Machine Learning is the study of methods for programming computers to learn. Computers are applied to a wide range of tasks, and for most of these it is relatively easy for programmers to design and implement the necessary software. However, there are many tasks for which this is difficult or impossible. These can be divided into four general categories. First, there are problems for which there exist no human experts. For example, in modern automated manufacturing facilities, there is a need to predict machine failures before they occur by analyzing sensor readings. Because the machines are new, there are no human experts who can be interviewed by a programmer to provide the knowledge necessary to build a computer system. A machine learning system can study recorded data and subsequent machine failures and learn prediction rules. Second, there are problems where human experts exist, but where they are unable to explain their expertise. This is the case in many perceptual tasks, such as speech recognition, hand-writing recognition, and natural language understanding. Virtually all humans exhibit expert-level abilities on these tasks, but none of them can describe the detailed steps that they follow as they perform them. Fortunately, humans can provide machines with examples of the inputs and correct outputs for these tasks, so machine learning algorithms can learn to map the inputs to the outputs. Third, there are problems where phenomena are changing rapidly. In finance, for example, people would like to predict the future behavior of the stock market, of consumer purchases, or of exchange rates. These behaviors change frequently, so that even if a programmer could construct a good predictive computer program, it would need to be rewritten frequently. A learning program can relieve the programmer of this burden by constantly modifying and tuning a set of learned prediction rules. Fourth, there are applications that need to be customized for each computer user separately. Consider, for example, a program to filter unwanted electronic mail messages. Different users will need different filters. It is unreasonable to expect each user to program his or her own rules, and it is infeasible to provide every user with a software engineer to keep the rules up-to-date. A machine learning system can learn which mail messages the user rejects and maintain the filtering rules automatically. Machine learning addresses many of the same research questions as the fields of statistics, data mining, and psychology, but with differences of emphasis. Statistics focuses on understanding the phenomena that have generated the data, often with the goal of testing different hypotheses about those phenomena. Data mining seeks to find patterns in the data that are understandable by people. Psychological studies of human learning aspire to understand the mechanisms underlying the various learning behaviors exhibited by people (concept learning, skill acquisition, strategy change, etc.).

Machine learning

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Probability Distributions.- Linear Models for Regression.- Linear Models for Classification.- Neural Networks.- Kernel Methods.- Sparse Kernel Machines.- Graphical Models.- Mixture Models and EM.- Approximate Inference.- Sampling Methods.- Continuous Latent Variables.- Sequential Data.- Combining Models.

Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning

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Assay for lipid peroxides in animal tissues by thiobarbituric acid reaction

As compared to the traditional advertising, the word-of-mouth (WOM) communications have striking advantages such as significantly lower cost and rapid delivery; this is especially the case with the popularity of online social networks. This paper addresses the issue of maximizing the overall profit of a WOM marketing campaign. A marketing process with both positive and negative WOM is modeled as a dynamical model knwn as the SIPNS model, and the profit maximization problem is modeled as a constrained optimization problem. The influence of different factors on the dynamics of the SIPNS model is revealed experimentally. Also, the impact of different factors on the expected overall profit of a WOM marketing campaign is uncovered experimentally. On this basis, some promotion strategies are suggested. To our knowledge, this is the first time a WOM marketing campaign is treated this way.

Maximizing the overall profit of a word-of-mouth marketing campaign: A modeling study

In this paper, Fuzzy Neural Network (FNN) is transformed into an equivalent Fully Connected Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System (F-CONFIS). The F-CONFIS is a new type of neural network that differs from traditional neural networks, which there are the dependent and repeated weights. For these special properties, its learning algorithm should be different from that of the conventional neural networks. Therefore, a new efficient training algorithm for F-CONFIS is proposed. Simulation examples are given to verify the validity of the proposed method, and achieve satisfactory results. In all engineering applications using FNN, developing Fast-F-CONFIS training has its emerging values.

A new fast-F-CONFIS training of fully-connected neuro-fuzzy inference system

In this research, we apply the Green's theory for converting the partial differential equation to the boundary integral equation for geometric transformation. Green's theory is designed specifically for integral equation. It is efficient in detecting the singularity point to the geometric transformation that has been verified. Experimental results show that the Green's theory has good performance.

Direct method-green's theory: From PDE to BIE in the geometric transformation

The orthogonal wavelet lowpassed filters coefficients with arbitrary length are constructed in this paper. When N=2k and N= 2k−1, the general analytic constructions of orthogonal wavelet filters are put forward, respectively. The famous Daubechies filter and many other wavelet filters are tested by the proposed novel method, which is very useful for wavelet theory research and many applications areas such as pattern recognition.

Another general analytic construction for wavelet lowpassed filters

The spatial structure of the protein reflects the biological function and activity mechanism. Predicting the secondary structure of a protein is the basis content for predicting its spatial structu...

Yuan Yan Tang

Papers

Maximizing the overall profit of a word-of-mouth marketing campaign: A modeling study

A new fast-F-CONFIS training of fully-connected neuro-fuzzy inference system

Direct method-green's theory: From PDE to BIE in the geometric transformation

Another general analytic construction for wavelet lowpassed filters

Protein structure prediction based on BN-GRU method