TY - BOOK AU - Marsland,Stephen TI - Machine learning: an algorithmic perspective T2 - Chapman & Hall/CRC machine learning & pattern recognition series SN - 9781466583283 (hbk) U1 - 006.31 23 PY - 2015/// CY - Boca Raton PB - CRC Press KW - Machine learning KW - Algorithms N1 - Includes index; 1. Introduction -- 2. Preliminaries -- 3. Neurons, neural networks, and linear discriminants -- 4. The multi-layer perceptron -- 5. Radial basis functions and splines -- 6. Dimensionality reduction -- 7. Probabilistic learning -- 8. Support vector machines -- 9. Optimisation and search -- 10. Evolutionary learning -- 11. Reinforcement learning -- 12. Learning with trees -- 13. Decision by committee: ensemble learning -- 14. Unsupervised learning -- 15. Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods -- 16. Graphical models -- 17. Symmetric weights and deep belief networks -- 18. Gaussian processes -- Appendix A: Python-- Index N2 - This book helps students understand the algorithms of machine learning. It puts them on a path toward mastering the relevant mathematics and statistics as well as the necessary programming and experimentation ER -