Token passing

Token passing is a really nice way to understand (and even to implement) Viterbi search for Hidden Markov Models. Here we see token passing in action, and you can look at the spreadsheet to see the calculations. To keep things simple, we are ignoring transition probabilities in this example. It would be simple to add them […]

Classification and regression trees (CART)

A quick introduction to a very simple but widely-applicable model that can perform classification (predicting a discrete label) or regression (predicting a continuous value). The tree is learned from labelled data, using supervised learning. Before watching this video, you might want to check that you understand what Entropy is.