STATS 414 · STAT 414From Predictive Artificial Intelligence to Generative Artificial Intelligence
Statistics · 4 units · Graduate professional courses (400-499)
Limited to Master of Applied Statistics students. Exploration of fundamental concepts in machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI). Overview of the machine learning pipeline and discrete classification techniques such as logistic regression. Investigation of advanced topics including linear models, regularization, hyperparameter tuning, clustering, principal component analysis (PCA), and reinforcement learning.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2025
- Fall 2026
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisites: courses 403, 413.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.