Administrative information


Title Model Fitting and Optimization
Duration 60
Module A
Lesson Type Lecture
Focus Technical - Foundations of AI
Topic Foundations of AI

 

Keywords


logistic regression, model fitting, optimization, gradient descent, Newton's method, numerical stability,

 

Learning Goals


 

Expected Preparation


Learning Events to be Completed Before

Obligatory for Students

Optional for Students

None.

References and background for students:

None.

Recommended for Teachers

Lesson Materials


 

The materials of this learning event are available under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

 

Instructions for Teachers


Cover the topics in the lesson outline and demonstrate the concepts using the interactive notebook (relationship between the number of iterations, loss value and decision boundary, show various algorithms and the effect of the learning rate). Give a brief overview of the code.

Outline/time schedule


Duration (min) Description Concepts
5 Introduction to linear classification binary classification, decision boundary
15 Defining a logistic regression model class-conditional density, sigmoid function, logistic regression
15 Maximum likelihood estimation binary crossentropy, learning rate, gradient descent
10 Implementation details and numerical stability numerical stability, overflow
10 Advanced algorithms Newton's method, line search
5 Demonstration  

 

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Acknowledgements

The Human-Centered AI Masters programme was co-financed by the Connecting Europe Facility of the European Union Under Grant №CEF-TC-2020-1 Digital Skills 2020-EU-IA-0068.

The materials of this learning event are available under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

 

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