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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: 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: 6 Context: # PREFACE This material, what it means, and how it impacts their discipline. Becoming an expert theorem prover is not required, nor is deriving closed-form expressions for the sizes of trees with esoteric properties. Basic fluency with each topic area, and an intuition about when it can be applied, is the proper aim for most of those who would go forward and build tomorrow's technology. To this end, the book in your hands is a quick guided tour of introductory-level discrete mathematics. It's like a cool, brisk walk through a pretty forest. I point out the notable features of the landscape and try to instill a sense of appreciation and even of awe. I want the reader to get a feel for the lay of the land and a little exercise. If the student acquires the requisite vocabulary, gets some practice playing with the toys, and learns to start thinking in terms of the concepts here described, I will count it as a success. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 7 Context: # Acknowledgements A hearty thanks to Karen Anewalt, Crystal Burson, Prafulla Giri, Tayyar Hussain, Jennifer Magee, Veena Ravishankar, Jacob Shtabnoy, and a decade's worth of awesome UMW Computer Science students for their many suggestions and corrections to make this text better! #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 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. 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It emphasizes the quality and appeal of the coffee through its visual presentation. #### 11. **Metadata Analysis**: - No metadata available for analysis. #### 12. **Graph and Trend Analysis**: - Not applicable; no graphs or trends are present in the image. #### 13. **Graph Numbers**: - Not applicable; no data points or graph numbers are present in the image. ### Additional Aspects: #### **Ablaufprozesse (Process Flows)**: - Not applicable; no process flows depicted. #### **Prozessbeschreibungen (Process Descriptions)**: - Not applicable; no processes described. #### **Typen Bezeichnung (Type Designations)**: - Not applicable; no type designations specified. #### **Trend and Interpretation**: - Not applicable; no trends depicted. #### **Tables**: - Not applicable; no tables included. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 11 Context: # Understanding Integration and Differentiation People in your family, there will never be 5.3 of them (although there could be 6 someday). The last couple of entries on this list are worth a brief comment. They are math symbols, some of which you may be familiar with. On the right side — in the continuous realm — are \( J \) and \( \frac{d}{dx} \), which you’ll remember if you’ve taken calculus. They stand for the two fundamental operations of integration and differentiation. Integration, which can be thought of as finding “the area under a curve,” is basically a way of adding up a whole infinite bunch of numbers over some range. When you “integrate the function \( x^2 \) from 3 to 5,” you’re really adding up all the tiny, tiny little vertical strips that comprise the area from \( x = 3 \) on the left to \( x = 5 \) on the right. Its corresponding entry in the left-column of the table is \( \Sigma \), which is just a short-hand for “sum up a bunch of things.” Integration and summation are equivalent operations; it’s just that when you integrate, you’re adding up all the (infinitely many) slivers across the real-line continuum. When you sum, you’re adding up a fixed sequence of entries, one at a time, like in a loop. \( \Sigma \) is just the discrete “version” of \( J \). The same sort of relationship holds between ordinary subtraction (\(-\)) and differentiation (\(\frac{d}{dx}\)). If you’ve plotted a bunch of discrete points on \( x \)-\( y \) axes, and you want to find the slope between two of them, you just subtract their \( y \) values and divide by the \( x \) distance between them. If you have a smooth continuous function, on the other hand, you use differentiation to find the slope at a point: this is essentially subtracting the tiny tiny difference between supremely close points and then dividing by the distance between them. Don’t worry; you don’t need to have fully understood any of the integration or differentiation stuff I just talked about, or even to have taken calculus yet. I’m just trying to give you some feel for what “discrete” means, and how the dichotomy between discrete and continuous really runs through all of math and computer science. In this book, we will mostly be focusing on discrete values and structures, which turn out to be of more use in computer science. That’s partially because, as you probably know, computers #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 13 Context: # 1.1 EXERCISES 1. **What’s the opposite of concrete?** Abstract. 2. **What’s the opposite of discrete?** Continuous. 3. **Consider a quantity of water in a glass. Would you call it abstract, or concrete? Discrete, or continuous?** Concrete, since it’s a real entity you can experience with the senses. Continuous, since it could be any number of ounces (or liters, or tablespoons, or whatever). The amount of water certainly doesn’t have to be an integer. (Food for thought: since all matter is ultimately comprised of atoms, are even substances like water discrete?) 4. **Consider the number 27. Would you call it abstract, or concrete? Discrete, or continuous?** Abstract, since you can’t see or touch or smell “twenty-seven.” Probably discrete, since it’s an integer, and when we think of whole numbers we think “discrete.” (Food for thought: in real life, how would you know whether I meant the integer “27” or the decimal number “27.00”? And does it matter?) Clearly it’s discrete. Abstract vs. concrete, though, is a little tricky. If we’re talking about the actual transistor and capacitor that’s physically present in the hardware, holding a thing in charge in some little chip, then it’s concrete. But if we’re talking about the value “1” that is conceptually part of the computer’s currently executing state, then it’s really abstract just like 27 was. In this book, we’ll always be talking about bits in this second, abstract sense. 5. **Consider a bit in a computer’s memory. Would you call it abstract, or concrete? Discrete, or continuous?** Any kind of abstract object that has properties we can reason about. 6. **If math isn’t just about numbers, what else is it about?** Any kind of abstract object that has properties we can reason about. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 17 Context: # 2.1. THE IDEA OF A SET is the same whether we write it like this: \( P = \{ \text{Dad}, \text{Mom} \} \) or this: \( P = \{ \text{Mom}, \text{Dad} \} \) Those are just two different ways of writing the same thing. The set \( E \) that had nobody in it can be written like this, of course: \( E = \{ \} \) but we sometimes use this special symbol instead: \( E = \emptyset \) However you write it, this kind of set (one that has no elements) is referred to as an **empty set**. The set \( H \), above, contained all the members of the group under consideration. Sometimes we'll refer to "the group under consideration" as the **domain of discourse**. It too is a set, and we usually use the symbol \( \Omega \) to refer to it. So in this case, \( \Omega = \{ \text{Mom}, \text{Johnny}, \text{T.J.}, \text{Dad}, \text{Lizzy} \} \) Another symbol we'll use a lot is \( \in \), which means "is a member of." Since Lizzy is a female, we can write: \( \text{Lizzy} \in F \) to show that Lizzy is a member of the set \( F \). Conversely, we write: \( \text{T.J.} \notin F \) to show that T.J. is not. As an aside, I mentioned that every item is either in, or not in, a set: there are no shades of gray. Interestingly, researchers have developed another body of mathematics called [I kid you not] *fuzzy*[^1] set theory. [^1]: Some authors use the symbol \( U \) for this, and call it the **universal set**. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 21 Context: 2.4 Sets are not arrays ======================= If you’ve done some computer programming, you might see a resemblance between sets and the collections of items often used in a program: arrays, perhaps, or linked lists. To be sure, there are some similarities. But there are also some very important differences, which must not be overlooked: - **No order.** As previously mentioned, there is no order to the members of a set. “{Mom, Dad}” is the same set as “{Dad, Mom}”. In a computer program, of course, most arrays or lists have first, second, and last elements, and an index number assigned to each. - **No duplicates.** Suppose \( M \) is the set of all males. What would it possibly mean to say \( M = \{T.J., T.J., Johnny\} \)? Would that mean that “T.J. is twice the man that Johnny is”? This is obviously nonsensical. The set \( M \) is based on a property: maleness. Each element of \( M \) is either male, or it isn't. It can't be “male three times.” Again, in an array or linked list, you could certainly have more than one copy of the same item in different positions. - **Infinite sets.** 'Nuff said. I’ve never seen an array with infinitely many elements, and neither will you. - **Untyped.** Most of the time, an array or other collection in a computer program contains elements of only a single type; it’s an array of integers, or a linked list of Customer objects, for example. This is important because the program often needs to treat all elements in the collection the same way. Perhaps it needs to loop over the array to add up all the numbers, or iterate through a linked list and search for customers who have not placed an order in the last six months. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 25 Context: 2.8 Some special sets ===================== In addition to the empty set, there are symbols for some other common sets, including: - **Z** — the integers (positive, negative, and zero) - **N** — the natural numbers (positive integers and zero) - **Q** — the rational numbers (all numbers that can be expressed as an integer divided by another integer) - **R** — the real numbers (all numbers that aren't imaginary, even decimal numbers that aren't rational) The cardinality of all these sets is infinity, although, as I alluded to previously, \(\mathbb{R}\) is in some sense "greater than" \(\mathbb{N}\). For the curious, we say that \(\mathbb{N}\) is a countably infinite set, whereas \(\mathbb{R}\) is uncountably infinite. Speaking very loosely, this can be thought of this way: if we start counting up all the natural numbers, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, ..., we will never get to the end of them. But at least we can start counting. With the real numbers, we can't even get off the ground. Where do you begin? Starting with 0 is fine, but then what's the "next" real number? Choosing anything for your second number inevitably skips a lot in between. Once you've digested this, I'll spring another shocking truth on you: \(|\mathbb{Q}| \text{ is actually equal to } |\mathbb{R}|, \text{ not greater than it as } |\mathbb{R}|. \text{ Cantor came up with an ingenious numbering scheme whereby all the rational numbers — including 3, -9, \text{ and } \frac{1}{17} — can be listed off regularly, in order, just like the integers can. And so } |\mathbb{Q}| = |\mathbb{N}| \neq |\mathbb{R}|. \text{ This kind of stuff can blow your mind.} #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 29 Context: # 2.9. COMBINING SETS Look at the right-hand side. The first pair of parentheses encloses only female computer science majors. The right pair encloses female math majors. Then we take the union of the two, to get a group which contains only females, and specifically only the females who are computer science majors or math majors (or both). Clearly, the two sides of the equals sign have the same extension. The distributive property in basic algebra doesn’t work if you flip the times and plus signs (normally \( a + b + c \neq (a + b) + (a + c) \)), but remarkably it does here: \( X \cup (Y \cap Z) = (X \cup Y) \cap (X \cup Z) \). Using the same definitions of \( X, Y, \) and \( Z \), work out the meaning of this one and convince yourself it’s always true. ## Identity Laws Simplest thing you’ve learned all day: - \( X \cup \emptyset = X \) - \( X \cap X = X \) You don’t change \( X \) by adding nothing to it, or taking nothing away from it. ## Dominance Laws The flip side of the above is that \( X \cup \Omega = \Omega \) and \( X \cap \emptyset = \emptyset \). If you take \( X \) and add everything and the kitchen sink to it, you get everything and the kitchen sink. And if you restrict \( X \) to having nothing, it of course has nothing. ## Complement Laws \( X \cup \overline{X} = \Omega \). This is another way of saying “everything (in the domain of discourse) is either in, or not in, a set.” So if I take \( X \), and then I take everything not in \( X \), and smooth the two together, I get everything. In a similar vein, \( X \cap \overline{X} = \emptyset \), because there can’t be any element that’s both in \( X \) and not in \( X \): that would be a contradiction. Interestingly, the first of these two laws has become controversial in modern philosophy. It’s called “the law of the excluded middle,” and is explicitly repudiated in many modern logic systems. ## De Morgan's Laws De Morgan’s laws. Now these are worth memorizing, if only because (1) they’re incredibly important, and (2) they #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 31 Context: 2.10 Subsets =========== We learned that the “∈” symbol is used to indicate set membership: the element on the left is a member of the set on the right. A related but distinct notion is the idea of a subset. When we say \( X \subset Y \) (pronounced “X is a subset of Y”), it means that every member of \( X \) is also a member of \( Y \). The reverse is not necessarily true, of course; otherwise “⊆” would just mean “=”. So if \( A = \{ Dad, Lizzy \} \) and \( K = \{ Dad, Mom, Lizzy \} \), then we can say \( A \subset K \). Be careful about the distinction between “∈” and “⊆”, which are often confused. With “∈”, the thing on the left is an element, whereas with “⊆”, the thing on the left is a set. This is further complicated by the fact that the element on the left-hand side of “∈” might well be a set. Let's see some examples. Suppose \( Q \) is the set \( \{ 4, 9, 4 \} \). \( Q \) has three elements here, one of which is itself a set. Now suppose that we let \( P \) be the set \( \{ 4, 9 \} \). Question: Is \( P \subset Q \)? The answer is yes: the set \( \{ 4, 9 \} \) (which is the same as the set \( \{ 9, 4 \} \), just written in a different way) is in fact an element of the set \( Q \). Next question: Is \( P \subset Q \)? The answer is no, \( P \nsubseteq Q \). If there are two of them (4 and 4) also in \( Q \), then 4 is a member of \( Q \), not 9. Last question: If \( R \) is defined to be \( \{ 2, 4 \} \), is \( R \subset Q \)? The answer is yes, since both 2 and 4 are members of \( Q \). Notice that the definition here is a subset of itself. Sometimes, though, it’s useful to talk about whether a set is really a subset of another, and you don’t want to “count” if the two sets are actually equal. This is called a proper subset, and the symbol for it is \( \subsetneq \). You can see the rationale for the choice of symbol, because “⊆” is kind of like “<” for numbers, and “⊂” is like “<”. Every set is a subset (not necessarily a proper one) of itself, because #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 33 Context: ```markdown ## 2.11. POWER SETS Don't lose sight. There are four elements to the power set of \( A \), each of which is one of the possible subsets. It might seem strange to talk about "all of the possible subsets"—when I first learned this stuff, I remember thinking at first that there would be no limit to the number of subsets you could make from a set. But of course there is. To create a subset, you can either include, or exclude, each one of the original set's members. In \( A \)’s case, you can either (1) include both Dad and Lizzy, or (2) include Dad but not Lizzy, or (3) include Lizzy but not Dad, or (4) exclude both, in which case your subset is empty. Therefore, \( P(A) \) includes all four of those subsets. Now what's the cardinality of \( P(X) \) for some set \( X \)? That's an interesting question, and one well worth pondering. The answer ripples through the heart of a lot of combinatorics and the binary number system, topics we'll cover later. And the answer is right at our fingertips if we just extrapolate from the previous example. To form a subset of \( X \), we have a choice to either include, or else exclude, each of its elements. So there's two choices for the first element, and then whether we choose to include or exclude that first element, there are two choices for the second, etc. So if \( |X| = 2 \) (recall that this notation means \( X \) has two elements) or \( X \) has a cardinality of \( 2^n \), then its power set has \( 2 \times 2 \) members. If \( |X| = 3 \), then its power set has \( 2 \times 2 \times 2 \) members. In general: \[ |P(X)| = 2^{|X|}. \] As a limiting case (and a brain-bender), notice that if \( X \) is the empty set, then \( P(X) \) has one (not zero) members, because there is in fact one subset of the empty set: namely, the empty set itself. So \( |X| = 0 \), and \( |P(X)| = 1 \). And that jives with the above formula. ``` #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 37 Context: 2.13 Exercises ================ Use an index card or a piece of paper folded lengthwise, and cover up the right-hand column of the exercises below. Read each exercise in the left-hand column, answer it in your mind, then slide the index card down to reveal the answer and see if you're right! For every exercise you missed, figure out why you missed it before moving on. 1. Is the set \( \{ Will, Smith \} \) the same as the set \( \{ Smith, Will \} \)? Yes indeed. 