Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms Год выпуска: 2005 Автор: David J.C. MacKay Издательство: Cambridge University Press Формат: PDF Качество: eBook (изначально компьютерное) Количество страниц: 640 Язык: Английский Описание: Описание на языке оригинала: This book is aimed at senior undergraduates and graduate students in Engi- neering, Science, Mathematics, and Computing. It expects familiarity with calculus, probability theory, and linear algebra as taught in a first- or second- year undergraduate course on mathematics for scientists and engineers. Conventional courses on information theory cover not only the beauti- ful theoretical ideas of Shannon, but also practical solutions to communica- tion problems. This book goes further, bringing in Bayesian data modelling, Monte Carlo methods, variational methods, clustering algorithms, and neural networks. Why unify information theory and machine learning? Because they are two sides of the same coin. In the 1960s, a single field, cybernetics, was populated by information theorists, computer scientists, and neuroscientists, all studying common problems. Information theory and machine learning still belong together. Brains are the ultimate compression and communication systems. And the state-of-the-art algorithms for both data compression and error-correcting codes use the same tools as machine learning. -------------------------- Скачать 11 MB