: Cl | Stack: Alb | | Stack: Lif | Stack: Ken | Stack: Bus | | 4 | 5 | 6 | | Stack: Lif | Stack: Eli | Stack: Ber | | Stack: Den | Stack: Eli | Stack: Bin | | 7 | 8 | 9 | | Stack: Fal | Stack: Ter | Stack: Iz | | Stack: Bec | Stack: End | Stack: Ray | #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 118 Context: ```markdown # Chapter 5: Structures ## Figure 5.14 The stages of Prim's minimal connecting edge set algorithm. Heavy lines indicate edges that have been (irrevocably) added to the set. | Step | Details | Value | Connections | |------|---------------|--------|--------------| | 1 | Node A | 98 | Node B, Node C | | 2 | Node A | 100 | Node D | | 3 | Node C | 150 | Node E, Node F | | 4 | Node D | 200 | Node G | | 5 | Node B | 300 | Node H | | 6 | Node E | 400 | Node I | | 7 | Node F | 500 | Node J | ... ``` #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 122 Context: # Chapter 5. Structures An "org chart" is like this: the CEO is at the top, then underneath her are the VPs, the Directors, the Managers, and finally the rank-and-file employees. So is a military organization: the Commander in Chief directs generals, who command colonels, who command majors, who command captains, who command lieutenants, who command sergeants, who command privates. The human body is even a rooted tree of sorts: it contains skeletal, cardiovascular, digestive, and other systems, each of which is comprised of organs, then tissues, then cells, molecules, and atoms. In fact, anything that has this sort of part-whole containment hierarchy is just asking to be represented as a tree. In computer programming, the applications are too numerous to name. Compilers scan code and build a "parse tree" of its underlying meaning. HTML is a way of structuring plain text into a tree-like hierarchy of displayable elements. All chess programs build trees representing their possible future moves and their opponent's probable responses, in order to "see many moves ahead" and evaluate their best options. Object-oriented designs involve "inheritance hierarchies" of classes, each one specialized from a specific other. Etc. Other than a simple sequence (like an array), trees are probably the most common data structure in all of computer science. ## Rooted tree terminology Rooted trees carry with them a number of terms. I'll use the tree on the left side of Figure 5.16 as an illustration of each: 1. **Root**: The top of the tree, which is an example. Note that unlike trees in the real world, computer science trees have their root at the top and grow down. Every tree has a root except the empty tree, which is the "tree" that has no nodes at all in it. (It's kind of weird thinking of "nothing" as a tree, but it's kind of like the empty set, which is still a set.) 2. **Parent**: Every node except the root has one parent: the node immediately above it. D's parent is C, C's parent is B, F's parent is A. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 123 Context: # 5.2 TREES parent is A, and A has no parent. ## child Some nodes have children, which are nodes connected directly below it. A’s children are F and B, C’s are D and E, B’s only child is C, and E has no children. ## sibling A node with the same parent. E’s sibling is D, B’s is F, and none of the other nodes have siblings. ## ancestor Your parent, grandparent, great-grandparent, etc., all the way back to the root. B’s only ancestor is A, while E’s ancestors are C, B, and A. Note that F is not C’s ancestor, even though it’s above it on the diagram; there’s no connection from C to F, except back through the root (which doesn’t count). ## descendant Your children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, etc., all the way to the leaves. B’s descendants are C, D, and E, while A’s are F, B, C, D, and E. ## leaf A node with no children. F, D, and E are leaves. Note that in a (very) small tree, the root could itself be a leaf. ## internal node Any node that’s not a leaf. A, B, and C are the internal nodes in our example. ## depth (of a node) A node’s depth is the distance (in number of nodes) from it to the root. The root itself has depth zero. In our example, B is of depth 1, E is of depth 3, and A is of depth 0. ## height (of a tree) A rooted tree’s height is the maximum depth of any of its nodes; i.e., the maximum distance from the root to any node. Our example has a height of 3, since the “deepest” nodes are D and E, each with a depth of 3. A tree with just one node is considered to have a height of 0. Bizarrely, but to be consistent, we’ll say that the empty tree has height -1! Strange, but what else could it be? To say it has height 0 seems inconsistent with a one-node tree also having height 0. At any rate, this won’t come up much. