Machine learning theory made easy.

So, you want to master machine learning. Even though you have experience in the field, sometimes you still feel that something is missing. A look behind the curtain.

Have you ever felt the learning curve to be so sharp that it was too difficult even to start? The theory was so dry and seemingly irrelevant that you were unable to go beyond the basics?

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Mathematics of
Machine Learning

Math explained, as simple as possible.

Every concept is explained step by step, from elementary to advanced. No fancy tricks and mathematical magic. Intuition and motivation first, technical explanations second.

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Machine learning is full of mysterious black boxes. Looking inside them allows you to be a master of your field and never be in the dark when things go wrong.

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Who is this book for?

Data scientists

Data scientists.

Machine learning-first approach to mathematics. Master the art of storing, manipulating, and analyzing data.

Data scientists

Engineers and developers.

All the practical knowledge you need to know, with intuitive explanations you wish you had in school.

Data scientists

Students.

Whether it is your first course in mathematics, or refreshing the topic after years: this book is for you.

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The roadmap

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This is what will be covered in detail

Linear algebra

  • Vector spaces

  • Structure of vector spaces: norms and inner products

  • Linear transformations and their matrices

  • Eigenvectors and eigenvalues

  • Solving linear equation systems

  • Special matrices and their decomposition

Calculus

  • Function limits and continuity

  • Differentiation

  • Minima, maxima, and the derivative

  • Basics of gradient descent

  • Integration

Multivariable calculus

  • Partial derivatives and gradients

  • Minima and maxima in multiple dimensions

  • Gradient descent in its full form

Probability theory

  • The mathematical concept of probability

  • Distributions and densities

  • Random variables

  • Conditional probability

  • Expected value

  • Information theory and entropy

  • Multidimensional distributions

Statistics

  • Fundamentals of parameter estimation

  • Maximum likelihood estimation

  • The Bayesian viewpoint of statistics

  • Bias and variance

  • Measuring predictive performance of statistical models

  • Multivariate methods

Machine learning

  • The taxonomy of machine learning tasks

  • Linear and logistic regression

  • Fundamentals of clustering

  • Principal Component Analysis

  • Most common loss functions and what’s behind them

  • Regularization of machine learning models

  • t-distributed stochastic neighbor embedding

Neural networks

  • Logistic regression, revisited

  • Activation functions

  • Computational graphs

  • Backpropagation

  • Loss functions, from a neural network perspective

  • Weight initialization

Advanced optimization

  • Stochastic gradient descent

  • Adaptive methods

  • Accelerated schemes

  • The Lookahead optimizer

  • Ranger

Convolutional networks

  • The convolutional layer, in-depth

  • Dropout and BatchNorm

  • Fundamental tasks of computer vision

  • Alexnet and Resnet

  • Autoencoders

  • Generative Adversarial Networks

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  • Single-variable calculus
  • Multivariable calculus
  • Probability theory and statistics
    (in progress)
  • Foundations of machine learning
    (in progress)
  • Internals of neural networks
    (in progress)

About the author

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Hi there! My name is Tivadar.

I obtained my PhD in 2016 in the field of pure mathematics. As a postdoctoral researcher, I joined a computational biology group, where I fell in love with machine learning.

Understanding mathematics was a cheat code to supercharge my progress.

As I frequently helped my friends and colleagues to master the fundamental concepts of math and machine learning, I found my new passion in teaching.

Since then, education have become my single focus, and my mission is to make quality math education available for developers, engineers, and scientists.

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