Course INFO 311 · Year III · Autumn 2025-2026

MACHINE LEARNING

Elective (1 of 2) course in Computer Science, taught by Adriana Bîrluțiu.

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Overview

Lecturer
Adriana Bîrluțiu
Seminar tutor
Adriana Bîrluțiu
Type of course
Elective (1 of 2)
Language of instruction
Romanian
Erasmus language
English
Domain
Computer Science
Field of study
Computer Science
Form of education
Full-time
Form of instruction
Class
Credit awarded by
Grade
Teaching methods
Lecture, conversation, exemplification.
Entry requirements
Artificial intelligence

Aims

This course gives an overview of many concepts, techniques, and algorithms in machine learning, beginning with topics such as classification and linear regression and ending up with more recent topics such as ensemble methods, support vector machines, and Bayesian networks.

The course will give the student the basic ideas and intuition behind modern machine learning methods as well as a bit more formal understanding of how, why, and when they work.

Studying algorithms developed based on the paradigms of machine learning.

Analytical study of the advantages and disadvantages of learning-based algorithms automatic versus traditional algorithms in solving problems.

Training to address problems of high complexity from the perspective of learning-based algorithms

Course contents

• Supervised learning. Unsupervised learning • Linear regression • Classification • Decision trees • Ensemble methods • Artificial neural networks • Bayesian learning • Support Vector Machines • Unsupervised learning • Pattern recognition • Feature selection

Learning outcomes

• identify the type of a learning problem; • understand the internal structure of a learning algorithm; • apply a learning algorithm;

Assessment

Written exam – 50%; continuous assessment – 50%.

Recommended reading

Machine Learning
Tom Mitchell
The McGraw-Hill Companies, INC, 1997 · 200
An Introduction to Statistical Learning with Applications in R
Gareth James, Daniela Witten, Trevor Hastie and Robert Tibshirani
Springer-Verlag, NY, 2013 · 200
Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning
Christopher Bishop
Springer, NY, 2006 · 200
Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms
David Mackay
Cambridge University Press, NY, 2003 · 200
Inteligenţă artificială,
Ileană I., Rotar C., Muntean M.,
Ed. Risoprint,, NY, 2009 · 200