Free ML math textbook: Laurent Younes' Introduction to Machine Learning covers Adam to generative models
TheTuringPost · x · 2026-10-16
Turing Post highlights Introduction to Machine Learning by Laurent Younes (May 2025), a textbook aimed at readers who already know core ML concepts and want to solidify the math behind them.
Topics covered include:
- Optimization, including Adam
- Bias–variance tradeoff
- Regression and kernels
- Decision trees
- Neural networks
- Graphical and generative models
- Clustering
The table of contents also builds up linear algebra, topology, calculus, probability theory, and matrix analysis as foundations.
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