===== Syllabus =====
This syllabus is tentative and subject to change.
^ Date ^ Links to the lecture pages ^ Remarks and quick links ^
| 2/02 | [[01intro|Introduction]] | Slides: [[cos424>slides/1-intro.pdf|pdf]]. |
| 2/04 | [[02slm|Simple linear models]] | Slides: [[cos424>slides/2-slm.pdf|pdf]]. \\ Scribe notes: [[cos424>slides/2-notes-gelbart.pdf|Gelbart]] \\ Assignment: [[hw1|Homework #1]], due 02/23. |
| 2/09 | [[rinfo|R Tutorial]] ([[http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~sgerrish|Sean Gerrish]]). | Slides: [[http://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/spr08/cos424/R/Rtutorial.pdf|pdf]]. |
| 2/11 | Cancelled | |
| 2/16 | [[03prob|Review: linear algebra, probabilities]] | Lecture notes: [[cos424>slides/ela.pdf|pdf]] [[cos424>slides/prob.pdf|pdf]] \\ Scribe notes: [[cos424>slides/3-notes-valentino-misener.pdf|Valentino & Misener]] |
| 2/18 | [[03prob|Review: more probabilities]] | Lecture notes: [[cos424>slides/prob.pdf|pdf]] \\ Scribe notes: [[cos424>slides/3-notes-scott.pdf|Scott]] |
| 2/23 | [[04class|Classification]] | Slides: [[cos424>slides/4-class.pdf|pdf]] \\ Scribe notes: [[cos424>slides/4-notes-nguyen.pdf|NGuyen]] \\ Assignment: [[hw2|Homework #2]], due 3/09 03/23. |
| 2/25 | [[05stat|Estimating probabilities]] | Slides: [[cos424>slides/5-stat.pdf|pdf]] \\ Scribe notes: [[cos424>slides/5-notes-persaud|Persaud]] |
| 3/02 | [[06opt|Optimisation]] | Slides: [[cos424>slides/6-opt.pdf|pdf]] |
| 3/04 | [[07clust|Clustering]] | Slides: [[cos424>slides/7-clust.pdf|pdf]] \\ Scribe notes: [[cos424>slides/7-notes-xiang-yu.pdf|Xiang & Yu]]. |
| 3/09 | [[08em|Expectation-Maximization]] | Slides: [[cos424>slides/8-em.pdf|pdf]] \\ Scribe notes: [[cos424>slides/8-notes-ali.pdf|Ali]] \\ Assignment: [[hw3|Homework #3]], due 03/30. |
| 3/11 | [[09nn|Multilayer Networks]] | Slides: [[cos424>slides/9-nn.pdf|pdf]] \\ Scribe notes: [[cos424>slides/9-notes-harrison.pdf|Harrison]] |
| | SPRING BREAK | |
| 3/23 | [[10pca|Exploratory methods: PCA]] | Slides: [[cos424>slides/10-pca.pdf|pdf (part I)]] \\ Scribe notes: |
| 3/25 | [[10pca|Exploratory methods: CA, MCA]] | Slides: [[cos424>slides/10-pca.pdf|pdf (parts II-IV)]] \\ Scribe notes: [[cos424>slides/10-notes-tzeneva.pdf|Tzeneva]] \\ Assignment: [[hw4|Homework #4]], due 04/13. |
| 3/30 | [[11gen|Generalization and capacity control]] | Slides: [[cos424>slides/11-gen.pdf|pdf]] |
| 4/01 | [[12svm|Support vector machines]] | Slides: [[cos424>slides/12-svm.pdf|pdf]] \\ Scribe notes: |
| 4/06 | [[13info|Information theory and decision trees]] | Slides: [[cos424>slides/13-info.pdf|pdf]] \\ Scribe notes: |
| 4/08 | [[14ens|Ensembles]] | Slides: [[cos424>slides/14-ens.pdf|pdf]] \\ Scribe notes: [[cos424>slides/14-notes-lee.pdf|Lee]] |
| 4/13 | [[15hmm|Hidden Markov models]] | Slides: [[cos424>slides/15-hmm.pdf|pdf]] \\ Scribe notes: [[cos424>slides/15-notes-kroll-stewart.pdf|Kroll & Stewart]]\\ Deadline: [[project|Project proposal]]. |
| 4/15 | [[16gm|Graphical models]] | Slides: [[cos424>slides/16-gm.pdf|pdf]] \\ Scribe notes: |
| 4/20 | [[17gtn|Graph transducers]] | Slides: [[cos424>slides/17-gtn.pdf|pdf]] \\ Scribe notes: [[cos424>slides/17-notes-chai.pdf|Chai]] |
| 4/22 | [[18feat|Feature engineering]] | Slides: [[cos424>slides/18-feat.pdf|pdf]] \\ Scribe notes: |
| 4/27 | [[19senna|Natural language processing]] \\ [[19senna|and weak supervision]] | Slides: [[cos424>slides/19-senna.pdf|pdf]] |
| 4/29 | [[review|Final review]] | |
| 5/04 | [[project|Poster session]] | Deadline: [[project|Project posters]]. |
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See the lecture pages for pointers to readings, [[scribeinfo|scribe notes]], slides, etc.