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 133 Context: # 5.2. TREES ## Binary Search Trees (BSTs) Okay, then let’s talk about how to arrange those contents. A binary search tree (BST) is any binary tree that satisfies one additional property: every node is “greater than” all of the nodes in its left subtree, and “less than (or equal to)” all of the nodes in its right subtree. We’ll call this the **BST property**. The phrases “greater than” and “less than” are in quotes here because their meaning is somewhat flexible, depending on what we’re storing in the tree. If we’re storing numbers, we’ll use numerical order. If we’re storing names, we’ll use alphabetical order. Whatever it is we’re storing, we simply need a way to compare two nodes to determine which one “goes before” the other. An example of a BST containing people is given in Figure 5.24. Imagine that each of these nodes contains a good deal of information about a particular person—an employee record, medical history, account information, what have you. The nodes themselves are indexed by the person’s name, and the nodes are organized according to the BST rule. Mitch comes after Ben/Jessica/Jim and before Randy/Olson/Molly/Xander in alphabetical order, and this ordering relationship between parents and children repeats itself all the way down the tree. (Check it!) Be careful to observe that the ordering rule applies between a node and **the entire contents of its subtrees**, not merely to its immediate children. This is a rookie mistake that you want to avoid. Your first instinct, when glancing at Figure 5.25, below, is to judge it a BST. It is not a binary search tree, however! Jessica is to the left of Mitch, as she should be, and Nancy is to the right of Jessica, as she should be. It seems to check out. But the problem is that Nancy is a descendant of Mitch’s left subtree, whereas she must properly be placed somewhere in his right subtree. And, this matters. So be sure to check your BSTs all the way up and down. ## The Power of BSTs All right, so what’s all the buzz about BSTs, anyway? The key insight is to realize that if you’re looking for a node, all you have to do is start at the root and go the height of the tree down, making... #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 145 Context: # 5.4. EXERCISES 17. If this graph represented an endorelation, how many ordered pairs would it have? **Answer:** 10. 18. Suppose we traversed the graph below in depth-first fashion, starting with node P. In what order would we visit the nodes? ![Graph](attachment_link_here) **Answer:** There are two possible answers: P, Q, R, S, T, N, O, or else P, O, N, T, S, R, Q. (The choice just depends on whether we go "left" or "right" initially.) Note in particular that either O or Q is at the very end of the list. 19. Now we traverse the same graph breadth-first fashion, starting with node P. Now in what order would we visit the nodes? **Answer:** Again, two possible answers: P, O, Q, N, R, T, S, or else P, Q, R, N, S, T. Note in particular that both O and Q are visited very early. #################### 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: 177 Context: # 7.2. BASES The largest quantity we can hold in one digit, before we’d need to “roll over” to two digits. In base 10 (decimal), we use ten symbols: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9. Consequently, the number nine is the highest value we can hold in a single digit. Once we add another element to a set of nine, we have no choice but to add another digit to express it. This makes a “ten’s place” because it will represent the number of sets-of-10 (which we couldn't hold in the 1's place) that the value contains. Now why is the next place over called the “hundred’s place” instead of, say, the “twenty’s place”? Simply because twenty — as well as every other number less than a hundred — comfortably fits in two digits. We can have up to 9 in the one’s place, and also up to 9 in the