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Valid for year : 2009
 
TBMI26 Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 6 ECTS credits.
/Neuronnät och lärande system/

For:   BME   C   COM   D   I   Ii   IT   KeBi   Y  

 

Prel. scheduled hours: 56
Rec. self-study hours: 104

  Area of Education: Technology

Subject area: Electrotechnology

  Advancement level (G1, G2, A): A

Aim:
The aim is that students after passing the course will be able to design and apply artificial neural networks and other learning systems for adaptive data analysis. Students will also be able to apply such methods in order to find meaningful relations in multidimensional signals where the degree of complexity makes traditional model-based methods unsuitable or impossible to use.

Specifically, students should be able to:
  • Explain the difference between particular learning paradigms
  • Implement and use common methods in those paradigms
  • Select an appropriate method for solving a given problem


Prerequisites: (valid for students admitted to programmes within which the course is offered)
Requisite: Algebra, Calculus, Mathematical statistics. Recommended: Signal theory.

Note: Admission requirements for non-programme students usually also include admission requirements for the programme and threshhold requirements for progression within the programme, or corresponding.

Organisation:
Lectures, Exercises, Laboratory exercises (incl obligatory home work)

Course contents:
Classification: - Pattern Recognition - Discriminant functions - Statistical methods - Clustering Content addressable memories: - State spaces - Hopfield memories - Auto- and Hetero-associative memories Supervised learning: - The perceptron - The multi-layer perceptron - Stochastic gradient search - The "Error back-propagation" algorithm Unsupervised learning: - Principal component analysis (PCA) - Canonical correlation analysis (CCA) - Independent component analysis (ICA) - "Winner take all" algorithms - Topology preserving methods - Self organizing maps (SOM) Reinforcement learning: - Markov models - Reward/Punishment methods - Temporal difference methods (TD) - Q-learning Genetic methods: - Genetic algorithms - The two-armed bandit - Genes and schemas - Genetic programming.

Course literature:
S. Haykin, Neural Networks, second edition, Prentice Hall 1999 Compendium: Exempelsamling, Kompletterande material, Lab-PM

Examination:
Written examination
Laboratory work
4 ECTS
2 ECTS
 



Course language is Swedish/English.
Department offering the course: IMT.
Director of Studies: Håkan Petersson
Examiner: Magnus Borga
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Last updated: 11/09/2008