Explores kernels for simplifying data representation and making it linearly separable in feature spaces, including popular functions and practical exercises.
Covers overfitting, regularization, and cross-validation in machine learning, exploring polynomial curve fitting, feature expansion, kernel functions, and model selection.
Explores learning the kernel function in convex optimization, focusing on predicting outputs using a linear classifier and selecting optimal kernel functions through cross-validation.
Explores supervised learning in financial econometrics, covering linear regression, model fitting, potential problems, basis functions, subset selection, cross-validation, regularization, and random forests.