1. The document discusses leveraging the class-conditional independence assumption in machine learning models like logistic regression, decision trees, and neural networks. 2. It also discusses techniques for feature selection like filter approaches based on mutual information and wrapper approaches using greedy optimization or cross-validation. 3. Naive Bayes classifiers and extensions like selective Naive Bayes are presented, along with the "averaging trick" for soft feature selection in Naive Bayes models.