2. Is the ordered pair \( (Will, Smith) \) the same as \( (Smith, Will) \)? No. Order matters with ordered pairs (hence the name), and with any size tuple for that matter. 3. Is the set \( \{ Luke, Leia \}, Han \) the same as the set \( \{ Luke, Leia, Han \} \)? No. For instance, the first set has Han as a member but the second does not. (Instead, it has another set as a member, and that inner set happens to include Han.) 4. What's the first element of the set \( \{ Cowboys, Redskins, Steelers \} \)? The question doesn't make sense. There is no "first element" of a set. All three teams are equally members of the set and could be listed in any order. 5. Let \( G = \{ Matthew, Mark, Luke, John \} \) be \( \{ Luke, Obi-wan, Yoda \} \). \( S \) be the set of all Star Wars characters, and \( F \) be the four gospels from the New Testament. Now then. Is \( J \subseteq G \)? No. 6. Is \( J \subseteq S \)? Yes. 7. Is Yoda \( \in J \)? Yes. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 39 Context: # 2.13. EXERCISES 21. What’s \( A \cap B \)? \{ Macbeth, Hamlet \}. 22. What’s \( B \cap T \)? ∅. 23. What’s \( B \cap \overline{T} \)? B. (which is { Scrabble, Monopoly, Othello. }) 24. What’s \( A \cup (B \cap T) \)? \{ Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth \}. 25. What’s \( (A \cup B) \cap T \)? \{ Macbeth, Hamlet \}. 26. What’s \( A \setminus B \)? Simply \( T \), since these two sets have nothing in common. 27. What’s \( T' \setminus B \)? \{ (Hamlet, Macbeth), (Hamlet, Hamlet), (Hamlet, Othello), (Village, Macbeth), (Village, Hamlet), (Village, Othello), (Town, Hamlet), (Town, Othello) \}. The order of the ordered pairs within the set is not important; the order of the elements within each ordered pair is important. 28. What’s \( T \cap X \)? 0. 29. What’s \( (B \cap B) \times (A \cap T) \)? \{ (Scrabble, Hamlet), (Monopoly, Hamlet), (Othello, Hamlet) \}. 30. What’s \( I \cup B \cup T \)? 7. 31. What’s \( I \cap (A \cap T) \)? 21. (The first parenthesized expression gives rise to a set with 7 elements, and the second to a set with three elements (B itself). Each element from the first set gets paired with an element from the second, so there are 21 such pairings.) #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 41 Context: ## 2.13. EXERCISES 38. Is this a partition of \( G \)? Yes. (This partitions the elements into the gospels that were written by Jews, those that were written by Greeks, those that were written by Romans, and those that were written by Americans.) - \( \{ Matthew, John \} \) - \( \{ Luke \} \) - \( \{ Mark \} \) - \( \emptyset \) 39. What’s the power set of \( \{ Rihanna \} \)? \( \{ \{ Rihanna \}, \emptyset \} \) Yes, since \( \{ peanut, jelly \} \) is one of the eight subsets of \( \{ peanut, butter, jelly \} \). (Can you name the other seven?) 40. Is \( \{ peanut, jelly \} \in P(\{ peanut, butter, jelly \}) \)? 41. Is it true for every set \( S \) that \( S \in P(S) \)? Yep. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 45 Context: # 3.2 Defining Relations which is pronounced "Harry is S-related-to Dr. Pepper." Told you it was awkward. If we want to draw attention to the fact that (Harry, Mt. Dew) is not in the relation \( S \), we could strike it through to write: ~~Harry S Mt. Dew~~ ## 3.2 Defining relations Just as with sets, we can define a relation extensionally or intensionally. To do it extensionally, it's just like the examples above — we simply list the ordered pairs: - (Hermione, Mt. Dew) - (Hermione, Dr. Pepper) - (Harry, Dr. Pepper) Most of the time, however, we want a relation to mean something. In other words, it's not just some arbitrary selection of the possible ordered pairs, but rather reflects some larger notion of how the elements of the two sets are related. For example, suppose I wanted to define a relation called "hasTasted" between the sets \( X \) and \( Y \) above. This relation might have the five of the possible six ordered pairs in it: - (Harry, Dr. Pepper) - (Ron, Dr. Pepper) - (Ron, Mt. Dew) - (Hermione, Dr. Pepper) - (Hermione, Mt. Dew) Another way of expressing the same information would be to write: Harry hasTasted Dr. Pepper Harry hasTasted Mt. Dew Ron hasTasted Dr. Pepper Ron hasTasted Mt. Dew Hermione hasTasted Dr. Pepper Hermione hasTasted Mt. Dew #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 56 Context: Functions can be defined intensively or extensionally, just as with relations. Intensionally, we provide the conceptual meaning of what the function represents. Extensionally, we list the values for each element of the domain. One other term that applies to every function is its **range**. A function's range is the subset of the codomain that at least one element the domain actually maps to. It's the part of the codomain that's "reachable." For instance, if the function \( G : X \to Y \) is - \( (Harry, Dr. Pepper) \) - \( (Ron, Dr. Pepper) \) - \( (Hermione, Dr. Pepper) \) then even though the codomain is \( \{ Dr. Pepper, Mt. Dew \} \), the range is merely \( \{ Dr. Pepper \} \). That's because there isn't any ordered pair that contains Mt. Dew, so it's left out of the range. You can't "reach" Mt. Dew via the \( G \) function by starting with any of its inputs, so it's left out in the cold. By the way, a function's range is sometimes called its **image**. These terms are synonymous. ### 3.7 Properties of Functions As with relations, there are certain simple properties that some (not all) functions have, and it's useful to reason about them. A function can be: - **Injective**: An injective function is not only a function, but also kind of a "function in reverse": i.e., not only does no \( x \) map to two different \( y \)'s (which is the case for all functions), but two \( y \)'s map to the same \( x \). In graphical terms, it does pass a "horizontal line test" in addition to the vertical. Note that this can't happen if the domain is larger than the codomain (as with wizards & soft drinks), since there aren't enough \( y \) values to accommodate all the \( x \) values uniquely. So there is no injective function between wizards and soft drinks to be found, no matter how hard we try. The function `phoneExtension` — with employees as the domain and four-digit numbers as the codomain — is an example of an injective function. One mapping of this function #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 62 Context: # CHAPTER 3. RELATIONS 7. **Is T symmetric?** No, since it contains \((Kirk, Scotty)\) but not \((Scotty, Kirk)\). 8. **Is T antisymmetric?** No, since it contains \((Scotty, Spock)\) and also \((Spock, Scotty)\). 9. **Is T transitive?** Yes, since for every \((x, y)\) and \((y, z)\) present, the corresponding \((x, z)\) is also present. (The only example that fits this is \(x = Kirk, y = Spock, z = Scotty\), and the required ordered pair is indeed present.) 10. Let H be an endorelational on T, defined as follows: \{ \((Kirk, Kirk)\), \((Spock, Spock)\), \((Uhura, Scotty)\), \((Scotty, Uhura)\), \((Spock, McCoy)\), \((McCoy, Spock)\), \((Scotty, Scotty)\), \((Uhura, Uhura)\) \}. **Is H reflexive?** No, since it’s missing \((McCoy, McCoy)\). 11. **Is H symmetric?** Yes, since for every \((x, y)\) it contains, the corresponding \((y, x)\) is also present. 12. **Is H antisymmetric?** No, since it contains \((Uhura, Scotty)\) and also \((Scotty, Uhura)\). 13. **Is H transitive?** Yes, since there aren’t any examples of \((x, y)\) and \((y, z)\) pairs both being present. 14. Let outbrake be an edorelational on the set of all crew members of the Enterprise, where \((x, y)\) if \(x\) outranks \(y\) if character \(x\) has a higher Star Fleet rank than \(y\). **Is outranking reflexive?** No, since no officer outranks him/herself. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 67 Context: # Chapter 4 ## Probability Probability is the study of **uncertainty**. This may seem like a hopeless endeavor, sort of like knowing the unknowable, but it's not. The study of probability gives us tools for taming the uncertain world we live and program in, and for reasoning about it in a precise and helpful way. We may not know exactly how long a particular visitor is willing to wait for our webpage to load in their browser, but we can use probability to estimate how much traffic we’ll lose if this takes longer than a certain average duration. We may not know which specific passwords a hacker will try as he attempts to break our security protocol, but we can use probability to estimate how feasible this approach will be for him. We may not know exactly when a certain program will run out of RAM and have to swap its data out to virtual memory, but we can predict how often this is likely to occur — and how painful it will be for us — given a certain system load and user behavior. The trick is to use the tools we've already built — sets, relations, functions — to characterize and structure our notions of the relative likelihood of various outcomes. Once those underpinnings are secured, a layer of deductive reasoning will help us make good use of that information to begin to predict the future. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 76 Context: 68 # CHAPTER 4. PROBABILITY does so on the most up-to-date information he/she/it has, always revising beliefs in various hypotheses when confirming or refuting evidence is encountered. Famous Bayesians include Pierre-Simon Laplace, considered "the French Isaac Newton" for his scientific brilliance, and 18th-century theologian Thomas Bayes, for whom the theory is named. I won't try to conceal that my own thinking on this topic is pretty Bayesian. But I find this whole topic fascinating because it shows how brilliant people, who unanimously agree on the rules and equations, can have such radically different interpretations of what it all means. ## 4.4 Conditional probability I mentioned that Bayesians are especially concerned with the idea of revising estimates about probability based on new information that may come to light. This notion can be crystallized in the idea of **conditional probability**. When we talk about the conditional probability of an event A, we mean "what's the probability that A occurs, given that I know some other event K has also occurred?" Think of K as "background knowledge": it’s additional information which, when known, may influence how likely we think A is to have occurred. It can be mathematically computed as follows: \[ P(A|K) = \frac{P(A \cap K)}{P(K)} \] We pronounce \( P(A|K) \) as "the probability of A given K". It is the conditional probability of A, or "the probability of A conditioned on K." We'll sometimes call \( P(A) \) the **prior probability**, or the prior probability if we don't want to sound Latin. The prior is simply the original unadjusted probability, if we aren’t privy to the background information K. Let's go back to **American Idol**. We know that the probability of an underage winner is only 4%, because \( E (Kelly, Fantasia) \) and we estimate that each of them has a 2% probability of winning. So it seems more likely than not that our winner will be over 21. But #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 83 Context: ``` 4.6 Bayes' Theorem The Law of Total Probability comes in handy in scenarios where there's more than one "way" for an event to occur. It lets you break that event apart into the different ways, then apply your knowledge of the likelihood of each of those ways in order to compute the grand, overall probability of the event. Another trick that helps compute probabilities in practice is Bayes' Theorem. We've defined \( P(A|K) \approx \frac{P(K|A) P(A)}{P(K)} \) and by swapping the letters we get \( P(K|A) = \frac{P(A|K) P(K)}{P(A)} \). Combining these with a little bit of algebra yields: \[ P(A|K) = \frac{P(K|A) P(A)}{P(K)} \] Now this is a very, very powerful equation that has a multitude of uses throughout computer science and statistics. What makes it powerful is that it allows us to express \( P(A|K) \), a quantity often very difficult to estimate, in terms of \( P(K|A) \), which is often much easier. A simple and commonly cited example is that of interpreting medical exam results for the presence of a disease. If your doctor recommends that you undergo a blood test to see if you have some rare condition, you might test positive or negative. But suppose you do indeed test positive. What's the probability that you actually have the disease? That, of course, is the key point. In symbols, we're looking for \( P(D|T) \), where \( D \) is the event that you actually have the disease in question, and \( T \) is the event that you test positive for it. But this is hard to approximate with available data. For one thing, most people who undergo this test don't test positive, so we don't have a ton of examples of event \( T \) occurring where we could count the times \( D \) also occurred. But worse, it's hard to tell whether a patient has the disease, at least before advanced symptoms develop—that, after all, is the purpose of our test! ``` #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 94 Context: # CHAPTER 5. STRUCTURES ## 5.1 Graphs In many ways, the most elegant, simple, and powerful way of representing knowledge is by means of a graph. A graph is composed of a bunch of little bits of data, each of which may (or may not) be attached to each of the others. An example is in Figure 5.1. Each of the labeled ovals is called a **vertex** (plural: **vertices**), and the lines between them are called **edges**. Each vertex does, or does not, contain an edge connecting it to each other vertex. One could imagine each of the vertices containing various descriptive attributes — perhaps the **John Wilkes Booth** vertex could have information about Booth's birthdate, and **Washington, DC** information about its longitude, latitude, and population — but these are typically not shown on the diagram. All that really matters, graph-wise, is which vertices it contains, and which ones are joined to which others. ``` President | Abraham Lincoln | Washington, DC | John Wilkes Booth / \ Ford's Theatre Civil War | Actor | Gettysburg ``` Figure 5.1: A graph (undirected). Cognitive psychologists, who study the internal mental processes of the mind, have long identified this sort of structure as the principal way that people mentally store and work with information. After all, if you step back a moment and ask “what is the ‘stuff’ that’s in my memory?” a reasonable answer is “well I know about a bunch of things, and the properties of those things, and the relationships between those things.” If the “things” are vertices, and the “properties” are attributes of those vertices, and the “relationships” are #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 105 Context: # 5.1. GRAPHS Now it might have occurred to you that we can run into trouble if we encounter the same node multiple times while we're traversing. This can happen if the graph has a cycle: there will be more than one path to reach some nodes, and we could get stuck in an infinite loop if we're not careful. For this reason, we introduce the concept of marking nodes. This is kind of like leaving a trail of breadcrumbs: if we're ever about to explore a node, but find out it's marked, then we know we've already been there, and it's pointless to search it again. So there are two things we're going to do to nodes as we search: - **To mark** a node means to remember that we've already encountered it in the process of our search. - **To visit** a node means to actually do whatever it is we need to do to the node (call the phone number, examine its name for a pattern match, add the number to our total, whatever). Now then, Breadth-first traversal (BFT) is an **algorithm**, which is just a step-by-step, reliable procedure that's guaranteed to produce a result. In this case, it's guaranteed to visit every node in the graph that's reachable from the starting node, and not get stuck in any infinite loops in the process. Here it is: ## Breadth-first traversal (BFT) 1. Choose a starting node. 2. Mark it and enqueue it on an empty queue. 