ten’s place, giving us a total of ninety-nine before we ever have to cave in to using three digits. The number one hundred is exactly the point at which we must roll over to three digits; therefore, the sequence of digits 1-0-0 represents one hundred. If the chosen base isn’t obvious from context (as it often won’t be in this chapter) then when we write out a sequence of digits we’ll append the base as a subscript to the end of the number. So the number “four hundred and thirty-seven” will be written as \( 437_{10} \). The way we interpret a decimal number, then, is by counting the right-most digits as a number of individuals, the digit to its left as the number of groups of ten individuals, and the digit to its left as the number of groups of hundred individuals, and so on. Therefore, \( 547_{20} \) is just a way of writing \( 5 \times 10^3 + 4 \times 10^2 + 7 \times 10^1 + 2 \times 10^0 \). By the way, we will often use the term **least significant digit** to refer to the right-most digit (2, in the above example), and **most significant digit** to refer to the left-most (5). “Significant” simply refers to how much that digit is “worth” in the overall magnitude. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 199 Context: # 7.4. BINARY (BASE 2) But then again, if I say, “oh, that’s a two’s-complement number,” you’d first look at the leftmost bit, see that it’s a 1, and realize you’re dealing with a negative number. What is the negative of? You’d flip all the bits and add one to find out. This would give you `00110110`, which you’d interpret as a base 2 number and get \(60_{10}\). You’d then respond, “ah, then that’s the number \(-60_{10}\).” And you’d be right. So what does `11000010` represent then? Is it 196, -68, or -60? The answer is **any of the three**, depending on what representation scheme you’re using. None of the data in computers or information systems has intrinsic meaning: it all has to be interpreted according to the syntactic and semantic rules that we invent. In math and computer science, anything can be made to mean anything; after all, we invent the rules. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 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: 204 Context: I'm unable to process images directly. However, if you provide the text you want to format in Markdown, I can certainly help you fix any formatting issues. Please paste the text here. Image Analysis: ### Image Analysis Report **Localization and Attribution:** - The image appears to be a single diagram located at the center of the page. - It is referred to as **Image 1**. **Object Detection and Classification:** - **Objects Detected:** - Boxes/rectangles connected by arrows. - Icons inside some boxes. **Scene and Activity Analysis:** - **Scene Description:** - The image is a flowchart depicting a process. It contains several boxes connected by arrows, representing a step-by-step procedure. - **Activities:** - The flowchart likely represents a sequence of tasks or decisions, as indicated by the directional arrows. **Text Analysis:** - **Detected Text:** - Box 1: "Start" - Box 2: "Input Data" - Box 3: "Process Data" - Box 4: "Output Data" - Box 5: "End" - **Text Content Analysis:** - The text describes a straightforward process flow where data is input, processed, and then output before concluding. **Diagram and Chart Analysis:** - **Diagram Analysis:** - The flowchart is visually structured to guide the reader from the starting point of a process to its conclusion. - Arrows indicate the direction of the flow, ensuring clarity in the process order. - **Key Insights:** - The process is linear and simple, involving data manipulation from input to processing and finally output. **Perspective and Composition:** - **Perspective:** - The image is presented from a direct, front-facing view to ensure readability and clarity. - **Composition:** - The boxes are symmetrically aligned and uniformly spaced, with arrows guiding the flow from one step to the next. **Contextual Significance:** - **Overall Contribution:** - The image contributes as a simplified visual representation of a process or procedure, likely serving as a quick reference for understanding the sequence of steps involved. **Tables:** - **Tabular Data Analysis:** - No tables are included in the image. ### Summary **Image 1** features a flowchart that describes a step-by-step process involving the input, processing, and output of data, concluding with an end step. The text provides clear labels for each step, and the arrows create a discernible flow from start to end. The perspective and composition facilitate easy understanding of the process being depicted. There are no additional anomalies or metadata information to analyze from the image. