Brief Overview

FMML-August-2022

September 5, 2022
Teachers’ Day
Teachers’ Day

▶ Be thankful to all your teachers who have helped you reach here !!

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Aptitude Exam
Aptitude Exam

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Foundations of Modern Machine Learning
(two semesters)
Foundations of Modern Machine Learning
(two semesters)

▶ First two batches have completed FMML course

▶ 285 students - 12 (Outstanding), 45 (A), 46 (B), others (passed)
▶ This August 2022 batch has over 450 students
▶ To help you, there are 10 TAs, over 6 Professors

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Course Details
Course Details

▶ Chief Instructors - Prof CV Jawahar and Prof Anoop M

▶ Live Interactive Sessions of Theory and Practicals
▶ Advanced Theory Classes on Mondays and/or Tuesdays (7:00 pm to 8:00pm)
▶ Personalised Tutorial Sessions, on weekdays, every week.
▶ Weekly Assignments, Monthly Projects and Surprise Exams
▶ Live Interactive Class with Course Instructor on Saturday (once, every month)
▶ Formal Theory Sessions - Starts this month, ends in Mar/Apr 2023

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Expected Outcomes
Expected Outcomes

▶ Appreciate role of data and patterns in computing

▶ Understand and implement appropriate ML agorithms
▶ Ability to map real-world problems to ML environment
▶ Mathematical understanding of algorithms
▶ Algorithmic thinking while designing complex systems

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Requires Personal Planning
Requires Personal Planning

▶ Creating a personal calendar and sticking to it

▶ Taking down notes of lectures and tutorials (fast writing)
▶ Completing in-time, avoid postponing
▶ Adopt smart approach while doing tutorials

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Learning Environment
Learning Environment- Communication Tools

▶ Institute Email - configure forwarding feature to your primary email

▶ Extract seriousness of all correspondences - respect deadlines
▶ E-learn portal to host video sessions
▶ Zoom - for scheduling lecture sessions, MS Teams - for tutorials
▶ Discord - for peer-to-peer communication

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Learning Environment
Assignments and Projects

▶ All participants to maintain their own GitHub repositories

▶ TAs and Coordinators would extract information from your repositories
▶ Ensure your repositories aren’t private
▶ Submit well before time, and stay ahead

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Learning Environment- Tutorial System
Tutorial System

▶ Course Coordinators - Ms Rifna, Ms Faheema and Ms Midhuna

▶ Issue mails, updates, and track your performance
▶ Teaching Assistants - to help you with hands-on sessions
▶ Do not persist on knowing low-level implementations from TAs
▶ Office hours (TAs) - for serious doubts, alternate solutions - use rarely only

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Your Expectations
Your Expectations- Career Aspirations

▶ Corporate Career
▶ Research Opportunities
▶ Higher Studies
▶ Govt/PSU sector
▶ Entrepreneurs
▶ NGOs/others

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Special Incentives
Special Incentives- Consistent Performers

▶ Consistent performers would be applauded

▶ Special Invitation to Events/Workshops
▶ Invitation for Research Internships (paid)
▶ Invitation for Project Internships (paid)

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Resources
Resources

▶ ML Resources published for CVIT scholars

▶ 3BlueBrown YouTube Channel Resources
▶ Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning - Book

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