Recently, Swayam announced a course in machine learning in Tamil. Prof. Arun Rajkumar from IIT Madras will teach the course called "Introduction to Machine Learning in Tamil". It is a short course on the main ideas and algorithms of machine learning.

What is Swayam?

Swayam is a program started by the government of India. This effort aims to make sure that everyone, even the poorest, has access to the best tools for teaching and learning.

About the course

The goal of the course is to cover the topics at a high level so that it is the first course for an entire Machine Learning course. The IIT Assistant professor will teach the course in spoken Tamil, but technical terms, tests, and homework will be English.

Who can apply?

Teachers and college students who speak Tamil as their native language can apply.

Prerequisite

It would be beneficial to have an introductory course in linear algebra, probability, programming, or algorithms. 

Industry support

All companies that focus on data, including those whose primary business is in search, e-commerce, or social media

Course layout

Week 1: Basics of Linear Algebra, Probability, Optimization

Week 2: Introduction to Supervised Learning - Regression; Topics - Linear Regression; Ridge Regression; LASSO

Week 3: Supervised Learning - Classification; Topics: K-NN, Decision Tree.

Week 4: Supervised Learning - Classification; Topics: Naive Bayes.

Week 5: Supervised Learning - Logistic Regression, Perceptron.

Week 6: Supervised Learning - Support Vector Machines

Week 7: Supervised Learning - Ensemble Methods

Week 8: Unsupervised Learning - K-means Clustering, PCA

Course certificate

Anyone can sign up for and learn from the course for free. But if you want a certificate, you have to sign up and take the proctored exam in person at one of the places we have set up as exam centres.

Summary

Duration: 8 weeks

Start Date: 25 July 2022

End Date: 16 September 2022

Exam Date: 25 September 2022 IST

Enrollment Ends: 01 August 2022

Category: Computer Science and Engineering

Date and Time of Exams: 25 September 2022 Morning session 9 am to 12 noon; Afternoon Session 2 pm to 5 pm.

To register for the course, click here.

For more information, click here.

For a short video introduction, click here.

About the instructor

Arun Rajkumar is an assistant professor in the Computer Science and Engineering department at IIT Madras. His PhD thesis was about machine learning, and his main areas of research interest are machine learning and sequential decision making.