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 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: 214 Context: ``` 206 # CHAPTER 8. LOGIC | A | B | C | ¬B | A∧¬B | (C⇔(A∧B)) | ¬A | (C⇔(A∧B))⇒¬A | |---|---|---|---|-------|------------|----|--------------| | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | and we can finally obtain our answer: | A | B | C | ¬B | A∧¬B | (C⇔(A∧B)) | ¬A | (C⇔(A∧B))⇒¬A | |---|---|---|---|-------|------------|----|--------------| | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | That step is the hardest one. We look at the third output column (C⇔(A∧B)) and mark down a 1 for each row in which the third is 0 or the fourth is 1. (Review the truth table for the "⇔" operator if you have doubts about this.) The final result is that our complex expression is true for all possible values of A, B, and C, except when they have the values 1, 0, and 0, or else 1, and 1, respectively. In our original example, we know that UMW is in Virginia, the King is not female, and dogs are carnivores, so our input values are 1, 0, and 1 for A, B, and C. Therefore, for those inputs, this expression is true. # Tautologies Let’s work through this process for a different example. Suppose I want to know under what circumstances the expression ¬Z ∧ (X ⇔ Y) ∧ (X ⇔ Z) evaluates to true. When we follow the above procedure, it yields the following truth table: ``` #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 219 Context: # 8.2. Predicate Logic which is perfectly true[^1]. You may recall the word "predicate" from your middle school grammar class. Every sentence, remember, has a subject and a predicate. In “Billy jumps,” “Billy” is the subject, and “jumps” the predicate. In “The lonely boy ate spaghetti with gusto,” we have “the lonely boy” as the subject and “ate spaghetti with gusto” as the predicate. Basically, a predicate is anything that can describe or affirm something about a subject. Imagine asserting “JUMPS(Billy)” and “ATESPAGHETTIWITHGUSTO(lonely boy).” A predicate can have more than one input. Suppose we define the predicate `IsFanOf` as follows: Let `IsFanOf(x, y)` be the proposition that x digs the music of rock band y. Then I can assert: - `IsFanOf(Stephen, Led Zeppelin)` - `IsFanOf(Rachel, The Beatles)` - `IsFanOf(Stephen, The Beatles)` - `¬IsFanOf(Stephen, The Rolling Stones)` We could even define `TraveledToByModeInYear` with a bunch of inputs: Let `TraveledToByModeInYear(p, d, m, y)` be the proposition that person p traveled to destination d by mode m in year y. The following statements are then true: - `TraveledToByModeInYear(Stephen, Richmond, car, 2017)` > "By the way, when I say you can give any input at all to a predicate, I mean any individual element from the domain of discourse. I don’t mean that a set of elements can be an input. This limitation is why it’s called ‘first-order’ predicate logic. If you allow sets to be inputs to predicates, it’s called ‘second-order predicate logic’, and can get quite messy." [^1]: The footnote text if needed. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 224 Context: # CHAPTER 8. LOGIC ## Order matters When you're facing an intimidating morass of \( \forall \)s and \( \exists \)s and \( \vee \)s and \( \wedge \)s, and God knows what else, it's easy to get lost in the sauce. But you have to be very careful to dissect the expression to find out what it means. Consider this one: \[ \forall x \in \mathbb{R}, \exists y \in \mathbb{R} \quad y = x + 1. \] (8.5) This statement is true. It says that for every single real number (call it \( x \)), it's true that you can find some other number (call it \( y \)) that's one greater than it. If you generate some examples it's easy to see this is true. Suppose we have the real number \( x = 5 \). Is there some other number \( y \) that's equal to \( 2 + x \)? Of course, the number 6. What if \( x = -32.4 \)? Is there a number \( y \) that satisfies this equation? Of course, \( y = -31.4 \). Obviously not matter what number \( x \) we choose, we can find the desired number \( y \) just by adding one. Hence this statement is true for all \( x \), just like it says. What happens, though, if we innocently switch the order of the quantifiers? Let's try asserting this: \[ \exists y \in \mathbb{R}, \forall x \in \mathbb{R} \quad y = x + 1. \] (8.6) Is this also true? Look carefully. It says “there exists some magic number \( y \) that has the following amazing property: no matter what value of \( x \) you choose, this \( y \) is one greater than \( x \)!” Obviously this is not true. There is no such number \( y \). If I choose \( y = 13 \), that works great as long as I choose \( x = 12 \), but for any other choice of \( x \), it’s dead in the water. ## The value of precision This fluency with the basic syntax and meaning of predicate logic was our only goal in this chapter. There are all kinds of logical rules that can be applied to predicate logic statements in order to #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 229 Context: # 8.3. EXERCISES 28. True or false: ¬∀x Human(x). **True.** This says “it’s not the case that everyone and everything is human.” And that certainly is not the case. 29. True or false: ∀x Human(x). **False.** This says “nothing is human,” which is clearly not true. (Consider yourself as a counterexample). 30. True or false: ∃x ¬Human(x). **True.** This says “there’s at least one thing in the universe which is not human.” (Consider your lunch). 31. True or false: ¬∃x Human(x). **False.** This says “nothing is human,” just like item 29 did. 32. True or false: ∀x Human(x) → Professor(x). **Not even close.** This says “everything in the universe is a human professor.” (Even though I would exist in such a world, what a world, indeed, as it would be). 33. True or false: ∀x Human(x) → Professor(x). **False.** This says “every person is a professor.” (Consider LeBron James.) Keep in mind: “→” and “∧” don’t really play well together. 34. True or false: ∃x Professor(x) → Human(x). **This is technically true, but for a stupid reason, and whoever wrote it almost certainly didn't intend what they wrote.** It says, “there’s at least one thing in the universe which either (a) isn’t a professor, or (b) if it is a professor, is also human.” Keep in mind: “∃” and “→” don’t really play well together. To drill this lesson home, realize that you could substitute almost any predicates for Professor(x) and Human(x) in that statement and it would still be true. (Try swapping out Professor(x) for Condition(x) and Human(x) for AstrologicalSign(x). Now try ∃ EuropeanUnion x: the statement is true. The U.S. is not a member, nor is it an astrological sign, so both sides of the implication are false, and never forget: false = false = true.) #################### 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: 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: 254 Context: ``` # CHAPTER 9. PROOF - Cantor, Georg, 7, 12, 17 - capacity (of a byte), 182 - cardinality (of sets), 16, 25, 28, 66 - Carroll, Lewis, 227 - carry-in, 189 - carry-out, 189 - Cartesian product (of sets), - 19, 35 - chess, 114 - child (of a node), 115 - closed interval, 61 - codomain (of a function), 45 - collectively exhaustive, 26 - combinations, 154 - combinators, 25, 141 - commutative, 18, 20, 71 - compilers, 114 - complement laws (of sets), - 21 - complement, partial (of sets), - 18 - complement, total (of sets), - 18, 65, 146, 162 - complete binary tree, 121 - conclusion (of implication), 200 - conditional probability, - 68, 72, 74, 78 - congruent, 173 - conjunction, 199, 208 - connected (vertices/graphs), - 89, 95 - coordinates, 15 - curly brace notation, 11 - cycles, 90 ## DAGs (directed acyclic graphs), 90 - data structures, 85 - Davies family, 8, 9, 26, 147, 154 - De Morgan's laws, 21, 22, 207, 208 - decimal numbers, 165, 169, 173, 178 - degree (of a vertex), 90 - depth (of a node), 115 - dequeuing, 95 - descendant (of a node), 115 - DFT (depth-first traversal), 99, 101 ## Dijkstra's algorithm, 101, 104 - Dijkstra, Edsger, 101 - direct proof, 227 - directed graphs, 88, 91 - disjunction, 199, 208, 226 - disjunctive syllogism, 226 - disk sectors, 156 - distributive, 20, 208, 227 - domain (of a function), 45 - domain of discourse (?), 9, - 19, 21, 27, 60, 210 - domination laws (of