Lahore University of Management Sciences

EE 212 – Mathematical Foundations for Machine Learning and Data Science

Fall 2021

Instructors Dr. Zubair Khalid

Room No. 9-251
Office Hours Tuesday, Thursday 3 pm to 4:30 pm
Email Zubair.khalid@lums.edu.pk
Telephone 042 3560 8477
Secretary/TA
TA Office
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Course Teaching Methodology (Please mention following details in plain text)

• Teaching Methodology: A blend of both synchronous and asynchronous

• Lecture details: 30% recorded or notes, 70% live interactions (recorded and to be made available to the
students)

Live Sessions Rules:

• Lecture video will be recorded and uploaded after the session
• During the lecture you are encouraged to keep your video on but may keep your video off and mute your
microphones. You can unmute your microphone and speak when you have to ask a question or answer a
question posed by the instructor(s).
• Any discontent with the indicated online mode of teaching should be communicated and discussed with
the instructor in advance (else consent is assumed)
• Attendance is not mandatory but maintaining a good record will help students in many ways. Students
not frequently attending the lecture will find difficult to cope with the course. We may take attendance
during the session and monitor your presence in the class.

Course Basics
Credit Hours 3
Lecture(s) Nbr of Lec(s) Per Week 2 Duration 1 hour and 15 minutes
Recitation/Lab (per Nbr of Lec(s) Per Week Duration
week)
Tutorial (per week) Nbr of Lec(s) Per Week 1 Duration 1 hour
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Course Distribution
Core
Elective Elective Course for Electrical Engineering
Open for Student Category BS students
Close for Student Category

COURSE DESCRIPTION
Machine Learning and Data Science are being used these days in a variety of applications including, but not
limited to, forecasting in economics and finance, predicting anomalies or signal analysis in engineering,
identification of speaker in acoustics, detection of cosmic bubbles in astrophysics and diagnosis in medical
imaging.

While machine learning and data science have enabled many success stories, and tools are readily available
to analyse data or design machine learning systems, the strong mathematical foundations in these areas are
of significant importance to understand, review, analyse and evaluate the technical details of the machine
learning systems and data science algorithms that are usually abstracted away from the user. This course
focuses on the mathematical foundations that are essential to build an intuitive understanding of the
concepts related to Machine Learning and Data Science.

Topics covered are

- Linear Algebra: vectors and matrices, vector spaces, system of linear equations, eigen-value decomposition,
singular value decomposition, regression, least-squares, regularization
- Calculus: Multivariate calculus and differentials for optimization, gradient descent
- Probability: probability axioms, Bayes rule, random variable, probability distributions
- Statistics: descriptive stats, inferential stats, statistical tests
- Introduction to Neural Networks: single and multi-layer perceptron(s), feedforward and feedback networks
- Application to machine learning and data science: principal component analysis (PCA), time series
forecasting, clustering etc
- Hands-on exercises: Implementation of the exercises will be carried out in Python

COURSE PREREQUISITE(S)
• Pre-requisites: None
• Co-requisites: None

COURSE OBJECTIVES
The goal of this course is to provide mathematical foundations of Machine Learning and Data
Science. In broad brush, this course aims to:
• Provide a thorough introduction to both fundamental and advanced topics of linear
algebra necessary for machine learning and data science
• Build mathematical foundations of calculus, probability and statistics
• Provide an appreciation for applications of ML and Data Science
• Equip the students with the basics of Python to enable them to implement and evaluate
Machine Learning and Data Science algorithms
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Learning Outcomes

EE212- The students should be able to:

CLO1: Understand the core theoretical concepts serve as foundations of Machine Learning and Data
Science

CLO2: Understand the core theoretical concepts of calculus, probability theory and statistics that serve
as foundations of Machine Learning and Data Science

CLO3: Formulate and implement basic problems in machine learning and data science

Grading break up: Component Details and weightages

Assignments, 20 %
Programming Assignments, 10 %
Quizzes, 15 %
Mid-Exam and Mid-Viva, 25 %
Final Exam and Final Viva, 30 %

Online Assessment Details:

Students are advised to prepare themselves for online assessment (oral viva exam). It is expected that you
have a reasonably stable internet connection and you have pre-prepared and familiarized yourself with the
indicated online modalities (like Zoom).

