CPS 271: Machine Learning
Fall 2007
Date | Topic | Homework | Handouts and slides | |
8/28/07 | Introduction | Read Chapter 1 | intro.pdf | |
8/30/07 | Review of Background Material | Read Chapter 2 | basicprob.pdf choosingpredictions.pdf |
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9/04/07 | Review continued | HW1 Assigned | ||
9/06/07 | Probability Distributions | Read Chapter 3 | distributions.pdf | |
9/11/07 | Linear Models for Regression | Read Chapter 4 | regression.pdf | regression demo Andrew Moore's notes on cross validation |
9/13/07 | Linear Models for Classification | Read Chapter 5 HW1 Due |
linclass.pdf | perceptron demo |
9/18/07 | Neural Nets | Read Andrew Ng notes on Computational Learning Theory HW2 Assigned |
nn.pdf | |
9/20/07 | Catch up | |||
9/25/07 | Computational Learning Theory | Read Chapter 6 | colt.pdf | |
9/27/07 | Kernel Methods | Read Chapter 7 HW2 Due |
kernels.pdf | |
10/2/07 | Non-parametric Methods | Read Chapter 8 HW3 Assigned Project Assigned |
nonparametric.pdf | |
10/4/07 | Sparse Kernel Machines | svm.pdf | SVM Applet Hearst(Ed.)SVM Overview Burges SVM Tutorial |
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10/9/07 | Fall Break | |||
10/11/07 | Midterm | |||
10/16/07 | Midterm Therapy | HW 3 Due |
How to survive a math heavy exam | |
10/18/07 | SVMs Continues | |||
10/23/07 | Graphical Models | Read Chapter 9 HW4 Assigned |
bnets.pdf | Kevin Murphy Bayes Net Intro |
10/25/07 | Mixture Models and EM | Read Chapter 10 | EM.pdf | K means Demo |
10/30/07 | Catch up | gmodels.pdf | ||
11/1/07 | Approximate Inference | Read Chapter 11 HW 4 Due |
dai.pdf | |
11/06/07 | Sampling Methods | Read Chapter 12 | ivs.pdf | |
11/08/07 | Continuous Latent Variables | Read Chapter 13 HW5 Assigned |
pca.pdf | Eigenface Paper Eigenfaces demo page |
11/13/07 | Sequential Data (HMMs) | Reinforcement Learning Survey | beyondpca.pdf hmms.pdf |
Rabiner HMM Tutorial |
11/15/07 | HMMs continued and Graphical Model Learning | RL reading | gmlearning.pdf | |
11/20/07 | MDPs | Least Squares Policy Iteration HW 5 Due |
mdp.pdf | |
11/22/07 | Thanksgiving Break | |||
11/27/07 | Reinforcement Learning | lspi.pdf | Sutton and Barto RL Book TD-Gammon |
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11/29/07 | Review for final |