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Osvaldo Simeone Department of Informatics King’s College London osvaldo.simeone@kcl.ac.uk #################### File: A%20Brief%20Introduction%20to%20Machine%20Learning%20for%20Engineers%20-%20Osvaldo%20Simeone%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 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: 8 Context: 2. Notation ============== - The notation log represents the logarithm in base two, while ln represents the natural logarithm. - \( \mathbf{x} \sim \mathcal{N}(\boldsymbol{\mu}, \Sigma) \) indicates that random vector \(\mathbf{x}\) is distributed according to a multivariate Gaussian distribution with mean vector \(\boldsymbol{\mu}\) and covariance matrix \(\Sigma\). The multivariate Gaussian pdf is denoted as \( \mathcal{N}(\mathbf{x} | \boldsymbol{\mu}, \Sigma) \) as a function of \(\mathbf{x}\). - \( \mathbf{x} \sim U[a,b] \) indicates that \(\mathbf{x}\) is distributed according to a uniform distribution in the interval [a, b]. The corresponding uniform pdf is denoted as \( U(a,b) \). - \( \delta(x) \) denotes the Dirac delta function or the Kronecker delta function, as clear from the context. - \( \|\mathbf{a}\|_2^2 = \sum_{i=1}^N a_i^2 \) is the quadratic, or \( l_2 \) norm of a vector \(\mathbf{a} = [a_1, \ldots, a_N]^T\). We similarly define the \( l_1 \) norm as \( \|\mathbf{a}\|_1 = \sum_{i=1}^N |a_i| \), and the \( l_0 \) pseudo-norm \( \|\mathbf{a}\|_0 \) as the number of non-zero entries of vector \(\mathbf{a}\). - \( I \) denotes the identity matrix, whose dimensions will be clear from the context. Similarly, I represents a vector of all ones. - \( \mathbb{R} \) is the set of real numbers; \( \mathbb{R}^+ \) the set of non-negative real numbers; \( \mathbb{R}^- \) the set of non-positive real numbers; and \( \mathbb{R}^N \) is the set of all vectors of \( N \) real numbers. - \( |S| \) represents the cardinality of a set \( S \). - \( \mathbf{Z} \) represents a set of random variables indexed by the integers \( k \in S \). #################### File: A%20Brief%20Introduction%20to%20Machine%20Learning%20for%20Engineers%20-%20Osvaldo%20Simeone%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 10 Context: # Acronyms | Acronym | Meaning | |---------|------------------------------------------------| | pmf | probability mass function | | PCA | Principal Component Analysis | | PPCA | Probabilistic Principal Component Analysis | | QDA | Quadratic Discriminant Analysis | | RBM | Restricted Boltzmann Machine | | SGD | Stochastic Gradient Descent | | SVM | Support Vector Machine | | rv | random variable or random vector (depending on the context) | | s.t. | subject to | | VAE | Variational AutoEncoder | | VC | Vapnik–Chervonenkis | | VI | Variational Inference | #################### File: A%20Brief%20Introduction%20to%20Machine%20Learning%20for%20Engineers%20-%20Osvaldo%20Simeone%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 11 Context: # Part I ## Basics #################### File: A%20Brief%20Introduction%20to%20Machine%20Learning%20for%20Engineers%20-%20Osvaldo%20Simeone%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 17 Context: # 1.3 Goals and Outline This monograph considers only passive and offline learning. ## 1.3 Goals and Outline This monograph aims at providing an introduction to key concepts, algorithms, and theoretical results in machine learning. The treatment concentrates on probabilistic models for supervised and unsupervised learning problems. It introduces fundamental concepts and algorithms by building on first principles, while also exposing the reader to more advanced topics with extensive pointers to the literature, within a unified notation and mathematical framework. Unlike other texts that are focused on one particular aspect of the field, an effort has been made here to provide a broad but concise overview in which the main ideas and techniques are systematically presented. Specifically, the material is organized according to clearly defined categories, such as discriminative and generative models, frequentist and Bayesian approaches, exact and approximate inference, as well as directed and undirected models. This monograph is meant as an entry point for researchers with a background in probability and linear algebra. A prior exposure to information theory is useful but not required. Detailed discussions are provided on basic concepts and ideas, including overfitting and generalization, Maximum Likelihood and regularization, and Bayesian inference. The text also endeavors to provide intuitive explanations and pointers to advanced topics and research directions. Sections and subsections containing more advanced material that may be regarded at a first reading are marked with a star (+). The reader will find here further discussions on computing platform or programming frameworks, such as map-reduce, nor details on specific applications involving large data sets. These can be easily found in a vast and growing body of work. Furthermore, rather than providing exhaustive details on the existing myriad solutions in each specific category, techniques have been selected that are useful to illustrate the most salient aspects. Historical notes have also been provided only for a few selected milestone events. Finally, the monograph attempts to strike a balance between the algorithmic and theoretical viewpoints. In particular, all learning algorithms are presented in a manner that emphasizes their theoretical foundations while also providing practical insights. #################### File: A%20Brief%20Introduction%20to%20Machine%20Learning%20for%20Engineers%20-%20Osvaldo%20Simeone%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 20 Context: # Introduction from *The Computer and the Brain*, 1958. #################### File: A%20Brief%20Introduction%20to%20Machine%20Learning%20for%20Engineers%20-%20Osvaldo%20Simeone%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 22 Context: ```markdown variables \( t_n \) are assumed to be dependent on \( x_n \), and are referred to as dependent variables, labels, or responses. An example is illustrated in Fig. 2.1. We use the notation \( \mathbf{x}_D = (x_1, \ldots, x_N)^T \) for the covariates and \( \mathbf{t}_D = (t_1, \ldots, t_N)^T \) for the labels in the training set \( D \). Based on this data, the goal of supervised learning is to identify an algorithm to predict the label \( t \) for a new, that is, as of yet unobserved, domain point \( x \). ![Figure 2.1: Example of a training set \( D \) with \( N = 10 \) points \( (x_n, t_n) \), \( n = 1, \ldots, N \).](path_to_image) The outlined learning task is clearly impossible in the absence of additional information on the mechanism relating variables \( z \) and \( t \). With reference to Fig. 2.1, unless we assume, say, that \( z \) and \( t \) are related by a function \( t = f(z) \) with some properties, such as smoothness, we have no way of predicting the label \( t \) for an unobserved domain point \( z \). This observation is formalized by the no free lunch theorem to be reviewed in Chapter 5: one cannot learn rules that generalize to unseen examples without making assumptions about the mechanism generating the data. The set of all assumptions made by the learning algorithm is known as the inductive bias. This discussion points to a key difference between memorizing and learning. While the former amounts to mere retrieval of a value \( t_n \), ``` #################### File: A%20Brief%20Introduction%20to%20Machine%20Learning%20for%20Engineers%20-%20Osvaldo%20Simeone%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 23 Context: 2.2. Inference ==================== Corresponding to an already observed pair \((x_t, y_t) \in \mathcal{D}\), learning entails the capability to predict the value \(t\) for an unseen domain point \(x\). Learning, in other words, converts experience – in the form of \(\mathcal{D}\) – into expertise or knowledge – in the form of a predictive algorithm. This is well captured by the following quote by Jorge Luis Borges: “To think is to forget details, generalize, make abstractions.” [138] By and large, the goal of supervised learning is that of identifying a predictive algorithm that minimizes the generalization loss, that is, the error in the prediction of a new label \(t\) for an unobserved explanatory variable \(x\). How exactly to formulate this problem, however, depends on one’s viewpoint on the nature of the model that is being learned. This leads to the distinction between the frequentist and the Bayesian approaches, which is central to this chapter. As will be discussed, the MDL philosophy deviates from the mentioned focus on prediction as the goal of learning, by targeting instead a parsimonious description of the data set \(\mathcal{D}\). ### 2.2 Inference Before we start our discussion of learning, it is useful to review some basic concepts concerning statistical inference, as they will be needed throughout this chapter and in the rest of this monograph. We specifically consider the inference problem of predicting a \(y\) given the observation of another \(x\) under the assumption that their joint distribution \(p(x, y)\) is known. As a matter of terminology, it is noted that here we will use the term “inference” as it is typically intended in the literature on probabilistic graphical models (see, e.g., [81]), thereby diverging from its use in other branches of the machine learning literature (see, e.g., [23]). In order to define the problem of optimal inference, one needs to define a non-negative loss function \(\ell(t, \hat{t})\). This defines the cost, or loss or risk, incurred when the correct value is \(t\) while the estimate is \(\hat{t}\). An important example is the \(\ell_t\) loss: \[ \ell_t(\hat{t}) = |t - \hat{t}|, \quad (2.1) \] which includes as a special case the quadratic loss \(\ell_q(t, \hat{t}) = (t - \hat{t})^2\). #################### File: A%20Brief%20Introduction%20to%20Machine%20Learning%20for%20Engineers%20-%20Osvaldo%20Simeone%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 49 Context: # 2.5. Minimum Description Length (MDL) In a gray scale image, fix some probability mass function (pmf) \( p(x) \) on this alphabet. A key result in information theory states that it is possible to design a lossless compression scheme that uses \( [-\log p(x)] \) bits to represent value \( x \). By virtue of this result, the choice of a probability distribution \( p(x) \) is akin to the selection of a lossless compression scheme that produces a description of around \( -\log p(x) \) bits to represent value \( x \). Note that the description length \( -\log p(x) \) decreases with the probability assigned by \( p(x) \) to value \( x \): more likely values under \( p(x) \) are assigned a smaller description. Importantly, a decoder would need to know \( p(x) \) in order to recover \( x \) from the bit description. At an informal level, the MDL criterion prescribes the selection of a model that compresses the training data to the shortest possible description. In other words, the model selected by MDL defines a compression scheme that describes the data set \( D \) with the minimum number of bits. As such, the MDL principle can be thought of as a formalization of Occam’s razor: choose the model that yields the simplest explanation of the data. As we will see below, this criterion naturally leads to a solution that penalizes overfitting. ### What is the length of the description of a data set \( D \) that results from the selection of a specific value of \( M \)? The answer is not straightforward, since, for a given value of \( M \), there are as many probability distributions as there are values for the corresponding parameters \( \theta \) to choose from. A formal calculation of the description length would hence require the introduction of the concept of universal compression for a given probabilistic model \( \theta \). Here, we will limit ourselves to a particular class of universal codes known as two-part codes. Using two-part codes, we can compute the description length for the data \( D \) that results from the choice of a model over \( M \) as follows. First, we obtain the ML solution \( (m_{ML}, \hat{\theta}_{ML}) \). Then, we describe the data set by using a compression scheme defined by the probability \( p(x | m_{ML}, \hat{\theta}_{ML}) \). As discussed, this pro- #################### File: A%20Brief%20Introduction%20to%20Machine%20Learning%20for%20Engineers%20-%20Osvaldo%20Simeone%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 50 Context: ``` 44 # A Gentle Introduction through Linear Regression Produces a description of approximately $$ - \sum_{n=1}^{N} \log{p(y_n | x_n, w_{ML}, \beta_{ML})} $$ bits. This description is, however, not sufficient, since the decoder of the description should also be informed about the parameters $(w_{ML}, \beta_{ML})$. Using quantization, the parameters can be described by means of a number $C(M)$ of bits that is proportional to the number of parameters, here $M + 2$. Concatenating these bits with the description produced by the ML model yields the overall description length $$ - \sum_{n=1}^{N} \log{p[y_n | x_n, w_{ML}, \beta_{ML}]} + C(M). \quad (2.39) $$ MDL – in the simplified form discussed here – selects the model order $M$ that minimizes the description length (2.39). Accordingly, the term $C(M)$ acts as a regularizer. The optimal value of $M$ for the MDL criterion is hence the result of the trade-off between the minimization of the overhead $C(M)$, which calls for a small value of $M$, and the minimization of the NLL, which decreases with $M$. Under some technical assumptions, the overhead term can be often evaluated in the form $$ \left( \frac{K}{2} \right) N \log N + c, $$ where $K$ is the number of parameters in the model and $c$ is a constant. This expression is not quite useful in practice, but it provides intuition about the mechanism used by MDL to combat overfitting. ## 2.6 Information-Theoretic Metrics We now provide a brief introduction to information-theoretic metrics by leveraging the example studied in this chapter. As we will see in the following chapters, information-theoretic metrics are used extensively in the definition of learning algorithms. Appendix A provides a detailed introduction to information-theoretic measures in terms of inferential tasks. Here we introduce the key metrics of Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence and entropy by examining the asymptotic behavior of ML in the regime of large $N$. The case with finite $N$ is covered in Chapter 6 (see Sec. 6.4.3). ``` #################### File: A%20Brief%20Introduction%20to%20Machine%20Learning%20for%20Engineers%20-%20Osvaldo%20Simeone%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 56 Context: 50 # A Gentle Introduction through Linear Regression When the number of data points goes to infinity; while the latter is parameterized and is subject to optimization. For this reason, divergence metrics between the two distributions play an important role in the development of learning algorithms. We will see in the rest of the monograph that other frequentist methods may involve a single distribution rather than two, as discussed in Sec. 6.6 or an additional, so-called variational distribution, as covered in Sec. 6.3 and Chapter 8. In contrast, Bayesian methods posit a single coherent distribution over the data and the parameters, and frame the learning problem as one of inference of unobserved variables. As we will discuss in Chapter 8, variational Bayesian methods also introduce an additional variational distribution and are a building block for frequentist learning in the presence of unobserved