Week 1

The goal of this week is to set up your tools, and to select your project.

Set the toolbox

1. Editors. Install LaTeX: MikTeX for Windows, TeX Live for Linux, and Mac OS. Sign up V2 OverLeaf ShareLaTeX.
2. Install the editor TeXnic Center or its alternative WinEdt for Windows, TeXworks for Linux, and TeXmakerfor Mac OS.
   • Read Львовский С.М. Набор и верстка в системе LaTeX (Ru).
   • Read LaTeX on MachineLearning (Ru).
   • Useful: Wikibooks LaTeX, К.В.Воронцов. LaTeX2e в примерах (Ru).
   • Note Мильчин А.Э. Чельцова Л.К. Справочник издателя и автора (Ru).
3. Download the paper template, ZIP and compile it.
4. References. Read BibTeX.
   • An example of a bibliographic database.
   • An example of a bibliographic record.
   • An example of draft review LinkReview.
   • List of databases and search engines.
   • List of data-sets for Machine Learning projects.
5. Install bibliographic collection software JabRef.
6. Communications. Sign up GitHub.
   • Run GitHub Copilot
   • Important: address and login like Name.Surname or Name-Surname (it depends on system conventions) is welcome.
   • Introductory sliders on Version Control System (ru).
   • Introduction to GitHub.
   • The first steps in GitHub.
7. Download a shell: Desktop.GitHub, or use the command line CLI to synchronize your project.
8. Sign up MachineLearning.ru. Send your login name to your coordinator (or to mlalgorithms [at] gmail [dot] com; to find the coordinator).
9. Programming. Install Python Anaconda, PyCharm (alternative Visual Studio), Notebook online Google.Colab.
   • Development for ML: PyTorch
   • Style formatting: Codestyle pep8
10. Add. As alternative install and try Matlab (check of your university provides a free version), (alternative Octave), R-project, Wolfram Mathematica.
    • Read Introduction to Matlab].
    • Read Matlab code style, reporting and documenting].
    • Read Matlab Programming Style Guidelines.
11. Add. Read with pleasure Кутателадзе С. С. Советы эпизодическому переводчику and Сосинский А. Б. Как написать математическую статью по-английски (Ru).

Select your project

To select your project:

1. Look through the list of projects (Spring 2025).
2. Find public information about the experts and consultants.
3. Select your projects during the group discussion.
4. Wait for confirmation from the responsible coordinator of your student group
5. Put confirmed topics Group table (Spring 2025).
6. Politely write your consultant and discuss your project.

Resources

• Video week 1
• Slides week 1.

Obsoleted

• Slides for week 0.
• Video for week 0.
• Slides for week 1.
• Video for week 1.
• Short course description.

References to catch up

1. A Brief Introduction to Machine Learning for Engineers by Osvaldo Simeone, 2017-2018
2. Understanding Machine Learning: From Theory to Algorithms by Shai Shalev-Shwartz, Shai Ben-David, 2014
3. Mathematics for Machine Learning by Marc Peter Deisenroth, A. Aldo Faisal, and Cheng Soon Ong
4. Mathematics for Physicists: Introductory Concepts and Methods by Alexander Altland & Jan von Delf
5. Python notes for professionals by GoalKicker.com Free Programming Books.
6. Лагутин М.Б. Наглядная математическая статистика, М.: Бином, 2009. См. также вырезку (Ru)
7. Bishop C.P. Pattern recognition and machine learning, Berlin: Springer, 2008
8. MackKay D. Information Theory, Pattern Recognition and Neural Networks, Inference.org.uk, 2009

Homework

1. Fill the questionnaire week m1 – Imagine and plan a project
2. Watch video
3. Watch the video Риски и результаты в машинном обучении Risics and results in machine learning
4. Rigorously follow all the steps of section Set the toolbox
5. Check if you can briefly explain what is
   1. statistical hypothesis
   2. statistical inference,
   3. conditional and joint distributions,
   4. likelihood function,
   5. algebraic structure