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The following schedule of topics is subject to change.
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Monday, 1/31 | ESL Ch 1 | ESL Ch 2 | A1: Math & Programming Review | — | |
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Monday, 2/14 |
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Monday, 2/21 | A2 | — | |||
Wednesday, 2/22 |
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Monday, 2/28 | — | — | |||
Wednesday, 3/2 |
Logistic Regression:
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Monday, 3/7 |
Neural nets:
Goodfellow et al. (2016), Ch 11 (Practical Methodology) |
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Monday, 3/14 | Goodfellow et al. (2016), Ch 11 (Practical Methodology) |
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Monday, 3/28 | — | — | |||
Wednesday, 3/30 | Exam 1 | — | |||
Monday, 4/4 | Poole and Mackwork: Ch 12.1 (intro to RL), Ch 12.4 (Q-learning), Ch 12.5 (exploration vs. exploitation), Ch 12.9 (RL with features: SARSA, leading to deep Q-learning), | — | — | Exam 1 (due 4/3 at 11:59 PM) | |
Wednesday, 4/6; Monday 4/11 | CIML Ch 15.2 |
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Wednesday 4/13 | CIML Ch 15.1 |
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Monday, 4/18 | CIML Ch 11 (Kernel + SVM), 7.7 (SVM) |
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Monday, 4/25 | CIML Ch 16 |
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Monday 5/2 | HMM Example for EM (Mostly board work), and start of PGM slides (see next class) | — | — | — | — |
Wednesday 5/4--Monday 5/16 |
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Monday 5/16 | Continuation of PGMs, and | — | — | — | — |