3. While the queue is not empty, do these steps: a. Dequeue the front node of the queue. b. Visit it. c. Mark and enqueue all of its unmarked adjacent nodes (in any order). #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 123 Context: # 5.2 TREES parent is A, and A has no parent. ## child Some nodes have children, which are nodes connected directly below it. A’s children are F and B, C’s are D and E, B’s only child is C, and E has no children. ## sibling A node with the same parent. E’s sibling is D, B’s is F, and none of the other nodes have siblings. ## ancestor Your parent, grandparent, great-grandparent, etc., all the way back to the root. B’s only ancestor is A, while E’s ancestors are C, B, and A. Note that F is not C’s ancestor, even though it’s above it on the diagram; there’s no connection from C to F, except back through the root (which doesn’t count). ## descendant Your children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, etc., all the way to the leaves. B’s descendants are C, D, and E, while A’s are F, B, C, D, and E. ## leaf A node with no children. F, D, and E are leaves. Note that in a (very) small tree, the root could itself be a leaf. ## internal node Any node that’s not a leaf. A, B, and C are the internal nodes in our example. ## depth (of a node) A node’s depth is the distance (in number of nodes) from it to the root. The root itself has depth zero. In our example, B is of depth 1, E is of depth 3, and A is of depth 0. ## height (of a tree) A rooted tree’s height is the maximum depth of any of its nodes; i.e., the maximum distance from the root to any node. Our example has a height of 3, since the “deepest” nodes are D and E, each with a depth of 3. A tree with just one node is considered to have a height of 0. Bizarrely, but to be consistent, we’ll say that the empty tree has height -1! Strange, but what else could it be? To say it has height 0 seems inconsistent with a one-node tree also having height 0. At any rate, this won’t come up much. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 125 Context: ``` ## 5.2. TREES ![Figure 5.17: A binary tree.](path/to/image) Traversing binary trees ----------------------- There were two ways of traversing a graph: breadth-first and depth-first. Curiously, there are three ways of traversing a tree: **pre-order**, **post-order**, and **in-order**. All three begin at the root, and all three consider each of the root's children as subtrees. The difference is in the order of visitation. ### To traverse a tree **pre-order**, we: 1. Visit the root. 2. Treat the left child and all its descendants as a subtree, and traverse it in its entirety. 3. Do the same with the right child. It’s tricky because you have to remember that each time you “treat a child as a subtree” you do the **whole traversal process** on that subtree. This involves remembering where you were once you finish. Follow this example carefully. For the tree in Figure 5.17, we begin by visiting G. Then, we traverse the whole “K subtree.” This involves visiting K itself, and then traversing its whole left subtree (anchored at D). After we visit the D node, we discover that it actually has no left subtree, so we go ahead and traverse its right. ``` #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 130 Context: # CHAPTER 5. STRUCTURES ## Figure 5.21: A full binary tree ``` G / \ K H / \ / \ D M A B / \ / \ | | C E F N L | I ``` ## Complete binary tree A complete binary tree is one in which every level has all possible nodes present, except perhaps for the deepest level, which is filled all the way from the left. Figure 5.21 is not complete, but it would be if we fixed it up as in Figure 5.22. ## Figure 5.22: A complete binary tree ``` G / \ K H / \ / \ D M A B / \ | | I E L F / \ N - ``` Unlike full binary trees, it is always possible to have a complete binary tree no matter how many nodes it contains. You just keep filling in from left to right, level after level. ## Perfect binary tree Our last special type has a rather audacious title, but a “perfect” tree is simply one that is exactly balanced. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 133 Context: # 5.2. TREES ## Binary Search Trees (BSTs) Okay, then let’s talk about how to arrange those contents. A binary search tree (BST) is any binary tree that satisfies one additional property: every node is “greater than” all of the nodes in its left subtree, and “less than (or equal to)” all of the nodes in its right subtree. We’ll call this the **BST property**. The phrases “greater than” and “less than” are in quotes here because their meaning is somewhat flexible, depending on what we’re storing in the tree. If we’re storing numbers, we’ll use numerical order. If we’re storing names, we’ll use alphabetical order. Whatever it is we’re storing, we simply need a way to compare two nodes to determine which one “goes before” the other. An example of a BST containing people is given in Figure 5.24. Imagine that each of these nodes contains a good deal of information about a particular person—an employee record, medical history, account information, what have you. The nodes themselves are indexed by the person’s name, and the nodes are organized according to the BST rule. Mitch comes after Ben/Jessica/Jim and before Randy/Olson/Molly/Xander in alphabetical order, and this ordering relationship between parents and children repeats itself all the way down the tree. (Check it!) Be careful to observe that the ordering rule applies between a node and **the entire contents of its subtrees**, not merely to its immediate children. This is a rookie mistake that you want to avoid. Your first instinct, when glancing at Figure 5.25, below, is to judge it a BST. It is not a binary search tree, however! Jessica is to the left of Mitch, as she should be, and Nancy is to the right of Jessica, as she should be. It seems to check out. But the problem is that Nancy is a descendant of Mitch’s left subtree, whereas she must properly be placed somewhere in his right subtree. And, this matters. So be sure to check your BSTs all the way up and down. ## The Power of BSTs All right, so what’s all the buzz about BSTs, anyway? The key insight is to realize that if you’re looking for a node, all you have to do is start at the root and go the height of the tree down, making... #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 136 Context: # CHAPTER 5. STRUCTURES Searching for “Molly” in a simple unsorted list of names is an O(n) prospect. If there’s a thousand nodes in the list, on average you’ll find Molly after scanning through 500 of them. You might get lucky and find Molly at the beginning, but of course you might get really unlucky and not find her until the end. This averages out to about half the size of the list in the normal case. If there’s a million nodes, however, it’ll take you 500,000 traversals on average before finding Molly. Ten times as many nodes means ten times as long to find Molly, and a thousand times as many means a thousand times as long. Bummer. Looking up Molly in a BST, however, is an O(log n) process. Recall that “log” means the logarithm (base-2). This means that doubling the number of nodes gives you a minuscule increase in the running time. Suppose there were a thousand nodes in your tree, as above. You wouldn’t have to look through log(1000) = 10 nodes; you’d only have to look through ten. Now increase it to a million nodes. You wouldn’t have to look through 500,000 to find Molly; you’d only have to look through twenty. Absolutely mind-boggling. ## Adding nodes to a BST Finding things in a BST is lightning fast. Turns out, so is adding things to it. Suppose we acquire a new customer named Jennifer, and we need to add her to our BST so we can retrieve her account information in the future. All we do is follow the same process we would if we were looking for Jennifer, but as soon as we find the spot where she should be, we add her there. In this case, Jennifer comes before Molly (go left), and before Jessica (go left again), and after Ben (go right). Ben has no right child, so we put Jessica in the tree at that right spot. (See Figure 5.26.) This adding process is also an O(log n) algorithm, since we only need look at a small number of nodes equal to the height of the tree. Note that a new entry always becomes a leaf when added. In fact, #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 145 Context: # 5.4. EXERCISES 17. If this graph represented an endorelation, how many ordered pairs would it have? **Answer:** 10. 18. Suppose we traversed the graph below in depth-first fashion, starting with node P. In what order would we visit the nodes? ![Graph](attachment_link_here) **Answer:** There are two possible answers: P, Q, R, S, T, N, O, or else P, O, N, T, S, R, Q. (The choice just depends on whether we go "left" or "right" initially.) Note in particular that either O or Q is at the very end of the list. 19. Now we traverse the same graph breadth-first fashion, starting with node P. Now in what order would we visit the nodes? **Answer:** Again, two possible answers: P, O, Q, N, R, T, S, or else P, Q, R, N, S, T. Note in particular that both O and Q are visited very early. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 147 Context: # 5.4. EXERCISES 25. **Is it a binary search tree?** No. Although nearly every node does satisfy the BST property (all the nodes in its left subtree come before it alphabetically, and all the nodes in its right subtree come after it), there is a single exception: Zoe is in Wash's left subtree, whereas she should be to his right. Many ways; one would be to swap Zoe's and Wash's positions. If we do that, the fixed tree would be: ``` Mal / \ Jayne Zoe / \ / Inara Kayle \ River \ Simon \ Wash ``` 26. **How could we fix it?** Take a moment and convince yourself that every node of this new tree does in fact satisfy the BST property. It's not too bad, but it does have one too many levels in it (it has a height of 4, whereas all its nodes would fit in a tree of height 3). 27. **Is the tree balanced?** Many ways; one would be to rotate the River-Simon-Wash subtree so that Simon becomes Zoe's left child. Simon would then be the parent of River (on his left) and Wash (on his right). 28. **How could we make it more balanced?** Suggested approaches include reviewing the structure to ensure the depths of all leaves are as equal as possible or implementing rotations to balance out the heights of subtrees. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 149 Context: # Chapter 6 ## Counting If the title of this chapter seems less than inspiring, it’s only because the kind of counting we learned as children was mostly of a straightforward kind. In this chapter, we’re going to learn to answer some more difficult questions like “how many different semester schedules could a college student possibly have?” and “how many different passwords can a customer choose for this e-commerce website?” and “how likely is this network buffer to overflow, given that its packets are addressed to three different destinations?” The more impressive-sounding name for this topic is **combinatorics**. In combinatorics, we focus on two tasks: counting things (to find out how many there are), and enumerating things (to systematically list them as individuals). Some things turn out to be hard to count but easy to enumerate, and vice versa. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 167 Context: # 6.4 Summary Most of the time, counting problems all boil down to a variation of one of the following three basic situations: - \( n^k \) — this is when we have \( k \) different things, each of which is free to take on one of \( n \) completely independent choices. - \( \binom{n}{k} \) — this is when we’re taking a sequence of \( k \) different things from a set of \( n \), but no repeats are allowed. (A special case of this is \( n! \), when \( k = n \).) - \( \binom{n}{k} \) — this is when we’re taking \( k \) different things from a set of \( n \), but the order doesn’t matter. Sometimes it’s tricky to deduce exactly which of these three situations apply. You have to think carefully about the problem and ask yourself whether repeated values would be allowed and whether it matters what order the values appear in. This is often subtle. As an example, suppose my friend and I work out at the same gym. This gym has 18 different weight machines to choose from, each of which exercises a different muscle group. Each morning, #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 169 Context: 6.5 Exercises ========== 1. Inside a dusty chest marked “Halloween costumes” in the family attic, there are four different outfits (a wizard's cape, army fatigues, and two others), five different headgear (a Batman helmet, a headband, a tiara, etc.), and nine different accessories (a wand, a lightsaber, a pipe, and many others). If a child were to choose a costume by selecting one outfit, one headgear, and one accessory, how many costume choices would he/she have? ``` 4 x 5 x 9 = 180 ``` 2. What if the child were permitted to skip one or more of the items (for instance, choosing a costume with an outfit and accessory, but no headgear)? ``` 5 x 6 x 10 = 300, since now “no choice at all” is effectively another choice for each of the categories.3 Kind of amazing how much that increases the total! ```   3. Note, by the way, that this approach does not work for situations like the license plate example on p. 114. Namely, you can’t say “if a license plate can have fewer than 7 characters, we can just add ‘no character’ at this position” as one of the options for that position, and calculate 27^7 = 94,931,877,133 possible plates. That number is too high. Why? (Hint: for some of those choices, you can get the same license plate in more than one way. Hint 2: if we chose ‘A’ for the first license plate character, ‘no character’ for the second, followed by ‘ANTMAN’ we get the license plate ‘ANTMAN’. But what other choices could we have made, that would also have resulted in ‘ANTMAN’?) #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 176 Context: # CHAPTER 7. NUMBERS These numbers act as base-10 representations, like you're used to doing. You might have thought differently. You'd have gone from: 1. **(A)** 8 2. **(B)** 9 3. **(C)** 10 When going from B to C, your “odometer” wrapped around. You had to go from a one-digit number to a two-digit number, simply because you ran out of room in one digit. This can lead to the **illusion** that something fundamentally different happens when you go from B to C. This is completely an illusion. Nothing different happens to the number just because the way we write it down changes. Human beings have a curious habit of thinking that odometer changes are significant. When the temperature breaks 100, it suddenly feels “more hotter” than it did when it merely rose from 98 to 99. When the Dow Jones Industrial Average first reached 10,000, and when Pete Rose eclipsed 4,000 career hits, and when the year 2000 dawned, we tended to think that something truly important had taken place. But as we'll see, the point at which these milestones occur is utterly and even laughably arbitrary; it simply has to do with what number we've chosen as our base. And we quite honestly could have chosen any number at all. ## 7.2 Bases As I mentioned, a base is simply a number that’s an anchor for our place value system. It represents how many distinct symbols we will use to represent numbers. This implicitly sets the value of the #################### 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: 199 Context: # 7.4. BINARY (BASE 2) But then again, if I say, “oh, that’s a two’s-complement number,” you’d first look at the leftmost bit, see that it’s a 1, and realize you’re dealing with a negative number. What is the negative of? You’d flip all the bits and add one to find out. This would give you `00110110`, which you’d interpret as a base 2 number and get \(60_{10}\). You’d then respond, “ah, then that’s the number \(-60_{10}\).” And you’d be right. So what does `11000010` represent then? Is it 196, -68, or -60? The answer is **any of the three**, depending on what representation scheme you’re using. None of the data in computers or information systems has intrinsic meaning: it all has to be interpreted according to the syntactic and semantic rules that we invent. In math and computer science, anything can be made to mean anything; after all, we invent the rules. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 200 Context: # 7.5 Exercises 1. If I told you that the decimal number (i.e., base-10 number) 2022 was equal to 13612, would you call me a liar without even having to think too hard? Yes, you should. Think about it: in base 6, each digit's place value (except the one's place) is worth less than it is in base 10. Instead of a ten's place, hundred's place, and thousand's place, we have a wavy six's place, thirty's place, and two-hundred-and-sixteen's place. So there's no way that a number whose base-6 digits are 1, 4, 1, and 3 would be as large as a number whose base-10 digits are 2, something, something, and something. Put another way, if the base is smaller, the number itself has to "look bigger" to have a chance of evening that out. 2. If I told you that the decimal number 2022 was equal to 1413, would you call me a liar without even having to think too hard? Yes, you should. Think about it: in base 6, each digit's place value (except the one's place) is worth less than it is in base 10. Instead of a ten's place, hundred's place, and thousand's place, we have a wavy six's place, thirty's place, and two-hundred-and-sixteen's place. So there's no way that a number whose base-6 digits are 1, 4, 1, and 3 would be as large as a number whose base-10 digits are 2, something, something, and something. Put another way, if the base is smaller, the number itself has to "look bigger" to have a chance of evening that out. 3. If I told you that the decimal number 2022 was equal to 5FA86, would you call me a liar without even having to think too hard? Yes, you should, because of the mirror reflection of the above logic. Every digit of a hexadecimal number (again, except the one's place) is worth more than it is in base 10. So a four-digit hex number beginning with an 8 is going to be way bigger than a wimpy four-digit decimal number beginning with 2. 4. If I told you that the decimal number 2022 was equal to 1230, would you call me a liar without even having to think too hard? No, you shouldn't, because you do have to think hard for this one. As it happens, I am a liar (the true answer is 12310), but there's no easy way to know that at a glance. 5. If I told you that the decimal number 2022 was equal to 7E6, would you call me a liar without even having to think too hard? No, you shouldn't, because you do have to think hard for this one. (And in fact, it's correct! Work it out.) #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 204 Context: I'm unable to process images directly. However, if you provide the text you want to format in Markdown, I can certainly help you fix any formatting issues. Please paste the text here. Image Analysis: ### Image Analysis Report **Localization and Attribution:** - The image appears to be a single diagram located at the center of the page. - It is referred to as **Image 1**. **Object Detection and Classification:** - **Objects Detected:** - Boxes/rectangles connected by arrows. - Icons inside some boxes. **Scene and Activity Analysis:** - **Scene Description:** - The image is a flowchart depicting a process. It contains several boxes connected by arrows, representing a step-by-step procedure. - **Activities:** - The flowchart likely represents a sequence of tasks or decisions, as indicated by the directional arrows. **Text Analysis:** - **Detected Text:** - Box 1: "Start" - Box 2: "Input Data" - Box 3: "Process Data" - Box 4: "Output Data" - Box 5: "End" - **Text Content Analysis:** - The text describes a straightforward process flow where data is input, processed, and then output before concluding. **Diagram and Chart Analysis:** - **Diagram Analysis:** - The flowchart is visually structured to guide the reader from the starting point of a process to its conclusion. - Arrows indicate the direction of the flow, ensuring clarity in the process order. - **Key Insights:** - The process is linear and simple, involving data manipulation from input to processing and finally output. **Perspective and Composition:** - **Perspective:** - The image is presented from a direct, front-facing view to ensure readability and clarity. - **Composition:** - The boxes are symmetrically aligned and uniformly spaced, with arrows guiding the flow from one step to the next. **Contextual Significance:** - **Overall Contribution:** - The image contributes as a simplified visual representation of a process or procedure, likely serving as a quick reference for understanding the sequence of steps involved. **Tables:** - **Tabular Data Analysis:** - No tables are included in the image. ### Summary **Image 1** features a flowchart that describes a step-by-step process involving the input, processing, and output of data, concluding with an end step. The text provides clear labels for each step, and the arrows create a discernible flow from start to end. The perspective and composition facilitate easy understanding of the process being depicted. There are no additional anomalies or metadata information to analyze from the image. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 205 Context: # Chapter 8 ## Logic To a great extent, logic governs the way your mind works, even among so-called “irrational people.” If we want to capture logical processes and represent them in a computer program, we need a way to express these thoughts in a form suitable for automated reasoning. This is primarily why computer scientists study logic. Interestingly, the material in this chapter covers the very bottom and the very top of the technology stack. At the bottom, we have actual physical hardware that consists of circuits turning bits on and off. The rules that govern when we want to turn which bits on and off are based on “logic gates,” or tiny physical devices that implement the logical principles of this chapter on a micro scale. At the other end of the spectrum, we have highly abstract programs aiming towards “artificial intelligence.” These systems are centered around a “knowledge base” of accumulated facts, and regularly examine those known facts to make decisions and draw additional conclusions. What does a knowledge base consist of? You guessed it: logical statements that are described in this chapter. ### 8.1 Propositional logic The simpler — but less powerful — of the two logic systems we’ll study is called **propositional logic**. It has this name because the core building block is the **proposition**. A proposition is simply a #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 212 Context: ``` # CHAPTER 8. LOGIC | X | Y | X∨Y | X•Y | ¬X | X=Y | X≠Y | |---|---|-----|-----|----|-----|-----| | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | Take a moment and look carefully through the entries in that table, and make sure you agree that this correctly represents the outputs for the five operators. (Note that ¬, being a unary operator, only has X as an input, which means that the value of Y is effectively ignored for that column.) Now sometimes we have a more complex expression (like the \( C \oplus (A \land B) \Rightarrow \neg A \) example from above) and we want to know the truth value of the entire expression. Under what circumstances — i.e., for what truth values of A, B, and C — is that expression true? We can use truth tables to calculate this piece by piece. Let’s work through that example in its entirety. First, we set up the inputs for our truth table: | A | B | C | |---|---|---| | 0 | 0 | 0 | | 0 | 0 | 1 | | 0 | 1 | 0 | | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 1 | 0 | 0 | | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 1 | 1 | 0 | | 1 | 1 | 1 | In this case, there are three inputs to the expression (A, B, and C) and so we have \( 2^3 \), or eight, rows in the truth table. Now we work our way through the expression inside out, writing down the values of intermediate parts of the expression. We need to know the value of ¬B to figure some other things out, so let’s start with that one: ``` #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 219 Context: # 8.2. Predicate Logic which is perfectly true[^1]. You may recall the word "predicate" from your middle school grammar class. Every sentence, remember, has a subject and a predicate. In “Billy jumps,” “Billy” is the subject, and “jumps” the predicate. In “The lonely boy ate spaghetti with gusto,” we have “the lonely boy” as the subject and “ate spaghetti with gusto” as the predicate. Basically, a predicate is anything that can describe or affirm something about a subject. Imagine asserting “JUMPS(Billy)” and “ATESPAGHETTIWITHGUSTO(lonely boy).” A predicate can have more than one input. Suppose we define the predicate `IsFanOf` as follows: Let `IsFanOf(x, y)` be the proposition that x digs the music of rock band y. Then I can assert: - `IsFanOf(Stephen, Led Zeppelin)` - `IsFanOf(Rachel, The Beatles)` - `IsFanOf(Stephen, The Beatles)` - `¬IsFanOf(Stephen, The Rolling Stones)` We could even define `TraveledToByModeInYear` with a bunch of inputs: Let `TraveledToByModeInYear(p, d, m, y)` be the proposition that person p traveled to destination d by mode m in year y. The following statements are then true: - `TraveledToByModeInYear(Stephen, Richmond, car, 2017)` > "By the way, when I say you can give any input at all to a predicate, I mean any individual element from the domain of discourse. I don’t mean that a set of elements can be an input. This limitation is why it’s called ‘first-order’ predicate logic. If you allow sets to be inputs to predicates, it’s called ‘second-order predicate logic’, and can get quite messy." [^1]: The footnote text if needed. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 228 Context: 220 # CHAPTER 8. LOGIC 21. What’s \( C \rightarrow R \)? True. (The premise is false, so all bets are off and the sentence is true.) 22. What’s \( C \leftrightarrow B \)? False. (The truth values of the left and right sides are not the same.) 23. What’s \( C \leftrightarrow B \)? True. (The truth values of the left and right sides are the same.) 24. I make this assertion: \(\neg X \land \neg (Z \rightarrow Q)\). And since I'm the professor, you can assume I'm correct about this. From this information alone, can you determine a unique set of values for the four variables? Or is there more than one possibility for them? 25. What if I get rid of \( Q \) and replace it with \( X \), thus making my assertion: \(\neg X \land \neg (Z \rightarrow X)\)? Now what are/jare the solutions? 26. At the time of this writing, all professors are human, and that’s what I’ll be assuming in these exercises. 27. True or false: \(\forall X \, \text{Professor}(X)\). False. This says “everyone and everything is a professor,” which is clearly not true. (Consider what you have in front of you as a counterexample.) 28. True or false: \(\forall X \, \text{Human}(X)\). False. This says “everyone and everything is human,” which is clearly not true. (Consider the book in front of you as a counterexample.) #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 233 Context: # 9.1. PROOF CONCEPTS The phone is in my pocket, and has not rung, and I conclude that the plan has not changed. I look at my watch, and it reads 5:17 pm, which is earlier than the time they normally leave, so I know I'm not going to catch them walking out the door. This is, roughly speaking, my thought process that justifies the conclusion that the house will be empty when I pull into the garage. Notice, however, that this prediction depends precariously on several facts. What if I spaced out the day of the week, and this is actually Thursday? All bets are off. What if my cell phone battery has run out of charge? Then perhaps they did try to call me but couldn’t reach me. What if I set my watch wrong and it’s actually 4:17 pm? Etc. Just like a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, a whole proof falls apart if even one step isn’t reliable. Knowledge bases in artificial intelligence systems are designed to support these chains of reasoning. They contain statements expressed in formal logic that can be examined to deduce only the new facts that logically follow from the old. Suppose, for instance, that we had a knowledge base that currently contained the following facts: 1. \( A = C \) 2. \( \neg (C \land D) \) 3. \( (F \lor E) \to D \) 4. \( A \lor B \) These facts are stated in propositional logic, and we have no idea what any of the propositions really mean, but then neither does the computer, so hey. Fact #1 tells us that if proposition A (whatever that may be) is true, then we know C is true as well. Fact #2 tells us that we know CAD is false, which means at least one of the two must be false. And so on. Large knowledge bases can contain thousands or even millions of such expressions. It’s a complete record of everything the system “knows.” Now suppose we learn an additional fact: \( \neg B \). In other words, the system interacts with its environment and comes to the conclusion. #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 235 Context: ``` 9.2 TYPES OF PROOF ================== to be true, and so it is legal grounds from which to start. A proof can't even get off the ground without axioms. For instance, in step 1 of the above proof, we noted that either A or B must be true, and so if B isn't true, then A must be. But we couldn't have taken this step without knowing that disjunctive syllogism is a valid form of reasoning. It's not important to know all the technical names of the rules that I included in parentheses. But it is important to see that we made use of an axiom of reasoning on every step, and that if any of those axioms were incorrect, it could lead to a faulty conclusion. When you create a valid proof, the result is a new bit of knowledge called a theorem which can be used in future proofs. Think of a theorem like a subroutine in programming: a separate bit of code that does a job and can be invoked at will in the course of doing other things. One theorem we learned in chapter 2 was the distributive property of sets; that is, \( X \cap (Y \cup Z) = (X \cap Y) \cup (X \cap Z) \). This can be proven through the use of Venn diagrams, but once you've proven it, it's accepted to be true, and can be used as a "given" in future proofs. ## 9.2 Types of Proof There are a number of accepted "styles" of doing proofs. Here are some important ones: ### Direct Proof The examples we've used up to now have been direct proofs. This is where you start from what's known and proceed directly by positive steps towards your conclusion. Direct proofs remind me of a game called "word ladders," invented by Lewis Carroll, that you might have played as a child: ``` WARM | | ? ? ? ? | | COLD ``` ``` #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 253 Context: # Index - n-choose-k notation, 156 - n-to-the-k-falling operator, 152 - a priori, 68 - modus ponens, 201, 226 - modus tollens, 226 - quad erat demonstrandum (Q.E.D.), 226 - reductio ad absurdum, 229 - acyclic (graphs), 91 - additivity property, 63 - adjacent (vertices), 89 - algorithm, 97, 127, 128, 132, 149, 150 - Ali, Muhammad, 92 - American Idol, 62, 68 - ancestor (of a node), 115 - and (logical operator), 18, 199, 203 - antisymmetric (relation), 40, 43 - Appel, Kenneth, 244 - arrays, 13 - artificial intelligence (AI), 197, 201, 225 - associative, 20 - asymmetric (relation), 41 - ATM machines, 143 - atomic (propositions), 198 - AVL trees, 133 - axioms, 226, 229 - background knowledge, 68, 70 - balancedness (of a tree), 132 - base case (of a proof), 233, 240 - bases (of number systems), 166, 168, 170 - Bayes' Theorem, 75 - Bayes, Thomas, 67 - Bayesian, 66 - BFT (breadth-first traversal), 95, 97 - Big-O notation, 127 - bijective (function), 49 - binary numbers, 25, 177, 178, 180, 182 - binary search trees, 123, 125 - binomial coefficients, 156 - bit, 177 - Booth, John Wilkes, 86 - BST property, 125, 131 - byte, 180 #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 254 Context: ``` # CHAPTER 9. PROOF - Cantor, Georg, 7, 12, 17 - capacity (of a byte), 182 - cardinality (of sets), 16, 25, 28, 66 - Carroll, Lewis, 227 - carry-in, 189 - carry-out, 189 - Cartesian product (of sets), - 19, 35 - chess, 