CSCE 496/896 (Spring 2018) Lecture Schedule


Week Lecture Hack-A-Thon
1
Jan 8–12
Course Administrivia, ML Introduction
Chapters 1, 3
1up, 6up
HCC Access, Job Submission, TensorFlow Introduction, GPU Usage
2
Jan 15–19
ANN Basics: MLPs, backpropagation, activation functions, optimizers
Chapters 4, 10, 11
1up, 6up
Holiday
3
Jan 22–26
More ANNs: loss functions, regularization, confidence intervals
Chapters 10, 11
1up, 6up
Basic TensorFlow Architectures, MNIST
Chapters 2, 3, 9
4
Jan 29–Feb 2
More ANNs: loss functions, regularization, confidence intervals
Chapters 10, 11
1up, 6up
Basic TensorFlow Architectures, MNIST, job submission
Chapters 2, 3, 9
5
Feb 5–9
Convolutional Layers
Chapter 13
1up, 6up
Convolutional Layers
Chapter 13
6
Feb 12–16
Autoencoders
Chapter 15
1up, 6up
More Convolutional Layers
Chapter 13
7
Feb 19–23
More Autoencoders
Chapter 15
1up, 6up
Autoencoders
Chapter 15
8
Feb 26–Mar 2
Recurrent Architectures
Chapter 14
1up, 6up
More Autoencoders
Chapter 15
9
Mar 5–9
Reinforcement Learning
Chapter 16
1up, 6up
Recurrent Architectures/LSTMs
Chapter 14
10
Mar 12–16
Guest Speakers
Monday: Thomas Cleberg, Mutual of Omaha (pptx, Internship opportunities)
Wednesday: Somayeh (Bahar) Shahsavarani, UNL (pptx)
Friday: Ben Cook, Hudl (pptx)
Neural Machine Translation
Chapter 14
10
Mar 19–23
Break Break
11
Mar 26–30
More Reinforcement Learning
Chapter 16
1up, 6up
Project Work
12
Apr 2–6
More Reinforcement Learning
Chapter 16
1up, 6up
Reinforcement Learning
Chapter 16
13
Apr 9–13
Meta-talk: 1up, 6up
Word2vec and node2vec: 1up, 6up
Project Check-in Meetings
14
Apr 16–20
Project Presentations More Reinforcement Learning
Chapter 16
15
Apr 23–27
Project Presentations Project Work

Further Reading

  1. TensorFlow Python Environment
  2. ML Introduction
  3. ANN Introduction
  4. Convolutional Layers
  5. Autoencoders
  6. Recurrent Architectures
  7. Reinforcement Learning
  8. Applications
  9. word2vec
  10. node2vec
  11. Adversarial Examples
  12. Brain Modeling

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