Schedule

(The schedule of topics is tentative and subject to change.)

Slides adapted from CS446-Spring 2018 by Telgarsky and Schwing

Lecture Date Topics References Assignments Lecture Slides Scribe Notes
1  8/26/2020 Intro to Machine Learning       slides, annotated
2  8/28/2020 Linear Regression    HW0 Assigned (not graded)  slides, annotated scribe
 3 9/2/2020 Logistic Regression      slides, annotated  scribe
4  9/4/2020 Optimization 1 (Primal)    slides, annotated  scribe
4+  9/9/2020 Optimization 1 (Primal; part 2)    slides, annotated  scribe
5  9/11/2020 Optimization 2 (Dual)   duality playground  HW1 Assigned  slides, annotated questions
6  9/16/2020 Support Vector Machine    slides, annotated scribe
7  9/18/2020 Multiclass Classification, Kernel Methods       slides, annotated scribe
8  9/23/2020 Deep Learning 1 (Activation Functions, layers)       slides, annotated scribe
9  9/25/2020 Deep Learning 2 (Backpropagation)     HW1 Due, HW2 Assigned slides, annotated  scribe
10  9/30/2020 Ensemble Methods     slides, annotated scribe
11 10/2/2020 Learning Theory - 1       slides, annotated scribe
12  10/7/2020 Learning Theory - 2     slides, annotated scribe
  10/9/2020 Midterm Review     HW2 Due  slides, annotated
  10/14/2020 Midterm Exam     Midterm  
13  10/16/2020 Structured Prediction    HW3 Assigned  slides, annotated scribe
14  10/21/2020 PCA, SVD       slides, annotated scribe from last year
15  10/23/2020 K-means       slides, annotated scribe
16  10/28/2020 Gaussian Mixture Models     HW3 Due   slides, annotated scribe from last year
17  10/30/2020 Expectation-Maximization (E-M)     HW4 Assigned  slides, annotated scribe from last year
18  11/4/2020 Hidden Markov Models; Density Estimation     slides, annotated scribe
19  11/6/2020 Generative Adversarial Networks       slides, annotated scribe
20  11/11/2020 Variational Auto-Encoders     HW4 Due   slides, annotated scribe
21 11/13/2020 Autoregressive Methods     HW5 Assigned  slides, annotated scribe
22  11/18/2020 Markov Decision Process     slides, annotated scribe from last year
23  11/20/2020 CANCELLED      
  11/25/2020 FALL BREAK: NOV 23 - DEC 1       
  11/27/2020 FALL BREAK: NOV 23 - DEC 1       
24  12/2/2020 Q-Learning     HW5 Due   slides, annotated scribe
25  12/4/2020 Policy Gradient, Actor-Critic  slides, annotated scribe
  12/9/2020 Final Review  Last Day of Instruction    slides, annotated
  12/17/2020 Final Exam     Final