latex-math

The notation and shortcuts used in latex-files of lectures, papers, ... of the Chair of Statistical Learning and Data Science is defined and maintained in this repository. Notation & shortcuts are split into multiple files depending on subject and can be integrated as needed.

• basic-math: basic mathematical notation such as mathematical spaces, sums & products, linear algebra, basic probability and statistics
• basic-ml: basic machine learning notation such as notation for data (x, y), prediction functions, likelihood, loss functions, generalization error
• ml-nn: neural networks
• ml-svm: support vector machines
• ml-trees: decision trees
• ml-interpretable: IML / xAI

:warning: Important Usage Note: If you encounter these files within a lecture or project repository, do not make any changes locally. Go to slds-lmu/latex-math and make your changes either directly or via pull request. Any local changes are assumed to be spurious and will be overridden with upstream slds-lmu/latex-math.

Using the notation

• Clone this repository into the main directory of your repo.
• Add latex-math to the gitignore file.
• Add \input{../latex-math/*}, for every file /* you need to the preamble of your (TeX/Rmd) file but not into any common preamble file

This means you have to keep this repository in sync with each client repository by also doing git pull in the latex-math subdirectory when pulling changes for the client repo. The reason we do it this way is that work on latex-math is not duplicated.

Note that some of the macros defined here may use additional Latex packages -- a good set to start with is

\usepackage{mathtools}
\usepackage{bm}      % basic-ml, ml-gp
\usepackage{siunitx} % basic-ml
\usepackage{dsfont}  % basic-math
\usepackage{xspace}  % ml-mbo
\usepackage{xifthen} % ml-interpretable

See latex-math.pdf for all currently defined commands & definitions.

Updating / adding files

• A new shortcut / notation that falls into the scope of one of the existing files should be added in the respective file with a short description.
• Multiple shortcuts / notations belonging to another major subject should be summarized in a new .tex file.
• ALWAYS check if a command is already contained in one of the files - overwriting a command might result in compiling errors.
• ALWAYS recompile latex-math.Rmd if you add new commands so it is kept up-to-date and to check that you have committed all the changes your notation requires to work.

To ensure recompilation is not forgotten, please install the pre-commit hook:

cp service/pre-commit-check-pdf .git/hooks/pre-commit