Princess Sumaya University for Technology

King Hussein School for Computing Sciences

Data Science Department
Course Syllabus – Spring Semester 2022/2023
DS 14350 Computer Architecture for Machine Learning

1. Course Information
Catalog This course will give an undergraduate-level introduction to machine
Description learning providing the foundations for mathematical models and algorithms
required for machine learning tasks and their applications. Topics will include
supervised learning, unsupervised learning, deep learning, and
reinforcement learning. This course will put an emphasis on practical
applications of machine learning in artificial intelligence such as computer
vision, data mining, speech recognition, text processing and bioinformatics.
Credit Hours 3
Prerequisite DS 14330 (Artificial Intelligence)
Course Type Lecture
Required/Elective Required
Textbooks Book1: An Introduction to statistical Learning, By James, Witten, Hastie and
Tibshirani, 2nd edition 2021, ISBN-13: 978-1071614174. Available online free
https://www.statlearning.com
Book2: Hands-on Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, Keras, and TensorFlow
by Aurélien Géron, O’Reilly 2019, ISBN-13: 978-1492032649

References Reinforcement Learning: An introduction, By Sutton and Barto, 2nd Edition

MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2018, ISBN-13: 978-0262039246
Instructor Dr. Serin Atiani
Class Schedule Section1: Mon-Wed 12:30-2:00PM , section2: Mon-Wed 9:30-11:00AM
Class Location 207
Office Hours 11-12 weekdays

2. Course Contents
Chapter in Chapter in
Week Topic(s)
Book1 Book2
1 Linear algebra revision
Supervised Learning
Linear regression, single variate model, gradient descent,
2 Ch 3.1 Ch 4
normal equation
3 Multivariate and nonlinear regression Ch 3.2, 3.3 Ch 4
4 Classification: Logistic regression Ch 4.1, 4.3 Ch4
 5 Regularization, cross validation, feature selection Ch 5, Ch Ch4
6.5
First Exam
Ch 12.1,
6 Principal component analysis Ch8
12.2
7-8 Large margin classifier, support vector machines Ch 9 Ch5
Neural Networks
Ch 10.1, Ch10,
8-10 Neural networks, backpropagation algorithm
10.2 Ch11
Second Exam
11-12 Convolutional neural networks Ch10.3 Ch14
13 Recurrent neural networks Ch 10.5

Sutton
14-15 Reinforcement learning
Barto Ch1,3

3. Course Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
• Develop an understanding of basic machine learning algorithms, their efficient
implementations and their applicability to different tasks
• Implement machine learning algorithms and checking their correctness
• Optimize the models learned and report on the expected accuracy that can be achieved
by applying the models
• Apply the algorithms to a real-world problem,

4. Assessment Policy:
• First Exam: 20 points
• Second Exam: 20 points
• Semester work: 20 points
• Final exam: 40 points

5. Contribution of the Course to the Professional Component

Data Science Topics 100%
General Education 20%
Mathematics & Basic Sciences 40%

6. Expected level of proficiency from students entering the course

Mathematics Medium
Physics Not applicable
Technical writing Some
Computer programming Proficient

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Students Department Instructors TA(s)
Course objectives and outcomes form X X X
Lecture notes, homework assignments X X X
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students
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