Learning Management
Reinforcement Learning in Finance
The main goal of this specialization is to provide the knowledge and practical skills necessary to develop a strong foundation on core paradigms and algorithms of machine learning (ML), with a particular focus on applications of ML to various practical problems in Finance. The specialization aims at helping students to be able to solve practical ML-amenable problems that they may encounter in real life that include: (1) mapping the problem on a general landscape of available ML methods, (2) choosing particular ML approach(es) that would be most appropriate for resolving the problem, and (3) successfully implementing a solution, and assessing its performance. The specialization is designed for three categories of students: ยท Practitioners working at financial institutions such as banks, asset management firms or hedge funds ยท Individuals interested in applications of ML for personal day trading ยท Current full-time students pursuing a degree in Finance, Statistics, Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, Engineering or other related disciplines who want to learn about practical applications of ML in Finance. The modules can also be taken individually to improve relevant skills in a particular area of applications of ML to finance.
Unsupervised Algorithms in Machine Learning
One of the most useful areas in machine learning is discovering hidden patterns from unlabeled data. Add the fundamentals of this in-demand skill to your Data Science toolkit. In this course, we will learn selected unsupervised learning methods for dimensionality reduction, clustering, and learning latent features. We will also focus on real-world applications such as recommender systems with hands-on examples of product recommendation algorithms. Prior coding or scripting knowledge is required.
Program teaches US Air Force personnel the fundamentals of AI
A new academic program developed at MIT aims to teach U.S. Air and Space Forces personnel to understand and utilize artificial intelligence technologies. In a recent peer-reviewed study, the program researchers found that this approach was effective and well-received by employees with diverse backgrounds and professional roles. The project, which was funded by the Department of the Air ForceโMIT Artificial Intelligence Accelerator, seeks to contribute to AI educational research, specifically regarding ways to maximize learning outcomes at scale for people from a variety of educational backgrounds. Experts in MIT Open Learning built a curriculum for three general types of military personnel -- leaders, developers, and users -- utilizing existing MIT educational materials and resources. They also created new, more experimental courses that were targeted at Air and Space Forces leaders.
Online Learning for Adaptive Probing and Scheduling in Dense WLANs
Xu, Tianyi, Zhang, Ding, Zheng, Zizhan
Existing solutions to network scheduling typically assume that the instantaneous link rates are completely known before a scheduling decision is made or consider a bandit setting where the accurate link quality is discovered only after it has been used for data transmission. In practice, the decision maker can obtain (relatively accurate) channel information, e.g., through beamforming in mmWave networks, right before data transmission. However, frequent beamforming incurs a formidable overhead in densely deployed mmWave WLANs. In this paper, we consider the important problem of throughput optimization with joint link probing and scheduling. The problem is challenging even when the link rate distributions are pre-known (the offline setting) due to the necessity of balancing the information gains from probing and the cost of reducing the data transmission opportunity. We develop an approximation algorithm with guaranteed performance when the probing decision is non-adaptive, and a dynamic programming based solution for the more challenging adaptive setting. We further extend our solutions to the online setting with unknown link rate distributions and develop a contextual-bandit based algorithm and derive its regret bound. Numerical results using data traces collected from real-world mmWave deployments demonstrate the efficiency of our solutions.
AI based approach to Trailer Generation for Online Educational Courses
Mishra, Prakhar, Diwan, Chaitali, Srinivasa, Srinath, Srinivasaraghavan, G.
In this paper, we propose an AI based approach to Trailer Generation in the form of short videos for online educational courses. Trailers give an overview of the course to the learners and help them make an informed choice about the courses they want to learn. It also helps to generate curiosity and interest among the learners and encourages them to pursue a course. While it is possible to manually generate the trailers, it requires extensive human efforts and skills over a broad spectrum of design, span selection, video editing, domain knowledge, etc., thus making it time-consuming and expensive, especially in an academic setting. The framework we propose in this work is a template based method for video trailer generation, where most of the textual content of the trailer is auto-generated and the trailer video is automatically generated, by leveraging Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing techniques. The proposed trailer is in the form of a timeline consisting of various fragments created by selecting, para-phrasing or generating content using various proposed techniques. The fragments are further enhanced by adding voice-over text, subtitles, animations, etc., to create a holistic experience. Finally, we perform user evaluation with 63 human evaluators for evaluating the trailers generated by our system and the results obtained were encouraging.
A review of clustering models in educational data science towards fairness-aware learning
Quy, Tai Le, Friege, Gunnar, Ntoutsi, Eirini
Ensuring fairness is essential for every education system. Machine learning is increasingly supporting the education system and educational data science (EDS) domain, from decision support to educational activities and learning analytics. However, the machine learning-based decisions can be biased because the algorithms may generate the results based on students' protected attributes such as race or gender. Clustering is an important machine learning technique to explore student data in order to support the decision-maker, as well as support educational activities, such as group assignments. Therefore, ensuring high-quality clustering models along with satisfying fairness constraints are important requirements. This chapter comprehensively surveys clustering models and their fairness in EDS. We especially focus on investigating the fair clustering models applied in educational activities. It is believed that these models are practical tools for analyzing students' data and ensuring fairness in EDS.
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25 Best Python Courses You Must Know in 2023 [Free Courses Included]
This Python Course is for beginners. In this course, you will learn the Python basics through video lectures, quizzes, review exercises, and programming challenges. You will also understand computer science concepts such as flow control and functions. And you will also use Pycharm to write their Python programs.
Supervised Machine Learning: Classification
This course introduces you to one of the main types of modeling families of supervised Machine Learning: Classification. You will learn how to train predictive models to classify categorical outcomes and how to use error metrics to compare across different models. The hands-on section of this course focuses on using best practices for classification, including train and test splits, and handling data sets with unbalanced classes. By the end of this course you should be able to: -Differentiate uses and applications of classification and classification ensembles -Describe and use logistic regression models -Describe and use decision tree and tree-ensemble models -Describe and use other ensemble methods for classification -Use a variety of error metrics to compare and select the classification model that best suits your data -Use oversampling and undersampling as techniques to handle unbalanced classes in a data set Who should take this course? This course targets aspiring data scientists interested in acquiring hands-on experience with Supervised Machine Learning Classification techniques in a business setting.
Online Learning of Smooth Functions
Consider a learner that wants to predict the next day's temperature range at a given location based on inputs such as the current day's temperature range, humidity, atmospheric pressure, precipitation, wind speed, solar radiation, location, and time of year. In our model, this learner is tested daily. On a given day, the learner gets inputs for that day, which it uses to output a prediction for the next day's temperature range; when the next day arrives, it sees the correct temperature range, then uses this feedback to update future predictions. As this is repeated, the learner accumulates information to help it make better predictions. A natural question arises: can the learner guarantee that its predictions become better over time, and if so, how quickly? We investigate a model of online learning of real-valued functions previously studied in [9, 12, 13, 1, 10, 11] where an algorithm A learns a real-valued function f from some class F in trials. Past research on this model focused on functions of one input, for example, predicting the temperature range solely based on the time of year. The research showed that, as long as the function is sufficiently smooth, the learner can become a good predictor fairly rapidly. Suppose that F consists of functions f: S R for some set S, and fix some f F. In each trial t = 0,...,m, A receives an input s