Decision Trees: Induction and PruningExplores Decision Trees, from induction to pruning, emphasizing interpretability and automatic feature selection strengths, while addressing challenges like overfitting.
Knowledge Inference for GraphsExplores knowledge inference for graphs, discussing label propagation, optimization objectives, and probabilistic behavior.
Ensemble Methods: Random ForestExplores random forests as a powerful ensemble method for classification, discussing bagging, stacking, boosting, and sampling strategies.
Data Collection and PreparationDiscusses the significance of data collection and preparation for classification, including labeling challenges and crowdsourcing methods.
Feature SelectionExplores feature selection methods, pitfalls, and normalization techniques for optimal model performance.
Recommender SystemsExplores recommender systems, collaborative filtering, content-based recommendations, similarity metrics, and advanced methods like matrix factorization.