CSCE 478/878 (Fall 2006) lecture slides
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Lectures 0 and 1: Administrivia and Introduction, Aug 22-24, Chapter 1
(pdf1up,
pdf6up)
Also see:
- My slides introducing machine learning to
the Future Problem Solving Program at Central Community College
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Lecture 2: Concept Learning and the General-to-Specific Ordering,
Aug 29-31, Chapter 2
(pdf1up, pdf6up)
Topic summary 1 due Thursday, Sept 7
- Homework 0 due Aug 31
- Prerequisite test due Sep 3
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Lecture 3: Decision Trees, overfitting, Occam's razor,
Aug 31-Sep 12, Chapter 3
(pdf1up,
pdf6up)
Topic summary 2 due Tuesday, Sep 19
Also see:
- Homework 1
Assigned Thursday, September 7;
Due Sunday, September 24 at 11:59 p.m.
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Lecture 4: Artificial Neural Networks and Support Vector Machines
Sep 14-Sep 26, Chapter 4, Section 7.4.4, Littlestone
paper, handout from Christianini and Shawe-Taylor's book
(pdf1up,
pdf6up)
Also see:
- Manfred K. Warmuth,
who has done much work on EG and Winnow. Many papers available on-line,
including his GD/EG paper:
- Nick Littlestone (creator of Winnow) and some of his papers:
- Avrim Blum and his survey paper
``On-Line Algorithms in Machine Learning''
- Notes from CSCE 970 on nonlinear classifiers [on the intuition behind
using multiple layers to remap the input space]
(pdf4up)
- ANN growing and pruning:
- SVMs:
- Muller, K.-R., Mika, S., Ratsch, G., Tsuda, K., and Scholkopf, B.
An introduction
to kernel-based learning algorithms.
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, 12(2):181-201,
2001.
- Christopher Burges.
A
tutorial on support vector machines for pattern recognition
- Nello Cristianini
and John Shawe-Taylor.
An Introduction to Support Vector Machines.
Cambridge University Press, 2000.
- Richard Duda,
Peter Hart, and David Stork.
Pattern Classification, 2nd Edition.
[also see software supplements]
John Wiley, 2001.
(Section 5.11)
- SVM tutorial
- KernelMachines.org
- Sebastian Thrun's links
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Lecture 5: Evaluating Hypotheses
Oct 13-24, Chapter 5 and ROC tutorial
(pdf1up,
pdf6up)
Topic summary 4 due Tuesday, Oct 31
Also see:
- Fall break, Oct 17, no class
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Lecture 6: Combining Classifiers: Weighted Majority, Bagging and
Boosting,
Oct 26-31, Section 7.5.4, Breiman paper, Freund & Schapire paper
(pdf1up,
pdf6up)
Topic summary 6 due Tuesday, Nov 7
Also see:
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Lecture 7: Bayesian learning,
Oct 31-Nov 9, Chapter 6
(pdf1up,
pdf6up)
Also see:
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Lecture 8: Instance-based learning,
Nov 14-21, Chapter 8
(pdf1up,
pdf4up)
Also see:
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Lecture 8.5: How to give a good research talk,
Nov 21-28,
(pdf1up,
pdf6up)
Also see:
- Thanksgiving holiday, Nov 22-26, no class
- Lecture 9: Students' choice, Nov 28-30:
- Computational Learning Theory,
Sections 7.1-7.4.3, 7.5-7.5.3, 7.6
(pdf1up,
pdf4up)
- Reinforcement learning, Chapter 13
(pdf1up,
pdf4up)
Also see:
- Genetic Algorithms, Chapter 9
(pdf1up,
pdf4up)
- New topic: multiple-instance learning or active learning or budgeted
learning
- Project presentations, Dec 5-8 (dead week)
- Project reports due Dec 8
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