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"A First Course in Machine Learning by Simon Rogers and Mark Girolami is the best introductory book for ML currently available. It combines rigor and precision with accessibility, starts from a detailed explanation of the basic foundations of Bayesian analysis in the simplest of settings, and goes all the way to the frontiers of the subject such as infinite mixture models, GPs, and MCMC."
-Devdatt Dubhashi, Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Chalmers University, Sweden
"This textbook manages to be easier to read than other comparable books in the subject while retaining all the rigorous treatment needed. The new chapters put it at the forefront of the field by covering topics that have become mainstream in machine learning over the last decade."
-Daniel Barbara, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA
"The new edition of A First Course in Machine Learning by Rogers and Girolami is an excellent introduction to the use of statistical methods in machine learning. The book introduces concepts such as mathematical modeling, inference, and prediction, providing `just in time' the essential background on linear algebra, calculus, and probability theory that the reader needs to understand these concepts."
-Daniel Ortiz-Arroyo, Associate Professor, Aalborg University Esbjerg, Denmark
"I was impressed by how closely the material aligns with the needs of an introductory course on machine learning, which is its greatest strength...Overall, this is a pragmatic and helpful book, which is well-aligned to the needs of an introductory course and one that I will be looking at for my own students in coming months."
-David Clifton, University of Oxford, UK
"The first edition of this book was already an excellent introductory text on machine learning for an advanced undergraduate or taught masters level course, or indeed for anybody who wants to learn about an interesting and important field of computer science. The additional chapters of advanced material on Gaussian process, MCMC and mixture modeling provide an ideal basis for practical projects, without disturbing the very clear and readable exposition of the basics contained in the first part of the book."
-Gavin Cawley, Senior Lecturer, School of Computing Sciences, University of East Anglia, UK
"This book could be used for junior/senior undergraduate students or first-year graduate students, as well as individuals who want to explore the field of machine learning...The book introduces not only the concepts but the underlying ideas on algorithm implementation from a critical thinking perspective."
-Guangzhi Qu, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan, USA
"A First Course in Machine Learning by Simon Rogers and Mark Girolami is the best introductory book for ML currently available. It combines rigor and precision with accessibility, starts from a detailed explanation of the basic foundations of Bayesian analysis in the simplest of settings, and goes all the way to the frontiers of the subject such as infinite mixture models, GPs, and MCMC."
-Devdatt Dubhashi, Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Chalmers University, Sweden
"This textbook manages to be easier to read than other comparable books in the subject while retaining all the rigorous treatment needed. The new chapters put it at the forefront of the field by covering topics that have become mainstream in machine learning over the last decade."
-Daniel Barbara, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA
"The new edition of A First Course in Machine Learning by Rogers and Girolami is an excellent introduction to the use of statistical methods in machine learning. The book introduces concepts such as mathematical modeling, inference, and prediction, providing `just in time' the essential background on linear algebra, calculus, and probability theory that the reader needs to understand these concepts."
-Daniel Ortiz-Arroyo, Associate Professor, Aalborg University Esbjerg, Denmark
"I was impressed by how closely the material aligns with the needs of an introductory course on machine learning, which is its greatest strength...Overall, this is a pragmatic and helpful book, which is well-aligned to the needs of an introductory course and one that I will be looking at for my own students in coming months."
-David Clifton, University of Oxford, UK
"The first edition of this book was already an excellent introductory text on machine learning for an advanced undergraduate or taught masters level course, or indeed for anybody who wants to learn about an interesting and important field of computer science. The additional chapters of advanced material on Gaussian process, MCMC and mixture modeling provide an ideal basis for practical projects, without disturbing the very clear and readable exposition of the basics contained in the first part of the book."
-Gavin Cawley, Senior Lecturer, School of Computing Sciences, University of East Anglia, UK
"This book could be used for junior/senior undergraduate students or first-year graduate students, as well as individuals who want to explore the field of machine learning...The book introduces not only the concepts but the underlying ideas on algorithm implementation from a critical thinking perspective."
-Guangzhi Qu, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan, USA
Linear Modelling: A Least Squares Approach. Linear Modelling: A Maximum Likelihood Approach. The Bayesian Approach to Machine Learning. Bayesian Inference. Classification. Clustering. Principal Components Analysis and Latent Variable Models. Further Topics in Markov Chain Monte Carlo. Classification and Regression with Gaussian Processes. Dirichlet Process models.
Simon Rogers is a lecturer in the School of Computing Science at the University of Glasgow, where he teaches a masters-level machine learning course on which this book is based. Dr. Rogers is an active researcher in machine learning, particularly applied to problems in computational biology. His research interests include the analysis of metabolomic data and the application of probabilistic machine learning techniques in the field of human-computer interaction.
Mark Girolami holds an honorary professorship in Computer Science at the University of Warwick, is an EPSRC Established Career Fellow (2012 - 2017) and previously an EPSRC Advanced Research Fellow (2007 - 2012). He is also honorary Professor of Statistics at University College London, is the Director of the EPSRC funded Research Network on Computational Statistics and Machine Learning and in 2011 was elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh when he was also awarded a Royal Society Wolfson Research
"I was impressed by how closely the material aligns with the needs
of an introductory course on machine learning, which is its
greatest strength. While there are other books available that aim
for completeness, with exhaustively comprehensive introductions to
every branch of machine learning, the book by Rogers and Girolami
starts with the basics, builds a solid and logical foundation of
methodology, before introducing some more advanced topics. The
essentials of the model construction, validation, and evaluation
process are communicated clearly and in such a manner as to be
accessible to the student taking such a course. I was also pleased
to see that the authors have not shied away from producing
algebraic derivations throughout, which are for many students an
essential part of the learning process—many other texts omit such
details, leaving them as ‘an exercise for the reader.’ Being shown
the explicit steps required for such derivations is an important
part of developing a sense of confidence in the student. Overall,
this is a pragmatic and helpful book, which is well-aligned to the
needs of an introductory course and one that I will be looking at
for my own students in coming months."
—David Clifton, University of Oxford, UK"In my opinion, this is by
far the best introduction to Machine Learning. It accomplishes
something I would think impossible: it assumes essentially only
high school mathematics and no statistics background, and yet, by
introducing math, probability and statistics as needed, it manages
to do an entirely rigorous introduction to Machine Learning. Proofs
are not provided only for very few theorems; the book goes fairly
deep and is really enjoyable to read. I told my students that this
book will be one of the best investments they have ever made!"
—Aleksandar Ignjatovic, University of New South Wales"The new
edition of A First Course in Machine Learning by Rogers and
Girolami is an excellent introduct
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