COMP90051 Statistical Machine Learning (University of Melbourne): rated 3.3/5 overall across 19 reviews collected on UniMelb Wall.
COMP90051 is a University of Melbourne course taught by the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology in Computer Science. This page brings together its handbook details and what UniMelb students say about it.
Review data updated 2026-10-24.
Chinese title: 统计机器学习
Type: Graduate coursework subject
Subject area: Computer Science
Faculty: Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology
Level: Graduate coursework Level 9
Handbook year: 2026
AIMS With exponential increases in the amount of data becoming available in fields such as finance and biology, and on the web, there is an ever-greater need for methods to detect interesting patterns in that data, and classify novel data points based on curated data sets. Learning techniques pro.
COMP90051 has 19 scored reviews: overall 3.3/5 · usefulness 5.0 (all out of 5; higher difficulty means harder).
Sources: 2 StudentVIP reviews (average 5.0 stars); 17 Reddit comments that an AI model judged to be reviewing this course (average would-recommend 3.1/5).
On Reddit: "Hey Key, I just did SML in the last semester. In the beginning, it will seem too hard but once you start studying and understand the concepts, it's an extremely useful subject if you are interested in machine learning. However, no matter how much the Professor tells you that he …"
On Reddit: "I honestly have no idea why Honorio or whoever designed this course delivery/structure wants to design it in this way. For the bg, I tried quite a bit on Kaggle and was even working on a competition in the swotvac due to its deadline. First two assignments are easy. I think its …"
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Q: Is COMP90051 worth taking?
A: Averaged over 19 reviews: usefulness 5.0/5, overall 3.3/5.
Q: Which faculty teaches COMP90051, and when is it offered?
A: COMP90051 is taught by the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology. Check the official handbook for the current year.
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