10-702: Statistical Machine Learning
WH 5409, MW 1:30-2:50P

Week Date Day Lecture Topic Notes/Assignments Due
1 Jan
12
M 1
(J/L)
Statistical and computational thinking
Syllabus
 
Jan
14
W 2
(L)
Probability and statistics review
Hwk 1
R code for question 3
Solutions
 
2 Jan
19
M   No Class: MLK Day
Jan
21
W 3
(J)
Convexity and optimization

Hwk 1
(Friday)
3 Jan
26
M 4
(L)
Linear models
 
Jan
28
W 5
(L)
Model selection
Hwk 2
Solutions
4 Feb
2
M 6
(J)
Linear classification and Logistic Regression
   
Feb
4
W 7
(J)
Mixture Models

Hwk 2
(Friday)
5 Feb
9
M 8
(J)
Undirected graphs
 
Feb
11
W 9
(L)
Nonparametric regression
Hwk 3
Solutions
6 Feb
16
M 10
(L)
Nonparametric regression and classification
  Project proposals 
Feb
18
W 11
(L)
Nonparametric classification
Hwk 3
(Friday)
7 Feb
23
M 12
(J)
Structured prediction

 
Feb
25
W 13
(J)
Kernels
Hwk 4
flies.txt
xy.Rdata
Solutions
8 Mar
2
M 14
(J)
Classification consistency
   
Mar
4
W   Midterm exam
practice midterm
9 Mar
9
M   Spring break; no class
Mar
11
W  
10 Mar
16
M 15
(L)
Simulation approximations
 
Mar
18
W 16
(J)
Variational approximations
Hwk 5
tree.txt
soln 5 Low
soln 5 Minh
soln 5 Yuandong
soln 5 Jiyan
 
11 Mar
23
M 17
(J)
Nonparametric Bayes

Mar
25
W 18
(L)
Minimax theory
  Hwk 4
(Friday)
12 Mar
30
M 19
(L)
Minimax theory
Apr
1
W 20
(L)
Concentration of measure
Project Progress report
(Wed)
13 Apr
6
M 21
(J)
Dimension reduction
 
Apr
8
W 22
(L)
Fast rates for classification Hwk 5
(Friday)
14 Apr
13
M 23
(J)
Sparsity and high dimensional inference Hwk 6
soln 6 April
soln 6 Low
soln 6 Ming
soln 6 Yuandong
Apr
15
W 24
(L)
Sparsity and high dimensional inference
 
15 Apr
20
M 25
(J)
Active learning
 
Apr
22
W 26
(L)
The Bootstrap
  Hwk 6
(Friday)
16 Apr
27
M 25
(J)
Semisupervised Learning
Project ads
(due Apr 26)
Apr
29
W 26
(J/L)
Epilogue and student project ads
  Presentation line-up
Final projects due Monday, May 4

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