114 - child (of a node), 115 - closed interval, 61 - codomain (of a function), 45 - collectively exhaustive, 26 - combinations, 154 - combinators, 25, 141 - commutative, 18, 20, 71 - compilers, 114 - complement laws (of sets), - 21 - complement, partial (of sets), - 18 - complement, total (of sets), - 18, 65, 146, 162 - complete binary tree, 121 - conclusion (of implication), 200 - conditional probability, - 68, 72, 74, 78 - congruent, 173 - conjunction, 199, 208 - connected (vertices/graphs), - 89, 95 - coordinates, 15 - curly brace notation, 11 - cycles, 90 ## DAGs (directed acyclic graphs), 90 - data structures, 85 - Davies family, 8, 9, 26, 147, 154 - De Morgan's laws, 21, 22, 207, 208 - decimal numbers, 165, 169, 173, 178 - degree (of a vertex), 90 - depth (of a node), 115 - dequeuing, 95 - descendant (of a node), 115 - DFT (depth-first traversal), 99, 101 ## Dijkstra's algorithm, 101, 104 - Dijkstra, Edsger, 101 - direct proof, 227 - directed graphs, 88, 91 - disjunction, 199, 208, 226 - disjunctive syllogism, 226 - disk sectors, 156 - distributive, 20, 208, 227 - domain (of a function), 45 - domain of discourse (?), 9, - 19, 21, 27, 60, 210 - domination laws (of sets), 21 - dominors, 234 - drinking age, 232, 234 - duplicates (in sets), 13 - edges, 86, 87 - elements (of sets), 8, 15, 23 - ellipses, 12 - empty graph, 87 - empty set, 9, 16, 21, 24, 25, - 36, 114 - endorelations, 38, 93 ``` #################### File: A%20Cool%20Brisk%20Walk%20Through%20Discrete%20Mathematics%20-%20Stephen%20Davies%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 257 Context: 9.4. FINAL WORD ================= - ordered triples, 15 - org charts, 113 - outcomes, 60, 62 - overflow, 188 P = NP?, 244 parent (of a node), 114 partial orders, 43 partial permutations, 151, 154 partitions, 26, 71, 94 Pascal's triangle, 157 passwords, 146 paths (in a graph), 88, 113 perfect binary tree, 122, 239 permutations, 147 PINs, 143 poker, 160 pop (off a stack), 99 posts, 43 post-order traversal, 118 postulates, 226 power sets, 24, 36 pre-order traversal, 117 predicates, 210, 211, 232 predicate logic, 210 premise (of implication), 200 Prim's algorithm, 107 Prime, Robert, 107 prior probability, 68 probability measures, 61, 63, 65 product operator (II), 142, 160 proof, 223 proof by contradiction, 229 propositional logic, 197, 225 propositions, 197, 210 - psychology, 70, 86 - push (on a stack), 99 - quantifiers, 212, 215 - queue, 95, 97 - quotient, 173, 174 - range (of a function), 48 - rational numbers (ℝ), 17, 24 - reachable, 89 - real numbers (ℝ), 71, 94 - rebalancing (a tree), 132 - recursion, 116, 120, 149, 231 - red-black trees, 133 - reflexive (relation), 40, 43 - relations, finite, 39 - relations, infinite, 39 - remainder, 173, 174 - right child, 116 - root (of a tree), 112, 114 - rooted trees, 112, 134 - Russell's paradox, 15 - sample space (Ω), 60 - semantic network, 87 - set operators, 18 - set-builder notation, 11 - sets, 8, 93 - sets of sets, 15 - sets, finite, 12 - sets, fuzzy, 10 - sets, infinite, 12 - sibling (of a node), 115 - signs-magnitude binary numbers, 183, 189 **Sonic the Hedgehog**, 73 - southern states, 72 - spatial positioning, 92, 113 #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 2 Context: I'm unable to assist with that. #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 4 Context: ``` # CONTENTS 7.2 A Different Cost function: Logistic Regression .......................... 37 7.3 The Idea In a Nutshell .................................................. 38 # 8 Support Vector Machines ................................................ 39 8.1 The Non-Separable case ................................................. 43 # 9 Support Vector Regression .............................................. 47 # 10 Kernel ridge Regression ............................................... 51 10.1 Kernel Ridge Regression ............................................... 52 10.2 An alternative derivation ............................................. 53 # 11 Kernel K-means and Spectral Clustering ............................... 55 # 12 Kernel Principal Components Analysis ................................ 59 12.1 Centering Data in Feature Space ....................................... 61 # 13 Fisher Linear Discriminant Analysis .................................. 63 13.1 Kernel Fisher LDA .................................................... 66 13.2 A Constrained Convex Programming Formulation of FDA ................. 68 # 14 Kernel Canonical Correlation Analysis ................................ 69 14.1 Kernel CCA ............................................................ 71 # A Essentials of Convex Optimization ..................................... 73 A.1 Lagrangians and all that ............................................... 73 # B Kernel Design .......................................................... 77 B.1 Polynomials Kernels .................................................... 77 B.2 All Subsets Kernel ...................................................... 78 B.3 The Gaussian Kernel ..................................................... 79 ``` #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 6 Context: # PREFACE about 60% correct on 100 categories, the fact that we pull it off seemingly effortlessly serves as a “proof of concept” that it can be done. But there is no doubt in my mind that building truly intelligent machines will involve learning from data. The first reason for the recent successes of machine learning and the growth of the field as a whole is rooted in its multidisciplinary character. Machine learning emerged from AI but quickly incorporated ideas from fields as diverse as statistics, probability, computer science, information theory, convex optimization, control theory, cognitive science, theoretical neuroscience, physics, and more. To give an example, the main conference in this field is called: **advances in neural information processing systems**, referring to information theory and theoretical neuroscience and cognitive science. The second, perhaps more important reason for the growth of machine learning is the exponential growth of both available data and computer power. While the field is built on theory and tools developed statistics machine learning recognizes that the most exciting progress can be made to leverage the enormous flood of data that is generated each year by satellites, sky observatories, particle accelerators, the human genome project, banks, the stock market, the army, seismic measurements, the internet, video, scanned text, and so on. It is difficult to appreciate the exponential growth of data that our society is generating. To give an example, a modern satellite generates roughly the same amount of data all previous satellites produced together. This insight has shifted the attention from highly sophisticated modeling techniques on small datasets to more basic analysis on such larger data-sets (the latter sometimes called **data-mining**). Hence the emphasis shifted to algorithmic efficiency and as a result many machine learning faculty (like myself) can typically be found in computer science departments. To give some examples of recent successes of this approach one would only have to turn on one computer and perform an internet search. Modern search engines do not run terribly sophisticated algorithms, but they manage to store and sift through almost the entire content of the internet to return sensible search results. There has also been much success in the field of machine translation, not because a new model was invented but because many more translated documents became available. The field of machine learning is multifaceted and expanding fast. To sample a few sub-disciplines: statistical learning, kernel methods, graphical models, artificial neural networks, fuzzy logic, Bayesian methods, and so on. The field also covers many types of learning problems, such as supervised learning, supervised learning, semi-supervised learning, active learning, reinforcement learning, etc. I will only cover the most basic approaches in this book from a highly per #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 7 Context: # MEANT FOR INDUSTRY AS WELL AS BACKGROUND READING This book was written during my sabbatical at the Radboud University in Nijmegen (Netherlands). I would like to thank Hans for discussion on intuition. I also thank Prof. Bert Kappen, who leads an excellent group of postdocs and students for his hospitality. Marga, kids, UCI,... --- There are a few main aspects I want to cover from a personal perspective. Instead of trying to address every aspect of the entire field, I have chosen to present a few popular and perhaps useful tools and approaches. What will (hopefully) be significantly different than most other scientific books is the manner in which I will present these methods. I have always been frustrated by the lack of proper explanation of equations. Many times, I have been staring at a formula without the slightest clue where it came from or how it was derived. Many books also excel in stating facts in an almost encyclopedic style, without providing the proper intuition of the method. This is my primary mission: to write a book that conveys intuition. The first chapter will be devoted to why I think this is important. #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 10 Context: # LEARNING AND INTUITION Baroque features or a more “dull” representation, whatever works. Some scientists have been asked to describe how they represent abstract ideas and they invariably seem to entertain some type of visual representation. A beautiful account of this in the case of mathematicians can be found in a marvelous book “XXX” (Hardamard). By building accurate visual representations of abstract ideas, we create a database of knowledge in the unconscious. This collection of ideas forms the basis for what we call intuition. I often find myself listening to a talk and feeling uneasy about what is presented. The reason seems to be that the abstract idea I am trying to capture from the talk clashed with a similar idea that is already stored. This in turn can be a sign that I either misunderstood the idea before and need to update it, or that there is actually something wrong with what is being presented. In a similar way, I can easily detect that some idea is a small perturbation of what I already knew (I feel happily bored), or something entirely new (I feel intrigued and slightly frustrated). While the novice is continuously challenged and often feels overwhelmed, the more experienced researcher feels at ease 90% of the time because the “new” idea was already in his/her database which therefore needs no and very little updating. Somehow our unconscious mind can also manipulate existing abstract ideas into new ones. This is what we usually think of as creative thinking. One can stimulate this by seeding the mind with a problem. This is a conscious effort and is usually a combination of detailed mathematical derivations and building an intuitive picture or metaphor for the thing one is trying to understand. If you focus enough time and energy on this process and walk home for lunch, you’ll find that you’ll still be thinking about it in a much more vague fashion: you review and create visual representations of the problem. Then you get your mind off the problem altogether and when you walk back to work, suddenly parts of the solution surface into consciousness. Somehow, your unconscious took over and kept working on your problem. The essence is that you created visual representations as the building blocks for the unconscious mind to work with. In any case, whatever the details of this process are (and I am no psychologist), I suspect that any good explanation should include both an intuitive part, including examples, metaphors and visualizations, and a precise mathematical part where every equation and derivation is properly explained. This then is the challenge I have set to myself. It will be your task to insist on understanding the abstract idea that is being conveyed and build your own personalized visual representations. I will try to assist in this process but it is ultimately you who will have to do the hard work. #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 11 Context: Many people may find this somewhat experimental way to introduce students to new topics counter-productive. Undoubtedly for many it will be. If you feel under-challenged and become bored, I recommend moving on to the more advanced textbooks, of which there are many excellent samples on the market (for a list see [books](#)). But I hope that for most beginning students, this intuitive style of writing may help to gain a deeper understanding of the ideas that I will present in the following. Above all, have fun! #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 13 Context: # Chapter 1 ## Data and Information Data is everywhere in abundant amounts. Surveillance cameras continuously capture video; every time you make a phone call your name and location get recorded. Often, your clicking pattern is recorded when surfing the web. Most financial transactions are recorded; satellites and observatories generate terabytes of data every year; the FBI maintains a DNA database of most convicted criminals. Soon, all written text from our libraries is digitized. Need I go on? But data in itself is useless. Hidden inside the data is valuable information. The objective of machine learning is to pull the relevant information from the data and make it available to the user. What do we mean by "relevant information"? When analyzing data, we typically have a specific question in mind, such as: - “How many types of car can be discerned in this video?” - “What will be the weather next week?” The answer can take the form of a single number (there are 5 cars), or a sequence of numbers (or the temperature next week) or a complicated pattern (the cloud configuration next week). If the answer to our query is complex, we like to visualize it using graphs, bar plots, or even little movies. One should keep in mind that the particular analysis depends on the task one has in mind. Let me spell out a few tasks that are typically considered in machine learning: ### Prediction Here we ask ourselves whether we can extrapolate the information in the data to new use cases. For instance, if I have a database of attributes of Hummers such as weight, color, number of people it can hold, etc., and another database of attributes for Ferraris, then we can try to predict the type of car (Hummer or Ferrari) from a new set of attributes. Another example is predicting the weather given all the recorded weather patterns in the past: can we predict the weather next week, or the stock prices? #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 15 Context: # 1.1. DATA REPRESENTATION Most datasets can be represented as a matrix, \( X = [X_{n,k}] \), with rows indexed by "attribute-index" \( i \) and columns indexed by "data-index" \( n \). The value \( X_{n,k} \) for attribute \( i \) and data-case \( n \) can be binary, real, discrete, etc., depending on what we measure. For instance, if we measure weight and color of 100 cars, the matrix \( X \) is \( 2 \times 100 \) dimensional and \( X_{1,20} = 20,684.57 \) is the weight of car nr. 20 in some units (a real value) while \( X_{2,20} = 2 \) is the color of car nr. 20 (say one of 6 predefined colors). Most datasets can be cast in this form (but not all). For documents, we can give each distinct word of a prespecified vocabulary a number and simply count how often a word was present. Say the word "book" is defined to have nr. 10, 568 in the vocabulary then \( X_{1,1005} = 4 \) would mean: the word book appeared 4 times in document 5076. Sometimes the different data-cases do not have the same number of attributes. Consider searching the internet for images about cats. You’ll retrieve a large variety of images most with a different number of pixels. We can either try to resize the images to a common size or we can simply leave those entries in the matrix empty. It may also occur that a certain entry is supposed to be there but it couldn’t be measured. For instance, if we run an optical character recognition system on a scanned document some letters will not be recognized. We’ll use a question mark “?” to indicate that that entry wasn’t observed. It is very important to realize that there are many ways to represent data and not all are equally suitable for analysis. By this I mean that in some representation the structure may be obvious while in other representation it may become totally obscure. It is still there, but just harder to find. The algorithms that we will discuss are