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Potential typo
Lectures · 72 · 1 · 31 Dec '20
Hi, In [the lecture notes about model selection](https://github.com/epfml/ML_course/blob/master/…
Least squares
Exams · 186 · 4 · 30 Dec '20
Hello, Can you please provide some explanations about how these results were found ( the first an…
MSE Proof convexity using definition
Lectures · 117 · 3 · 30 Dec '20
Hi everyone, Could you please elaborate the intermediate steps for this computation? Also, wher…
Question regarding generalization error
Lectures · 141 · 3 · 30 Dec '20
Hello, in lecture 4 when explaining the upper bound on the true error, I don't understand the role …
Classifying with the kernel K
Lectures · 105 · 5 · 29 Dec '20
Hello! I can't understand the passages associated to the topic "Classifying with the kernel K" in l…
Lecture 11 : EM
Lectures · 63 · 1 · 29 Dec '20
Hello, I am unsure how to get the update parameters $$\mu_{k}^{(t+1)}$$ , i.e. I try to derive L_…
Logistic regression equation on the first page
Lectures · 87 · 5 · 29 Dec '20
Hello, I wanted to ask if the equation in the photo is correct to have y in the power in the den…
text classification using matrix factorization
Lectures · 94 · 2 · 29 Dec '20
Hi there :) I was asking myself how to deal with the test set when using matrix factorization. …
Adversarial risk in high dimension
Lectures · 122 · 2 · 29 Dec '20
Hello, I have a question regarding adversarial risk in high dimension. Based on the first exampl…
lecture 11 EM kmeans
Lectures · 68 · 1 · 29 Dec '20
Hi, I understand that as sigma tends to 0 qkn converges towards zkn. But I don't understand why th…
L2-norm Regularization
Lectures · 90 · 2 · 29 Dec '20
Hello, I don't understand clearly why the L2-norm regularization term forces the model to be simpl…
Conclusion of 3.1
Exercises · 181 · 5 · 28 Dec '20
How do you get from: $$w = (H + \mu I)^{-1} Hw*= (QLQ^T + \mu I)^{-1} QLQ^Tw*$$ to $$w = Q(L…
exercise lecture 2
Lectures · 42 · 1 · 28 Dec '20
Hello, Can you please upload answers to exercise 3 and 4 of lecture 2 (slide 23). Note: the…
Do constants matter in computational complexity ?
Exercises · 72 · 2 · 28 Dec '20
For gradient descent, the MSE is given by : $$\frac{-1}{N}X^{T}(y - Xw)$$ Which for me gives…
Serie 10 Problem 2.1 Retrieving delta*
Exercises · 196 · 5 · 28 Dec '20
Hi, I have a question for the last exercise serie problem 2.1. I have been able to get the foll…
Convergence : gradient descent 1-param model
Lectures · 66 · 1 · 28 Dec '20
How would you prove the convergence of the sequence only for gama in (0;2)? ![Captură de ecran 2…
prove that mean absolute error is convex
Lectures · 124 · 2 · 28 Dec '20
Hello, I am struggling a bit to prove that mean absolute error is convex (as asked in lecture 1d…
self-supervised vs unsupervised vs supervised
Lectures · 115 · 5 · 28 Dec '20
I have a question regarding text representation learning and what is considered to be supervised or…
Question regarding kernelized ridge regression
Lectures · 67 · 1 · 28 Dec '20
Good morning, I was a bit confused by how the expression for $$\alpha^{*}$$ was obtained in the alt…
Subgradients
Lectures · 189 · 4 · 28 Dec '20
According to the definition of subgradient $$ \mathcal{L}(\mathbf{u}) \geq \mathcal{L}(\mathbf{…