'This book strikes a very good balance between accessibility and rigour. It will be a very good companion for the mathematically trained who want to understand the hows and whats of machine learning.' Ole Winther, University of Copenhagen and Technical University of Denmark
1. Introduction; 2. Supervised learning: a first approach; 3. Basic parametric models and a statistical perspective on learning; 4. Understanding, evaluating and improving the performance; 5. Learning parametric models; 6. Neural networks and deep learning; 7. Ensemble methods: Bagging and boosting; 8. Nonlinear input transformations and kernels; 9. The Bayesian approach and Gaussian processes; 10. Generative models and learning from unlabeled data; 11. User aspects of machine learning; 12. Ethics in machine learning.