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LEC# READINGS DUE
1 DHS Chap. 1, A.1-A.2
2 DHS Chap. A.2-A.4
3 DHS Chap. A.5, 2.1-2.4 (can skip 2.3.1, 2.3.2)
4 DHS Chap. 2.5-2.6
5 DHS Chap. 2.8.3, 2.11. Breese & Ball Handout (for example of an application), Independence Diagram handout (read this lightly now; we will probably revisit it later in the course as well), Cowell article (This goes into more on Bayes Nets than we will cover, but is a good introduction that goes beyond DHS. Pls read pp. 9-18 and give at least a quick glance at the rest, so you'll know what other topics it covers for possible future reference.)
6 DHS Chap. 2.9, 3.1-3.2
7 DHS Chap. 3.3-3.4
  • Problem Set 2 (PDF
8 DHS Chap. 3.5, 3.7-3.8, Belhumeur et. al. paper
9 DHS Chap. 3.8-3.9
10, 11 Rabiner, and Juang. 6.1-6.5 and 6.12, DHS Chap. 3.10 (optional) 
13 DHS Chap. 4.1-4.4, 4.5 pp 177-178 and 4.5.4, 4.6.1
14, 15 DHS Chap. 5.1-5.5.1, 5.8-5.8.3, 5.11, 6.1
16, 17 DHS Chap 6.2-6.3, 8.1-8.2, 10.1-10.4.2
18, 19 DHS Chap. 8.3-8.4, Chap 10.4.3, 10.6-10.10
20 DHS Chap 9, and "Election Selection: Are we using the worst voting procedure?" Science News, Nov. 2 2002.
21 Guest lecture by Yuan Qi.  Jordan, and Bishop. Chap. 14 in Kalman Filtering. Tom Minka's short paper relating this to HMM's.
22 Guest lecture by Ashish Kapoor. Muller et al. "An Introduction to Kernel Based Learning Algorithms" In IEEE Trans on Neural Networks.
23 Combined "final" lecture: Yuan Qi introduces Bayes Point Machines (Zip file) and Junction Trees (for more information see Chap. 16 of Jordan & Bishop's book) and also the Cowell article from Lecture 5. Finally, a wrap up with a brief course overview.
24 Project Presentations: Face and Music/Artist data sets All presentations are due online
25 Project Presentations: PAF and special topics.

 

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