Reading List for the Intelligent Systems Comprehensive Examination

Branislav Kveton


Machine Learning

General

PCA

Probabilistic PCA

Latent Semantic Analysis, Multinomial PCA

Kernel Methods

Variational Methods

MCMC

Support Vector Machines

PAC and Boosting


Reasoning about Uncertainty

General

Graphical Models

Basic Concepts Overview Exact Inference Approximate Inference Expectation Maximization (EM)

Anomaly Detection


Planning

General

Reinforcement Learning

Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) and Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (POMDPs)

Value Function Approximations for Factored MDPs

Value Function Approximations for Continuous-State MDPs