variables. The running example in this chapter has been one of linear regression for a Gaussian model. The next chapter provides the necessary tools to construct and learn more general probabilistic models. #################### File: A%20Brief%20Introduction%20to%20Machine%20Learning%20for%20Engineers%20-%20Osvaldo%20Simeone%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 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: 66 Context: ``` where we have defined the cumulative sufficient statistics $$ u_k(z_P) = \frac{1}{N} \sum_{n=1}^N u_k(x_n), \quad k = 1, \ldots, K. $$ (3.25) and the vector $$ u(z_P) = [u_1(x_P) \cdots u_K(x_P)]^T. $$ A first important observation is that the LL function only depends on the $K$ statistics $u_k(x_P)$, $k = 1, \ldots, K$. Therefore, the vector $u(x_P)$ is a sufficient statistic for the estimate of $\theta$ given the observation $z_P$. Importantly, vector $u(x_P)$ is of size $K$, and hence it does not grow with the size $N$ of the data set. In fact, the exponential family turns out to be unique in this respect: Informally, among all distributions whose support does not depend on the parameters, only distributions in the exponential family have sufficient statistics whose number does not grow with the number $N$ of observations (Koopman-Pitman-Darling theorem) [7]. ### Gradient of the LL function A key result that proves very useful in deriving learning algorithms is the expression of the gradient of the LL (3.24) with respect to the natural parameters. To start, the partial derivative with respect to $\theta_k$ can be written as $$ \frac{\partial \ln p(z|x_P)}{\partial \theta_k} = u_k(x_P) - \frac{\partial A(\eta)}{\partial \theta_k} $$ (3.26) Using (3.9) and (3.10), this implies that we have $$ \frac{1}{N} \frac{\partial \ln p(z|x_P)}{\partial \theta_k} = \frac{1}{N} u_k(x_P) - \mu_k, $$ (3.27) and for the gradient $$ \frac{1}{N} \nabla_{\theta} \ln p(x_P) = \frac{1}{N} u(z_P) - \mu $$ $$ = \frac{1}{N} \sum_{n=1}^N u(x_n). $$ (3.28) The gradient (3.28) is hence given by the difference between the empirical average $$ \frac{1}{N} \sum_{n=1}^N u(x_n) $$ of the sufficient statistics given the data $x_P$ and the ensemble average $\mu$. ``` #################### 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: 79 Context: # 3.8 Some Advanced Topics* With energy-based models, the key formula (3.28) of the gradient of the LL with respect to the model's parameters generalizes as $$ \frac{1}{N} \nabla_{n} \ln p(z | \eta) = - \frac{1}{N} \sum_{n=1}^{N} \nabla_{n} E_{c}(z_{n} | \eta) + \sum_{c} E_{c} - p(z_{c}) \nabla_{n} E_{c}(x_{i}). $$ (3.58) Generalizing the discussion around (3.28), the first term in (3.58) is the “positive” component that points in a direction that minimizes the energy of the observations \( x_{i} \); while the second term is the “negative” component that pushes up the energy of the unobserved configurations. In gradient-ascent methods, the application of the first term is typically referred to as the positive phase, while the second is referred to as the negative phase. (The negative phase is even taken by some authors to model the working of the brain while dreaming!) [56] While for the exponential family the expectation in the negative phase readily yields the mean parameters, for more general models, the evaluation of this term is generally prohibitive and typically requires Monte Carlo approximations, which are discussed in Chapter 8. ## 3.8 Some Advanced Topics* The previous sections have focused on the important class of parametric probabilistic models in the exponential family. Here we briefly put the content of this chapter in the broader context of probabilistic models for machine learning. First, it is often useful to encode additional information about the relationships among the model variables by means of a graphical formalism that will be discussed in Chapter 7. Second, the problem of learning the distribution of given observations, which has been studied here using parametric models, can also be tackled using a non-parametric approach. Accordingly, the distribution is inferred making only assumptions regarding its local smoothness. Typical techniques in this family include Kernel Density Estimation and Nearest Neighbor Density Estimation (see, e.g., [140]). Furthermore, rather than learning individual probability densities, in some applications, it is more useful to directly estimate ratios of densities. This is the case, for instance, when one wishes to estimate the #################### File: A%20Brief%20Introduction%20to%20Machine%20Learning%20for%20Engineers%20-%20Osvaldo%20Simeone%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 92 Context: ``` 86 Classification The loss function is defined as $$ \ell(t(x, \hat{w})) = \max(0, -t \cdot a(x, \hat{w})) $$ (4.12) The perceptron process assigns zero cost to a correctly classified example \( x \), whose functional margin \( t \cdot a(x, \hat{w}) \) is positive, and a cost equal to the absolute value of the functional margin for a misclassified example, whose functional margin is negative. A comparison with the 0-1 loss is shown in Fig. 4.4. The perceptron algorithm tackles problem (4.11) with \( \lambda = 0 \) via SGD with mini-batch size \( S = 1 \). The resulting algorithm works as follows. First, the weights \( \hat{w}^{(0)} \) are initialized. Then, for each iteration \( i = 1, 2, \ldots \): 1. Pick a training example \( (x_n, t_n) \) uniformly with replacement from \( D \): - If the example is correctly classified, i.e., if \( t_n a(x_n, \hat{w}^{(i)}) \geq 0 \), do not update the weights: $$ \hat{w}^{(i)} = \hat{w}^{(i-1)}. $$ - If the example is not correctly classified, i.e., if \( t_n a(x_n, \hat{w}^{(i)}) < 0 \), update the weights as: $$ \hat{w}^{(i)} = \hat{w}^{(i-1)} - \nabla_{\hat{w}} \ell(t_n, a(x_n, \hat{w}^{(i)})) \big|_{\hat{w} = \hat{w}^{(i-1)}} = \hat{w}^{(i-1)} + t_n a(x_n, \hat{w}^{(i-1)}). $$ (4.13) It can be proved that, at each step, the algorithm reduces the term \( \ell(t_n, a(x_n, \hat{w})) \) in the perception loss related to the selected training example even if the latter is misclassified. It can also be shown that, if the training set is linearly separable, the perceptron algorithm finds a weight vector \( \hat{w} \) that separates the two classes exactly in a finite number of steps [23]. However, convergence can be slow. More importantly, the perceptron fails on training sets that are not linearly separable, such as the XOR training set \( D = \{(0, 0), (0, 1), (1, 0), (1, 1)\} \) [97]. This realization came as a disappointment and contributed to the first soc-called AI winter period characterized by a reduced funding for AI and machine learning research [154]. ## Support Vector Machine (SVM) SVM, introduced in its modern form by Cortes and Vapnik [37] in 1995, was among the main causes for a renewal of interest in machine learning. ``` #################### File: A%20Brief%20Introduction%20to%20Machine%20Learning%20for%20Engineers%20-%20Osvaldo%20Simeone%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 98 Context: ``` ## 4.4.2 Learning Consider first ML. The NLL function can be written as \[ -\ln p(t|x, \mathbf{w}) = -\sum_{n=1}^{N} \ln p(t_n|x_n, \mathbf{w}) \tag{4.23} \] \[ = -\sum_{n=1}^{N} \{t_n \ln(y_n) + (1 - t_n) \ln(1 - y_n)\} \tag{4.24} \] where we have defined \(y_n = \sigma(\mathbf{w}^T \phi(x_n))\). The NLL (4.23) is also referred to as the cross-entropy loss criterion, since the term \(-t_n \ln(y_n) - (1 - t_n) \ln(1 - y_n)\) is the cross-entropy \(H(t_n || y_n) = -\sum_{i} t_i \ln(y_i)\) (see Sec. 2.6). We note that the cross-entropy can be used to obtain upper bounds on the probability of error (see, e.g., [50]). The ML problem of minimizing the NLL is convex (see Sec. 3.1), and hence it can be solved either directly using convex optimization tools, or by using iterative methods such as SGD or Newton (the latter yields the iterative reweighted least squares algorithm [23, p. 207]). The development of these methods leverages the expression of the gradient of the LL function (3.28) (used with \(N = 1\) for the exponential family). To elaborate, using the chain rule for differentiation, we can write the gradient \[ \nabla_{\mathbf{w}} p(t | x, \mathbf{w}) = \nabla_{t} \text{Bern}(t_n) |_{t_n=t} \cdot \nabla_{\mathbf{w}} \sigma(\mathbf{w}^T \phi(x_n)) \tag{4.25} \] which, recalling that \(\nabla_{\ln(\text{Bern}(t_n))} = (t - \sigma(\cdot))\) (cf. (3.28)), yields \[ \nabla_{\mathbf{w}} p(t | \mathbf{w}) = (t - y) \sigma \tag{4.26} \] Evaluating the exact posterior distribution for the Bayesian approach turns out to be generally intractable due to the difficulty in normalizing the posterior \[ p(\mathbf{w}) \propto p(t) \prod_{n=1}^{N} p(t_n | x_n, \mathbf{w}) \tag{4.27} \] We refer to [23, pp. 217-220] for an approximate solution based on Laplace approximation. Other useful approximate methods will be discussed in Chapter 8. ``` #################### File: A%20Brief%20Introduction%20to%20Machine%20Learning%20for%20Engineers%20-%20Osvaldo%20Simeone%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 125 Context: ``` 5.2 PAC Learnability and Sample Complexity =========================================== In order to formally address the key question posed above regarding the learnability of a model \( \mathcal{H} \), we make the following definitions. As mentioned, for simplicity, we consider binary classification under the 0-1 loss, although the analysis can be generalized under suitable conditions [133]. ### Definition 5.2 A hypothesis class \( \mathcal{H} \) is PAC learnable if, for any \( \epsilon, \delta \in (0, 1) \), there exist an \( (N, \epsilon, \delta) \) PAC learning rule as long as the inequality \[ N \geq N_{\mathcal{H}}(\epsilon, \delta) \] is satisfied for some function \( N_{\mathcal{H}}(\epsilon, \delta) < \infty \). In words, a hypothesis class is PAC learnable if, as long as enough data is collected, a learning algorithm can be found that obtains any desired level of accuracy and confidence. An illustration of the threshold \( N_{\mathcal{H}}(\epsilon, \delta) \) can be found in Fig. 5.2. A less strong definition of PAC learnability requires (5.7) to hold only for all distributions \( p(x, t) \) that can be written as \[ p(x, t) = p(x)1(t = \hat{i}(x)) \] for some marginal distribution \( p(x) \) and for some hypothesis \( \hat{i}(x) \in \mathcal{H} \). The condition (5.9) is known as the realizability assumption, which implies that the data is generated from some mechanism that is included in the hypothesis class. Note that realizability implies the linear separability of any data set drawn from the true distribution for the class of linear predictors (see Chapter 4). A first proposition, and perhaps surprising, observation is that not all models are PAC learnable. As an extreme example of this phenomenon, consider the class of all functions from \( \mathbb{R}^d \) to \( \{0, 1\} \). By the no free lunch theorem, this class is not PAC learnable. In fact, given any amount of data, we can always find a distribution \( p(x, t) \) under which the PAC condition is not satisfied. Intuitively, even in the realizable case, knowing the correct predictor \( \hat{i}(x) \) in (5.9) for any number of ``` #################### File: A%20Brief%20Introduction%20to%20Machine%20Learning%20for%20Engineers%20-%20Osvaldo%20Simeone%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 134 Context: # Statistical Learning Theory For a richer model, it is more difficult to find a representative distribution \( q(x) \) that yields an average coding length close to the minimum \( H(p(x) || q(x)) \) for all values of \( x \). It turns out that the minimax redundancy equals the capacity \( C(p(x) || p(\theta)) \), which is defined as \( C(p(x) || p(\theta)) = \max_{q(x)} I(q; \theta) \) [38]. This is shown by the following sequence of equalities: \[ \Delta R(H) = \min_{q(x)} \max_{p(\theta)} \sum_{x} p(\theta) p(x | \theta) \log \frac{p(x | \theta)}{q(x)} \tag{5.27a} \] \[ = \max_{p(\theta)} \min_{q(x)} \sum_{x} p(\theta) p(x | \theta) \log \frac{p(x | \theta)}{q(x)} \tag{5.27b} \] \[ = \max_{p(\theta)} \sum_{x} p(\theta) p(x | \theta) \log \frac{p(x | \theta)}{p(x)} \tag{5.27c} \] \[ = C(p(x) || p(\theta)) \tag{5.27d} \] where the first equality follows since the average of a set of numbers is no larger than any of the numbers; the second is a consequence of the minimax theorem since the term \( \sum_{x} \sum_{y} p(\theta) p(x | \theta) \log \frac{q(x | \theta)}{q(x)} \) is convex in \( q \) and concave in \( p \); and the third equality follows by Gibbs' inequality (see Sec. 2.6 and A.5 in Appendix A). As a final note, the mutual information \( I(x; \theta) \) between model parameter and data also plays a central role in obtaining bounds on the performance of estimation [91]. #################### 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: 148 Context: # Unsupervised Learning The theorem can be provided via the importance sampling trick and Jensen's inequality. In fact, we can write: $$ \ln p(x | \theta) = \ln \left( \sum_q g(q, z | \theta) \frac{p(z, x | \theta)}{q(z | x)} \right) \tag{6.17a} $$ $$ = \ln \left( \sum_q p(z | x) \frac{q(z | x)}{q(z | x)} \right) \tag{6.17b} $$ $$ \geq \sum_{i} g(q_i) \ln \left( \frac{p(z_i, x | \theta)}{q(z_i | x)} \right) = L(q, \theta) \tag{6.17c} $$ where the first equality is just obtained by multiplying and dividing by \( q(z) \) - the importance sampling trick - and the last step is a consequence of Jensen's inequality. We recall that Jensen's inequality says that for any concave function \( f(x) \) where \( f' (x) = \ln(x) \), we have the inequality \( E[f(X)] \leq f(E[X]) \). We illustrate the just described properties of the ELBO via the following example. ## Example 6.2 Consider again the directed generative Bernoulli-Gaussian model (6.9). The posterior distribution of the latent variable given an observation \( x \) is given as: $$ p(z | x = 0, \theta) = \frac{\sqrt{N(0|0,1)}}{N(0|0,1) + N(0|1,1)} \tag{6.18} $$ Fix a parametrized variational distribution \( q(z | \theta) = \text{Bern}(\sigma(z)) \). Using (6.11), the ELBO is then given as: $$ L(q, \theta) = \mathbb{E}_q \left( \ln(N(0|0,1)+N(0|1,1)) + (1 - q) \cdot \left( \ln(N(0|0,1)) + H(q) \right) \right) \tag{6.19} $$ The theorem above says that, given any value of \( \theta \), the ELBO is a lower bound on the LL function, uniformly for all values of \( \theta \). Furthermore, this bound is tight, i.e., it equals the LL function, at all values of \( \theta \) for which the selected variational distribution \( q(z | \theta) \) equals the posterior of the hidden variables, that is, for which we have \( p(z | x = 1 | z = 0) \). This is shown in Figure 6.3, where we plot the LL and the ELBO. We see that indeed the ELBO is a uniform lower bound on the LL, which is #################### File: A%20Brief%20Introduction%20to%20Machine%20Learning%20for%20Engineers%20-%20Osvaldo%20Simeone%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 154 Context: ``` 6.4 Directed Generative Models In this section, we discuss directed generative models, in which, as seen in Fig. 6.1(a), one posits a parameterized prior \( p(z|\theta) \) of the latent variables \( z \) and a parameterized conditional decoding distribution \( p(x|z, \theta) \). As discussed, the goal can be that of learning the distribution \( p(x) \) of the true data to extract useful features \( z \). In the latter case, the use of directed generative model is referred to as performing analysis by synthesis. We first discuss two prototypical applications of EM to perform ML learning. We then outline an alternative approach, known as GAN, which can be thought of as a generalization of ML. Accordingly, rather than selecting a priority by ML, GANs learn at the same time divergence and generative model. Multi-layer extensions of generative directed models discussed here fall in the category of Helmholtz machines. We refer to, e.g., [42], for a discussion about the task of training these networks via an approximation of the EM algorithm, which uses tools covered in Chapter 8. 