COMP8650 Advanced Topics in Machine Learning
S26 units8000-level
This course explores a selected area relevant to machine learning in depth, and will be taught by an ML staff member of internationally recognised standing and research interest in that area. Based on current ML staffing, this will be one of: decision making in robotics kernel methods graphical models reinforcement learning convex analysis optimisation bioinformatics minimal description length principle topics in information theory decision theory Students should contact the course convenor to find out what topic is planned for the coming semester.
- 2024S2
- 2025S2
- 2026S1
- 2027S1
Prerequisites in 2024
Read automatically from the handbook's wording
Incompatible with COMP4680: you can't count both.
The handbook's wording, and when it changed
To enrol in this course you must have completed: COMP6670 or COMP3670 or COMP8600 or COMP4670 Incompatible with COMP4680 .
To enrol in this course you must have completed COMP6670 Introduction to Machine Learning or COMP8600 Statistical Machine Learning. Additional Prerequisite courses for the Advanced Topic will be listed on the SoCo website (Special Topics in Computing page ) when the course topic is announced. Students who meet the pre-requisites can request a permission code following the instructions for Enrolling in CECC courses.
What it leads to in 2024
No course names COMP8650 in its 2024 prerequisites.