Pumpkin Book

Pumpkin Book is an open-source companion guide to the popular Chinese machine learning textbook 'Machine Learning' (often called the Watermelon Book) by Zhou Zhihua. It provides detailed, step-by-step derivations and explanations of the mathematical formulas and equations found in the textbook, helping readers overcome the mathematical barriers commonly encountered when studying machine learning theory. The project is maintained by Datawhale, an open-source learning community, and hosted on GitHub. The content is primarily written in LaTeX and Markdown, and organized by chapters corresponding to the original book. It covers a wide range of topics including linear models, decision trees, neural networks, support vector machines, Bayesian classifiers, clustering, and more. The guide is intended for students, researchers, and practitioners who are using the Watermelon Book as their primary learning resource. It aims to make complex derivations accessible by breaking down each formula into smaller steps, adding annotations, and referencing additional materials where necessary. Because the original textbook is in Chinese, the Pumpkin Book is also primarily in Chinese, which may limit its audience to Chinese-speaking learners. As an open-source project, the Pumpkin Book encourages community contributions, corrections, and discussions. It has become a popular reference among Chinese-speaking machine learning learners and is often used in conjunction with university courses and self-study.

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AI/ML

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Open Source

Official website: https://github.com/datawhalechina/pumpkin-book

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