6.4.1 Mixture of Gaussians Model The mixture of Gaussians model can be described by the following directed generative model: \[ z_n \sim \text{Cat}(\pi) \tag{6.28a} \] \[ x_n | z_n = k \sim \mathcal{N}(\mu_k, \Sigma_k). \tag{6.28b} \] with parameter vector \( \theta = [\pi, \mu_1, \ldots, \mu_K, \Sigma_1, \ldots, \Sigma_K] \). We use one-hot encoding for the categorical variables \( z_n = [z_{n, 1}, \ldots, z_{n, K}] \). Note that this model can be thought of as an unsupervised version of the QDA model for the fully observed, or supervised, case studied in Sec. 4.6. ``` #################### File: A%20Brief%20Introduction%20to%20Machine%20Learning%20for%20Engineers%20-%20Osvaldo%20Simeone%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 160 Context: 154 # Unsupervised Learning The Jensen-Shannon divergence, among others, with specific choices of function \( g \) (see Appendix A). ## Generalizing the MI problem (6.37) GANs attempt to solve the problem \[ \min_{\phi} D_f(p_{\theta}(x)||p_{g}(\phi)). \] (6.40) More precisely, GANs parameterize the discriminator \( D_{\phi}(x) \) by choosing a differentiable function \( T_{\phi}(x) \) of the parameter vector \( \phi \). This effectively reduces the search space for the discriminator, and defines a different type of divergence for each value of \( \phi \). A typical choice for \( T_{\phi} \) is the output of a multi-layer neural network with weights \( \phi \) or a function thereof (see See 4.5). With this in mind, using (6.39) in (6.40), we obtain the minimax problem solved by GANs \[ \min \max_{x \sim p_{r}} [T_{\phi}(x)] - E_{x \sim p_{g}(\phi)}[T_{\phi}(x)]. \] (6.41) According to (6.41), GANs select the divergence measure adaptively through the optimization of the discriminator \( T_{\phi} \). Problem (6.41) can also be interpreted in terms of a strategic game played by generator and discriminator [57]. The original GAN method [57] operates by setting \( T(x) = D_{\phi}(x) \), where \( D_{\phi}(x) \) is the output of a multi-layer perceptron, and \( g(t) = -\log(1 - \exp(t)) \). A variation that is shown to be more useful in practice is also discussed in the first GAN paper (see [49]). As another popular example, Wasserstein GAN simply sets \( T(x) \) to be the output of a multi-layer perceptron and chooses \( g(t) = t - 1 \). ## Application to likelihood-free models GANs are typically used with likelihood-free models. Accordingly, the model distribution \( p_{\phi}(x) \) is written as \[ p_{\phi}(x) = \int \delta(x - G_{\phi}(z)) \sqrt{\rho(z)} \, dz. \] (6.42) 1. For a given function \( T(x) \), the right-hand side of (6.39), excluding the maximation, provides a lower bound on the divergence \( D_{y}(||\cdot||) \). Another useful related bound for the KL divergence is the so-called Donoho-Vandereylen representation (see, e.g., [51]). 2. The version of GAN given here is known as \(-GANs [107]\), which is a generalization of the original GAN. 3. It is noted that the GAN setup is reminiscent of the adversarial model used to define semantic security in cryptography. #################### File: A%20Brief%20Introduction%20to%20Machine%20Learning%20for%20Engineers%20-%20Osvaldo%20Simeone%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 168 Context: # Unsupervised Learning The function \( F_E(x) = W^T x \) and the decoder as \( G_D(z) = W z \). The parameters \( \theta \) are hence given by the \( D \times M \) matrix \( W \). By these definitions, the \( M \) columns of \( W \) have the interpretation of linear features as for PCA. With a quadratic loss function, the learning problem (6.53) is given as: \[ \min_{W} \frac{1}{N} \sum_{n=1}^{N} \|x_n - W W^T x_n\|^2 \] This problem can be solved in closed form. The solution is in fact given by the \( M \) principal eigenvectors of the sample covariance matrix \( N^{-1} \sum_{n=1}^{N} x_n x_n^T \). Extensions of PCA that use the kernel trick (Chapter 4) can be also devised (see, e.g., [104]). Furthermore, PCA can be seen to be a special case of dictionary learning by setting in the latter \( \mu = 0 \) and by taking the limit \( \sigma \to 0 \). ## Dictionary Learning In dictionary learning, the decoder is linear, i.e., \( G_D(z) = Wz \). However, the encoder is limited only by constraints on the set of feasible latent variables \( z \). A typical such constraint is sparsity: the latent vector should have a small number of non-zero elements. Defining as \( C \) the set of feasible values for \( z \), the dictionary learning problem can be formulated as: \[ \min_{z_n \in C} \frac{1}{N} \sum_{n=1}^{N} \|x_n - W z_n\|^2 \] The name of the method accounts for the fact that matrix \( W \) can be thought of as the dictionary of \( M \) features – its columns – that are used to describe the data. The problem above is typically solved using alternate optimization. Accordingly, one optimizes over \( W \) for a fixed set of latent vectors \( \{z_n\} \), which is a standard least squares problem; and then the optimizer over each latent vector \( z_n \) for a fixed matrix can be tackled by using standard sparsity-based methods, such as LASSO (Chapter 2). ## Multi-layer Autoencoders Multi-layer autoencoders.* One can also represent both encoder and decoder as multi-layer neural networks. In this case, the weights of encoder and decoders are typically tied to be the transpose of one another, in a manner similar to PCA. Training is often done first layer-by-layer, e.g., using RBM training, and then via backpropagation across the entire network [64]. #################### File: A%20Brief%20Introduction%20to%20Machine%20Learning%20for%20Engineers%20-%20Osvaldo%20Simeone%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 169 Context: # 6.8 Ranking ## Denoising autoencoders An alternative approach to facilitate the learning of useful features is that taken by denoising autoencoders [150]. Denoising autoencoders add noise to each input \( x_n \), obtaining a noisy version \( \tilde{x}_n \), and then train the machine with the aim of recovering the input \( x_n \) from its noisy version \( \tilde{x}_n \). Formally, this can be done by minimizing the empirical risk \( \sum_{n} \mathcal{L}(x_n, G_{\theta}(\tilde{x}_n)) \). ## Probabilistic autoencoders Instead of using deterministic encoder and decoder, it is possible to work with probabilistic encoders and decoders, namely \( p(z|x, \theta) \) and \( p(x|z, \theta) \), respectively. Treating the decoder as a variational distribution, learning can then be done by a variant of the EM algorithm. The resulting algorithm, known as Variational AutoEncoder (VAE), will be mentioned in Chapter 8. ## 6.8 Ranking We conclude this chapter by briefly discussing the problem of ranking. When one has available ranked examples, ranking can be formulated as a supervised learning problem [133]. Here, we focus instead on the problem of ranking a set of webpages based only on the knowledge of their underlying graph of mutual hyperlinks. This set-up may be considered as a special instance of unsupervised learning. We specifically describe a representative, popular, scheme known as PageRank [110], which uses solely the web of hyperlinks as a form of supervision signal to guide the ranking. To elaborate, we define the connectivity graph by including a vertex for each webpage and writing the adjacency matrix as: \[ L_{ij} = \begin{cases} 1 & \text{if page } j \text{ links to page } i \\ 0 & \text{otherwise} \end{cases} \] The outgoing degree of a webpage is given as: \[ C_j = \sum_{i} L_{ij}. \] PageRank computes the rank \( p_i \) of a webpage \( i \) as: \[ p_i = (1 - d) + d \sum_{j} \frac{L_{ji}}{C_j} p_j, \] where \( d \) is a damping factor. #################### File: A%20Brief%20Introduction%20to%20Machine%20Learning%20for%20Engineers%20-%20Osvaldo%20Simeone%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 173 Context: # 7.1 Introduction In this section, we start by discussing two examples that illustrate the type of structural information that can be encoded by means of probabilistic graphical models. We then provide an overview of this chapter. As illustrated by the two examples below, structured probabilistic models can be used to set up parametric models for both supervised and unsupervised learning. In the former case, all variables are observed in the training set, with some revs being inputs, i.e., covariates (\(x\)), and others being considered as outputs, or targets (\(y\)). In contrast, in the latter case, some variables are unobserved and play the role of latent variables (\(z\)) that help explain or generate the observed variables (\(y\)).[^1] ## Example 7.1 Consider the tasks of text classification via supervised learning or topic clustering via unsupervised learning. In the supervised learning case, the problem is to classify documents depending on their topic, e.g., sport, politics or entertainment, based on a set of labeled documents. With unsupervised learning, the problem is to cluster documents according to the similarity of their contents based on the sole observation of the documents themselves. A minimal model for this problem should include a variable \(t\) representing the topic and a variable \(x\) for the document. The topic can be represented by a categorical variable taking \(T\) values, i.e., \(t \in \{1, ... , T\}\), which is observed for supervised learning and latent for unsupervised learning. As for the document, with “bag-of-words” encoding, a set of \(W\) words of interest is selected, and a document is encoded as \(W \times 1\) binary vector \(z = [z_1, ..., z_W]^T\), where \(z_w = 1\) if word \(w\) is contained in the document.[^2] To start, we could try to use an unstructured directed model defined as \[ t \sim \text{Cat}(π) \tag{7.1a} \] \[ x | t \sim \text{Cat}(t) \tag{7.1b} \] [^1]: Strictly speaking, this distinction applies to the frequentist approach, since in the Bayesian approach the model parameters are always treated as unobserved random variables. [^2]: Note that \(W\) here does not represent a matrix of weights! #################### File: A%20Brief%20Introduction%20to%20Machine%20Learning%20for%20Engineers%20-%20Osvaldo%20Simeone%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 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: 206 Context: 200 # Approximate Inference and Learning can directly benefit from approximate inference in evaluating the posterior of the parameters and the variational posterior, we focus here on the frequentist viewpoint. ## ML Learning in the Presence of Hidden Variables ML learning in the presence of hidden variables can be approximated by maximizing the ELBO with respect to both the model parameters \( \theta \) that define the forward model \( p(z | x) \) and the parameters \( \phi \) of the variational (amortized) model \( q(z | x, \phi) \). To understand what is accomplished with this optimization, it is useful to write the ELBO over a data set \( D = \{x_n\}_{n=1}^N \) using (6.14) as \[ \sum_{n=1}^N \log p(x_n | \theta) - \text{KL}(q(z | x_n, \phi) \| p(z | x_n, \theta)). \tag{8.30} \] As such, for any fixed \( \phi \), optimizing the ELBO over \( \theta \) maximizes the likelihood function in the first term under a variational regularization term that penalizes posteriors \( p(z | x) \) that are significantly different from the selected variational posteriors \( q(z | x, \phi) \). The choice of a given model for the variational posterior hence drives learning, and should be treated as model or hyperparameter selection [68]. The maximization of the ELBO over both model and variational parameters can be carried out in different ways. As a first approach, one can use EM by performing the E step via approximate inference to evaluate the posterior of the latent variables. When V is used for this purpose, the resulting scheme is known as variational EM. Alternatively, one can use SGD with respect to both parameter vectors \( \theta \) and \( \phi \) by leveraging the REINFORCE method or the reparametrization trick. The reparametrization trick approach is for instance used in the VAE method for generative modelling [80], also known as Deep Generative Latent Models [122] (see also [99]). The KL divergence can also be substituted by an adversarially learned divergence as in the GAN approach [47] (see Sec. 6.4.3). When the variational parameters are updated using an M-projection, rather than the I-projection that results from the maximization of the ELBO, the approach of jointly optimizing model and variational parameters yields the wake-sleep algorithm [65]. #################### 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: 215 Context: A.1. Entropy 209 This is because the optimal estimate is the mode, i.e., the value ẋ with the largest probability p(ẋ). **Distributional Estimate.** We now consider a different type of estimation problem in which we are permitted to choose a pmf p(ẋ) on the alphabet X as the estimate for the outcome of variable x. To facilitate intuition, we can imagine p(ẋ) to represent the fraction of one’s wager that is invested on the outcome of x being a specific value x. Note that it may not be necessarily optimal to put all of one’s money on one value x'! In fact, this depends on how we measure the reward, or conversely the cost, obtained when a value x = x is realized. To this end, we define a non-negative loss function ℓ(ẋ, p̂x) representing the loss, or the “negative gain”, suffered when the value x = x is observed. This loss should sensibly be a decreasing function of p(ẋ) – we register a smaller loss, or conversely a larger gain, when we have wagered more on the actual outcome x. As a fairly general class of loss functions, we can hence define \[ ℓ(ẋ, p̂x) = f(p̂(x)), \] where f is a decreasing function. More general classes of loss functions are considered in [46]. Denote Δ(X) the simplex of pmfs defined over alphabet X. The generalized entropy can now be defined in a way that is formally equivalent to (A.1), with the only difference being the optimization over pmf p̂x, rather than over point estimate ẋ: \[ H(p̂x) = \min_{p ∈ Δ(X)} \mathbb{E}_{p_x}[ℓ(x, p̂x)]. \] A key example of loss function ℓ(ẋ, p̂x) in (A.3) is the log-loss ℓ(ẋ, p̂x) = - log(p̂(x)). The log-loss has a strong motivation in terms of lossless compression. In fact, as discussed in Sec. 2.5, by Kraft's inequality, it is possible to design a prefix-free and hence decodable without delay – lossless compression scheme that uses - log p̂(x) bits to represent value x. As a result, the choice of a pmf p̂x is linked to the selection of a prefix-free lossless compression scheme that requires a description of around - ln p(ẋ) bits to represent value x. The expectation in (A.4) measures the corresponding average number of bits required for lossless compression by the given scheme. #################### 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). Note that the Bregman divergence can be #################### File: A%20Brief%20Introduction%20to%20Machine%20Learning%20for%20Engineers%20-%20Osvaldo%20Simeone%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 223 Context: # Acknowledgements Osvaldo Simeone has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 725731). #################### File: A%20Brief%20Introduction%20to%20Machine%20Learning%20for%20Engineers%20-%20Osvaldo%20Simeone%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 230 Context: ```markdown # References [72] Jain, P. and P. Kar. 2017. “Non-convex Optimization for Machine Learning.” *Foundations and Trends® in Machine Learning*, 10(3-4): 142–336. ISSN: 1938-8237. [URL](http://dx.doi.org/10.1561/2200000075) [73] Jang, E.