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CSE 446 - Machine Learning - Winter 2009
Mon, Wed, Fri 11:30-12:20 in Loew 216
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Instructor: Pedro Domingos (pedrod at cs)
Office hours: Wednesdays 2:30-3:20 & by appointment
Office: Allen Center 648
TA: Hoifung Poon (hoifung at cs)
Office hours: Mondays 1:30-2:20 & by appointment
Office: Allen Center 318

Schedule

Week Dates Topics & Lecture Notes Readings
1 January 5, 7, 9 Introduction (ppt, pdf), inductive learning (ppt, pdf) Mitchell, Ch. 1; Duda, Ch. 1
2 January 12, 14, 16 Decision trees (ppt, pdf) Mitchell, Ch. 3; Duda, Ch. 8
3 January 21, 23 Rule induction (ppt, pdf) Mitchell, Ch. 10; Duda, Ch. 8
4 January 26, 28, 30 Instance-based learning (ppt, pdf) Mitchell, Ch. 8; Duda, Ch. 4
5 February 2, 4, 6 Bayesian learning (ppt, pdf) Mitchell, Ch. 6; Duda, Ch. 2 & 3
6 February 9, 11, 13 Neural networks (ppt, pdf) Mitchell, Ch. 4; Duda, Ch. 6
7 February 16, 18, 20 Model ensembles (ppt, pdf) Duda, Ch. 9
8 February 23, 25, 27 Learning theory (ppt, pdf) Mitchell, Ch. 7; Duda, Ch. 9
9 March 2, 4, 6 Support vector machines (ppt, pdf) Duda, Ch. 5
10 March 9, 11, 13 Clustering and dimensionality reduction (ppt, pdf) Duda, Ch. 10

Textbooks

Assignments

There will be four assignments, each worth 15% of the final grade, and a final exam worth 40% of the grade.

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