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