This syllabus is tentative and subject to change.
| Date | Links to the lecture pages | Remarks and quick links |
|---|---|---|
| 2/02 | Introduction | Slides: pdf. |
| 2/04 | Simple linear models | Slides: pdf. Scribe notes: Gelbart Assignment: Homework #1, due 02/23. |
| 2/09 | R Tutorial (Sean Gerrish). | Slides: pdf. |
| 2/11 | Cancelled | |
| 2/16 | Review: linear algebra, probabilities | Lecture notes: pdf pdf Scribe notes: Valentino & Misener |
| 2/18 | Review: more probabilities | Lecture notes: pdf Scribe notes: Scott |
| 2/23 | Classification | Slides: pdf Scribe notes: NGuyen Assignment: Homework #2, due |
| 2/25 | Estimating probabilities | Slides: pdf Scribe notes: Persaud |
| 3/02 | Optimisation | Slides: pdf |
| 3/04 | Clustering | Slides: pdf Scribe notes: Xiang & Yu. |
| 3/09 | Expectation-Maximization | Slides: pdf Scribe notes: Ali Assignment: Homework #3, due 03/30. |
| 3/11 | Multilayer Networks | Slides: pdf Scribe notes: Harrison |
| SPRING BREAK | ||
| 3/23 | Exploratory methods: PCA | Slides: pdf (part I) Scribe notes: |
| 3/25 | Exploratory methods: CA, MCA | Slides: pdf (parts II-IV) Scribe notes: Tzeneva Assignment: Homework #4, due 04/13. |
| 3/30 | Generalization and capacity control | Slides: pdf |
| 4/01 | Support vector machines | Slides: pdf Scribe notes: |
| 4/06 | Information theory and decision trees | Slides: pdf Scribe notes: |
| 4/08 | Ensembles | Slides: pdf Scribe notes: Lee |
| 4/13 | Hidden Markov models | Slides: pdf Scribe notes: Kroll & Stewart Deadline: Project proposal. |
| 4/15 | Graphical models | Slides: pdf Scribe notes: |
| 4/20 | Graph transducers | Slides: pdf Scribe notes: Chai |
| 4/22 | Feature engineering | Slides: pdf Scribe notes: |
| 4/27 | Natural language processing and weak supervision | Slides: pdf |
| 4/29 | Final review | |
| 5/04 | Poster session | Deadline: Project posters. |
See the lecture pages for pointers to readings, scribe notes, slides, etc.