COS 324: Introduction to Machine Learning

Prof. Ryan Adams (OH: Thursday 12:30-1:30pm in CS 411)
TA: Jad Rahme (OH: Tue 9-11am in Fine Hall 216)
TA: Farhan Damani (OH: Wed 9-11am outside CS 242)
TA: Fanghong Dong (OH: Wed 2-4pm in CS 2nd floor tea room)
Time: Tuesday and Thursday, 11:00am-12:20pm
Location: COS 104
Contact: cos324-f18@lists.cs.princeton.edu
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Schedule

Subject to change.
Thu 13 Sep 2018

Lecture 1: Introduction [slides]

Supervised Learning

Tue 18 Sep 2018

Lecture 2: Linear Regression I
Assignment 1 Out


Thu 20 Sep 2018

Lecture 3: Linear Regression II


Tue 25 Sep 2018

Lecture 4: Features and Basis Functions


Thu 27 Sep 2018

Lecture 5: Overfitting and Regularization


Fri Sep 28 2018

Assignment 1 Due at 23:55


Tue 2 Oct 2018

Lecture 6: Cross Validation
Assignment 2 Out


Thu 4 Oct 2018

Lecture 7: Linear Classification I


Tue 9 Oct 2018

Lecture 8: Linear Classification II


Thu 11 Oct 2018

Lecture 9: Linear Classification III -- Support Vector Machines


Fri 12 Oct 2018

Assignment 2 Due at 23:55


Tue 16 Oct 2018

Lecture 10: Kernel-based Classification


Thu 18 Oct 2018

Lecture 11: Neural Networks I
Assignment 3 Out


Tue 23 Oct 2018

Lecture 12: Neural Networks II

Thu 25 Oct 2018

Midterm Exam

Unsupervised Learning

Mon 5 Nov 2018

Assignment 3 Due at 23:55


Tue 6 Nov 2018

No Class
Assignment 4 Out


Thu 8 Nov 2018

Lecture 13: K-Means Clustering


Tue 13 Nov 2018

Lecture 14: Hierarchical Clustering


Thu 15 Nov 2018

Lecture 15: Principal Component Analysis


Fri 16 Nov 2018

Assignment 4 Due at 23:55


Tue 20 Nov 2018

Lecture 16: Latent Factor Models
Assignment 5 Out

Planning and Reinforcement Learning

Tue 27 Nov 2018

Lecture 17: Markov Decision Processes


Thu 29 Nov 2018

Lecture 18: Value Iteration


Fri 30 Nov 2018

Assignment 5 Due at 23:55


Tue 4 Dec 2018

Lecture 19: Policy Iteration
Assignment 6 Out


Thu 6 Dec 2018

Lecture 20: Model-based Reinforcement Learning


Tue 11 Dec 2018

Lecture 21: Model-free Reinforcement Learning

Thu 13 Dec 2018

Lecture 22: Wrap-up [slides]


Wed 19 Dec 2018

Assignment 6 Due at 23:55


Assignments

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