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	8/26/2019	Intro to Machine Learning			Slides, Annotated
2	8/28/2019	Linear Regression		HW0 Assigned (not graded)	Slides, Annotated	Scribe
	9/2/2019	LABOR DAY HOLIDAY (NO CLASS)
3	9/4/2019	Logistic Regression			Slides, Annotated	Scribe (unedited)
4	9/9/2019	Optimization 1 (Primal)			Slides, Annotated	Scribe (unedited)
5	9/11/2019	Optimization 2 (Dual)		HW1 Assigned	Slides, Annotated	Scribe (unedited)
6	9/16/2019	Support Vector Machine			Slides, Annotated	Scribe (unedited)
7	9/18/2019	Multiclass Classification, Kernel Methods			Slides, Annotated	Scribe (unedited)
8	9/23/2019	Deep Learning 1 (Activation Functions, layers)		HW1 Due on Tuesday	Slides, Annotated	Scribe (unedited)
9	9/25/2019	Deep Learning 2 (Backpropagation)		HW2 Assigned	Slides, Expanded	Scribe (unedited)
10	9/30/2019	Ensemble Methods			Slides, Annotated	Scribe (unedited)
11	10/2/2019	Learning Theory - 1			Slides, Annotated	Scribe (unedited)
12	10/7/2019	Learning Theory - 2		HW2 Due on Friday	Slides, Annotated	Scribe (unedited)
	10/9/2019	Midterm Review			Slides, Annotated	Scribe (unedited)
	10/14/2019	Midterm Exam
13	10/16/2019	Structured Prediction			Slides, Annotated	Scribe (unedited)
14	10/21/2019	PCA, SVD			Slides, Annotated	Scribe (unedited)
15	10/23/2019	K-means		HW3 Assigned	Slides, Annotated	Scribe (unedited)
16	10/28/2019	Gaussian Mixture Models			Slides, Annotated	Scribe (unedited)
17	10/30/2019	Expectation-Maximization (E-M)			Slides, Annotated	Scribe (unedited)
18	11/4/2019	Hidden Markov Models; Density Estimation		HW3 Due on Tuesday	Slides, Annotated	Scribe (unedited)
19	11/6/2019	Generative Adversarial Networks		HW4 Assigned	Slides, Annotated	Scribe (unedited)
20	11/11/2019	Variational Auto-Encoders			Slides, Annotated	Scribe (unedited)
21	11/13/2019	Autoregressive Methods			Slides, Annotated	Scribe (unedited)
22	11/18/2019	Markov Decision Process		HW4 Due on Tuesday	Slides, Annotated	Scribe (unedited)
23	11/20/2019	Q-Learning		HW5 Assigned	Slides, Annotated	Scribe (unedited)
	11/25/2019	FALL BREAK: NOV 23 - DEC 1
	11/27/2019	FALL BREAK: NOV 23 - DEC 1
24	12/2/2019	Policy Gradient			Slides, Annotated	Scribe (unedited)
25	12/4/2019	Interpretability in ML			Slides, [Annotated] (N/A)
26	12/9/2019	(NO CLASS)		HW5 Due on Tuesday
	12/11/2019	(NO CLASS)		Last Day of Instruction	Finals review slides
		Final Exam (DEC 17, 8am - 11am) Set by Registrar