Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 02:51:58 GMT Server: NCSA/1.5 Content-type: text/html Last-modified: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 19:08:10 GMT Content-length: 12276 CS 760 - Machine Learning University of Wisconsin -- Madison

CS 760 - Machine Learning (Spring 1996)

General Course Information

Reading Assignments

Assigned May 1, 1996:
Read Chapter 7 (theory refinement) and Chapter 3 (computational learning theory) of Mitchell's textbook;
feedback to author due May 15, 1996.
Assigned April 24, 1996:
Read `Learning Logical Definitions from Relations' by Quinlan (MLJ:5) and
`Knowledge-Based Artificial Neural Networks' by Towell & Shavlik (AIJ:70)
Assigned April 22, 1996:
Read `Chunking in Soar' by Laird, Rosenbloom, & Newell (MLJ:1) and
`Learning at the Knowledge Level' by Dietterich (MLJ:1)
Assigned April 15, 1996:
Read Chapter 10 (analytical learning) of Mitchell's textbook;
feedback to author due April 26, 1996.
Assigned April 8, 1996:
Read journal articles on `unsupervised learning' by Fisher (MLJ:2), Rumelhart & Zipser (CogSci:9), and Lenat (AIJ:9).
Assigned April 1, 1996:
Read Chapter 8 (genetic algorithms) of Mitchell's textbook;
feedback to author due April 12, 1996.
Assigned March 20, 1996:
Read Chapter 13 (reinforcement learning) of Mitchell's textbook;
feedback to author due April 5, 1996.
Assigned March 6, 1996:
Read `Backpropagation: The Basic Theory' by Rumelhart et al.
Assigned February 26, 1996:
Read Chapter 5 (neural networks) of Mitchell's textbook;
feedback to author due March 8, 1996.
Also read the ML journal article by Shavlik, Mooney, and Towell that empirically compares ID3 and backprop.
Assigned February 12, 1996:
Read Chapter 2 (concept space) of Mitchell's textbook;
feedback to author due February 23, 1996
Assigned January 31, 1996:
Read (1) `Machine Learning as an Experimental Science,' Kibler & Langley, RML:1.1.3, (2) Chapter 4 and Sections 6.10 & 6.11 of Empirical Methods for Artificial Intelligence, Cohen, MIT Press, 1995, and (3) Learning Representative Exemplars of Concepts: An Initial Case Study, Kibler & Aha, RML:2.2.4 (or the ML journal version of this article that's in the DoIT packet, but under a different title: `Instance-Based Learning Algorithms').
Assigned January 24, 1996:
Read Chapter 4 (decision trees) of Mitchell's textbook;
feedback to author due February 2, 1996
Assigned January 22, 1996:
Read Chapter 1 (introduction) of Mitchell's textbook;
feedback to author due January 29, 1996

BRR Assignments

Homework Assignments

Previously Used Homeworks (postscript)

Previous Exams (postscript)

<IneedAgoodICON> Some ML-Related Links

Help with Programming Assignments (from CS 540's page)

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