Course Schedule and Notes

Lectures take place on Tuesday and Thursday, 10:30am - 11:50am, usually in Wean Hall 5409.

The following lectures are CANCELLED: Aug 28th, Sept 30, Oct 9th.

The first THREE lectures (Aug 26th; Sept 2nd; Sept 4th) will be held in Wean Hall 4623.

The lecture schedule below is tentative and is subject to change; We will move at whatever pace we find comfortable.  

Tues - Aug. 26
 
Thurs - Aug. 28
 
Tues - Sept. 2
 
Thurs - Sept. 4

Tues - Sept. 9

Thurs - Sept. 11

Tues - Sept. 16

Thurs - Sept. 18

Tues - Sept. 23
 
 
Thurs - Sept. 25

Tues - Sept. 30

Thurs - Oct. 2

Tues - Oct. 7

Thurs - Oct. 9

Tues - Oct. 14

Thurs - Oct. 16

Tues - Oct. 21

Thurs - Oct. 23

Tues - Oct. 28

Thurs - Oct. 30

Tues - Nov. 4

Thurs - Nov. 6

Tues - Nov. 11

Thurs - Nov. 13

Tues - Nov. 18

Thurs - Nov. 20

Tues - Nov. 25

Thurs - Nov. 27

Mon - Dec. 1

Tues - Dec. 2

Thurs - Dec. 4

Fri - Dec. 5

Tues - Dec. 9

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Introduction. Overview of learning (ch. 1), WeH 4623
lecture slides: 1 per page or 4 per page 
NO CLASS
 
Concept learning, version spaces (ch. 2), WeH 4623 ===>Assignment 1 (Out)
lecture slides: 1 per page or 4 per page
Version Spaces, inductive bias (ch. 2). WeH 4623

Version Spaces (cont), Tutorial in Information Theory. 
lecture slides: 1 per page or 4 per page
Tutorial in Information Theory (cont). ===>Assignment 2 (Out)

Decision trees, overfitting, Occam's razor (ch. 3).
lecture slides: 1 per page or 4 per page
Decision trees, overfitting, Occam's razor (cont.).

Neural networks (ch. 4) ===>Assignment 3 (Out)
lecture slides: 1 per page or 4 per page
Neural networks cont.

NO CLASS ===>Assignment 4 (Out)

Neural networks cont.

Neural networks cont.  ===>Assignment 5 (Out)

NO CLASS

PAC learning, VC dimension, Mistake bounds (ch. 7 through 7.3, 7.4 through 7.4.3, 7.5 through 7.5.3)
lecture slides:   1 per page or 4 per page
Mid-term Exam (Finalized date!)

Statistical Estimation and Testing (ch. 5)   ===>Assignment 6 (Out)
lecture slides: 1 per page or 4 per page
Bayesian learning: MAP and ML learners (ch. 6) 
 lecture slides: 1 per page or 4 per page ;
Bayes learning examples ===>Assignment 7 (Out)

MDL (ch. 6)  Bayes Optimal Classifier, Gibbs sampling. Naive Bayes and learning over text (ch 6) 

Naive Bayes (cont), Bayes Nets  

Bayes Nets (cont.), E-M algorithm (ch 6) ===>Assignment 8 (Out)

Hidden Markov Models (HMM) (ps,pdf)

HMM (cont.), Examples from Speech Recognition ===> Assignment 9 (Out)

Instance based learning, k nearest nbr., locally weighted regression,  
radial basis functions (ch. 8) 1 per page or 4 per page.
Local methods (cont.), Reinforcement learning (ch. 13)  
1 per page
or 4 per page
Reinforcement learning (cont.)

NO CLASS (Thanksgiving)  

===>Assignment 10 (Out)  

Combining Learned Classifiers, Weighted Majority, Bagging,
Boosting (1), (2) (ch. 7: Weighted majority)
Genetic algorithms, genetic programming (ch. 9) 
lecture slides: 1 per page or 4 per page
Assignment 10 due at 11:59 p.m: NO EXTENSIONS OR LATE DAYS 

Final Exam: 5:30pm - 8:30pm, Location: BH 136A

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For Reference: The official Academic Calendar at the Hub.