Foreword
Part I Mathematical Foundations
	1 Introduction and Motivation
		1.1 Finding Words for Intuitions
		1.2 Two Ways to Read This Book
		1.3 Exercises and Feedback
	2 Linear Algebra
		2.1 Systems of Linear Equations
		2.2 Matrices
		2.3 Solving Systems of Linear Equations
		2.4 Vector Spaces
		2.5 Linear Independence
		2.6 Basis and Rank
		2.7 Linear Mappings
		2.8 Affine Spaces
		2.9 Further Reading
	Exercises
	3 Analytic Geometry
		3.1 Norms
		3.2 Inner Products
		3.3 Lengths and Distances
		3.4 Angles and Orthogonality
		3.5 Orthonormal Basis
		3.6 Orthogonal Complement
		3.7 Inner Product of Functions
		3.8 Orthogonal Projections
		3.9 Rotations
		3.10 Further Reading
	Exercises
	4 Matrix Decompositions
		4.1 Determinant and Trace
		4.2 Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors
		4.3 Cholesky Decomposition
		4.4 Eigendecomposition and Diagonalization
		4.5 Singular Value Decomposition
		4.6 Matrix Approximation
		4.7 Matrix Phylogeny
		4.8 Further Reading
	Exercises
	5 Vector Calculus
		5.1 Differentiation of Univariate Functions
		5.2 Partial Differentiation and Gradients
		5.3 Gradients of Vector-Valued Functions
		5.4 Gradients of Matrices
		5.5 Useful Identities for Computing Gradients
		5.6 Backpropagation and Automatic Differentiation
		5.7 Higher-Order Derivatives
		5.8 Linearization and Multivariate Taylor Series
		5.9 Further Reading
	Exercises
	6 Probability and Distributions
		6.1 Construction of a Probability Space
		6.2 Discrete and Continuous Probabilities
		6.3 Sum Rule, Product Rule, and Bayes' Theorem
		6.4 Summary Statistics and Independence
		6.5 Gaussian Distribution
		6.6 Conjugacy and the Exponential Family
		6.7 Change of Variables/Inverse Transform
		6.8 Further Reading
	Exercises
	7 Continuous Optimization
		7.1 Optimization Using Gradient Descent
		7.2 Constrained Optimization and Lagrange Multipliers
		7.3 Convex Optimization
		7.4 Further Reading
	Exercises
Part II Central Machine Learning Problems
	8 When Models Meet Data
		8.1 Data, Models, and Learning
		8.2 Empirical Risk Minimization
		8.3 Parameter Estimation
		8.4 Probabilistic Modeling and Inference
		8.5 Directed Graphical Models
		8.6 Model Selection
	9 Linear Regression
		9.1 Problem Formulation
		9.2 Parameter Estimation
		9.3 Bayesian Linear Regression
		9.4 Maximum Likelihood as Orthogonal Projection
		9.5 Further Reading
	10 Dimensionality Reduction with Principal Component Analysis
		10.1 Problem Setting
		10.2 Maximum Variance Perspective
		10.3 Projection Perspective
		10.4 Eigenvector Computation and Low-Rank Approximations
		10.5 PCA in High Dimensions
		10.6 Key Steps of PCA in Practice
		10.7 Latent Variable Perspective
		10.8 Further Reading
	11 Density Estimation with Gaussian Mixture Models
		11.1 Gaussian Mixture Model
		11.2 Parameter Learning via Maximum Likelihood
		11.3 EM Algorithm
		11.4 Latent-Variable Perspective
		11.5 Further Reading
	12 Classification with Support Vector Machines
		12.1 Separating Hyperplanes
		12.2 Primal Support Vector Machine
		12.3 Dual Support Vector Machine
		12.4 Kernels
		12.5 Numerical Solution
		12.6 Further Reading
	References
	Index