Plagiarism policy details:

Usual LUMS plagiarism policy will apply; Following the honor code is expected from students while being
assessed in online mode. They are expected to work on their own without consultation from their fellow
students for any assessment component except where group work is explicitly indicated; The discussion
partners, website, and other sources used in assignments that have contributed to the solution must be
acknowledged. Instructions regarding close book task have to be strictly observed; You are advised to work
regularly and target consistency in performance. Any abnormal inconsistency in performance in an individual
assessment task with the ongoing general performance can be further scrutinized for plagiarism.

Disciplinary Action policy:

Clear cases of noncompliance with regard to violation of honor code, above instructions and plagiarism may
also be sent for disciplinary actions. Similarly any other non-serious behavior disrupting the smooth execution
of online course may also be referred to DC.
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Examination Detail

Yes/No: Yes
Combine Separate: Combined
Midterm
Duration: 120 minutes
Exam
Preferred Date: TBA
Exam Specifications: TBA

Yes/No: Yes
Combine Separate: Combined
Final Exam
Duration: 180 minutes
Exam Specifications: TBA

Textbook(s)/Supplementary Readings
Books:
• S.Boyd and L. Vandenberghe. Introduction to Applied Linear Algebra – Vectors, Matrices, and Least
Squares. Cambridge University Press, 2019
• M. P. Deisenroth, A. A. Faisal and Cheng Soon Ong. Mathematics for Machine Learning. Cambridge
University Press, 2019
• G. Strang. Introduction to Linear Algebra. 2016
• J. A. Gubner, Probability and Random Processes for Electrical and Computer Engineers, Cambridge
University Press, 2006.
• S. L. Miller and D. Childers, Probability and Random Processes: With Applications to Signal
Processing and Communications.
• A. Papoulis and S.U. Pillai, Probability, Random Variables, and Stochastic Processes.
• Class notes will be provided to supplement these readings
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Course Topics

Module Topic Additional Remarks

Course Overview, notation, vectors and matrices, basic

operation on vectors Tutorial 1: Basic matrix and
Advanced operations on vectors, norm, angle, inner vector operations
product Lab exercise 0: Intro to Python
Basic Linear Operations on matrices Lab exercise 1: Linear
Algebra Linear independence, basis, matrix rank independence, basis, matrix
rank
Matrix vector product interpretation

Systems of linear equations, matrix inverses, pseudo Tutorial 2: Advanced matrix and
inverse vector operations
Tutorial 3: Solving a system of
Least-squares, constrained least squares regularization
linear equations, least-squares
Advanced
regularization
Linear Algebra Least-squares application: data-fitting, clustering
Lab exercise 2: Least-squares
Eigenvalue decomposition plus geometric interpretation
application: data-fitting
Singular-value decomposition (SVD) plus geometric Lab exercise 3: Eigen value
interpretation decomposition
Intro to Calculus, interpretation of derivative and first- Tutorial 4: Interpretation:
order difference of the data derivative, integration,
Calculus
Interpretation of integration, weighted average, moving weighted average, moving
average of time-series average
Introduction to probability theory, axioms of probability Tutorial 5: Axioms of
Bayesian analysis overview probability
Probability & Random variables and probability distributions Lab exercise 4: Probability
Statistics Introduction to statistical inference distributions and Statistical
Inference, Statistical tests
Statistical tests
interpretation of output
Introduction to Introduction to neural network. Single layer perceptron
Tutorial 6: Hands-on working:
Neural Multi-layer perceptron, feedforward and feedback
single layer perceptron example
Networks networks, back propagation
Dimensionality Reduction using Principal Component
Analysis
Linear Regression, Time-series forecasting Lab exercise 5: Applications:
Applications
Classification: Perceptron classifier, Logistic Regression PCA and Classification
Clustering: k-means clustering