Course Catalog - 2017-2018

     

COMP 602 - NEURAL MACHINE LEARNING II

Long Title: NEURAL MACHINE LEARNING AND DATA MINING II
Department: Computer Science
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Language of Instruction: Taught in English
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions:
Must be enrolled in one of the following Level(s):
Graduate
Prerequisite(s): ELEC 502 OR COMP 502 OR STAT 502 or permission of instructor
Description: Advanced topics in ANN theories, with a focus on learning high-dimensional complex manifolds with neural maps (Self-Organizing Maps, Learning Vector Quantizers and variants). Application to data mining, clustering, classification, dimension reduction, sparse representation. The course will be a mix of lectures and seminar discussions with active student participation, based on most recent research publications. Students will have access to professional software environment to implement theories. Cross-list: ELEC 602, STAT 602. Repeatable for Credit.
Course URL: http://www.ece.rice.edu/~erzsebet/NMLcourseII.html