STATS 413 · STAT 413Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
Statistics · 4 units · Graduate professional courses (400-499)
Limited to Master of Applied Statistics students. Introduction to modern machine-learning methods and their applications in artificial intelligence (AI), including deep learning methods with neural networks, boosting methods based on trees, kernel methods such as support vector machines. Use of Python and PyTorch to implement some of the methods.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2025
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Recommended preparation: linear algebra, calculus, basic computer programming knowledge.
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STATS 413
- STATS 414From Predictive Artificial Intelligence to Generative Artificial Intelligence
1 course lists this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.