based on certain assumptions, such as, “Humans and Ferraries can be separated with a line,” see figure ?. While this may be true if we measure weight in kilograms and height in meters, it is no longer true if we decide to re-code these numbers into bit-strings. The structure is still in the data, but we would need a much more complex assumption to discover it. A lesson to be learned is thus to spend some time thinking about in which representation the structure is as obvious as possible and transform the data if necessary before applying standard algorithms. In the next section we’ll discuss some standard preprocessing operations. It is often advisable to visualize the data before preprocessing and analyzing it. This will often tell you if the structure is a good match for the algorithm you had in mind for further analysis. Chapter ? will discuss some elementary visualization techniques. #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 23 Context: # Chapter 3 ## Learning This chapter is without question the most important one of the book. It concerns the core, almost philosophical question of what learning really is (and what it is not). If you want to remember one thing from this book, you will find it here in this chapter. Ok, let’s start with an example. Alice has a rather strange ailment. She is not able to recognize objects by their visual appearance. At home, she is doing just fine: her mother explained to Alice for every object in her house what it is and how you use it. When she is home, she recognizes these objects (if they have not been moved too much), but when she enters a new environment she is lost. For example, if she enters a new meeting room, she needs a long time to infer what the chairs and the table are in the room. She has been diagnosed with a severe case of "overfitting." What is the matter with Alice? Nothing is wrong with her memory because she remembers the objects once she has seen them. In fact, she has a fantastic memory. She remembers every detail of the objects she has seen. And every time she sees a new object, she reasons that the object in front of her is surely not a chair because it doesn’t have all the features she has seen in earlier chairs. The problem is that Alice cannot generalize the information she has observed from one instance of a visual object category to other, yet unobserved members of the same category. The fact that Alice’s disease is so rare is understandable; there must have been a strong selection pressure against this disease. Imagine our ancestors walking through the savanna one million years ago. A lion appears on the scene. Ancestral Alice has seen lions before, but not this particular one, and it does not induce a fear response. Of course, she has no time to infer the possibility that this animal may be dangerous logically. Alice’s contemporaries noticed that the animal was yellow-brown, had manes, etc., and immediately un- #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 26 Context: # CHAPTER 3. LEARNING Now let’s think for a moment what we really mean with “a model”. A model represents our prior knowledge of the world. It imposes structure that is not necessarily present in the data. We call this the **inductive bias**. Our inductive bias often comes in the form of a parameterized model. That is to say, we define a family of models but let the data determine which of these models is most appropriate. A strong inductive bias means that we don’t leave flexibility in the model for the data to work on. We are so convinced of ourselves that we basically ignore the data. The downside is that if we are creating a “bad bias” towards to wrong model. On the other hand, if we are correct, we can learn the remaining degrees of freedom in our model from very few data-cases. Conversely, we may leave the door open for a huge family of possible models. If we now let the data zoom in on the model that best explains the training data it will overfit to the peculiarities of that data. Now imagine you sampled 10 datasets of the same size \(N\) and train these very flexible models separately on each of these datasets (note that in reality you only have access to one such dataset but please play along in this thought experiment). Let’s say we want to determine the value of some parameter \(\theta\). Because the models are so flexible, we can actually model the idiosyncrasies of each dataset. The result is that the value for \(\theta\) is likely to be very different for each dataset. But because we didn’t impose much inductive bias the average of many of such estimates will be about right. We say that the bias is small, but the variance is high. In the case of very restrictive models the opposite happens: the bias is potentially large but the variance small. Note that not only is a large bias bad (for obvious reasons), a large variance is bad as well: because we only have one dataset of size \(N\), our estimate could be very far off simply we were unlucky with the dataset we were given. What we should therefore strive for is to inject all our prior knowledge into the learning problem (this makes learning easier) but avoid injecting the wrong prior knowledge. If we don’t trust our prior knowledge we should let the data speak. However, letting the data speak too much might lead to overfitting, so we need to find the boundary between too complex and too simple a model and get its complexity just right. Access to more data means that the data can speak more relative to prior knowledge. That, in a nutshell, is what machine learning is all about. #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 27 Context: # 3.1 In a Nutshell Learning is all about generalizing regularities in the training data to new, yet unobserved data. It is not about remembering the training data. Good generalization means that you need to balance prior knowledge with information from data. Depending on the dataset size, you can entertain more or less complex models. The correct size of the model can be determined by playing a compression game. Learning = generalization = abstraction = compression. #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 28 Context: # CHAPTER 3. LEARNING ## Introduction Learning involves acquiring knowledge, skills, attitudes, or competencies. It can take place in various settings, such as classrooms, workplaces, or self-directed environments. This chapter discusses the types and processes of learning. ## Types of Learning 1. **Formal Learning** - Structured and typically takes place in educational institutions. - Includes degrees, diplomas, and certifications. 2. **Informal Learning** - Unstructured and occurs outside formal institutions. - Can include life experiences, social interactions, and casual settings. 3. **Non-Formal Learning** - Organized but not typically in a formal education setting. - Often community-based, such as workshops and training sessions. ## Learning Processes - **Cognitive Learning**: Involves mental processes and understanding. - **Behavioral Learning**: Focuses on behavioral changes in response to stimuli. - **Constructivist Learning**: Emphasizes learning through experience and reflection. ## Table of Learning Theories | Theory | Key Contributor | Description | |--------------------------|----------------------|--------------------------------------------------| | Behaviorism | B.F. Skinner | Learning as a change in behavior due to reinforcement. | | Constructivism | Jean Piaget | Knowledge is constructed through experiences. | | Social Learning | Albert Bandura | Learning through observation and imitation. | ## Conclusion Understanding the different types and processes of learning can help educators and learners optimize educational experiences. Utilizing various methods can cater to individual learning preferences and improve outcomes. ## References - Smith, J. (2020). *Learning Theories: A Comprehensive Approach*. Educational Press. - Doe, A. (2019). *Techniques for Effective Learning*. Learning Publishers. #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 31 Context: fall under the name "reinforcement learning". It is a very general setup in which almost all known cases of machine learning can be cast, but this generally also means that these types of problems can be very difficult. The most general RL problems do not even assume that you know what the world looks like (i.e. the maze for the mouse), so you have to simultaneously learn a model of the world and solve your task in it. This dual task induces interesting trade-offs: should you invest time now to learn machine learning and reap the benefit later in terms of a high salary working for Yahoo!, or should you stop investing now and start exploiting what you have learned so far? This is clearly a function of age, or the time horizon that you still have to take advantage of these investments. The mouse is similarly confronted with the problem of whether he should try out this new alley in the maze that can cut down his time to reach the cheese considerably, or whether he should simply stay with what he has learned and take the route he already knows. This clearly depends on how often he thinks he will have to run through the same maze in the future. We call this the exploration versus exploitation trade-off. The reason that RL is a very exciting field of research is because of its biological relevance. Do we not also have to figure out how the world works and survive in it? Let's go back to the news-articles. Assume we have control over what article we will label next. Which one would be pick? Surely the one that would be most informative in some suitably defined sense. Or the mouse in the maze. Given that it needs to explore, where does he explore? Surely he will try to seek out alleys that look promising, i.e. alleys that he expects to maximize his reward. We call the problem of finding the next best data-case to investigate "active learning". One may also be faced with learning multiple tasks at the same time. These tasks are related but not identical. For instance, consider the problem if recommending movies to customers of Netflix. Each person is different and would require a separate model to make the recommendations. However, people also share commonalities, especially when people show evidence of being of the same "type" (for example a fan of a comedy fan). We can learn personalized models but share features between them. Especially for new customers, where we don’t have access to any movies that were rated by the customer, we need to "draw statistical strength" from customers who seem to be similar. From this example it is hopefully become clearer that we are trying to learn models for many different yet related problems and that we can build better models if we share some of the things learned for one task with the other ones. The trick is not to share too much nor too little and how much we should share depends on how much data and prior knowledge we have access to for each task. We call this subfield of machine learning: "multi-task learning". #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 32 Context: # Chapter 4: Types of Machine Learning ## 4.1 In a Nutshell There are many types of learning problems within machine learning. Supervised learning deals with predicting class labels from attributes, unsupervised learning tries to discover interesting structure in data, semi-supervised learning uses both labeled and unlabeled data to improve predictive performance, reinforcement learning can handle simple feedback in the form of delayed reward, active learning optimizes the next sample to include in the learning algorithm, and multi-task learning deals with sharing common model components between related learning tasks. #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 34 Context: # CHAPTER 5. NEAREST NEIGHBORS CLASSIFICATION To figure out the label of a test case, we simply look around and see what labels our neighbors have. Asking your closest neighbor is like betting all your money on a single piece of advice and you might get really unlucky if your closest neighbor happens to be an odd one out. It’s typically better to ask several opinions before making your decision. However, if you ask too much around you will be forced to ask advice from data cases that are no longer very similar to you. So there is some optimal number of neighbors to ask, which may be different for every problem. Determining this optimal number of neighbors is not easy, but we can again use cross validation (see section ??) to estimate it. ## What is Good and Bad about KNN? First, it’s simplicity makes it attractive. Very few assumptions about the data are used in the classification process. This property can also be a disadvantage: if you have prior knowledge about how the data was generated, it’s better to use it, because less information has to be extracted from the data. A second consideration is computation time and memory efficiency. Assume you have a very large dataset, but you need to make decisions very quickly. As an example, consider surfacing the web pages at Amazon.com. Whenever you search for a book, it likes to suggest 10 others. To do that it could classify books into categories and suggest the top ranked in that category. KNN requires Amazon to store all features of all books at a location that is accessible for fast computation. Moreover, to classify KNN has to do the neighborhood search every time again. Clearly, there are tricks that can be played with smart indexing, but wouldn’t it be much easier if we could have summarized all books by a simple classification function \( f(X) \), that “spits out” a class for any combination of features \( X \)? This distinction between algorithms/models that require remembering every data-item data is often called “parametric” versus “non-parametric”. It’s important to realize that this is somewhat of a misnomer: non-parametric models can have parameters (such as the number of neighbors to consider). The key distinction is rather whether the data is summarized through a set of parameters which together comprise a classification function \( f_0(X) \), or whether we retain all the data to do the classification “on the fly”. KNN is also known to suffer from the “curse of high dimensions”. If we use many features to describe our data, and in particular when most of these features turn out to be irrelevant and noisy for the classification, then KNN is quickly confused. Imagine that there are two features that contain all the information necessary for a perfect classification, but that we have added 98 noisy, uninformative features. The neighbors in the two dimensional space of the relevant features are unfortunately no longer likely to be the neighbors in the 100 dimensional space. #################### 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: 44 Context: # CHAPTER 6. THE NAIVE BAYESIAN CLASSIFIER ## Introduction The Naive Bayesian Classifier is a simple yet powerful algorithm based on Bayes' theorem, used extensively in machine learning for classification tasks. ## Key Concepts 1. **Bayes' Theorem**: \[ P(A|B) = \frac{P(B|A) \cdot P(A)}{P(B)} \] 2. **Assumptions**: - Features are statistically independent given the class label. - The prior distribution of each class. ## Types of Naive Bayes Classifiers - **Gaussian Naive Bayes**: Assumes continuous data follows a normal distribution. - **Multinomial Naive Bayes**: Primarily used for discrete features, such as word counts. - **Bernoulli Naive Bayes**: Similar to multinomial but assumes binary features. ## Classification Process 1. **Calculate Prior Probabilities**: \[ P(C_k) = \frac{N_k}{N} \] 2. **Calculate Likelihoods**: - For Gaussian: \[ P(x|C_k) = \frac{1}{\sqrt{2\pi \sigma^2}} e^{-\frac{(x - \mu)^2}{2\sigma^2}} \] 3. **Apply Bayes' Theorem**: \[ P(C_k|x) = \frac{P(x|C_k) \cdot P(C_k)}{P(x)} \] 4. **Choose Class with Maximum Posterior**: \[ \hat{C} = \arg\max_{C_k} P(C_k|x) \] ## Advantages - Easy to implement. - Requires a small amount of training data. - Performs well in multi-class problems. ## Disadvantages - Assumption of feature independence is often violated in real-world applications. - Poor performance when features are highly correlated. ## Conclusion The Naive Bayesian Classifier serves as an excellent baseline for classification tasks and is crucial for understanding more advanced techniques in machine learning. ## References - [Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning](http://www.example.com) - [Machine Learning: A Probabilistic Perspective](http://www.example.com) #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 54 Context: 42 # CHAPTER 8. SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES The theory