The Shallow and the Deep / Michael Biehl

Author: Michael Biehl

Title: The Shallow and the Deep

A biased introduction to neural networks and old school machine learning

The Shallow and the Deep is a collection of lecture notes that offers an accessible introduction to neural networks and machine learning in general. However, it was clear from the beginning that these notes would not be able to cover this rapidly changing and growing field in its entirety. The focus lies on classical machine learning techniques, with a bias towards classification and regression.

Other learning paradigms and many recent developments in, for instance, Deep Learning are not addressed or only briefly touched upon.