Syllabus for Machine Learning 10-601 in Fall 2014
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This is the syllabus for Machine Learning 10-601 in Fall 2014.
Schedule
| Date of lecture | Topic | Lecturer | Assignment/Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tues 9/2 | Overview and Intro to Probability | William | ||
| Thurs 9/4 | Classification and K-NN | William | slides will be updated | |
| Tues 9/9 | Decision Trees, and Rule Learning | William | slides will be updated | |
| Thurs 9/11 | The Naive Bayes algorithm | William | ||
| Tues 9/16 | Linear Regression | William | slides will be updated | |
| Thurs 9/18 | Logistic Regression | William | ||
| Mon-Tues 9/22-23 | The Perceptron algorithm | William | William's also lecturing in Ziv's class on Mon | |
| Thurs 9/25 | Neural networks and Deep Belief Networks | William | slides will be updated | |
| Mon-Tues 9/29-30 | SVMs and Margin Classifiers 1 | Ziv | Ziv's also lecturing in his class on Mon | |
| Wed-Thurs 10/1-2 | SVMs and Margin Classifiers 2 | Ziv | Ziv's also lecturing in his class on Wed | |
| Tues 10/7 | Evaluating and Comparing Classifiers Experimentally | William | ||
| Thus 10/9 | PAC Learning | William | ||
| Mon-Tues 13-14 | Bias-Variance Decomposition | William | William's also lecturing in Ziv's class on Mon | |
| M 10/14 | Ensemble Methods 1 | William | ||
| W 10/16 | Ensemble Methods 2 | William | Project description: [1] and Project Milestone 1 | |
| M 10/21 | Unsupervised Learning: k-Means and Mixtures | Eric | ||
| W 10/23 | Unsupervised Learning: Dimensionality Reduction | Eric |
Project milestone 2: Description, Classifier assignments, and Datasets for Milestone 2 | |
| M 10/28 | Semi-Supervised Learning | William | ||
| W 10/30 | Collaborative Filtering and Matrix Factorization | William | Project milestone 3 Milestone3 Handout | |
| M 11/4 | Graphical Models 1 | Eric | ||
| W 11/6 | Graphical Models 2 | Eric | HW7: Graphical Models (due Nov. 13th before class via BlackBoard) | |
| M 11/11 | HMMS, Sequences, and Structured Output Prediction | William | ||
| W 11/13 | d-separation, Explaining away, and Topic Models | William | Project milestone 4 | |
| M 11/18 | Network Models | Eric | ||
| W 11/20 | Review Session/Special Topics | Eric | ||
| M 11/25 | Not-quite-final Exam | |||
| W 11/27 | No class - Thanksgiving | |||
| M 12/2 | Markov Decision Processes and Reinforcement Learning | Eric | ||
| W 12/4 | Scalable Learning and Parallelization | William | Milestones 5-6 Description | |
| Mon 12/9 | Milestone 5 due | |||
| Tue 12/10 | Milestone 6 (writeup) due |
To other instructors: if you'd like to use any of the materials found here, you're absolutely welcome to do so, but please acknowledge their ultimate source somewhere.
Section-by-Section
Linear Classifiers
A probabilistic view of linear classification:
Another view of classification:
- 10-601 Introduction to Linear Algebra
- 10-601 Perceptrons and Voted Perceptrons
- 10-601 Voted Perceptrons and Support Vector Machines
Summary:
