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Overview

6.867 is an introductory course on machine learning which gives an overview of many concepts, techniques, and algorithms in machine learning, beginning with topics such as classification and linear regression and ending up with more recent topics such as boosting, support vector machines, hidden Markov models, and Bayesian networks. The course will give the student the basic ideas and intuition behind modern machine learning methods as well as a bit more formal understanding of how, why, and when they work. The underlying theme in the course is statistical inference as it provides the foundation for most of the methods covered.

Skills you'll practise

AIAlgorithms and Data StructuresCognitive ScienceComputer ScienceData Science, Analytics & Computer TechnologyEngineeringMachine LearningMathematicsScience & Math

Advantages and disadvantages

Advantages

  • The real MIT course: lecture notes, problem sets and exams, often with solutions.
  • Free, with no sign-up or deadlines.
  • Taught by Massachusetts Institute of Technology, one of the strongest names in its field.
  • Completely free.
  • Self-paced: start any time.

Disadvantages

  • No certificate, no grading and no forum: you need to be self-driven.
  • Many courses are recordings of past semesters and some have notes only, no videos.
  • No certificate.

Some points apply to every course of this kind; see how we rank.

Free to learn

  • Free: All the materials are free to use, with no sign-up. MIT OpenCourseWare gives no certificate.

Taught by

  • Rohit Singh
  • Prof. Tommi Jaakkola
  • Ali Mohammad

Massachusetts Institute of Technology is in Tier 1: world-leading universities and India's top institutes of our institution ranking (98/100). OpenCourseWare is the gold standard for free university material.

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