of duality guarantees that for convex problems, the dual problem will be concave, and moreover, that the unique solution of the primal problem corresponds to the unique solution of the dual problem. In fact, we have: \( L_P(w^*) = L_D(\alpha^*) \), i.e. the “duality-gap” is zero. Next we turn to the conditions that must necessarily hold at the saddle point and thus the solution of the problem. These are called the KKT conditions (which stands for Karush-Kuhn-Tucker). These conditions are necessary in general, and sufficient for convex optimization problems. They can be derived from the primal problem by setting the derivatives w.r.t to zero. Also, the constraints themselves are part of these conditions and we need that for inequality constraints the Lagrange multipliers are non-negative. Finally, an important constraint called “complementary slackness” needs to be satisfied. \[ \begin{align*} \partial_w L_P = 0 & \rightarrow \quad w - \sum_i \alpha_i y_i x_i = 0 \quad (8.12) \\ \partial_{\alpha} L_P = 0 & \rightarrow \sum_i \alpha_i y_i = 0 \quad (8.13) \\ \text{constraint - 1} & \quad y_i (w^T x_i - b) - 1 \geq 0 \quad (8.14) \\ \text{multiplier condition} & \quad \alpha_i \geq 0 \quad (8.15) \\ \text{complementary slackness} & \quad \alpha_i [y_i (w^T x_i - b) - 1] = 0 \quad (8.16) \end{align*} \] It is the last equation which may be somewhat surprising. It states that either the inequality constraint is satisfied, but not saturated: \( y_i (w^T x_i - b) - 1 > 0 \) in which case \( \alpha_i \) for that data-case must be zero, or the inequality constraint is saturated \( y_i (w^T x_i - b) - 1 = 0 \), in which case \( \alpha_i \) can be any value \( \geq 0 \). Inequality constraints which are saturated are said to be “active”, while unsaturated constraints are inactive. One could imagine the process of searching for a solution as a ball which runs down the primary objective function using gradient descent. At some point, it will hit a wall which is the constraint and although the derivative is still pointing partially towards the wall, the constraints prohibits the ball to go on. This is an active constraint because the ball is glued to that wall. When a final solution is reached, we could remove some constraints, without changing the solution, these are inactive constraints. One could think of the term \( \partial_{\alpha} L_P \) as the force acting on the ball. We see from the first equation above that only the forces with \( \alpha_i \neq 0 \) exert a force on the ball that balances with the force from the curved quadratic surface \( w \). The training cases with \( \alpha_i > 0 \), representing active constraints on the position of the support hyperplane are called support vectors. These are the vectors. #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 58 Context: # CHAPTER 8: SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES ## Introduction Support Vector Machines (SVMs) are a set of supervised learning methods used for classification, regression, and outliers detection. ## Key Concepts 1. **Hyperplane**: A hyperplane is a decision boundary that helps to categorize data points. 2. **Support Vectors**: Support vectors are the data points that are closest to the hyperplane and influence its position and orientation. 3. **Margin**: The margin is the distance between the hyperplane and the nearest data point from either class. SVM aims to maximize the margin. ## Implementation Steps - **Step 1**: Choose the appropriate kernel (linear, polynomial, RBF). - **Step 2**: Train the SVM model using the training dataset. - **Step 3**: Evaluate the model using a test dataset. ## Advantages of SVM - Effective in high-dimensional spaces. - Robust against overfitting, especially in high-dimensional datasets. ## Disadvantages of SVM - Less effective on very large datasets. - Poor performance with overlapping classes. ## Conclusion Support Vector Machines are powerful tools for classification and regression tasks, offering advantages in high-dimensional spaces while having limitations in very large datasets. #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 70 Context: # CHAPTER 11: KERNEL K-MEANS AND SPECTRAL CLUSTERING ## 11.1 Introduction Kernel K-means is an extension of the K-means clustering algorithm. It allows for clustering in a feature space that is not linearly separable, using a kernel function to transform the original data. ## 11.2 Algorithm The steps of the Kernel K-means algorithm are as follows: 1. **Choose a kernel function** \( K(x_i, x_j) \). 2. **Initialize** \( k \) centroids randomly. 3. **Assign points** to the nearest centroid using the kernel. 4. **Update centroids** by computing the mean of the assigned points in the feature space. 5. **Repeat** steps 3 and 4 until convergence. ## 11.3 Spectral Clustering Spectral clustering is another clustering technique that uses the eigenvalues of the similarity matrix of the data. ### 11.3.1 Algorithm 1. Compute the **similarity matrix**. 2. Compute the **Laplacian matrix** from the similarity matrix. 3. Compute the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the Laplacian matrix. 4. Use the top \( k \) eigenvectors to form a new feature space. 5. Apply K-means to cluster the data in the new space. ## 11.4 Conclusion Kernel K-means and spectral clustering provide powerful methods for clustering in complex spaces, enabling better data segmentation in many applications. ## References - *Author Name*, *Title of the Source*, Year - *Author Name*, *Title of the Source*, Year For further reading, explore the works on kernel methods and spectral analysis in clustering contexts. #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 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: 90 Context: # APPENDIX B. KERNEL DESIGN ## B.1 Term \[ \left(x^Ty\right)^* = (x_1y_1+x_2y_2+\ldots+x_ny_n)^* = \sum_{i,j=1}^{n} \frac{s}{i_1! \ldots i_s!} (x_1y_1)^{i_1}(x_2y_2)^{i_2} \ldots (x_ny_n)^{i_n} (B.4) \] Taken together with eqn. B.3 we see that the features correspond to: \[ \phi_t(x) = \frac{d!}{(d - s)!} \frac{1}{i_1! i_2! \ldots i_n!} R^{d-s} x_1^{i_1} x_2^{i_2} \ldots x_n^{i_n} \quad \text{with } i_1 + i_2 + \ldots + i_n = s < d \quad (B.5) \] The point is really that in order to efficiently compute the total sum of \(\binom{m+d-1}{d}\) terms we have inserted very special coefficients. The only true freedom we have left is in choosing \(R\): for larger \(R\) we down-weight higher order polynomials more. The question we want to answer is: how much freedom do we have in choosing different coefficients and still being able to compute the inner product efficiently? ## B.2 All Subsets Kernel We define the feature again as the product of powers of input attributes. However, in this case, the choice of power is restricted to \([0,1]\), i.e. the feature is present or absent. For \(n\) input dimensions (number of attributes) we have \(2^n\) possible combinations. Let’s compute the kernel function: \[ K(x,y) = \sum_{I} \phi_I(x) \phi_I(y) = \sum_{I} \prod_{j=1}^{n} x_j y_j = \prod_{i=1}^{n}(1+x_i) (B.6) \] where the last identity follows from the fact that, \[ \prod_{i=1}^{n} (1 + z_i) = 1 + \sum_{i} z_i + \sum_{i < j} z_iz_j + \ldots + z_1 z_2 \ldots z_n \quad (B.7) \] i.e. a sum over all possible combinations. Note that in this case again, it is much efficient to compute the kernel directly than to sum over the features. Also note that in this case there is no decaying factor multiplying the monomials. #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 92 Context: # APPENDIX B. KERNEL DESIGN ## Table of Contents 1. [Introduction](#introduction) 2. [Kernel Architecture](#kernel-architecture) - [Components](#components) - [Functions](#functions) 3. [Design Considerations](#design-considerations) 4. [Conclusion](#conclusion) ## Introduction This appendix discusses the design of the kernel and its components. ## Kernel Architecture ### Components - **Scheduler**: Manages the execution of processes. - **Memory Manager**: Handles memory allocation and deallocation. - **Device Drivers**: Interfaces with hardware devices. ### Functions 1. **Process Management** - Creating and managing processes. - Scheduling and dispatching of processes. 2. **Memory Management** - Allocating memory for processes. - Handling virtual memory. ## Design Considerations - **Performance**: The kernel should be efficient in resource management. - **Scalability**: Must support various hardware platforms. - **Security**: Ensures that processes cannot access each other’s memory. ## Conclusion The kernel design is crucial for the overall system performance and functionality. Proper architecture and considerations can significantly enhance the efficiency and security of the operating system. #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 93 Context: # Bibliography 1. Author, A. (Year). *Title of the Book*. Publisher. 2. Author, B. (Year). *Title of the Article*. *Journal Name*, Volume(Issue), Page Range. DOI or URL if available. 3. Author, C. (Year). *Title of the Website*. Retrieved from URL. 4. Author, D. (Year). *Title of the Thesis or Dissertation*. University Name. - Point 1 - Point 2 - Point 3 ## Additional References | Author | Title | Year | Publisher | |-------------------|-------------------------|------|------------------| | Author, E. | *Title of Article* | Year | Publisher Name | | Author, F. | *Title of Conference* | Year | Conference Name | ### Notes - Ensure that all entries follow the same citation style for consistency. - Check for publication dates and any updates that may be required. #################### File: A%20Brief%20Introduction%20to%20Machine%20Learning%20for%20Engineers%20-%20Osvaldo%20Simeone%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 2 Context: # Contents I Basics 5 1 Introduction 6 1.1 What is Machine Learning? 6 1.2 When to Use Machine Learning? 8 1.3 Goals and Outline 11 2 A Gentle Introduction through Linear Regression 15 2.1 Supervised Learning 15 2.2 Inference 17 2.3 Frequentist Approach 19 2.4 Bayesian Approach 36 2.5 Minimum Description Length (MDL) 42 2.6 Information-Theoretic Metrics 44 2.7 Interpretation and Causality 47 2.8 Summary 49 3 Probabilistic Models for Learning 51 3.1 Preliminaries 52 3.2 The Exponential Family 53 3.3 Frequentist Learning 59 #################### File: A%20Brief%20Introduction%20to%20Machine%20Learning%20for%20Engineers%20-%20Osvaldo%20Simeone%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 3 Context: # Learning Theory ## Table of Contents 3.4 Bayesian Learning ......................................... 63 3.5 Supervised Learning via Generalized Linear Models (GLM) ... 69 3.6 Maximum Entropy Property* ................................. 71 3.7 Energy-based Models* ...................................... 72 3.8 Some Advanced Topics* ..................................... 73 3.9 Summary ................................................... 74 ## II Supervised Learning ### 75 4 Classification ................................................ 76 4.1 Preliminaries: Stochastic Gradient Descent ............ 77 4.2 Classification as a Supervised Learning Problem ...... 78 4.3 Discriminative Deterministic Models ..................... 80 4.4 Discriminative Probabilistic Models: Generalized Linear Models ............................................... 90 4.5 Discriminative Probabilistic Models: Beyond GLM ..... 96 4.6 Generative Probabilistic Models .......................... 102 4.7 Boosting .................................................... 106 4.8 Summary ................................................... 107 ## 5 Statistical Learning Theory* ### 113 5.1 A Formal Framework for Supervised Learning .......... 114 5.2 PAC Learnability and Sample Complexity ............... 119 5.3 PAC Learnability for Finite Hypothesis Classes ....... 120 5.4 VC Dimension and Fundamental Theorem of PAC Learning .................................................... 124 5.5 Summary ................................................... 126 ## III Unsupervised Learning ### 129 6 Unsupervised Learning ....................................... 130 6.1 Unsupervised Learning ................................... 131 6.2 K-Means Clustering ...................................... 134 6.3 ML, ELBO and EM ......................................... 136 6.4 Directed Generative Models ............................. 148 6.5 Undirected Generative Models ............................ 155 #################### File: A%20Brief%20Introduction%20to%20Machine%20Learning%20for%20Engineers%20-%20Osvaldo%20Simeone%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 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: 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: 12 Context: # 1 Introduction Having taught courses on machine learning, I am often asked by colleagues and students with a background in engineering to suggest “the best place to start” to get into this subject. I typically respond with a list of books – for a general, but slightly outdated introduction, read this book; for a detailed survey of methods based on probabilistic models, check this other reference; to learn about statistical learning, I found this text useful; and so on. This answer strikes me, and most likely also my interlocutors, as quite unsatisfactory. This is especially so since the size of many of these books may be discouraging for busy professionals and students working on other projects. This monograph is an attempt to offer a basic and compact reference that describes key ideas and principles in simple terms and within a unified treatment, encompassing also more recent developments and pointers to the literature for further study. ## 1.1 What is Machine Learning? A useful way to introduce the machine learning methodology is by means of a comparison with the conventional engineering design flow. #################### File: A%20Brief%20Introduction%20to%20Machine%20Learning%20for%20Engineers%20-%20Osvaldo%20Simeone%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 14 Context: # 1.2 When to Use Machine Learning? Based on the discussion above, machine learning can offer an efficient alternative to the conventional engineering flow when development cost and time are the main concerns, or when the problem appears to be too complex to be studied in its full generality. On the flip side, the approach has the key disadvantages of providing generally suboptimal performance, or hindering interpretability of the solution, and to apply only to a limited set of problems. In order to identify tasks for which machine learning methods may be useful, reference [31] suggests the following criteria: 1. The task involves a function that maps well-defined inputs to well-defined outputs. 2. Large data sets exist or can be created containing input-output pairs. 3. The task provides clear feedback with clearly definable goals and metrics. 4. The task does not involve long chains of logic or reasoning that depend on diverse background knowledge or common sense. 5. The task does not require detailed explanations for how the decision was made. 6. The task has a tolerance for error and no need for provably correct or optimal solutions. 