MATH3320 - Foundation of Data Analytics - 2023/24

Course Year: 
2023/24
Term: 
1

Announcement

  • There is no class on Monday, September 4, 2023.
  • There is no tutorial on Tuesday, September 5, 2023.
  • Midterm: 12:45-14:00 (75 minutes), Tuesday, October 24, 2023 (Mong Man Wai Bldg 702). The midterm covers notes 1.

General Information

Lecturer

  • Prof. Zeng Tieyong
    • Office: LSB225
    • Tel: 39437966
    • Email:

Teaching Assistant

  • Zeyu Li
    • Office: LSB 222A
    • Tel: 3943 3575
    • Email:
  • Shen Mao
    • Office: AB1 614
    • Tel: 3943 4109
    • Email:

Time and Venue

  • Lecture: Mo 12:30 - 13:15 (Mong Man Wai Bldg 702) Tu 12:30PM - 2:15PM (Mong Man Wai Bldg 702)
  • Tutorial: Tu 11:30AM - 12:15AM (Mong Man Wai Bldg 702)

Course Description

This course gives an introduction to computational data analytics, with emphasis on its mathematical foundations. The goal is to carefully develop and explore mathematical theories and methods that make up the backbone of modern mathematical data sciences, such as knowledge discovery in databases, machine learning, and mathematical artificial intelligence. Topics include mathematical foundations of probability, linear approximation and its polynomial and high dimensional extensions, proper orthogonal decomposition methods, optimization, theories of nonlinear neural network and approximations. Students taking this course are expected to have knowledge of basic linear algebra.

Advisory: MATH Majors should select not more than 5 MATH courses in a term.


Textbooks

  • Mathematical Foundations for Data Analysis, Jeff M. Phillips, Springer 2021.
  • Fundamentals of Data Analytics With a View to Machine Learning, Rudolf Mathar, Gholamreza Alirezaei, Emilio Balda, Arash Behboodi, Springer, 2020
  • "Mathematics for Machine Learning" by Marc Peter Deisenroth, A. Aldo Faisal, and Cheng Soon Ong, Cambridge University Press.
  • Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio and Aaron Courville, Deep Learning, The MIT Press, 2016.

References

  • Richard Duda, Peter Hart and David Stock,Pattern Classification, Wiley-Interscience, 2nd Edition, 2015.
  • Shai Shalev-Shwartz and Shai Ben-David, Understanding Machine Learning: From Theory to Algorithms, Cambridge University Press, 2014
  • Kevin P. Murphy, Machine Learning: A Probabilistic Perspective, The MIT Press, 2012.
  • Christopher M. Bishop, Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning, Springer, 2006.

Pre-class Notes


Lecture Notes


Class Notes


Tutorial Notes


Assignments


Quizzes and Exams


Solutions


Assessment Scheme

Tutorial attendance & good efforts 10%
Mid-Exam 12.5%
Project 12.5%
Final Exam 65%
Back-up Plan: In case face-to-face teaching and assessment is not possible due to the pandemic, the assessment will be changed to: Tutorial and homework 30%; Midterm 35% ; Project 35% %

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