Week

Day

Date

Topic

Reading

Assigned

Due

Points

1

Tue

9-20-2014

Intro and Review of Probability

Chapter 2

Hmwk1

10-3-16

10

1

Thu

9-22-2014

Statistical Estimation

Chapter 17.1

 

 

 

2

Tue

9-27-2014

Bayes Networks

Chapter 3

 

 

 

2

Thu

9-29-2014

Bayes Networks (cont.)

Chapters 4, 9

 

 

 

3

Tue

10-4-2014

Naive Bayes Classifiers, Markov Networks

 

Hmwk2

10-14-16

10

3

Thu

10-6-2014

Variable Elimination

Chapter 12

 

 

 

4

Tue

10-11-2014

Sampling

 

 

 

 

4

Thu

10-13-2014

Sampling cont.

 

 

 

 

5

Tue

10-18-2014

Mid-term 1

 

 

 

 

5

Thu

10-20-2014

Exam Review, Learning

Chapter 17.1-17.4, Chapter 19.1, 19.2

Hmwk 3

11-03-16

10

6

Tue

10-25-2014

Learning (cont.)

 

 

 

 

6

Thu

10-27-2014

Learning (cont.)

 

 

 

 

7

Tue

11-1-2014

Junction Tree

Chapter 10

 

 

 

7

Thu

11-3-2014

Structure Learning, Expectation-Maximization

Chapter 18

 

 

 

8

Tue

11-8-2014

Semi-supervised Learning

 

Hmwk 4

11-18-16

8

8

Thu

11-10-2014

HMMs

Chapter 6

 

 

 

9

Tue

11-15-2014

HMMs (cont.), exam review

 

 

 

 

9

Thu

11-17-2014

Mid-term 2

 

 

 

 

10

Tue

11-22-2014

Language Models: ngrams

Smoothing

paper

Hmwk 5

 

 

10

Thu

11-24-2014

No class (Thanksgiving)

 

 

 

 

11

Tue

11-29-2014

Language Models: LSI and LDA

Gibbs for LDA

 

 

 

11

Thu

12-1-2014

RNNs, LSTMs