Date |
Time |
Place |
Topic |
Handouts |
September 14th, 2011
|
6:00 - 7:00 PM
|
Rashid Auditorium (GHC 4401)
|
- Function Approximation
- Decision Trees
- Over Fitting
|
Slides
|
September 21th, 2011
|
6:00 - 7:00 PM
|
Wean Hall 7500
|
- Probability overview
- Maximum likelihood estimation
|
Slides
|
September 28th, 2011
|
6:00 - 7:00 PM
|
Wean Hall 7500
|
- Naive Bayes
- Conjugate Priors
- Maximum A Posteriori Estimators
|
Slides,  Audio Recording
|
October 5th, 2011
|
6:00 - 7:00 PM
|
Wean Hall 7500
|
- Gaussian Naive Bayes
- Logistic Regression
- Gradient Descent
|
Slides
|
October 12th, 2011
|
6:00 - 7:00 PM
|
Wean Hall 7500
|
- Bias-variance Decomposition
- Linear Regression
- Bayes Nets
|
Slides
|
October 19th, 2011
|
6:00 - 7:00 PM
|
Wean Hall 7500
|
- Markov Blankets
- Inference with Bayes Nets
- Expectation Maximization
|
Slides,  Example Code,  Audio Recording
|
November 9th, 2011
|
6:00 - 7:00 PM
|
Wean Hall 7500
|
- Matrix and Vector Derivatives
- Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors
- Singular Value Decomposition
- Principle Component Analysis
|
Slides
|
November 16th, 2011
|
6:00 - 7:00 PM
|
Wean Hall 7500
|
- Principle Component Analysis
- Clustering
- Constrained Optimization
|
Slides
|
November 30th, 2011
|
6:00 - 7:00 PM
|
Wean Hall 7500
|
- Support Vector Machines
- Boosting
|
Slides
|
December 7th, 2011
|
6:00 - 7:00 PM
|
Wean Hall 7500
|
|
Slides
|
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