-S., Gu, and B. Poole. 2016. “Categorical reparameterization with gumbel-softmax.” *arXiv preprint arXiv:1611.01144.* [74] Jiao, J., T. A. Courtade, A. No, K. Venkat, and T. 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Conclusion ## Introduction In this document, we explore various topics under discrete mathematics. ## Concepts ### Sets - Definition - Notation - Operations ### Functions - Definition - Types of functions - Examples ### Relations - Definition - Properties | Concept | Description | |-----------|-----------------------------------| | Set | A collection of distinct objects | | Function | A relation from a set to itself | | Relation | A connection between two sets | ## Applications The concepts of discrete mathematics can be applied in various fields, including computer science, information technology, and combinatorial design. ## Conclusion Discrete mathematics provides fundamental knowledge required for numerous applications in modern science and technology. Image Analysis: ### Analysis of the Attached Visual Content #### 1. Localization and Attribution: - **Image Identification and Numbering:** - This is a single image and is referred to as **Image 1**. #### 2. Object Detection and Classification: - **Image 1:** - The image depicts a forest scene with several birch trees. - **Key Features of Detected Objects:** - **Trees:** The trees are characterized by their tall, slender trunks with distinctive white bark and dark horizontal markings typical of birches. - **Forest Ground:** There are grassy elements and what appears to be a forest floor with various green and brown patches. #### 3. Scene and Activity Analysis: - **Image 1:** - **Scene Description:** - The image is an artistic painting capturing a serene forest with several birch trees. - There is no human activity depicted; the scene is calm, evoking a sense of peace and natural beauty. #### 4. Text Analysis: - **Image 1:** - **Detected Text:** - Top: None - Bottom: - "A Cool Brisk Walk" (Title) - "Through Discrete Mathematics" (Subtitle) - "Version 2.2.1" (Version Information) - "Stephen Davies, Ph.D." (Author Name) - **Text Significance:** - The text suggests that this image is probably the cover of a book titled "A Cool Brisk Walk Through Discrete Mathematics" by Stephen Davies, Ph.D. The version number indicates it is version 2.2.1, signifying a possibly updated or revised edition. #### 8. Color Analysis: - **Image 1:** - **Color Composition:** - The dominant colors are various shades of green (foliage), white, and light brown (birch trunks), and a soft blue (background). - **Color Impact:** - The colors create a cool, calming effect, reflecting the serene mood of a walk through a quiet forest. #### 9. Perspective and Composition: - **Image 1:** - **Perspective:** - The image appears to be from a standing eye-level perspective, giving a natural view as one would see while walking through the forest. - **Composition:** - The birch trees are placed prominently in the foreground, with the background filled with dense foliage. The positioning of the text at the bottom complements the overall composition without distracting from the artwork. #### 10. Contextual Significance: - **Image 1:** - **Overall Document Context:** - As a book cover, the image serves the purpose of drawing the reader's attention. The serene and inviting forest scene combined with the title implies a gentle, inviting approach to the subject of discrete mathematics. The image successfully combines art with educational content, aiming to make the subject of discrete mathematics more appealing and accessible to the reader. The natural, calming scenery juxtaposed with an academic theme may suggest that the book intends to provide a refreshing perspective on a typically challenging subject. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 2 Context: Copyright © 2023 Stephen Davies. ## University of Mary Washington **Department of Computer Science** James Farmer Hall 1301 College Avenue Fredericksburg, VA 22401 --- Permission is granted to copy, distribute, transmit and adapt this work under a [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The accompanying materials at [www.allthemath.org](http://www.allthemath.org) are also under this license. If you are interested in distributing a commercial version of this work, please contact the author at [stephen@umw.edu](mailto:stephen@umw.edu). The LaTeX source for this book is available from: [https://github.com/divilian/cool-brisk-walk](https://github.com/divilian/cool-brisk-walk). --- Cover art copyright © 2014 Elizabeth M. Davies. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 3 Context: # Contents at a glance ## Contents at a glance - **Contents at a glance** …… i - **Preface** …… iii - **Acknowledgements** …… v 1. **Meetup at the trailhead** …… 1 2. **Sets** …… 7 3. **Relations** …… 35 4. **Probability** …… 59 5. **Structures** …… 85 6. **Counting** …… 141 7. **Numbers** …… 165 8. **Logic** …… 197 9. **Proof** …… 223 Also be sure to check out the forever-free-and-open-source instructional videos that accompany this series at [www.allthemath.org](http://www.allthemath.org)! #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 4 Context: I'm unable to process images. Please provide the text you'd like formatted in Markdown, and I can assist you with that. Image Analysis: Sure, let's analyze the provided visual content in detail according to the specified aspects: **Image 1:** ### 1. Localization and Attribution - **Image 1:** The only image on the page. ### 2. Object Detection and Classification - **Objects Detected:** - **Building:** A large building that appears to be a hotel or a residential complex. - **Street:** A surrounding street with sidewalks. - **Trees and Vegetation:** Trees and landscaping to the left and right of the building. - **Cars:** Multiple vehicles parked in front of the building. ### 3. Scene and Activity Analysis - **Scene Description:** The scene captures a large building with a classic architectural style, possibly a hotel or residential building, on a sunny day. There are several cars parked in front, and the surroundings include trees and well-maintained vegetation. - **Main Actors and Actions:** The building is the central actor, with no significant human presence visible. ### 4. Text Analysis - **Text Detected:** None within the image. ### 9. Perspective and Composition - **Perspective:** The image appears to be taken at eye level from a distance, offering a clear frontal view of the building. - **Composition:** The building is centrally placed, occupying most of the frame. The trees and cars on either side balance the composition and provide context. ### 8. Color Analysis - **Dominant Colors:** - **White/Cream:** The building's exterior. - **Green:** The trees and vegetation. - **Gray:** The pavement and cars. - **Impact on Perception:** The predominant white/cream color suggests cleanliness and elegance, while the green vegetation adds a sense of nature and calm. ### 6. Product Analysis - **Products Depicted:** The primary element is the building itself. - **Features:** Multi-story, numerous windows and balconies, classic architecture. - **Materials:** Likely concrete or brick with a stucco exterior. - **Colors:** Mainly white/cream with darker-colored windows and roofing. ### 10. Contextual Significance - **Overall Message:** The image likely aims to showcase the building, possibly for marketing or informational purposes, emphasizing its grandeur and well-maintained surroundings. - **Contribution to Theme:** It contributes to a theme of elegance, quality housing, or hospitality services. ### 7. Anomaly Detection - **Possible Anomalies:** None detected. The scene appears typical for this type of location. ### 11. Metadata Analysis - **Information Not Available:** No metadata is available to evaluate. --- This analysis covers all requested aspects based on the visual content provided. If there were specific elements or additional images, they could be analyzed similarly. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 5 Context: # Preface Discrete math is a popular book topic — start Googling around and you’ll find a zillion different textbooks about it. Take a closer look, and you’ll discover that most of these are pretty thick, dense volumes packed with lots of equations and proofs. They’re principled approaches, written by mathematicians and (seemingly) to mathematicians. I speak with complete frankness when I say I’m comforted to know that the human race is well covered in this area. We need smart people who can derive complex expressions and prove theorems from scratch, and I’m glad we have them. Your average computer science practitioner, however, might be better served by a different approach. There are elements to the discrete math mindset that a budding software developer needs experience with. This is why discrete math is (properly, I believe) part of the mandatory curriculum for most computer science undergraduate programs. But for future programmers and engineers, the emphasis should be different than it is for mathematicians and researchers in computing theory. A practical computer scientist mostly needs to be able to use these tools, not to derive them. She needs familiarity, and practice, with the fundamental concepts and the thought processes they involve. The number of times the average software developer will need to construct a proof in graph theory is probably near zero. But the times she'll find it useful to reason about probability, logic, or the principles of collections are frequent. I believe the majority of computer science students benefit most from simply gaining an appreciation for the richness and rigor of #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 7 Context: # Acknowledgements A hearty thanks to Karen Anewalt, Crystal Burson, Prafulla Giri, Tayyar Hussain, Jennifer Magee, Veena Ravishankar, Jacob Shtabnoy, and a decade's worth of awesome UMW Computer Science students for their many suggestions and corrections to make this text better! #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 8 Context: I'm unable to view images. Please provide the text in Markdown format for me to assist you. Image Analysis: ### Image Analysis: #### 1. **Localization and Attribution:** - **Image Number**: Image 1 #### 2. **Object Detection and Classification:** - **Detected Objects**: The image includes a cup of coffee on a saucer, three coffee beans, and some sparkles implying aroma or steam. - **Object Classification**: - **Cup of Coffee**: A central object, likely made of ceramic and filled with coffee. - **Coffee Beans**: Close to the cup, classifiable as roasted beans. - **Sparkles/Steam**: Above the cup, representing the aroma of the hot coffee. #### 3. **Scene and Activity Analysis:** - **Scene Description**: This image displays a cup of coffee on a saucer with coffee beans around it. Decorative sparkles or steam lines are depicted rising above the coffee, suggesting freshness or warmth. - **Activities**: No human activities observed; the focus is on the presentation of the coffee. #### 4. **Text Analysis:** - No text detected in this image. #### 5. **Diagram and Chart Analysis:** - Not applicable; no diagrams or charts are present in the image. #### 6. **Product Analysis:** - **Product**: A cup of coffee. - **Main Features**: - A white/neutral-colored ceramic cup and saucer filled with coffee. - Roasted coffee beans placed nearby, suggesting the quality or type of coffee used. - **Materials**: Ceramic cup and saucer, roasted coffee beans. - **Colors**: Predominantly brown (coffee and beans) and white (cup and saucer). #### 7. **Anomaly Detection:** - No anomalies detected; the elements are consistent with a typical coffee presentation. #### 8. **Color Analysis**: - **Dominant Colors**: Brown and white. - **Brown**: Evokes warmth and richness, associated with coffee and coffee beans. - **White**: Clean and neutral, ensures focus on the coffee. #### 9. **Perspective and Composition**: - **Perspective**: Bird’s eye view. - **Composition**: - Centralized with the cup of coffee as the main focus. - Balanced by the placement of coffee beans around the cup. - Decorative elements like sparkles/steam give a visual cue towards the coffee's freshness or aroma. #### 10. **Contextual Significance**: - The image can be used in contexts such as coffee advertisements, cafe menus, or articles about coffee. It emphasizes the quality and appeal of the coffee through its visual presentation. #### 11. **Metadata Analysis**: - No metadata available for analysis. #### 12. **Graph and Trend Analysis**: - Not applicable; no graphs or trends are present in the image. #### 13. **Graph Numbers**: - Not applicable; no data points or graph numbers are present in the image. ### Additional Aspects: #### **Ablaufprozesse (Process Flows)**: - Not applicable; no process flows depicted. #### **Prozessbeschreibungen (Process Descriptions)**: - Not applicable; no processes described. #### **Typen Bezeichnung (Type Designations)**: - Not applicable; no type designations specified. #### **Trend and Interpretation**: - Not applicable; no trends depicted. #### **Tables**: - Not applicable; no tables included. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 13 Context: # 1.1 EXERCISES 1. **What’s the opposite of concrete?** Abstract. 2. **What’s the opposite of discrete?** Continuous. 3. **Consider a quantity of water in a glass. Would you call it abstract, or concrete? Discrete, or continuous?** Concrete, since it’s a real entity you can experience with the senses. Continuous, since it could be any number of ounces (or liters, or tablespoons, or whatever). The amount of water certainly doesn’t have to be an integer. (Food for thought: since all matter is ultimately comprised of atoms, are even substances like water discrete?) 4. **Consider the number 27. Would you call it abstract, or concrete? Discrete, or continuous?** Abstract, since you can’t see or touch or smell “twenty-seven.” Probably discrete, since it’s an integer, and when we think of whole numbers we think “discrete.” (Food for thought: in real life, how would you know whether I meant the integer “27” or the decimal number “27.00”? And does it matter?) Clearly it’s discrete. Abstract vs. concrete, though, is a little tricky. If we’re talking about the actual transistor and capacitor that’s physically present in the hardware, holding a thing in charge in some little chip, then it’s concrete. But if we’re talking about the value “1” that is conceptually part of the computer’s currently executing state, then it’s really abstract just like 27 was. In this book, we’ll always be talking about bits in this second, abstract sense. 5. **Consider a bit in a computer’s memory. Would you call it abstract, or concrete? Discrete, or continuous?** Any kind of abstract object that has properties we can reason about. 6. **If math isn’t just about numbers, what else is it about?** Any kind of abstract object that has properties we can reason about. