Tier 2 — Classical Methods

Tree-based + kernel methods — vẫn dominate tabular data trong industry. KNN, decision tree, random forest, SVM, gradient boosting.

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Lộ trình 4 bài

Lesson 01
k-Nearest Neighbors (Euclidean/Manhattan/cosine), curse of dim; Decision tree (entropy/Gini, info gain, CART), pruning.
Lesson 02
Bagging, OOB error, feature importance; bias-variance interpretation; ExtraTrees.
Lesson 03
Margin maximization, support vectors; kernel trick (RBF, polynomial); soft margin C; one-vs-rest cho multi-class.
Lesson 04
AdaBoost intuition → Gradient Boosting framework; XGBoost, LightGBM, CatBoost briefly.