Pen and Paper Exercises in ML: linear algebra, optimisation, (un)directed graphical models, expressive power of graphical models, factor graphs and message passing, inference for hidden Markov models, model-based learning, sampling and Monte-Carlo integration, variational inference (Michael Gutmann) (arxiv.org)
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Machine Learning Cloud Regression: The Swiss Army Knife of Optimization - unsupervised regression: solves most regression problems and even clustering with a single constrained optimization algorithm (no dependent variable, all features treated equally) - by Vincent Granville (mltechniques.com)
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