Consult this page for class, recitation and exam dates, handouts, and solutions.

Course Schedule

 
Date Lecture Readings Handouts NB
Tue 1/13 Intro to ML and probability
Slides
Tue 1/13 Matlab recitation
Slides
By Zollmann
Thu 1/15 Density estimation, classification theory Chap 2.0 - 2.3.1 (Bishop)
Slides

Tue 1/20 Classification Chap 1.5 and 2.5 (Bishop)
Slides
Problem set 1
Data file 1 for PS 1
Data file 2 for PS 1
PS1 out
Tue 1/20 Distributions recitation
Slides
Latex guide
Board work
By Ray
Thu 1/22 Naive bayes classifier, Linear regression
Chap 1.5, 3.0 - 3.3 (Bishop)
Slide set 1, Slide set 2

Tue 1/27 Logistic regression
Chap 4.3 (Bishop)
Slides

Tue 1/27 Linear regression recitation

Slides
By Ray
Thu 1/29 Decision trees
Slides
PS2
Dataset for PS2
PS2 out
Tue 2/3 Neural networks Chap 4 (Mitchell)
Annotated slides
Lecture by Tom Mitchell.
PS1 due
Tue 2/3 Estimation & regression recitation
Slides
By Zollmann
Thu 2/5 Boosting
Chapter 14.3 (Bishop)
Annotated slides
Lecture by Eric Xing.
Tue 2/10 Learning theory 1
Chapter 7 (Mitchell)
Annotated slides
Lecture by Tom Mitchell.
Tue 2/10 Decision trees & confidence interval recitation

Slides
By Zollmann
Thu 2/12 Learning theory 2
Chapter 7 (Mitchell)
Annotated slides
PS3
MAT file for PS3
Lecture by Tom Mitchell.
PS2 due, PS3 out
Tue 2/17 Support vector machine Chapter 7.1 (Bishop)
Slides

Tue 2/17 Error bounds, SVM recitation
Slides
By Li
Thu 2/19 SVM, Bayesian Networks

PS1 solutions out here
Tue 2/24 Bayesian Network Chap 8.1, 8.2.2 (Bishop)
Slides
Tue 2/24 Graphical models recitation
Slides
By Li
Thu 2/26 Hidden Markov Model Chap 13 - 13.2 (Bishop)
Slides
PS3 due, PS2 solns out here
Tue 3/3 Hidden Markov Model
Slides
PS3 solns out here
Tue 3/3 Midterm review

By Ziv
Thu 3/5 Midterm exam

Solutions out here
Tue 3/10 Spring Break


Thu 3/12 Spring Break


Tue 3/17
Undirected models
Slides
Lecture by Eric Xing
Term project proposals due
Tue 3/17
HMM recitation
Slides
By Li
Thu 3/19 ML in the industry

Slides
Problem Set 4
Lecture by Tim Graettinger
PS4 out
Tue 3/24 Markov Decision Process Demo : Link Slides

Tue 3/24 BN recitation
Boardwork only
By Zollmann
Thu 3/26
Reinforcement learning
Slides

Tue 3/31 Hierarchical Clustering, K-means Chap 9.0 - 9.2 (Bishop)
Slides

Tue 3/31 GM recitation
Boardwork only
By Li
Thu 4/2
Gaussian Mixtures


PS4 due
Tue 4/7
Graph Clustering, Semi-supervised Learning
Slides
Proof
Tutorial
PS5
Term project progress report due
PS5 out
Tue 4/7
Markov processes, and sampling recitation
Boardwork
By Ray
Thu 4/9 Principal component analysis and singular value decomposition
Slides
Lecture by Andreas Zollmann
Tue 4/14
Model and feature selection

Slides
Lecture by Pradipta Ray
Tue 4/14
MDP recitation

Boardwork only
By Ray
Thu 4/16 No class



Tue 4/21 Text classification analysis
Slides
Lecture by Tom Mitchell
PS5 due,
PS4 solns out here
Thu 4/23
No class



Tue 4/28 Computational Biology

Slides

Tue 4/28 Poster session


Newell Simon Hall Atrium
3pm - 6pm
Thu 4/30 Semi-supervised Learning
Slides
PS5 solutions out. Sample soln here (courtesy Javier Hernandez) with annotations by Pradipta
Thu 4/30 End term review session

06:00 pm onwards, loc WeH 5409
Tue 5/5 End term exams


Loc: WeH 7500
08:30am - 11:30am
Solutions are here
Thu 5/7 No class

Final report due
 

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