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 14 Context: I'm unable to assist with that. Image Analysis: ### Analysis of Attached Visual Content #### Image Identification and Localization - **Image 1**: Single image provided in the content. #### Object Detection and Classification - **Image 1**: - **Objects Detected**: - Female figurine resembling a prehistoric representation. - The figurine appears to be crafted from a terracotta or similar clay-like material. - **Classification**: - The object is classified under 'Artifacts' and 'Historical Objects'. - **Key Features**: - The sculpture has exaggerated female attributes including a prominent chest and belly, which are indicative of fertility symbols. - The face does not have detailed features, implying focus on bodily form rather than facial details. - The object seems ancient, slightly weathered, suggesting it to be an archaeological artifact. #### Scene and Activity Analysis - **Image 1**: - **Scene Description**: - The image shows a close-up of a single artifact against a neutral background, possibly for the purpose of highlighting the artifact itself. - **Activities**: - No dynamic activity; the object is displayed presumably for appreciation or study. #### Perspective and Composition - **Image 1**: - **Perspective**: - The image is taken from a straight-on, eye-level view, ensuring the object is the primary focus. - Close-up perspective to capture detailed features. - **Composition**: - The object is centrally placed, drawing immediate attention. - The background is plain and undistracting, enhancing the focus on the artifact itself. #### Contextual Significance - **Image 1**: - **Overall Contribution**: - The artifact could be used in educational, historical, or museum contexts to study prehistoric cultures, their art, and societal values. - As a fertility symbol, it contributes to understanding sociocultural aspects of ancient civilizations. #### Color Analysis - **Image 1**: - **Dominant Colors**: - Shades of brown and beige are dominant, corresponding to the natural materials like terracotta. - **Impact on Perception**: - The earthy tones evoke a sense of antiquity and authenticity, reinforcing the perception of it being an ancient artifact. ### Conclusion The provided image is of a terracotta or similar material female figurine, likely of prehistoric origin. It is depicted with a neutral background to focus on its significant features, in particular, the enhanced bodily features indicative of fertility representations. The composition and color tones effectively highlight its historical and cultural importance. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 22 Context: ``` # CHAPTER 2. SETS A program would run into problems if it tried to add a string of text to its cumulative total, or encountered a Product object in the middle of its list of Customers. Sets, though, can be heterogeneous, meaning they can contain different kinds of things. The Davies family example had all human beings, but nothing stops me from creating a set \( S = \{ \text{Jack Nicholson}, \text{Kim Kardashian}, \text{Universal Studios}, 5756, \star \} \). I don’t press this point too hard for a couple of reasons. First, most programming languages do allow heterogeneous collections of some sort, even if they’re not the most natural thing to express. In Java, you can define an `ArrayList` as a non-generic one that simply holds items of class “Object.” In C, you can have an array of void pointers to some unspecified type—which allows your array to point to different kinds of things. Unless it’s a loosely-typed language, though (like Perl or JavaScript), it sort of feels like you’re bending over backwards to do this. The other reason I make this distinction lightly is that when we’re dealing with sets, we often find it useful to deal with things of only one type, and so our \( S \) ends up being homogeneous anyway. ## 2.5 Sets are not ordered pairs (or tuples) You’ll remember from high school algebra the notion of an ordered pair \( (x, y) \). We dealt with those when we wanted to specify a point to plot on a graph: the first coordinate gave the distance from the origin on the x-axis, and the second coordinate on the y-axis. Clearly an ordered pair is not a set, because as the name implies it is ``` #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 24 Context: # CHAPTER 2. SETS as members³. Now is \( R \) a member of itself, or isn’t it? Either way you answer turns out to be wrong (try it!) which means that this whole setup must be flawed at some level. The good news is that as long as you don’t deal with this kind of self-referential loop (“containing yourself as a member”) then it’s pretty safe to try at home. Consider this set: \[ V = \{ 3, 5, \{ 5, 4 \}, 2 \} \] This set has four (not five) members. Three of \( V \)’s members are integers: 2, 3, and 5. The other one is a set (with no name given). That other set, by the way, has two members of its own: 4 and 5. If you were asked, “is \( 4 \in V \)?” the answer would be no. As a corollary to this, there’s a difference between \[ \emptyset \] and \[ \{ \emptyset \} \] The former is a set with no elements. The latter is a set with one element: and that element just happens to be a set with nothing in it. ## 2.7 Cardinality When we talk about the number of elements in a set, we use the word cardinality. You’d think we could just call it the “size” of the set, but mathematicians sometimes like words that sound cool. The cardinality of \( M \) (the set of males, where the Davies family is the domain of discourse) is 3, because there are three elements in it. The cardinality of the empty set \( \emptyset \) is 0. The cardinality of the set of all integers is \( \aleph_0 \). Simple as that. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 38 Context: ``` # CHAPTER 2. SETS 1. **Is Yoda ⊂ J?** No. Yoda isn't even a set, so it can't be a subset of anything. 2. **Is { Yoda } ⊆ J?** Yes. The { Yoda } set that contains only Yoda is in fact a subset of J. 3. **Is { Yoda } ∈ J?** No. Yoda is one of the elements of J, but { Yoda } is not. In other words, J contains Yoda, but J does not contain a set which contains Yoda (nor does it contain any sets at all, in fact). 4. **Is S ⊆ J?** No. 5. **Is G ⊆ F?** Yes, since the two sets are equal. 6. **Is G ⊂ F?** No, since the two sets are equal, so neither is a proper subset of the other. 7. **Is ∅ ⊆ C?** Yes, since the empty set is a subset of every set. 8. **Is ∅ ⊂ C?** Yes, since the empty set is a subset of every set. 9. **Is F ⊆ Ω?** Yes, since every set is a subset of Ω, and F is certainly not equal to Ω. 10. **Is F ⊂ Ω?** Yes and yes. The empty set is an element of X because it's one of the elements, and it's also a subset of X because it's a subset of every set. Hmmm... 11. **Suppose X = { Q, α, { Z } }. Is α ∈ X?** Yes. 12. **Let A = { Macbeth, Hamlet, Othello }. B = { Scrabble, Monopoly, Othello }, and T = { Hamlet, Village, Town }. What's A ∩ B?** { Othello }. 13. **What's A ∪ B?** { Macbeth, Hamlet, Othello, Scrabble, Monopoly } (The elements can be listed in any order). ``` #################### 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: 74 Context: # 4. PROBABILITY It’s the size (cardinality) of the event set that matters, and the ratio of this number to the total number of events is the probability. For example, if we deal from a fair deck, the probability of drawing a face card is: Pr(F) = \(\frac{|F|}{N}\) = \(\frac{|\{K♠, K♥, K♦, K♣, \ldots, J♠\}|}{52}\) = \(\frac{12}{52} = 0.231\) Please realize that this shortcut **only** applies when the probability of each outcome is the same. We certainly couldn’t say, for example, that the probability of a user’s password starting with the letter q is just \(\frac{1}{26}\) because passwords surely don’t contain all letters with equal frequency. (At least, I’d be very surprised if that were the case.) The only way to solve a problem like this is to know how often each letter of the alphabet occurs. ## 4.3 Philosophical Interlude Which brings me to an important question. How do we get these probability numbers, anyway? Everything so far has assumed that the numbers have been dropped into our lap. The answer depends somewhat on your interpretation of what probability means. If we say *“the probability of getting heads on a coin flip is 0.5,”* what are we really saying? There have traditionally been two opposing answers to this question, called the frequentist view and the Bayesian view. It’s interesting to compare their claims. The frequentist view is that we derive probabilities by simply running many trials and counting the results. The proportions of various outcomes yield a good idea of their probabilities, particularly if the sample size is large. Consider flipping a coin. If we flip a coin ten times and count three heads, we might not have a great #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 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: 113 Context: 5.1. GRAPHIS ================================= We've marked each node with a diamond containing the tentative shortest distance to it from Bordeaux. This is 0 for Bordeaux itself (since it’s 0 kilometers away from itself, duh), and infinity for all the others, since we haven't explored anything yet, and we want to start off as sensitively as possible. We'll update these distances to lower values as we find paths to them. We start with Bordeaux as the “current node,” marked in grey. In frame 2, we update the best-possible-path and the distance-of-that-path for each of Bordeaux’s neighbors. Nantes, we discover, is no longer “infinity away,” but a mere 150 km away, since there is a direct path to it from Bordeaux. Vicky and Toulouse are similarly updated. Note the heavy arrowed lines on the diagram, showing the best path (so far) to each of these cities from Bordeaux. Step 3 tells us to choose the node with the lowest tentative distance as the next current node. So for frame 3, Nantes fits the bill with a (tentative) distance of 150 km. It has only one unmarked neighbor, Paris, which we update with 450 km. Why 450? Because it took 150 to get from the start to Nantes, and another 300 from Nantes to Paris. After updating Paris, Nantes is now its own— we know we'll never encounter a better route to it than from Bordeaux directly. Frame 4 is our first time encountering a node that already has a non-infinite tentative distance. In this case, we don’t further update it, because our new opportunity (Bordeaux-to-Toulouse-to-Vichy) is 500 km, which is longer than going from Bordeaux to Toulouse direct. Lyon and Marseille are updated as normal. We now have two unmarked nodes that tie for shortest tentative distance: Paris and Vicky (450 km each). In this case, it doesn’t matter which one we choose. We’ll pick Vicky for no particular reason. Frame 5 then shows some interesting activity. We do not update the path to Paris; since it would be 800 km through Vichy, whereas Paris already had a much better 450 km path. Lyon is updated from infinity to 850 km, since we found our first path to it. But Lyon is the really interesting case. It already had a path — Bordeaux-to-Toulouse-to-Lyon — but that path was 800 km, and we have just found a better path: Bordeaux-to-Vichy-to-Lyon, which only #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 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: 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: 140 Context: # CHAPTER 5. STRUCTURES ``` Mitch / \ Jim Molly / \ / \ Randi Ben Owen Xander / \ Jennifer Jennifer ``` *Figure 5.29: The BST after removing Mitch.* ## Balancedness Finally, recall that this amazingly fast lookup is critically dependent on the tree being "bushy." Otherwise, the approximation that \( h = \log(l) \) breaks down. As a laughably extreme example, consider Figure 5.30, which contains the same nodes we’ve been using. This is a legitimate binary search tree! (Check it!) Yet looking up a node in this monstrosity is obviously not going to be any faster than looking it up in a plain-old list. We’re back to \( O(n) \) performance. In practice, there are three ways of dealing with this. One approach is to simply not worry about it. After all, as long as we’re inserting and removing nodes randomly, with no discernable pattern, the chances of obtaining a tree as lopsided as Figure 5.30 are astronomically small. It’s as likely as throwing a deck of cards up in the air and having it land all in a neat stack. The law of entropy tells us that we’re going to get a mix of short branches and long branches, and that in a large tree, the unbalancedness will be minimal. A second approach is to periodically rebalance the tree. If our website goes offline for maintenance every once in a while anyway, we could rebuild our tree from the ground up by inserting the nodes. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 150 Context: # 6.1 The Fundamental Theorem We start with a basic rule that goes by the audacious name of **The Fundamental Theorem of Counting**. It goes like this: If a whole can be divided into \( k \) parts, and there’s \( n_i \) choices for the \( i \)-th part, then there’s \( n_1 \times n_2 \times n_3 \times \cdots \times n_k \) ways of doing the whole thing. ## Example Jane is ordering a new Lamborghini. She has twelve different paint colors to choose from (including Luscious Red and Sassy Yellow), three different interiors (Premium Leather, Bonded Leather, or Vinyl), and three different stereo systems. She must also choose between automatic and manual transmission, and she can get power locks & windows (or not). How many different configurations does Jane have to choose from? To put it another way, how many different kinds of cars could come off the line for her? The key is that every one of her choices is independent of all the others. Choosing an Envious Green exterior doesn't constrain her choice of transmission, stereo, or anything else. So no matter which of the 12 paint colors she chooses, she can independently choose any of the three interiors, and no matter what these first two choices are, she can freely choose any of the stereos, etc. It’s a mix-and-match. Therefore, the answer is: \[ 12 \times 3 \times 3 \times 2 = 432 \] Here’s an alternate notation you’ll run into for this, by the way: **How many other "Fundamental Theorems" of math do you know?** Here are a few: the Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic says that any natural number can be broken down into its prime factors in only one way. The Fundamental Theorem of Algebra says that the highest power of a polynomial is how many roots (zeros) it has. The Fundamental Theorem of Linear Algebra says that the row space and the column space of a matrix have the same dimension. The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus says that integration and differentiation are the inverses of each other. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 151 Context: # 6.1. THE FUNDAMENTAL THEOREM which is just a shorter way of writing \[ n_1 \times n_2 \times n_3 \cdots \times n_k. \] As mentioned in section 4.5, the \( \Sigma \) notation is essentially a loop with a counter, and it says to add up the expression to the right of it for each value of the counter. The \( \Pi \) notation is exactly the same, only instead of adding the expressions together for each value of the counter, we're multiplying them. (The reason mathematicians chose the symbols \( \Sigma \) (sigma) and \( \Pi \) (pi) for this, by the way, is that “sigma” and “pi” start with the same letter as “sum” and “product,” respectively.) We can actually get a lot of leverage just with the fundamental theorem. How many different PINs are possible for an ATM card? There are four digits, each of which can be any value from 0 to 9 (ten total values), so the answer is: \[ 10 \times 10 \times 10 \times 10 = 10,000 \text{ different PINs.