Learning with Linear Models

CSC 261 - Artificial Intelligence - Weinman



Answer the following questions. Record your answers in your Reading Journal.
  1. Select the sentence from today's reading that you believe best illustrates the sensitivity of performance to the learning rate. Briefly (3-5 sentences) explain why you selected this sentence.
  2. Explain the meaning and intuition of the perceptron learning rule as you would to a colleague who is a (non-CS) science major.
  3. Today's reading makes several distinctions between learning and classification with the Threshold and Logistic functions. Select the sentence that you believe makes the most important disinction between these functions. Briefly (3-5 sentences) explain why you selected this distinction.