Welcome to the GitHub repo for the introduction course in Introduction to Machine Learning at Uppsala University. This repo contains all necessary material and information for the course.
The course is given to second-year master students in the Statistics masters program.
The course takes roughly 20h per week. In total the course should take roughly 200h. If the student aims for VG more time might be needed.
See course syllabus here.
Roughly the course assumes basic knowledge in linear algebra, calculus, probability theory and programming (with R or Python).
You can find a rough course plan with reading instructions here.
You can find the course schedule on TimeEdit here (search for course code 2ST129).
The course is graded with U (Underkänd/Fail), G (Godkänd/Pass), VG (väl godkänd/Pass with distinction).
To pass, you should pass all assignments and the mini-project.
To get the grade VG on the course, a total of 6 or more VG points is needed. Each assignment has an additional task to complete to get VG on the assignment (and one VG-point). If the final mini-project gets VG, the students are awarded 2 VG points for the mini-project. VG-points will only be awarded on the first deadline of the assignment.
Note that aiming for VG might mean that you need to put in more hours than the expected 20h per week.
Grades are not subject to appeal. However, a grading decision must be reassessed if it is clearly incorrect. Grades can never be lowered. If students want grades to be reassessed, they should contact the course administration who will distribute a form for reassessment the students have to fill out.
If you fail or drop-out from the course you will need to re-take all assignments and redo the mini-project next time the course is given.
Below are the main references for the course. All books are available free online. Some articles may need access from an Uppsala University network.
In addition, the following material will also be included (note that you might need to access the material through the Uppsala University network):
The literature list might change slightly during the course.
Online course discussions will be held through Slack. See Studium for details on how to log in.
The course will have 2 guest lectures that the guest lecturers will give through Zoom. Otherwise, the course will be held on campus. You can find information and support for students on Zoom here.
Main Teacher: Måns Magnusson Teaching assistant: Andreas Östling
The course consists of rougly 8 blocks (weeks) of material. Each week consists of the following (expected workload in parenthesis):
Each week an individual computer assignment is done with a focus on implementing the main part of the material. Each assignment is completed individually and should follow the computer assignment template.
Students should return the computer assignments no later than Sunday 23.59 each week. For a detailed list of deadlines, see the rough course plan.
There are two complementary turn-ins of assignments, the last day of the course and roughly 2-4 weeks after the course ends. After the last possible time to turn in the assignment no more chances will be given. In this case, you will be failed on the course and you will need to retake the course next year.
Each assignment will be graded and evaluated within 10 working days.
To pass the assignment 75% of the points are needed. Similarly 75% of the VG assignment is needed to get a VG-point.
A guest lecture will be given on AI and ethics by Karim Jebari and Holli Sargeant.
The last two weeks will focus on a course project where 2-3 students choose their data and create a supervised machine learning predictive model for a real-world dataset.
You can find details and instructions on the project work here.
Frequently asked questions will be collected here.