} \] So a thief at an ATM machine frantically entering PINs at random (hoping to break your account before you call and stop your debit card) would have to try about 5,000 of them on average before cracking the code. What about middle school bullies who are trying to break into your locker? Well, most combination locks are opened by a three-number sequence, each number of which is anything from 0 to 39. So there are: \[ 40 \times 40 \times 40 = 64,000 \text{ different combinations.} \] That's probably slightly overstated, since I'll bet consecutive repeat numbers are not allowed (Master probably doesn't manufacture a #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 154 Context: # CHAPTER 6. COUNTING or only about .006 times as many as before. Better stick with alphanumeric characters for all seven positions. ## A Simple Trick Sometimes we have something difficult to count, but we can turn it around in terms of something much easier. Often this involves counting the complement of something, then subtracting from the total. For instance, suppose a certain website mandated that user passwords be between 6-10 characters in length — every character being an uppercase letter, lowercase letter, digit, or special character (*, #, $, &, or @) — but it also required each password to have at least one digit or special character. How many passwords are possible? Without the “at least one digit or special character” part, it’s pretty easy: there are 26 + 26 + 10 + 5 = 67 different choices for each character, so we have: ``` 67¹⁰ + 67⁹ + 67⁸ + 67⁷ + 67⁶ = 1,850,456,557,795,600,384 strings. ``` But how do we handle the “at least one” part? One way would be to list all the possible ways of having a password with at least one non-alpha character. The non-alpha could appear in the first position, or the second, or the third, ..., or the tenth, but of course this only works for 10-digit passwords, and in any event it’s not like the other characters couldn’t also be non-alpha. It gets messy really fast. There’s a simple trick, though, once you realize that it’s easy to count the passwords that don’t satisfy the extra constraint. Ask yourself this question: out of all the possible strings of 6-10 characters, how many of them don’t have at least one non-alpha character? (and are therefore illegal, according to the website rules?) It turns out that’s the same as asking “how many strings are there with 6-10 alphabetic (only) characters?” which is of course: ``` 52⁶ + 52⁷ + 52⁸ + 52⁹ + 52¹⁰ = 147,389,619,103,536,384 (illegal) passwords. ``` #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 158 Context: # CHAPTER 6. COUNTING and so on. Once we have the **RISK** permutations, we can generate the **BRISK** permutations in the same way: | B | R | I | S | K | |---|---|---|---|---| | R | B | I | S | K | | R | I | B | S | K | | R | I | S | B | K | | B | I | R | S | K | | T | B | R | I | S | K | | I | R | B | S | K | | I | R | S | K | | I | S | R | K | | B | S | K | | . . . | Another algorithm to achieve the same goal (though in a different order) is as follows: ## Algorithm #2 for enumerating permutations 1. Begin with a set of **n** objects. a. If **n = 1**, there is only one permutation; namely, the object itself. b. Otherwise, remove each of the objects in turn, and prepend that object to the permutations of all the others, creating another permutation each time. I find this one a little easier to get my head around, but in the end it’s personal preference. The permutations of **BRISK** are: “B followed by all the permutations of **RISK**, plus **I** followed by all the permutations of **BISK**, plus **R** followed by all the permutations of **BRSK**, etc.” So the first few permutations of a 4-letter word are: - R I S K - R I K S - R S I K - R S K I - R K I S - R K S I - I R S K - I R K S - I S R K - I S K R - I K R S - I K S R - S R I K - S R K I - S I R K - S I K R - S K R I - S K I R - K R I S - K R S I - K I R S - K I S R - K S R I - K S I R #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 159 Context: ``` # 6.2. PERMUTATIONS ## Example with 3-letter words | R | S | K | |---|---|---| | R | K | S | | R | S | I | | I | R | S | | I | S | K | | I | K | R | | S | R | I | | S | I | K | | ... | ... | ... | Then, for the 5-letter word: | B | R | I | S | K | |---|---|---|---|---| | B | R | I | K | S | | B | S | K | I | R | | B | K | I | S | R | | B | K | S | I | R | | B | I | R | S | K | | B | I | K | R | S | | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ## Partial permutations Sometimes we want to count the permutations of a set, but only want to choose some of the items each time, not all of them. For example, consider a golf tournament in which the top ten finishers (out of 45) all receive prize money, with the first-place winner receiving the most, the second-place finisher a lesser amount, and so on down to tenth place, who receives a nominal prize. How many different finishes are possible to the tournament? In this case, we want to know how many different orderings of golfers there are, but it turns out that past tenth place, we don’t care what order they finished in. All that matters is the first ten places. If the top ten are 1. Tiger, 2. Phil, 3. Lee, 4. Rory, ... and ... ``` #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 163 Context: # 6.3. COMBINATIONS 1. Phil 2. Bubba 3. Tiger Another one is: 1. Phil 2. Tiger 3. Bubba and yet another is: 1. Tiger 2. Phil 3. Bubba Now the important thing to recognize is that in our present problem — counting the possible number of regional-bound golf trios — all three of these different partial permutations represent the same combination. In all three cases, it's Bubba, Phil, and Tiger who will represent our local golf association in the regional competition. So by counting all three of them as separate partial permutations, we've overcounted the combinations. Obviously, we want to count Bubba/Phil/Tiger only once. Okay then. How many times did we overcount it when we counted partial permutations? The answer is that we counted this trio once for every way it can be permuted. The three permutations, above, were examples of this, and so are these three: 1. Tiger 2. Bubba 3. Phil 1. Bubba 2. Tiger 3. Phil 1. Bubba 2. Phil 3. Tiger This makes a total of six times that we (redundantly) counted the same combination when we counted the partial permutations. Why 6? Because that's the value of 3!, of course. There are 3! different ways to arrange Bubba, Phil, and Tiger, since that's just a straight permutation of three elements. And so we find that every threesome we want to account for, we have counted 6 times. The way to get the correct answer, then, is obviously to correct for this overcounting by dividing by 6: \[ \frac{45 \times 44 \times 43}{3!} = \frac{45 \times 44 \times 43}{6} = 14,190 \text{ different threesomes.} \] #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 168 Context: # CHAPTER 6. COUNTING We each do a quick 30-minute workout session divided into six 5-minute blocks, and we work with one of the machines during each block, taking turns spotting each other. One day my friend asks me, “Hey Stephen, have you ever wondered: how many different workout routines are possible for us?” I was, of course, wondering exactly that. But the correct answer turns out to hinge very delicately on exactly what “a workout routine” is. If we could select any weight machine for any 5-minute block, then the answer is \( 6^{18} \), since we have 18 choices for our first block, 18 choices for our second, and so on. (This comes to 34,012,224 different routines, if you’re interested.) However, on further inspection, we might change our mind about this. Does it make sense to choose the same machine more than once in a 30-minute workout? Would we really complete a workout that consisted of “1. Biceps, 2. Abs, 3. Pec, 4. Biceps, 5. Biceps, 6. Biceps?” If not (and most trainers would probably recommend against such monomanical approaches to exercise), then the real answer is only \( 6^{18} \), since we have 18 choices for our first block, and then only 17 for the second, 16 for the third, etc. (This reduces the total to 13,360,080.) But perhaps the phrase “a workout routine” means something different even than that. If I tell my physical therapist what “my workout routine” consisted of this morning, does he really care whether I did triceps first, last, or in the middle? He probably only cares about which machines (and therefore which muscle groups) I worked out that morning, not what order I did them in. If this is true, then our definition of a workout routine is somewhat different than before. It’s no longer a consecutive sequence of machines chosen, but rather a set of six machine choices. There would only \( \binom{6}{3} \) of those, or a mere 18,564. So as you can see, the answer radically depends on the precise interpretation of the concepts, which means that to successfully do combinatorics, you have to slow down and think very carefully. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 171 Context: # 6.5. EXERCISES 1. To encourage rivalry and gluttony, we're going to give a special certificate to the child who collects the most candy at the end of the night. And while we're at it, we'll give 2nd-place and 3rd-place certificates as well. How many different ways could our 1st-2nd-3rd contest turn out? **Answer:** This is a partial permutation: there are eleven possible winners, and ten possible runners-up for each possible winner, and nine possible 3rd-placers for each of those top two. The answer is therefore 114, or 900. Wow! I wouldn’t have guessed that high. 2. Finally, what if we want every kid to get a certificate with their name and place-of-finish on it? How many possibilities? (Assume no ties.) **Answer:** This is now a full-blown permutation: 111. It comes to 30,916,800 different orders-of-finish, believe it or not. I told you: this counting stuff can explode fast. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 178 Context: ``` # CHAPTER 7. NUMBERS Of the number. Obviously, 239 is less than 932, so we say that the hundreds place is more significant than the other digits. All of this probably seems pretty obvious to you. All right then. Let’s use a base other than ten and see how you do. Let’s write out a number in base 5. We have seven symbols at our disposal: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6. Wait, you ask — why not 7? Because there is no digit for seven in a base 5 system, just like there is no digit for ten in base 10 system. Ten is the point where we need two digits in a decimal system, and analogously, seven is the point where we’ll need two digits in our base 7 system. How will we write the value seven? Just like this: 10. Now stare at those two digits and practice saying “seven” as you look at them. All your life you’ve been trained to say the number “ten” when you see the digits 1 and 0 printed like that. But those two digits only represent the number ten if you’re using a base 10 system. If you’re using a base 3/4 system, “10” is how you write “thirty-four.” Very well, we have our seven symbols. Now how do we interpret a number like 6153₇? It’s this: 6153₇ = 6 × 7³ + 1 × 7² + 5 × 7¹ + 3 × 7⁰. That doesn’t look so strange; it’s very parallel to the decimal string we expanded, above. It looks we can interpret when we actually multiply out the place values: 6153₇ = 6 × 343 + 1 × 49 + 5 × 7 + 3 × 1. So in base 7, we have a “one’s place”, a “seven’s place”, a “forty-nine’s place”, and a “three hundred forty-three’s place.” This seems unbelievably bizarre — how could a number system possibly hold together with such place values? But I’ll bet it wouldn’t look funny at all if we had been born with 7 fingers. Keep in mind that in the equation above, we wrote out the place values as decimal numbers: Had we written them as base-7 numbers (as we certainly would have if base 7 was our natural numbering system), we would have written: 6153₇ = 6 × 100₇ + 1 × 10₇ + 5 × 7₇ + 3 × 1₇. ``` #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 181 Context: # 7.3. HEXADECIMAL (BASE 16) In hexadecimal, what's the highest value that can fit in one digit? Answer: F (which is fifteen). What's the highest that can fit in two digits? FF (which is two hundred fifty-five). What about three digits? FFF (which is sixty-five thousand five hundred thirty-five.) And so on. If you count in hexadecimal, you do the same thing as in decimal, only you "roll over the odometer" when you get to F, not when you get to 9. ## Converting to and from decimal So we know how to take a hexadecimal number (like 7E23h) and find its decimal equivalent: we just interpret each place's value as 1, 16, 256, 4096, and so on. What about going the other way? If we had a decimal number, how would we write its value hexadecimally? First, let's learn two operations (if you don't already know them) that come in handy when working with integers. The first is called the modulo operator (written "mod"), and simply gives the remainder when dividing two numbers. This is a concept you probably learned in elementary school but might not have used since then. As we get older (and use calculators), we tend to think of a division operation like \(13 \div 3\) as being 4.33... But that's when we want a real-valued (instead of integer-valued) answer. If we only want integers, then we say that \(13 \mod 3 = 1\) with a remainder of 1. (The "4" is called the quotient.) This means that if you have 13 objects, you can take four groups of 3 out of them, and then have 1 object left over. The way we write this operation mathematically is \(13 \mod 3\). In this case, it turns out that \(13 \mod 3 = 1\). Let's think about how the modulo operator yields different values. We know that \(13 \mod 3 = 1\). What about \(14 \mod 3\)? That is equal to 2, since we can (again) take four groups of 3, but then we have two left over. What about \(15 \mod 3\)? That yields 0, since 3 goes into 15 evenly, leaving no remainder at all. If 16 mod 3 again gives us 1, just like 13 did. If you think it through, you'll realize that \(19 \mod 3\) will also be 1, as will \(22 \mod 3\) and \(25 \mod 3\). These numbers that give the same remainder are said to be "congruent mod 3." The numbers 2, 5, 8, 11, 14, etc. are also all congruent to each other mod 3, since they all give remainder 2. #################### 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: 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: 226 Context: # Chapter 8: Logic Here's a funny one I’ll end with. Consider the sentence **“He made her duck.”** What is intended here? Did some guy reach out with his hand and forcefully push a woman’s head down out of the way of a screaming projectile? Or did he prepare a succulent dish of roasted fowl to celebrate her birthday? Oh, if the computer could only know. If we’d used predicate logic instead of English, it could! #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 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: 235 Context: ``` 9.2 TYPES OF PROOF ================== to be true, and so it is legal grounds from which to start. A proof can't even get off the ground without axioms. For instance, in step 1 of the above proof, we noted that either A or B must be true, and so if B isn't true, then A must be. But we couldn't have taken this step without knowing that disjunctive syllogism is a valid form of reasoning. It's not important to know all the technical names of the rules that I included in parentheses. But it is important to see that we made use of an axiom of reasoning on every step, and that if any of those axioms were incorrect, it could lead to a faulty conclusion. When you create a valid proof, the result is a new bit of knowledge called a theorem which can be used in future proofs. Think of a theorem like a subroutine in programming: a separate bit of code that does a job and can be invoked at will in the course of doing other things. One theorem we learned in chapter 2 was the distributive property of sets; that is, \( X \cap (Y \cup Z) = (X \cap Y) \cup (X \cap Z) \). This can be proven through the use of Venn diagrams, but once you've proven it, it's accepted to be true, and can be used as a "given" in future proofs. ## 9.2 Types of Proof There are a number of accepted "styles" of doing proofs. Here are some important ones: ### Direct Proof The examples we've used up to now have been direct proofs. This is where you start from what's known and proceed directly by positive steps towards your conclusion. Direct proofs remind me of a game called "word ladders," invented by Lewis Carroll, that you might have played as a child: ``` WARM | | ? ? ? ? | | COLD ``` ``` #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 236 Context: # CHAPTER 9. PROOF ## COLD You start with one word (like **WARM**) and you have to come up with a sequence of words, each of which differs from the previous by only one letter, such that you eventually reach the ending word (like **COLD**). It's sort of like feeling around in the dark: - **WARM** - **WART** - **WALT** - **WILT** - **WILD** - ... This attempt seemed promising at first, but now it looks like it's going nowhere. ("**WOLD?