CS 461: Machine Learning
Instructor: Kiri Wagstaff

Course Calendar

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DateLectureReading Assignments
1/5 Introduction, Learning, Representation, Supervised Learning, k-Nearest Neighbors, Instance-Based Learning
Lecture 1 PPT (1 MB)
Lecture 1 PDF (11 MB)
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- Video: Real-Time Expression Classification
- Video: DARPA Grand Challenge, MIT;
more Urban Challenge videos
- 1-NN/Voronoi diagram applet
Alpaydin Ch. 1, 2.1, 2.4-2.9
Mitchell p. 230-236 (class handout)
Homework 1 assigned
Due January 10
1/12 Decision Trees, Rule Learning, Evaluation 1, Weka
Lecture 2 PPT (850 KB)
Lecture 2 PDF (5 MB)
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- DecTree: Diagnosis of Psychotic Disorders
- DecTree: PredictionWorks Targeted Marketing
- Class height/weight vs. gender data file: gender.arff
Alpaydin Ch. 9.1-9.4 and 14.1-14.3, 14.6,
Weka Explorer Guide (v. 3.4.12)
Homework 2 assigned
Due January 24
1/16 Deadline to add classes
1/19 Support Vector Machines, Evaluation 2
Lecture 3 PPT (1 MB)
Lecture 3 PDF (8 MB)
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- Normal distribution applet
- Student's t distribution applet
- Confidence Intervals applet
- SVM Tutorial (PDF) by Andrew Moore
- SVM applet
Alpaydin Ch. 10.1-10.4, 10.6, 10.9, 14.4, 14.5, 14.7, 14.9
Reading Questions
Project proposal due
1/26 Neural Networks
Lecture 4 PPT (2 MB)
Lecture 4 PDF (7 MB)
- Backpropagation derivation (PDF, 69 KB)
- Just the slide on the EO-1 spacecraft and its SVM currently orbiting the Earth (PDF, 500 K)
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- Perceptron demo
- Digit recognition demo
- Ball balancing demo
Alpaydin Ch. 11.1-11.8
Reading Questions
Homework 3 assigned
Due February 7
2/2 Midterm Exam, Probability Review, Bayesian Learning
Lecture 5 PPT (660 KB)
Lecture 5 PDF (4.5 MB)
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- Midterm Solution
Alpaydin Appendix A and Ch. 3.1, 3.2, 3.7, 3.9 ---
2/9 Parametric Methods
Lecture 6 PPT (819 KB)
Lecture 6 PDF (5.5 MB)
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Post-midterm conferences
Alpaydin Ch. 4.1-4.5
Mitchell p. 177-179 (class handout)
Reading Questions
Homework 4 assigned
Due February 21
2/14 Deadline to drop classes
2/16 Note: class is in E&T A129
Clustering
Lecture 7 PPT (3 MB)
Lecture 7 PDF (11 MB)
(No video due to room change)
- K-means applet
- EM applet
Alpaydin Ch. 7.1-7.4, 7.8 ---
2/23 Reinforcement Learning
Lecture 8 PPT (1 MB)
Lecture 8 PDF (9 MB)
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Alpaydin Ch. 16.1-16.5
Reading Questions
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3/1 Ensemble Learning
Lecture 9 PPT (540 KB)
Lecture 9 PDF (4 MB)
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- AdaBoost applet
Alpaydin Ch. 15.1-15.5
Reading Questions
Homework 5 assigned
Due March 13
3/8 Review, Project Presentations
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Final Project due
3/15 No final exam
Homework 5 due