COMP5318 · S1 2026

Applied Machine Learning

Detailed study guides distilled from weekly labs (Jupyter), lecture PDFs, and tutorials, with quizzes, flashcards, progress tracking, and EN / 中文 support.

Coverage 12 structured weeks
Toolkit Study guides, maths, quizzes
Format Lecture + notebook + tutorial synthesis

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Weekly atlas

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Week 1

Python, NumPy & Pandas

Language refresher, arrays, and tabular data — foundation for scikit-learn labs.

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Week 2

k-Nearest Neighbours

Instance-based classification plus 1R / PRISM rule learners, train/test splits, and feature scaling.

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Week 3

Linear & Logistic Regression

Least squares, Ridge/Lasso, and logistic models for classification.

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Week 4

Naive Bayes & Evaluation

Generative models, precision/recall/F1, cross-validation, and grid search.

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Week 5

Decision Trees & Ensembles

Splits, pruning, bagging, random forests, and boosting.

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Week 6

SVMs & PCA

Maximum margin, kernels, and dimensionality reduction.

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Week 7

Feedforward Neural Networks

Perceptron rule, backpropagation, ReLU, dropout, softmax and cross-entropy.

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Week 8

Convolutional & Recurrent Networks

CNN filters, stride, padding, pooling; RNN unrolling, BPTT, and LSTM gates.

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Week 9

Transformer & Attention

Seq2seq, attention mechanism, self-attention QKV, multi-head, positional encoding.

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Week 10

Clustering

K-means, GMM/EM, hierarchical clustering, DBSCAN, and evaluation metrics.

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Week 11

Markov Models & HMM

Markov property, HMM (A, B, π); evaluation (forward), decoding (Viterbi), learning (Baum-Welch).

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Week 12

Reinforcement Learning

MDPs, value functions, Q-Learning, Deep Q-Networks, and applications.

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