Schedule

Evolving Schedule:

8-Jan

Introduction

10-Jan

Concept Learning

15-Jan

Concept Learning - Decision Trees

17-Jan

Decision Trees - Wenke Lee

22-Jan

Evaluating Hypotheses

24-Jan

Neural Networks

29-Jan

Bayesian Probabilities and the Joint PDF

31-Jan

Densities and Likelihoods

5-Feb

Bayes Classifiers, the Sigmoid, and Naïve Bayes

7-Feb

Instance-based Learning (Regression)

12-Feb

Janet Kolodner Guest Lecture

14-Feb

Instance-based Learning (Classification)

19-Feb

Mixture Densities and RBF nets

21-Feb

Midterm Review

26-Feb

Midterm

28-Feb

Neural Networks

5-Mar

SPRING BREAK

7-Mar

SPRING BREAK

12-Mar

Neural Networks

14-Mar

Support-Vector Machines

19-Mar

SVM (Continued)

21-Mar

SVM (Continued)

26-Mar

Boosting

28-Mar

Boosting

2-Apr

Bayesian Belief Networks - Intro

4-Apr

Bayesian Belief Networks - Learning

9-Apr

Jim Rehg Guest Lecture

11-Apr

Genetic Algorithms - Simulated Annealing

16-Apr

Reinforcement Learning

18-Apr

Project Presentations

23-Apr

Project Presentations

25-Apr

Review

3-May

Final Exam

Lecture Slides:

 

Concept Learning (340K ps)

Decision Trees (219K pdf)

Wenke Lee’s slides (332 pdf)

Evaluating Hypotheses (208KB ps)

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Slides three lectures (369K pdf)

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Andrew Moore Slides Hardcopy

Assigned Reading on CBR

MBL slides in postscript and pdf

Mixture-RBF slides (668KB pdf)

Midterm Review Slides (1MB pdf)

 

Neural Networks (328K zipped ps)

 

 

 

SVM Notes (1.4MB pdf)

 

 

Boosting Notes (1.4MB pdf)

 

A. Moore Bayes Net Slides PDF and PS

 

Jim Rehg’s slides and paper

Mitchell Ch. 9 slides in pdf and ps

Mitchell Ch.13 slides in pdf and ps. Kaelbling-Littman-Moore paper (ps).

 

Review Slides