S
tatistical
M
achine
L
earning
10-702/36-702, Spring 2011
Aarti Singh
and
Larry Wasserman
Class Assistant:
Michelle Martin
Teaching Assistants:
T. K. Huang
,
Min Xu
Lecture:
Date and Time:
Monday and Wednesday, 10:30 - 11:50 am
Location:
1305 NSH
Recitation:
Date and Time:
Thursday, 5 - 6 pm
Location:
1305 NSH
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Lectures
Week
Date
Day
Lecture
Topic
Notes/Assignments
Due
1
Jan
10
M
1
(L)
Concentration of Measure
(
Recitation Notes 1
)
Syllabus
Jan
12
W
2
(L)
Concentration of Measure
Hwk 1
Solution
2
Jan
17
M
3
(A)
Convexity I
(
Recitation Notes 2
)
Jan
19
W
4
(A)
Convexity II
Some useful links for Fenchel duality:
link1
,
link2
Hwk 1
(Friday)
3
Jan
24
M
5
(A)
Optimization
Hwk 2
Solution
Jan
26
W
6
(L)
Nonparametric Density Estimation
4
Jan
31
M
7
(L)
Nonparametric Regression
Feb
2
W
8
(L)
Nonparametric Regression
(
Recitation Notes: derivation of loo formula
)
Hwk 2
(Friday)
5
Feb
7
M
9
(A)
Nonparametric Classification
(
Notes on Analysis of Histogram and Decision Tree Classifiers
)
Hwk 3
Solutions
Feb
9
W
10
(L)
Nonparametric Bayes
(
Recitation Notes 5
)
6
Feb
14
M
11
(L)
Minimax Theory
Project proposals
Feb
16
W
12
(L)
Minimax Theory
(
Recitation Notes 6
)
Hwk 3
(Friday)
7
Feb
21
M
13
(A)
Undirected graphical models
(
Notes
on undirected graphical model representation)
(Papers on structural consistency for
Gaussian graphical model
and
Ising model
)
(
Recitation notes on the Glasso algorithm)
Hwk 4
Feb
23
W
14
(A)
Nonparametric graphical models
(
Nonparanormal
,
Forest Density Estimation
papers)
8
Feb
28
M
15
(A)
Surrogate loss functions
Mar
2
W
Midterm exam
Solution
practice midterm
9
Mar
7
M
Spring break; no class
Mar
9
W
10
Mar
14
M
16
(L)
Simulation
 
Mar
16
W
17
(L)
EM/Variational
Hwk 4
(Friday)
11
Mar
21
M
18
(A)
Fast Rates for Classification
Recitation Notes 9
Hwk 5
Gibbs sampling Paper by Ishwaran-James
Mar
23
W
19
(A)
Random Projections
12
Mar
28
M
20
(L)
RKHS
Recitation Notes 10
Mar
30
W
21
(L)
Random Matrix Theory
Hwk 5
(Friday)
13
Apr
4
M
22
(A)
Clustering
Apr
6
W
23
(A)
Clustering
Project progress report
(Friday)
14
Apr
11
M
24
(L)
Manifold learning
Apr
13
W
25
(L)
Sparsity and high dimensional inference
Hwk 6
15
Apr
18
M
26
(L)
Sparsity and high dimensional inference
Apr
20
W
27
(A)
Semi-supervised Learning
16
Apr
25
M
28
(A)
Active Learning
Project spotlights
Apr
27
W
29
Student project spotlights
Hwk 6
(Friday)
Final projects due Tuesday, May 3