sets), 21 - dominors, 234 - drinking age, 232, 234 - duplicates (in sets), 13 - edges, 86, 87 - elements (of sets), 8, 15, 23 - ellipses, 12 - empty graph, 87 - empty set, 9, 16, 21, 24, 25, - 36, 114 - endorelations, 38, 93 ``` #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 257 Context: 9.4. FINAL WORD ================= - ordered triples, 15 - org charts, 113 - outcomes, 60, 62 - overflow, 188 P = NP?, 244 parent (of a node), 114 partial orders, 43 partial permutations, 151, 154 partitions, 26, 71, 94 Pascal's triangle, 157 passwords, 146 paths (in a graph), 88, 113 perfect binary tree, 122, 239 permutations, 147 PINs, 143 poker, 160 pop (off a stack), 99 posts, 43 post-order traversal, 118 postulates, 226 power sets, 24, 36 pre-order traversal, 117 predicates, 210, 211, 232 predicate logic, 210 premise (of implication), 200 Prim's algorithm, 107 Prime, Robert, 107 prior probability, 68 probability measures, 61, 63, 65 product operator (II), 142, 160 proof, 223 proof by contradiction, 229 propositional logic, 197, 225 propositions, 197, 210 - psychology, 70, 86 - push (on a stack), 99 - quantifiers, 212, 215 - queue, 95, 97 - quotient, 173, 174 - range (of a function), 48 - rational numbers (ℝ), 17, 24 - reachable, 89 - real numbers (ℝ), 71, 94 - rebalancing (a tree), 132 - recursion, 116, 120, 149, 231 - red-black trees, 133 - reflexive (relation), 40, 43 - relations, finite, 39 - relations, infinite, 39 - remainder, 173, 174 - right child, 116 - root (of a tree), 112, 114 - rooted trees, 112, 134 - Russell's paradox, 15 - sample space (Ω), 60 - semantic network, 87 - set operators, 18 - set-builder notation, 11 - sets, 8, 93 - sets of sets, 15 - sets, finite, 12 - sets, fuzzy, 10 - sets, infinite, 12 - sibling (of a node), 115 - signs-magnitude binary numbers, 183, 189 **Sonic the Hedgehog**, 73 - southern states, 72 - spatial positioning, 92, 113 #################### File: Algebraic%20Topology%20ATbib-ind.pdf Page: 5 Context: # Bibliography R. 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MOORE, On the structure of Hopf algebras, *Ann. of Math.* 81 (1965), 211–264. #################### File: Algebraic%20Topology%20ATbib-ind.pdf Page: 11 Context: # Index - orientation class 236 - orthogonal group \(O(n)\) 292, 308, 435 - \(p\)-adic integers 313 - path 25 - path lifting property 60 - pathspace 407 - permutation 68 - plus construction 374, 420 - Poincaré 130 - Poincaré conjecture 390 - Poincaré duality 241, 245, 253, 335 - Poincaré series 230, 437 - Pontryagin product 287, 298 - Postnikov tower 354, 410 - primary obstruction 419 - primitive element 284, 298 - principal fibration 412, 420 - prism 112 - product of CW complexes 8, 524 - product of \(A\)-complexes 278 - product of paths 26 - product of simplices 278 - product space 34, 268, 343, 531 - projective plane 51, 102, 106, 208, 379 - projective space: complex 6, 140, 212, 226, 230, 250, 282, 322, 380, 439, 491 - projective space: quaternion 222, 226, 230, 250, 322, 378, 380, 439, 491, 492 - projective space: real 6, 74, 88, 144, 154, 180, 212, 230, 250, 322, 439, 491 - properly discontinuous 72 - pullback 406, 433, 461 - Puppe sequence 398, 409 - pushout 461, 466 - quasi-circle 79 - quasifibration 479 - quaternion 75, 173, 281, 294, 446 - Quillen 374 - quotient CW complex 8 - rank 42, 146 - realization 457 - reduced cohomology 199 - reduced homology 110 - reduced suspension 12, 395 - rel 3, 16 - relative boundary 115 - relative cohomology 199 - relative cycle 115 - relative homology 115 - relative homotopy group 343 - reparametrization 27 - retraction 3, 36, 114, 148, 525 - Schoenflies theorem 169 - section 253, 438, 503 - semilocally simply-connected 63 - sheet 56, 61 - short exact sequence 114, 116 - shrinking wedge 49, 54, 63, 79, 258 - shuffle 278 - simplex 9, 102 - simplicial approximation theorem 177 - simplicial cohomology 202 - simplicial complex 107 - simplicial homology 106, 128 - simplicial map 177 - simply-connected 28 - simply-connected 4-manifold 430 - singular complex 108 - singular homology 108 - singular simplex 108 - skeleton 5, 519 - slant product 280 - smash product 10, 219, 270 - spectrum 454 - sphere bundle 442, 444 - Spin\(n\) 291 - split exact sequence 147 - stable homotopy group 384, 452 ########## """QUERY: what are the document in your context?""" 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