COM SCI M146
Introduction to Machine Learning
Computer Science · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
(Same as Electrical and Computer Engineering M146.) Introduction to breadth of data science. Foundations for modeling data sources, principles of operation of common tools for data analysis, and application of tools and models to data gathering and analysis. Topics include statistical foundations, regression, classification, kernel methods, clustering, expectation maximization, principal component analysis, decision theory, reinforcement learning and deep learning.
Letter grading.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisites: course 32 or Program in Computing 10C; Civil and Environmental Engineering 110 or Electrical and Computer Engineering 131A or Mathematics 170A or 170E or Statistics 100A; Mathematics 33A.
BruinTree reads · Prerequisite
confidence 1.00 · from textRequires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
COM SCI M146
- COM SCI 32Introduction to Computer Science II
- COM SCI 31Introduction to Computer Science I
- C&EE 110Introduction to Probability and Statistics for Engineers
- MATH 32ACalculus of Several Variables
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
COM SCI M146
- COM SCI C160FFoundation Models: Principles and Practice
- COM SCI 162Natural Language Processing
- STATS C163Generative Data Science
- COM SCI 163Deep Learning for Computer Vision





