Patterns, Predictions, and Actions
A story about machine learning
Moritz Hardt and Benjamin Recht
Chapters
- Introduction (PDF)
- Decision making (PDF)
- Supervised learning (PDF)
- Representations and features (PDF)
- Optimization (PDF)
- Generalization (PDF)
- Deep learning (PDF)
- Datasets (PDF)
- Causality (PDF)
- Causal inference in practice (PDF)
- Sequential decision making and dynamic programming (PDF)
- Reinforcement learning (PDF)
- Epilogue (PDF)
- Mathematical background (PDF)
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Please cite this book as:
@book{hardtrecht,
author = {Moritz Hardt and Benjamin Recht},
title = {Patterns, predictions, and actions: A story about machine learning},
year = {2021},
publisher = {\url{https://mlstory.org}},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
eprint = {2102.05242},
primaryClass = {cs.LG},
}We maintain an archival version of the book at arXiv:2102.05242. The latest changes are always available on this page.
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