17th Estonian Summer School on Computer and Systems Science Ensemble Learning and Feature Selection Professor Gavin Brown, School of Computer Science, The University of Manchester

These are my materials for the ESSCASS summer school 2018. The slides should be useful, but everything presented here (and more) is covered in an accompanying text --- available here (2mb), as well as the research paper linked below.

Session 0 (Sunday August 19th) - How to Get It: A Guide to the Crazy Rollercoaster that is your PhD

1100-1140: Lecture 1 in PDF.

1150-1230: Lecture 2 in PDF.

Session 1 (Monday August 20th) - Ensemble Learning

1100-1140: Lecture 1 in Powerpoint (19Mb)

1150-1230: Lecture 2 in Powerpoint (12Mb)

Session 2 (Tuesday August 21st) - Feature Selection

1100-1140: Lecture 3 in Powerpoint (8Mb)

1150-1230: Lecture 4 in Powerpoint (12Mb) and the JMLR paper on stability

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