Graphical models might also be something folks might want to consider. Ideas from PGMs are often behind many advances in ML. The canonical text is by Daphne Ko

Graphical models might also be something folks might want to consider. Ideas from PGMs are often behind many advances in ML. The canonical text is by Daphne Koller; a course I took used Martin Wainwright's monograph though - the book is briefer and dives into the math quicker. https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~wainwrig/Papers/WaiJor08_FTML.pdf https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~wainwrig/Papers/WaiJor08_F...