Schedule

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

Slides adapted from CS446-Spring 2018 by Telgarsky and Schwing

Lecture	Date	Topics	Additional Refs	Notes	Lecture Slides	Scribe Notes
		Pre-requisite
1	8/27/2018	Intro to Machine Learning			Original, Annotated	Scribe
2	8/29/2018	Linear Regression		HW0 Assigned	Original, Annotated	Scribe
	9/3/2018	LABOR DAY HOLIDAY (NO CLASS)
3	9/5/2018	Logistic Regression			Original, Annotated	Scribe
4	9/10/2018	Optimization 1 (Primal)		HW0 Due on Tuesday	Original, Annotated	Scribe
5	9/12/2018	Optimization 2 (Dual)		HW1 Assigned	Original, Annotated	Scribe
6	9/17/2018	Support Vector Machine			Original, Annotated	Tentative Scribe
7	9/19/2018	Multiclass Classification, Kernel Methods			Original, Annotated	Tentative Scribe
8	9/24/2018	Deep Learning 1 (Backpropagation)		HW1 Due on Tuesday	Original, Annotated	Tentative Scribe
9	9/26/2018	Deep Learning 2 (Activation Functions, layers)		HW2 Assigned	Original, Annotated	Tentative Scribe
10	10/1/2018	Ensemble Methods			Original, Annotated	Tentative Scribe
11	10/3/2018	Structured Prediction -1 (Exhaustive Search, Dynamic Programming)			Original, Annotated	Tentative Scribe
12	10/8/2018	Structured Prediction - 2 (ILP, LP, Message Passing, Graph Cut)			Original, Annotated	Tentative Scribe 1, Tentative Scribe 2
	10/10/2018	Midterm Review		HW2 Due on Friday	Original, Compressed, Annotated	Tentative Scribe
	10/15/2018	Midterm Exam
13	10/17/2018	Conditional Random Fields, Structured SVM, Deep Structured Methods)			Original, Compressed, Annotated	N/A
14	10/22/2018	Learning Theory - 1			Original, Compressed, Annotated	Tentative Scribe
15	10/24/2018	Learning Theory - 2		HW3 Assigned	Original, Compressed, Annotated	Tentative Scribe
16	10/29/2018	PCA, SVD			Original, Compressed, Annotated	Tentative Scribe
17	10/31/2018	K-means			Original, Compressed, Annotated	Tentative Scribe
18	11/5/2018	Gaussian Mixture Models			Original, Compressed, Annotated	Tentative Scribe
19	11/7/2018	Expectation-Maximization (E-M)		HW3 Due, HW4 Assigned	Original, Compressed, Annotated	Tentative Scribe
20	11/12/2018	Hidden Markov Models; Intro to GANs			Original, Compressed, Annotated	Tentative Scribe
	11/14/2018	No Class
	11/19/2018	FALL BREAK: NOV 17-25
	11/21/2018	FALL BREAK: NOV 17-25
21	11/26/2018	Generative Adversarial Networks / Variational Auto-Encoders			Original, Compressed, Annotated	Tentative Scribe 1， Tentative Scribe 2， Tentative Scribe 3
22	11/28/2018	Autoregressive Methods		HW5 Assigned, HW4 Due on Friday	Original, Compressed, Annotated
23	12/3/2018	Markov Decision Process			Original, Compressed, Annotated	Tentative Scribe
24	12/5/2018	Q-Learning			Original, Compressed, Annotated	Tentative Scribe
25	12/10/2018	Policy Gradient, Actor-Critic		HW5 Due on Tuesday	Original, Compressed, Annotated
	12/12/2018	Final Review		Last Day of Instruction	Original, Compressed, Annotated
	12/14/2018	Final Exam