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Review of Statistical Learning Theory (CS 281A) at Berkeley

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Now that I’ve finished my first semester at Berkeley, I think it’s time for me to review how I felt about the two classes I took: Statistical Learning Theory (CS 281A) and Natural Language Processing (CS 288). In this post, I’ll discuss CS 281a, a class that I’m extremely happy I took even if it was a bit stressful to be in lecture (more on that later). First of all, what is statistical learning theory? I view the subject as one that principally deals with the problem of finding a predictive function of data that minimizes a loss function (e.g., squared loss) on training data, and analyzes this problem in a framework that conflates machine learning and probability methods. Whereas a standard machine learning course might primarily describe various learning algorithms, statistical learning theory focuses on the subset of these that are most well-suited to statistical analysis. For instance, regression is a common learning algorithm, and regularization is a common (statistical?) techniqu

Now that I’ve finished my first semester at Berkeley, I think it’s time for me to review how I felt about the two classes I took: Statistical Learning Theory (CS 281A) and Natural Language Processing (CS 288). In this post, I’ll discuss CS 281a, a class that I’m extremely happy I took even if it was a bit stressful to be in lecture (more on that later). First of all, what is statistical learning theory? I view the subject as one that principally deals with the problem of finding a predictive function of data that minimizes a loss function (e.g., squared loss) on training data, and analyzes thi

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