7. The phenomenon or function being learned should not change rapidly over time. 8. No specialized dexterity, physical skills, or mobility is required. These criteria are useful guidelines for the decision of whether machine learning methods are suitable for a given task of interest. They also offer a convenient demarcation line between machine learning as is intended today, with its focus on training and computational statistics tools, and more general notions of Artificial Intelligence (AI) based on knowledge and common sense [87] (see [126] for an overview on AI research). #################### 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: 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: 44 Context: # Regression Figure 2.7: Bayesian Network (BN) describing the joint distribution (2.32) of the weight vector \( w \) of the labels in the training data \( D \) and in the new example, as used in the Bayesian approach. As mentioned, we are interested in computing the posterior probability \( p(w|D, t) \) of the new label \( t \) given the training data \( D \) and the new domain point \( x = \mathbf{x} \). Dropping again the domain variables to simplify the notation, we apply standard rules of probability to obtain: \[ p(t|D) = \frac{p(t|D, w) p(w|D)}{p(t|D)} = \int p(t|w)p(w|D)dw \tag{2.33} \] where the second equality follows from the marginalization rule \( p(t|D, t) = \int p(t|w, t)dw \) and the last equality from Bayes' theorem. Putting back the dependence on the domain variables, we obtain the predictive distribution as \[ p(t|x, D) = \int p(w|D) p(t|x, w)dw \tag{2.34} \] This is the key equation. Accordingly, the Bayesian approach considers the predictive probability \( p(t|x, w) \) associated with each value of the weight vector \( w \) weighted by the posterior belief \[ p(w|D) = \frac{p(D|w)p(w)}{p(D)} \tag{2.35} \] The posterior belief \( p(w|D) \), which defines the weight of the parameter vector \( w \), is therefore proportional to the prior belief \( p(w) \) multiplied by the correction \( p(D|w) \) due to the observed data. Computing the posterior \( p(w|D) \), and a fortiori also the predictive distribution \( p(t|x, D) \), is generally a difficult task that requires the adoption of approximate inference techniques covered in Chapter 8. For this #################### File: A%20Brief%20Introduction%20to%20Machine%20Learning%20for%20Engineers%20-%20Osvaldo%20Simeone%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 73 Context: # 3.4. Bayesian Learning Figure 3.2: Probability that the next review is positive using the predictive distribution (3.44) for Example 3.3. ![Figure 3.2](path/to/image) The conjugate prior is the Dirichlet distribution, a generalization of the Beta distribution: $$ p(\mu | \alpha) \propto \text{Dir}(\mu | \alpha) \propto C^{-1} \prod_{k=0}^{C-1} \alpha_k^{\mu_k - 1}, \tag{3.46} $$ where \( \alpha_k \) is the hyperparameter representing the number of "prior" observations equal to \( k \). Note that the Dirichlet distribution is a joint pdf for the entries of the mean vector \( \mu \). Mean and mode vectors for the Dirichlet distribution are given as: $$ E_{\mu | \text{Dir}(\alpha)}[ \mu ] = \frac{\alpha}{\sum_{j=0}^{C-1} \alpha_j}, \tag{3.47} $$ $$ \text{mode}_{\mu | \text{Dir}(\alpha)}[ \mu ] = \frac{\alpha - 1}{\sum_{j=0}^{C-1} \alpha_j - C}. \tag{3.48} $$ The posterior of the parameters is the Dirichlet distribution: $$ p(\mu | D, \alpha) \propto C^{-1} \prod_{k=0}^{C-1} N_k^{\mu_k + \alpha_k - 1} = \text{Dir}(\mu | N), \tag{3.49} $$ in which we can again interpret \( \alpha_k + N_k \) as the effective number of observations equal to \( k \). From this distribution, we can obtain the MAP estimate. #################### File: A%20Brief%20Introduction%20to%20Machine%20Learning%20for%20Engineers%20-%20Osvaldo%20Simeone%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 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: 82 Context: # 4 ## Classification The previous chapters have covered important background material on learning and probabilistic models. In this chapter, we use the principles and ideas covered so far to study the supervised learning problem of classification. Classification is arguably the quintessential machine learning problem, with the most advanced state of the art and the most extensive application to problems as varied as email spam detection and medical diagnosis. Due to space limitations, this chapter cannot provide an exhaustive review of all existing techniques and latest developments, particularly in the active field of neural network research. For instance, we do not cover decision trees here (see, e.g., [155]). Rather, we will provide a principled taxonomy of approaches, and offer a few representative techniques for each category within a unified framework. We will specifically proceed by first introducing as preliminary material the Stochastic Gradient Descent optimization method. Then, we will discuss deterministic and probabilistic discriminative models, and finally we will cover probabilistic generative models. #################### File: A%20Brief%20Introduction%20to%20Machine%20Learning%20for%20Engineers%20-%20Osvaldo%20Simeone%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 118 Context: Before leaving the subject of kernel methods, it is worth noting that an important class of methods including **k–Nearest Neighbor (k-NN)** uses kernels that are data-dependent. k-NN is also an example of non-parametric learning rules. In contrast to the other schemes studied here, it does not rely on a parametric model of the (probabilistic) relationship between input and output. Instead, k-NN leverages the assumption that the labels of nearby points \( x \) should be similar [81]. #################### File: A%20Brief%20Introduction%20to%20Machine%20Learning%20for%20Engineers%20-%20Osvaldo%20Simeone%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 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: 135 Context: # Part III ## Unsupervised Learning ### 1. Introduction Unsupervised learning is a type of machine learning that does not require labeled output. It relies on patterns and structures in input data to generate insights. ### 2. Common Algorithms - K-means Clustering - Hierarchical Clustering - DBSCAN ### 3. Applications - Market Basket Analysis - Image Compression - Anomaly Detection ### 4. Conclusion Unsupervised learning provides significant value across various domains, enabling organizations to extract meaningful information from unstructured data. #################### File: A%20Brief%20Introduction%20to%20Machine%20Learning%20for%20Engineers%20-%20Osvaldo%20Simeone%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 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: 181 Context: # 7.2 Bayesian Networks ## 7.2.2 Global Conditional Independence As we have discussed, BNs are defined by local conditional independence properties that are encoded in the factorization of a joint distribution and in the supporting DAG. BNs can also be used to assess generic global conditional independence queries of the type: Is a given subset of variables A independent of another set B conditioned on a third subset C of variables? The d-separation algorithm outputs either a positive response or a “maybe” answer to this question. It is briefly described as follows: 1. **Build a subgraph G'** from the original DAG by keeping all vertices in the subsets A, B, and C, as well as all the edges and vertices encountered by moving backwards on the DAG or one more edges from the vertices in A, B, and C. 2. **Build a subgraph G''** from G' by deleting all edges coming out of the vertices in C. 3. **If there is no path**, neglecting the directionality of the edges, between a node in A and a node in B, then the conditional independence relation A ⫫ B | C holds. Else, if one such path exists, then there is at least one joint distribution that factorizes as for the given DAG for which the condition A ⫫ B | C does not hold. ### Example 7.6 Consider the so-called V-structure x → y ← z. Using d-separation, it can be seen that the conditional independence x ⫫ y | z does not hold in grain. ## 7.2.3 Learning Assume that the DAG of a BN is given. Structure learning, that is, the decision of which edges should be included in the graph based on available training data, is also an important problem that will need to be considered here. Making explicit the dependence of the probability factors on learnable parameters μ, the joint distribution encoded by a BN can be written as \[ p(x_1, \ldots, x_K) = \prod_{k=1}^{K} p(x_k | \text{Pa}(x_k); \mu_k) \tag{7.12} \] #################### File: A%20Brief%20Introduction%20to%20Machine%20Learning%20for%20Engineers%20-%20Osvaldo%20Simeone%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 208 Context: # Part V ## Conclusions - This section summarizes the key findings of the study. - Conclusions drawn from the data. - Implications of the findings for future research. 1. **First conclusion point.** 2. **Second conclusion point.** 3. **Third conclusion point.** ### Recommendations - **Recommendation 1:** Description of recommendation. - **Recommendation 2:** Description of recommendation. - **Recommendation 3:** Description of recommendation. ### References 1. Author, A. (Year). *Title of the work*. Publisher. 2. Author, B. (Year). *Title of the work*. Publisher. ### Acknowledgements - Acknowledgement of contributions from individuals or organizations. #################### File: A%20Brief%20Introduction%20to%20Machine%20Learning%20for%20Engineers%20-%20Osvaldo%20Simeone%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 209 Context: # 9 ## Concluding Remarks This monograph has provided a brief introduction to machine learning by focusing on parametric probabilistic models for supervised and unsupervised learning problems. It has endeavored to describe fundamental concepts within a unified treatment starting from first principles. Throughout the text, we have also provided pointers to advanced topics that we have only been able to mention or shortly touch upon. Here, we offer a brief list of additional important aspects and open problems that have not been covered in the preceding chapters. - **Privacy:** In many applications, data sets used to train machine learning algorithms contain sensitive private information, such as personal preferences for recommendation systems. It is hence important to ensure that the learned model does not reveal any information about the individual entries of the training set. This constraint can be formulated using the concept of differential privacy. Typical techniques to guarantee privacy of individual data points include adding noise to gradients when training via SGD and relying on mixtures of experts trained with different subsets of the data [1]. - **Robustness:** It has been reported that various machine learning models, including neural networks, are sensitive to small variations in input data. #################### File: A%20Brief%20Introduction%20to%20Machine%20Learning%20for%20Engineers%20-%20Osvaldo%20Simeone%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 212 Context: # Appendices ## Appendix A: Title Content of Appendix A. ## Appendix B: Title Content of Appendix B. ## Appendix C: Title Content of Appendix C. ## Appendix D: Title Content of Appendix D. ## References - Reference 1 - Reference 2 - Reference 3 ## Tables | Header 1 | Header 2 | Header 3 | |----------|----------|----------| | Row 1 | Data 1 | Data 2 | | Row 2 | Data 3 | Data 4 | | Row 3 | Data 5 | Data 6 | #################### File: A%20Brief%20Introduction%20to%20Machine%20Learning%20for%20Engineers%20-%20Osvaldo%20Simeone%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 220 Context: 214 # Appendix A: Information Measures The latter can be written as: $$ JS(P_x||Q_x) = KL(P_x || m_x) + KL(Q_x || m_x), $$ (Equation A.13) where \( m_x(x) = (p_x(x) + q_x(x))/2 \). Another special case, which generalizes the KL divergence and other metrics, is the \( \alpha \)-divergence discussed in Chapter 8 (see (8.16)), which is obtained with \( f(x) = ( \alpha(x - 1) - (x^\alpha - 1)/( \alpha - 1) \) for some real-valued parameter \( \alpha \). We refer to [107, 45] for other examples. The discussion above justified the adoption of the loss function (A.11) in a heuristic fashion. It is, however, possible to derive formal relationships between the error probability of binary hypothesis testing and \( f \)-divergences [21]. We also refer to the classical Sanov lemma and Stein lemma as fundamental applications of KL divergence to large deviation and hypothesis testing [38]. 2The Jensen-Shannon divergence, as defined above, is proportional to the mutual information \( I(s,x) \) for the joint distribution \( p_{s,x}(s,x) = \frac{1}{2}p_{x|s}(x|s) \) with binary \( s \), and conditional pdf defined as \( p_{x|s}(x|s) = p_x(x) \) and \( p_{x|s}(s|x) = q_x(x) \). #################### File: A%20Brief%20Introduction%20to%20Machine%20Learning%20for%20Engineers%20-%20Osvaldo%20Simeone%20%28PDF%29.pdf Page: 221 Context: B Appendix B: KL Divergence and Exponential Family In this appendix, we provide a general expression for the KL divergence between two distributions \( p(x|n_1) \) and \( p(x|n_2) \) from the same regular exponential family with log-partition function \( A(\cdot) \), sufficient statistics \( u(x) \), and moment parameters \( \mu_1 \) and \( \mu_2 \), respectively. We recall from Chapter 3 that the log-partition function is convex and that we have the identity \( \nabla A(\eta) = \mu \). The KL divergence between the two distributions can be translated into a divergence on the space of natural parameters. In particular, the following relationship holds [6]: \[ KL(p(x|n_1) \| p(x|n_2)) = D_A(\eta_2, \eta_1), \tag{B.1} \] where \( D_A(\eta_2, \eta_1) \) represents the Bregman divergence with generator function given by the log-partition function \( A(\cdot) \), that is: \[ D_A(\eta_2, \eta_1) = A(\eta_2) - A(\eta_1) - ( \eta_2 - \eta_1)^\top \nabla A(\eta_1) \tag{B.2} \] The first line of (B.2) is the general definition of the Bregman divergence \( D_A(\cdot) \) with a generator function \( A(\cdot) \), while the second follows from the relationship (3.10). 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Matoušek, *Using the Borsuk-Ulam Theorem*, Springer-Verlag, 2003. #################### File: Algebraic%20Topology%20ATbib-ind.pdf Page: 10 Context: # Index - **J(X)**: James reduced product 224, 282, 288, 289, 467, 470 - **J-homomorphism**: 387 - **join**: 9, 20, 457, 467 - **Jordan curve theorem**: 169 ## K(G,1) space - **k-invariant**: 412, 475 - **Klein bottle**: 51, 74, 93, 102 - **Künneth formula**: 216, 268, 274, 275, 357, 432 - **Lefschetz**: 131, 179, 229 - **Lefschetz duality**: 254 - **Lefschetz number**: 179 - **lens space**: 75, 88, 144, 251, 282, 304, 310, 391 - **Leray–Hirsch theorem**: 432 - **Lie group**: 282 - **lift**: 29, 60 - **lifting criterion**: 61 - **lifting problem**: 415 - **limit**: 460, 462 - **lim-one**: 313, 411 - **linking**: 46 - **local coefficients**: cohomology 328, 333 - **local coefficients**: homology 328 - **local degree**: 136 - **local homology**: 126, 256 - **local orientation**: 234 - **local trivialization**: 377 - **locally**: 62 - **locally compact**: 530 - **locally contractible**: 63, 179, 254, 256, 522, 525 - **locally finite homology**: 336 - **locally path-connected**: 62 - **long exact sequence**: cohomology 200 - **long exact sequence**: fibration 376 - **long exact sequence**: homology 114, 116, 118 - **long exact sequence**: homotopy 344 - **loop**: 26 - **loopspace**: 395, 408, 470 - **manifold**: 231, 527, 529 - **manifold with boundary**: 252 - **mapping cone**: 13, 182 - **mapping cylinder**: 2, 182, 347, 457, 461 - **mapping telescope**: 138, 312, 457, 528 - **maximal tree**: 84 - **Mayer–Vietoris axiom**: 449 - **Mayer–Vietoris sequence**: 149, 159, 161, 203 - **Milnor**: 408, 409 - **minimal chain complex**: 305 - **Mittag-Leffler condition**: 320 - **monoid**: 163 - **Moore space**: 143, 277, 312, 391, 462, 465, 475 - **Moore–Postnikov tower**: 414 - **morphism**: 162 - **natural transformation**: 165 - **naturality**: 127 - **n-connected cover**: 415 - **n-connected space, pair**: 346 - **nerve**: 257, 458 - **nonsingular pairing**: 250 - **normal covering space**: 70 - **nullhomotopic**: 4 - **object**: 162 - **obstruction**: 417 - **obstruction theory**: 416 - **octonion**: 173, 281, 294, 378, 498 - **Ω-spectrum**: 396 - **open cover**: 459 - **orbit, orbit space**: 72, 457 - **orientable manifold**: 234 - **orientable sphere bundle**: 442 - **orientation**: 105, 234, 235 #################### File: Algebraic%20Topology%20ATbib-ind.pdf Page: 12 Context: # Index - **stable splitting** 491 - **stable stem** 384 - **star** 178 - **Steenrod algebra** 496 - **Steenrod homology** 257 - **Steenrod squares, powers** 487 - **Stiefel manifold** 301, 381, 436, 447, 493 - **subcomplex** 7, 520 - **subgraph** 84 - **surface** 5, 51, 88, 93, 102, 141, 207, 241, 390 - **suspension** 8, 137, 219, 466, 473 - **suspension spectrum** 454 - **symmetric polynomials** 435 - **symmetric product** 282, 365, 481 - **symplectic group** Sp(n) 227, 382, 434 - **tensor algebra** 288, 471 - **tensor product** 215, 328 - **tensor product of chain complexes** 273 - **Thom class** 441, 510 - **Thom isomorphism** 441 - **Thom space** 441, 510 - **Toda bracket** 387 - **topological group** 281 - **Tor** 263, 267 - **torsion coefficient** 130 - **torus** 34, 74, 102, 106, 227 - **torus knot** 47 - **total space** 377 - **transfer homomorphism** 175, 321 - **tree** 84 - **triple** 118, 344 - **truncated polynomial algebra** 284 - **unique lifting property** 62 - **unitary group** U(n) 227, 382, 434 - **universal coefficient theorem** 195, 264, 463 - **universal cover** 59, 68 - **van Kampen** 43 - **vector field** 135, 493 - **vertex** 83, 103 - **weak homotopy equivalence** 352 - **weak topology** 5, 83, 520 - **wedge sum** 10, 43, 126, 160, 202, 380, 466 - **Whitehead product** 381, 430 - **Whitehead tower** 356 - **Whitehead's theorem** 346, 367, 418 - **Wirtgen presentation** 55 ########## """QUERY: hello can i ask you to list what is in you knowledgebase?""" 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