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Ant Colony Optimization (ACO)
The Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) algorithm is a probabilistic technique inspired by the foraging behavior of real ants, which collectively find the shortest path between their nest and a food source. It operates by simulating artificial "ants" that deposit a simulated chemical substance called pheromone on the edges of a problem graph (like a trail). Over successive iterations, paths with higher pheromone concentrations become more attractive, guiding subsequent ants to reinforce the most successful routes and eventually converge on an optimal or near-optimal solution to complex computational problems, such as the Traveling Salesperson Problem. Coming Soon!
Genetic Algorithm (GA)
Genetic Algorithm (GA) is a metaheuristic search and optimization technique inspired by the process of natural selection and evolution. It works by creating a population of initial candidate solutions, which are then iteratively improved over successive "generations" through evolutionary operators like selection, crossover, and mutation. By favoring the "fitter" solutions to reproduce and pass on their traits, the GA effectively explores the search space to find high-quality solutions to complex problems. Coming Soon!
Hill Climb (HC)
The Hill Climb algorithm is a simple local search heuristic used to find an optimal solution in an optimization problem by iteratively improving a single solution. It starts with an arbitrary solution and repeatedly moves to a neighboring solution that yields a better value for the objective function. The process stops when no neighboring solution offers an improvement, which means the algorithm has found a local optimum. Coming Soon!
K Nearest Neighbor (KNN)
The k-nearest neighbor (k-NN) algorithm is a simple, non-parametric, supervised machine learning method used primarily for classification and regression. It classifies a new data point based on the majority class among its 'k' closest neighbors in the feature space, where 'k' is a user-defined integer. Because k-NN makes no assumptions about the underlying data distribution, it's considered a "lazy" learner that stores the entire dataset and performs computation only when a prediction is requested. Coming Soon!
Linear Regression
Linear regression is a fundamental statistical and machine learning technique used to model the relationship between a continuous dependent variable and one or more independent variables. It works by fitting a straight line (or a hyperplane in multiple dimensions) to the data that best summarizes the observed relationship. The algorithm typically uses the method of least squares to determine the line that minimizes the sum of the squared differences between the predicted values and the actual data points. Coming Soon!
Naive Bayes (NB)
The Naive Bayes algorithm is a simple, probabilistic machine learning classifier based on Bayes' theorem with a "naive" independence assumption. This assumption posits that the presence of a particular feature in a class is unrelated to the presence of any other feature, simplifying the calculation of conditional probabilities. Despite this oversimplification, Naive Bayes is highly efficient, often performs surprisingly well in real-world tasks like text classification and spam filtering. Coming Soon!
Neural Network (NN)
A neural network is a computational model, inspired by the structure of the human brain, used in machine learning to recognize patterns and relationships in data. It consists of layers of interconnected processing nodes (or artificial neurons), where each connection has a modifiable weight that determines the strength of the signal passed between nodes. The network "learns" by processing vast amounts of data, adjusting these weights through algorithms like backpropagation to minimize errors and produce highly accurate outputs or predictions. Coming Soon!
Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO)
Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) is a metaheuristic optimization algorithm inspired by the social behavior of bird flocking or fish schooling. The algorithm iteratively moves a population of candidate solutions, called "particles," through the search space, guiding them based on their own best-found position (pbest) and the best position found by the entire swarm (gbest). This simple, yet powerful, mechanism enables PSO to efficiently find optimal or near-optimal solutions to complex problems by balancing exploration and exploitation of the search space. Coming Soon!
Tabu Search (TS)
Tabu Search (TS) is a meta-heuristic optimization algorithm that improves upon local search by using adaptive memory to guide its exploration of the solution space. It maintains a short-term "tabu list" of recently visited solutions or moves, which are temporarily forbidden (tabu) to prevent the search from cycling and getting trapped in local optima. This strategy allows the algorithm to deliberately accept non-improving moves to explore new regions, with an aspiration criterion providing an exception if a tabu move yields a truly outstanding solution. Coming Soon!
Simulated Annealing (SA)
The Simulated Annealing (SA) algorithm is a probabilistic optimization technique inspired by the process of annealing in metallurgy, where a material is heated and then slowly cooled to achieve a crystalline structure with minimum energy. The algorithm explores a solution space by starting with a high "temperature" that allows it to accept worse solutions with a high probability, which is crucial for escaping local optima. As the "temperature" is gradually lowered according to a cooling schedule, the probability of accepting worse solutions decreases, causing the search to become more restrictive and eventually converge toward an optimal or near-optimal solution. Coming Soon!
Support Vector Machine (SVM)
A Support Vector Machine (SVM) is a supervised machine learning algorithm used primarily for classification, which seeks to find the optimal hyperplane that separates data into different classes. This optimal boundary is the one that achieves the largest possible distance, or margin, to the nearest training data points of any class, which are called the support vectors. For non-linearly separable data, SVMs employ the kernel trick to implicitly map the data into a higher-dimensional space where a linear separation is possible. Coming Soon!
Future courses
Adaboost, Adaptive Moment Estimation (Adam), ARIMA/SARIMA, Attention Mechanism, Autoencoders, Backpropagation, Bagged Decision Trees, Batch Normalization, Bayesian Optimization, Bias Variance Tradeoff, Classification and Regression, Trees, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN), DBSCAN Density, Decision Trees, Differential Evolution, Dropout/Regularization techniques, Elastic Net, Ensemble Methods (general), Evaluation Metrics, Exponential Smoothing, Feature Scaling/Normalization, Feature Selection methods, Gaussian Naïve Bayes, Gaussian PDF, Gini, Gradient Descent, Grey Wolf Optimization, Hierarchical Clustering, Hyperparameter Tuning, K Fold Cross Validation, K Means Clustering, Learning Rate Scheduling, Learning Vector Quantization, Linear Discriminant Analysis, Logistic Regression, Multiple Linear Regression, One Hot Encoding, Overfitting/Underfitting Detection, Principal Component Analysis (PCA), Random Forest, Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN/LSTM), Ridge/Lasso Regression, RMSprop, Train Test Split Strategies, Transfer Learning/Fine, Transformer Architecture basics, t-SNE, XGBoost/Gradient Boosting Machines
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