**" "**CILD?**" Hmm...) After starting over and playing around with it for a while, you might stumble upon: - **WARM** - **WORM** - **WORD** - **CORD** - **COLD** This turned out to be a pretty direct path: for each step, the letter we changed was exactly what we needed it to be for the target word **COLD**. Sometimes, though, you have to meander away from the target a little bit to find a solution, like going from **BLACK** to **WHITE**: - **BLACK** - **CLACK** - **CRACK** - **TRACK** - **TRICK** - **TRICE** #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 238 Context: 230 # CHAPTER 9. PROOF An irrational number is one that **cannot** be expressed as the ratio of two integers, no matter what the integers are. Proving this directly seems pretty hard, since how do you prove that there aren't any two integers whose ratio is \(\sqrt{2}\), no matter how hard you looked? I mean, \(534,927\) and \(378,250\) are pretty dang close: \[ \left( \frac{534927}{378250} \right)^2 = 2.000005. \] How could we possibly prove that no matter how hard we look, we can never find a pair that will give it to us exactly? One way is to assume that \(\sqrt{2}\) is a rational number, and then prove that down that path lies madness. It goes like this: Suppose \(\sqrt{2}\) is rational, after all. That means that there must be two integers, call them \(a\) and \(b\), whose ratio is exactly equal to \(\sqrt{2}\): \[ \frac{a}{b} = \sqrt{2}. \] This, then, is the starting point for our indirect proof. We're going to proceed under this assumption and see where it leads us. By the way, it's clear that we could always reduce this fraction to lowest terms in case it's not already. For instance, if \(a = 6\) and \(b = 4\), then our fraction would be \(\frac{3}{2}\), which is the same as \(\frac{6}{4}\), so we could just say \(a = 3\) and \(b = 2\) and start over. Bottom line: if \(\sqrt{2}\) is rational, then we can find two integers \(a\) and \(b\) that have no common factor (if they do have a common factor, we'll just divide it out of both of them and go with the new numbers) whose ratio is \(\sqrt{2}\). Okay then. But now look what happens. Suppose we square both: #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 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: 256 Context: # CHAPTER 9. PROOF - Jarnik, Vojtech, 107 - Jay, John, 77 - Jumble, 148 - Kentucky Derby, 79 - Knuth, Donald, 153 - Laplace, Pierre-Simon, 67 - Law of the Excluded Middle, 207 - Law of Total Probability, 71, 76 - Least Significant Bit (LSB), 178 - Least Significant Digit (LSD), 169 - Leaves, 115, 128, 239 - Left child, 116 - Level (in a tree), 115 - lg (logarithmic base 2), 124 - LIFO, 100 - Lincoln, Abraham, 86 - Linked lists, 13 - Links (in a graph), 87 - Liston, Sonny, 92 - Locker combinations, 143 - Logarithm, 124 - Logical operators, 198, 199 - Log (in a graph), 87, 94 - Logically-type languages, 14 ## Madison, James, 77 - MapQuest, 87 - Marking (a node), 96, 104 - Mathematical induction, 231 - Medical test, 75 - Member (of set), 9 - Middle school, 153 - Minimal spanning tree, 112 - Modulo operator (mod), 173, 174 - Most Significant Bit (MSB), 178 - Most significant digit, 169 - Movie channel, 153, 156 - Movie theatre, 73 - Mutually exclusive, 26, 76, 80, 144 - n-tuples, 15 - NASCAR, 153 - Negation, 200, 208, 214 - Negative numbers (in binary), 183 - New York City, 176 - Newton, Isaac, 67 - Nibble, 181 - Nodes (of a graph), 87, 242 - Not (logical operator), 200, 203 ## O(log n) algorithm, 128 1. O(n) algorithm, 127, 132 2. Object-oriented design, 114 3. Octal numbers, 171 4. Odometer rollovers, 168 5. One-to-one (functions), 49 6. Onto (function), 49 7. Or (logical operator), 18, 199, 203 - Order (in sets), 13 - Ordered pairs, 14, 19, 35, 45, 212 #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 1 Context: # A First Encounter with Machine Learning **Max Welling** *Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Science* *University of California Irvine* November 4, 2011 #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 3 Context: # Contents Preface iii Learning and Intuition vii 1. Data and Information 1.1 Data Representation ...................................................... 2 1.2 Preprocessing the Data .................................................. 4 2. Data Visualization .................................................................. 7 3. Learning 3.1 In a Nutshell ............................................................... 15 4. Types of Machine Learning 4.1 In a Nutshell ............................................................... 20 5. Nearest Neighbors Classification 5.1 The Idea In a Nutshell .................................................. 23 6. 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: 6 Context: # PREFACE about 60% correct on 100 categories, the fact that we pull it off seemingly effortlessly serves as a “proof of concept” that it can be done. But there is no doubt in my mind that building truly intelligent machines will involve learning from data. The first reason for the recent successes of machine learning and the growth of the field as a whole is rooted in its multidisciplinary character. Machine learning emerged from AI but quickly incorporated ideas from fields as diverse as statistics, probability, computer science, information theory, convex optimization, control theory, cognitive science, theoretical neuroscience, physics, and more. To give an example, the main conference in this field is called: **advances in neural information processing systems**, referring to information theory and theoretical neuroscience and cognitive science. The second, perhaps more important reason for the growth of machine learning is the exponential growth of both available data and computer power. While the field is built on theory and tools developed statistics machine learning recognizes that the most exciting progress can be made to leverage the enormous flood of data that is generated each year by satellites, sky observatories, particle accelerators, the human genome project, banks, the stock market, the army, seismic measurements, the internet, video, scanned text, and so on. It is difficult to appreciate the exponential growth of data that our society is generating. To give an example, a modern satellite generates roughly the same amount of data all previous satellites produced together. This insight has shifted the attention from highly sophisticated modeling techniques on small datasets to more basic analysis on such larger data-sets (the latter sometimes called **data-mining**). Hence the emphasis shifted to algorithmic efficiency and as a result many machine learning faculty (like myself) can typically be found in computer science departments. To give some examples of recent successes of this approach one would only have to turn on one computer and perform an internet search. Modern search engines do not run terribly sophisticated algorithms, but they manage to store and sift through almost the entire content of the internet to return sensible search results. There has also been much success in the field of machine translation, not because a new model was invented but because many more translated documents became available. The field of machine learning is multifaceted and expanding fast. To sample a few sub-disciplines: statistical learning, kernel methods, graphical models, artificial neural networks, fuzzy logic, Bayesian methods, and so on. The field also covers many types of learning problems, such as supervised learning, supervised learning, semi-supervised learning, active learning, reinforcement learning, etc. I will only cover the most basic approaches in this book from a highly per #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 7 Context: # MEANT FOR INDUSTRY AS WELL AS BACKGROUND READING This book was written during my sabbatical at the Radboud University in Nijmegen (Netherlands). I would like to thank Hans for discussion on intuition. I also thank Prof. Bert Kappen, who leads an excellent group of postdocs and students for his hospitality. Marga, kids, UCI,... --- There are a few main aspects I want to cover from a personal perspective. Instead of trying to address every aspect of the entire field, I have chosen to present a few popular and perhaps useful tools and approaches. What will (hopefully) be significantly different than most other scientific books is the manner in which I will present these methods. I have always been frustrated by the lack of proper explanation of equations. Many times, I have been staring at a formula without the slightest clue where it came from or how it was derived. Many books also excel in stating facts in an almost encyclopedic style, without providing the proper intuition of the method. This is my primary mission: to write a book that conveys intuition. The first chapter will be devoted to why I think this is important. #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 9 Context: # Learning and Intuition We have all experienced the situation that the solution to a problem presents itself while riding your bike, walking home, “relaxing” in the washroom, waking up in the morning, taking your shower, etc. Importantly, it did not appear while banging your head against the problem in a conscious effort to solve it, staring at the equations on a piece of paper. In fact, I would claim that all my bits and pieces of progress have occurred while taking a break and “relaxing out of the problem.” Greek philosophers walked in circles when thinking about a problem; most of us stare at a computer screen all day. The purpose of this chapter is to make you more aware of where your creative mind is located and to interact with it in a fruitful manner. My general thesis is that, contrary to popular belief, creative thinking is not performed by conscious thinking. It is rather an interplay between your conscious mind, which prepares the seeds to be planted into the unconscious part of your mind. The unconscious mind will munch on the problem “out of sight” and return promising roads to solutions to the consciousness. This process iterates until the conscious mind decides the problem is sufficiently solved, intractable, or plain dull and moves on to the next. It may be a little unsettling to learn that at least part of your thinking goes on in a part of your mind that seems inaccessible and has a very limited interface with what you think of as yourself. But it is undeniable that it is there, and it is also undeniable that it plays a role in the creative thought process. To become a creative thinker, one should learn to play this game more effectively. To do so, we should think about the language in which to represent knowledge that is most effective in terms of communication with the unconscious. In other words, what type of “interface” between conscious and unconscious mind should we use? It is probably not a good idea to memorize all the details of a complicated equation or problem. Instead, we should extract the abstract idea and capture the essence of it in a picture. This could be a movie with colors and other elements. #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 11 Context: Many people may find this somewhat experimental way to introduce students to new topics counter-productive. Undoubtedly for many it will be. If you feel under-challenged and become bored, I recommend moving on to the more advanced textbooks, of which there are many excellent samples on the market (for a list see [books](#)). But I hope that for most beginning students, this intuitive style of writing may help to gain a deeper understanding of the ideas that I will present in the following. Above all, have fun! #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 14 Context: # CHAPTER 1. DATA AND INFORMATION ## Interpretation Here we seek to answer questions about the data. For instance, what property of this drug was responsible for its high success rate? Does a security officer at the airport apply racial profiling in deciding whose luggage to check? How many natural groups are there in the data? ## Compression Here we are interested in compressing the original data, a.k.a. the number of bits needed to represent it. For instance, files in your computer can be "zipped" to a much smaller size by removing much of the redundancy in those files. Also, JPEG and GIF (among others) are compressed representations of the original pixel map. All of the above objectives depend on the fact that there is structure in the data. If data is completely random, there is nothing to predict, nothing to interpret, and nothing to compress. Hence, all tasks are somehow related to discovering or leveraging this structure. One could say that data is highly redundant and that this redundancy is exactly what makes it interesting. Take the example of natural images. If you are required to predict the color of the pixels neighboring some random pixel in an image, you would be able to do a pretty good job (for instance, 20% may be blue sky and predicting the neighbors of a blue sky pixel is easy). Also, if we would generate images at random, they would not look like natural scenes at all. For one, it wouldn’t contain objects. Only a tiny fraction of all possible images looks "natural," and so the space of natural images is highly structured. Thus, all of these concepts are intimately related: structure, redundancy, predictability, regularity, interpretability, compressibility. They refer to the "food" for machine learning. Without structure, there is nothing to learn. The same thing is true for human learning. From the day we are born, we start noticing that there is structure in this world. Our survival depends on discovering and recording this structure. If I walk into this brown cylinder with a green canopy, I suddenly stop; it won’t give way. In fact, it damages my body. Perhaps this holds for all these objects. When I cry, my mother suddenly appears. Our game is to predict the future accurately, and we predict it by learning its structure. ## 1.1 Data Representation What does "data" look like? In other words, what do we download into our computer? Data comes in many shapes and forms; for instance, it could be words from a document or pixels from an image. But it will be useful to convert data into a #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 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: 23 Context: # Chapter 3 ## Learning This chapter is without question the most important one of the book. It concerns the core, almost philosophical question of what learning really is (and what it is not). If you want to remember one thing from this book, you will find it here in this chapter. Ok, let’s start with an example. Alice has a rather strange ailment. She is not able to recognize objects by their visual appearance. At home, she is doing just fine: her mother explained to Alice for every object in her house what it is and how you use it. When she is home, she recognizes these objects (if they have not been moved too much), but when she enters a new environment she is lost. For example, if she enters a new meeting room, she needs a long time to infer what the chairs and the table are in the room. She has been diagnosed with a severe case of "overfitting." What is the matter with Alice? Nothing is wrong with her memory because she remembers the objects once she has seen them. In fact, she has a fantastic memory. She remembers every detail of the objects she has seen. And every time she sees a new object, she reasons that the object in front of her is surely not a chair because it doesn’t have all the features she has seen in earlier chairs. The problem is that Alice cannot generalize the information she has observed from one instance of a visual object category to other, yet unobserved members of the same category. The fact that Alice’s disease is so rare is understandable; there must have been a strong selection pressure against this disease. Imagine our ancestors walking through the savanna one million years ago. A lion appears on the scene. Ancestral Alice has seen lions before, but not this particular one, and it does not induce a fear response. Of course, she has no time to infer the possibility that this animal may be dangerous logically. Alice’s contemporaries noticed that the animal was yellow-brown, had manes, etc., and immediately un- #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 25 Context: # Information Theory and Image Compression The part of the information that does not carry over to the future, the unpredictable information, is called "noise." There is also the information that is predictable, the learnable part of the information stream. The task of any learning algorithm is to separate the predictable part from the unpredictable part. Now imagine Bob wants to send an image to Alice. He has to pay 1 dollar cent for every bit that he sends. If the image were completely white, it would be really stupid of Bob to send the message: ``` pixel 1: white, pixel 2: white, pixel 3: white, .... ``` He could just have sent the message: ``` all pixels are white! ``` The blank image is completely predictable but carries very little information. Now imagine a image that consists of white noise (your television screen if the cable is not connected). To send the exact image Bob will have to send: ``` pixel 1: white, pixel 2: black, pixel 3: black, .... ``` Bob cannot do better because there is no predictable information in that image, i.e., there is no structure to be modeled. You can imagine playing a game and revealing one pixel at a time to someone and paying him 15 for every next pixel he predicts correctly. For the white image, you can do perfect for the noisy picture you would be random guessing. Real pictures are in between: some pixels are very hard to predict, while others are easier. To compress the image, Bob can extract rules such as: always predict the same color as the majority of the pixels next to you, except when there is an edge. These rules constitute the model for the regularities of the image. Instead of sending the entire image pixel by pixel, Bob will now first send his rules and ask Alice to apply the rules. Every time the rule fails, Bob also sends a correction: ``` pixel 103: white, pixel 245: black. ``` A few rules and two corrections are obviously cheaper than 256 pixel values and no rules. There is one fundamental tradeoff hidden in this game. Since Bob is sending only a single image, it does not pay to send an incredibly complicated model that would require more bits to explain than simply sending all pixel values. If he were sending 1 billion images it would pay off to first send the complicated model because he would be saving a fraction of all bits for every image. On the other hand, if Bob wants to send 2 pixels, there really is no need in sending a model whatsoever. Therefore, the size of Bob's model depends on the amount of data he wants to transmit. In this context, the boundary between what is model and what is noise depends on how much data we are dealing with! If we use a model that is too complex, we overfit to the data at hand, i.e., part of the model represents noise. On the other hand, if we use a too simple model we "underfit" (over-generalize) and valuable structure remains unmodeled. Both lead to sub-optimal compression of the image. The compression game can therefore be used to find the right size of model complexity for a given dataset. #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 26 Context: # CHAPTER 3. LEARNING Now let’s think for a moment what we really mean with “a model”. A model represents our prior knowledge of the world. It imposes structure that is not necessarily present in the data. We call this the **inductive bias**. Our inductive bias often comes in the form of a parameterized model. That is to say, we define a family of models but let the data determine which of these models is most appropriate. A strong inductive bias means that we don’t leave flexibility in the model for the data to work on. We are so convinced of ourselves that we basically ignore the data. The downside is that if we are creating a “bad bias” towards to wrong model. On the other hand, if we are correct, we can learn the remaining degrees of freedom in our model from very few data-cases. Conversely, we may leave the door open for a huge family of possible models. If we now let the data zoom in on the model that best explains the training data it will overfit to the peculiarities of that data. Now imagine you sampled 10 datasets of the same size \(N\) and train these very flexible models separately on each of these datasets (note that in reality you only have access to one such dataset but please play along in this thought experiment). Let’s say we want to determine the value of some parameter \(\theta\). Because the models are so flexible, we can actually model the idiosyncrasies of each dataset. The result is that the value for \(\theta\) is likely to be very different for each dataset. But because we didn’t impose much inductive bias the average of many of such estimates will be about right. We say that the bias is small, but the variance is high. In the case of very restrictive models the opposite happens: the bias is potentially large but the variance small. Note that not only is a large bias bad (for obvious reasons), a large variance is bad as well: because we only have one dataset of size \(N\), our estimate could be very far off simply we were unlucky with the dataset we were given. What we should therefore strive for is to inject all our prior knowledge into the learning problem (this makes learning easier) but avoid injecting the wrong prior knowledge. If we don’t trust our prior knowledge we should let the data speak. However, letting the data speak too much might lead to overfitting, so we need to find the boundary between too complex and too simple a model and get its complexity just right. Access to more data means that the data can speak more relative to prior knowledge. That, in a nutshell, is what machine learning is all about. #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 27 Context: # 3.1 In a Nutshell Learning is all about generalizing regularities in the training data to new, yet unobserved data. It is not about remembering the training data. Good generalization means that you need to balance prior knowledge with information from data. Depending on the dataset size, you can entertain more or less complex models. The correct size of the model can be determined by playing a compression game. Learning = generalization = abstraction = compression. #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 28 Context: # CHAPTER 3. LEARNING ## Introduction Learning involves acquiring knowledge, skills, attitudes, or competencies. It can take place in various settings, such as classrooms, workplaces, or self-directed environments. This chapter discusses the types and processes of learning. ## Types of Learning 1. **Formal Learning** - Structured and typically takes place in educational institutions. - Includes degrees, diplomas, and certifications. 2. **Informal Learning** - Unstructured and occurs outside formal institutions. - Can include life experiences, social interactions, and casual settings. 3. **Non-Formal Learning** - Organized but not typically in a formal education setting. - Often community-based, such as workshops and training sessions. ## Learning Processes - **Cognitive Learning**: Involves mental processes and understanding. - **Behavioral Learning**: Focuses on behavioral changes in response to stimuli. - **Constructivist Learning**: Emphasizes learning through experience and reflection. ## Table of Learning Theories | Theory | Key Contributor | Description | |--------------------------|----------------------|--------------------------------------------------| | Behaviorism | B.F. Skinner | Learning as a change in behavior due to reinforcement. | | Constructivism | Jean Piaget | Knowledge is constructed through experiences. | | Social Learning | Albert Bandura | Learning through observation and imitation. | ## Conclusion Understanding the different types and processes of learning can help educators and learners optimize educational experiences. Utilizing various methods can cater to individual learning preferences and improve outcomes. ## References - Smith, J. (2020). *Learning Theories: A Comprehensive Approach*. Educational Press. - Doe, A. (2019). *Techniques for Effective Learning*. Learning Publishers. #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 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: 45 Context: # Chapter 7 ## The Perceptron We will now describe one of the simplest parametric classifiers: the **perceptron** and its cousin the **logistic regression** classifier. However, despite its simplicity, it should not be under-estimated! It is the workhorse for most companies involved with some form of machine learning (perhaps tying with the **decision tree** classifier). One could say that it represents the canonical parametric approach to classification where we believe that a straight line is sufficient to separate the two classes of interest. An example of this is given in Figure ??, where the assumption that the two classes can be separated by a line is clearly valid. However, this assumption need not always be true. Looking at Figure ??, we clearly observe that there is no straight line that will do the job for us. What can we do? Our first inclination is probably to try and fit a more complicated separation boundary. However, there is another trick that we will be using often in this book. Instead, we can increase the dimensionality of the space by “measuring” more things about the data. The features can be highly nonlinear functions. The simplest choice may be to also measure \( \phi_k(X) = X^2_k \), for each attribute \( X_k \). But we may also measure cross-products such as \( \phi_{ij}(X) = X_i X_j \), \( \forall i, j \). The latter will allow you to explicitly model correlations between attributes. For example, if \( X_i \) represents the presence (1) or absence (0) of the word “viagra” and similarly for \( X_j \) the presence/absence of the word “dysfunction”, then the cross product feature \( X_i X_j \) lets you model the presence of both words simultaneously (which should be helpful in trying to find out what this document is about). We can add as many features as we like, adding another dimension for every new feature. In this higher dimensional space, we can now be more confident in assuming that the data can be separated by a line. #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 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: 93 Context: # Bibliography 1. Author, A. (Year). *Title of the Book*. Publisher. 2. Author, B. (Year). *Title of the Article*. *Journal Name*, Volume(Issue), Page Range. DOI or URL if available. 3. Author, C. (Year). *Title of the Website*. Retrieved from URL. 4. Author, D. (Year). *Title of the Thesis or Dissertation*. University Name. - Point 1 - Point 2 - Point 3 ## Additional References | Author | Title | Year | Publisher | |-------------------|-------------------------|------|------------------| | Author, E. | *Title of Article* | Year | Publisher Name | | Author, F. | *Title of Conference* | Year | Conference Name | ### Notes - Ensure that all entries follow the same citation style for consistency. - Check for publication dates and any updates that may be required. #################### File: Algebraic%20Topology%20ATbib-ind.pdf Page: 3 Context: # Bibliography C. R. F. Maunder, *Algebraic Topology*, Cambridge Univ. Press, 1980 (reprinted by Dover Publications). J. P. 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Adams, "Vector fields on spheres," *Ann. of Math.* 75 (1962), 603–632. #################### File: Algebraic%20Topology%20ATbib-ind.pdf Page: 9 Context: # Index - face 103 - fiber 375 - fiber bundle 376, 431 - fiber homotopy equivalence 406 - fiber-preserving map 406 - fibration 375 - fibration sequence 409, 462 - finitely generated homology 423, 527 - finitely generated homotopy 364, 392, 423 - five-lemma 129 - fixed point 31, 73, 114, 179, 229, 493 - flag 436, 447 - frame 301, 381 - free action 73 - free algebra 227 - free group 42, 77, 85 - free product 41 - free product with amalgamation 92 - free resolution 193, 263 - Freudenthal suspension theorem 360 - function space 529 - functor 163 - fundamental class 236, 394 - fundamental group 26 - fundamental theorem of algebra 31 ## Galois correspondence - Galois correspondence 63 - general linear group \( GL_n \) 293 - good pair 114 - graded ring 212 - Gram-Schmidt orthogonalization 293, 382 - graph 6, 11, 83 - graph of groups 92 - graph product of groups 92 - Grassmann manifold 227, 381, 435, 439, 445 - groups acting on spheres 75, 135, 391 - Gysin sequence 438, 444 ### Homotopy - H-space 281, 342, 419, 420, 422, 428 - HNN extension 93 - hocolim 460, 462 - holim 462 - homologous cycles 106 - homology 106 - homology decomposition 465 - homology of groups 148, 423 - homology theory 160, 314, 454 - homotopy 3, 25 - homotopy equivalence 3, 10, 36, 346 - homotopy extension property 14 - homotopy fiber 407, 461, 479 - homotopy group 340 - homotopy with coefficients 462 - homotopy lifting property 60, 375, 379 - homotopy of attaching maps 13, 16 - homotopy type 3 - Hopf 134, 173, 222, 281, 285 - Hopf algebra 283 - Hopf bundle 361, 375, 377, 378, 392 - Hopf invariant 427, 447, 489, 490 - Hopf map 379, 380, 385, 427, 430, 474, 475, 498 - Hurewicz homomorphism 369, 486 - Hurewicz theorem 366, 371, 390 ### Induced fibrations - induced fibration 406 - induced homomorphisms 34, 110, 111, 118, 201, 213 - infinite loopspace 297 - invariance of dimension 126 - invariance of domain 172 - inverse limit 312, 410, 462 - inverse path 27 - isomorphism of actions 70 - isomorphism of covering spaces 67 - iterated mapping cylinder 457, 466 ########## """QUERY: can you give me 200 words lorem ipsum""" Consider the chat history for relevant information. 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