Objectives
Data
mining is one of the fast-developing areas of AI. It is built on the
foundations of machine learning, algorithms, statistics, databases and
other contributing fields. State-of-the-art data mining and machine
learning techniques are already used in web search, speech recognition,
text translation as well as in scientific discovery, healthcare and many
industries. And the current state of the art in classification,
clustering, pattern mining, search, optimization and other building
blocks of data-driven AI is often pushed forward in an application
inspired way, i.e. by meeting the practical needs of mining structured,
text, graph and raw high-dimensional multimedia data that cannot be
fully realized with already existing techniques.
Learning objectives: The goal of this course
is to train future data scientists and AI engineers to use scientific
literature in order to understand the strengths and limits of the
current state of the art data mining techniques, and to learn how to
systematically develop novel techniques addressing some of these
limitations.
It is expected that students already mastered the foundations of data mining and machine learning and know how to use data mining and machine learning libraries. It is highly recommended to have programming experience.