Tentative Schedule

Dive into Deep Learning, Zhang et al
Date Content Reading Slides
Intro, Maximum Likelihood, Linear Regression, Overfitting, Regularization
3/29 M Welcome/overview (Simon and Sewoong)
Maximum likelihood for Bernoulli (Sewoong)
Murphy 1.1 - 1.3, 2.2-2.6, 4.1, 6.4
  Optional: HTF 1, Wasserman 9.1.-9.8
Combined week 1 Slides (Sewoong), Lecture 1 (Simon/Sewoong), Annotated Lecture 1 (Simon/Sewoong),
3/31 W Maximum likelihood for Gaussian, Linear least squares (Sewoong) Murphy 6.4, 7.1-7.3
  Optional: HTF 3.1-3.2
Lecture 2 (Sewoong), Annotated Lecture 2 (Sewoong)
4/2 F Linear least squares (Sewoong) Murphy 6.4, 7.1-7.3
  Optional: HTF 3.1-3.2
Lecture 3 (Sewoong), Annotated Lecture 3 (Sewoong)
4/5 M Generalized linear regression, Bias-Variance tradeoff (Simon)
Murphy 6.4, 7.5.1, Fortmann-Roe essay
 Optional: HTF 7.1-7.4
Combined week 2 slides (Simon), Lecture 4 (Simon), Annotated Lecture 4 (Simon)
4/7 W Bias-Variance tradeoff (Simon)
Murphy 6.4, 7.5.1
 Optional: HTF 7.1-7.4
Lecture 5 (Simon), Annotated Lecture 5 (Simon)
4/9 F Bias-Variance tradeoff and Overfitting (Simon) Murphy 6.4-6.5
 Optional: HTF 7.1-7.4
Lecture 6 (Simon), Annotated Lecture 6 (Simon)
4/12 M Ridge regression (Sewoong) Murphy 6.4-6.5
 Optional: HTF 7.10-7.12, 3.4
Combined week 3 Slides (Sewoong), demo_tradeoff.ipynb, demo_tradeoff.html, Lecture 7 (Sewoong), Annotated Lecture 7 (Sewoong)
4/14 W k-fold cross validation (Sewoong) Murphy 6.4-6.5,
  Optional: HTF 3
Lecture 8 (Sewoong), Annotated Lecture 8 (Sewoong),
4/16 F Lasso (Sewoong) Murphy 13.1, 13.3 - 13.4.1
  Optional: HTF 3
demo_lasso.html (Sewoong), demo_lasso.ipynb (Sewoong), Lecture 9 (Sewoong), Annotated Lecture 9 (Sewoong)
Classification, Optimization
4/19 M Classification, Logistic Regression (Simon) Murphy 8.1-8.3, 8.5
  Optional: HTF 4.1-4.2, 4.4
Combined lecture 10 and 11 slides (Simon) Lecture 10 (Simon), Annotated Lecture 10 (Simon)
4/21 W Logistic Regression (Simon) Murphy 8.1-8.3, 8.5
  Optional: HTF 4.1-4.2, 4.4
Lecture 11 (Simon), Annotated Lecture 11 (Simon)
4/23 F Convexity (Sewoong) Murphy 8.1-8.3, 8.5
Roughgarden-Valiant notes
  Optional: Gradient descent algorithms by Ruder
  Optional: Zen of gradient descent by Moritz Hardt
  Optional: HTF 4.1-4.2, 4.4
Combined lectures 12,13,14 (Sewoong), Lecture 12 (Sewoong), Annotated Lecture 12 (Sewoong)
4/26 M Gradient Descent (Sewoong) Daume 4, 11, Murphy 8.5.0
Murphy 14.5
  Optional: HTF 4.5, 12-12.2;
  Optional: HTF 4.1-4.3.1, 18.7; EH 2-2.2, 10-10.4, 11-11.2
Lecture 13 (Sewoong), Annotated Lecture 13 (Sewoong)
4/28 W Coordiante descent and Stochastic gradient descent (Sewoong) Daume 4, 11, Murphy 8.5.0, 8.5.4
Murphy 14.5
  Optional: HTF 4.5, 12-12.2;
  Optional: HTF 4.1-4.3.1, 18.7; EH 2-2.2, 10-10.4, 11-11.2
Lecture 14 (Sewoong), Annotated Lecture 14 (Sewoong)
4/30 F Support Vector Machine (SVM) (Simon) Daume 4, 11, Murphy 8.5.0, 8.5.4
Murphy 14.5
  Optional: HTF 4.5, 12-12.2;
  Optional: HTF 4.1-4.3.1, 18.7; EH 2-2.2, 10-10.4, 11-11.2
Lecture 15 (Sewoong), Annotated Lecture 15 (Sewoong), Lecture 15 (Simon), Annotated Lecture 15 (Simon), Combined lectures 15,16,17 (Simon)
5/3 M Support Vector Machines (Simon) Daume 4, 11, Murphy 8.5.0, 8.5.4
Murphy 14.5
  Optional: HTF 4.5, 12-12.2;
  Optional: HTF 4.1-4.3.1, 18.7; EH 2-2.2, 10-10.4, 11-11.2
Lecture 16 (Simon), Annotated Lecture 16 (Simon)
Non-linear models
5/5 W kernels (Simon) Lecture 17 (Simon), Annotated Lecture 17 (Simon)
5/7 F kernels (Simon) Lecture 18 (Simon), Annotated Lecture 18 (Simon)
5/10 M Neural Network (Simon) Murphy 28
  Optional: HTF 11
Dive into Deep Learning, Zhang et al
https://playground.tensorflow.org/
Week 7 combined (Simon) Lecture 19 (Simon), Annotated Lecture 19 (Simon)
5/12 W Neural Network Training (Simon) Murphy 28
  Optional: HTF 11
Dive into Deep Learning, Zhang et al
https://playground.tensorflow.org/
Lecture 20 (Simon), Annotated Lecture 20 (Simon)
5/14 F Neural Network Architecture (Simon) Murphy 28
  Optional: HTF 11
Dive into Deep Learning, Zhang et al
https://playground.tensorflow.org/
Lecture 21 (Simon), Annotated Lecture 21 (Simon)
5/17 M Nearest Neighbor, Bootstrap (Sewoong) HTF 2-2.5, HTF 6-6.3, EH 10-10.4, EH 11-11.2 Week 8 combined (Sewoong), Lecture 22 (Sewoong), Annotated Lecture 22 (Sewoong),
Unsupervised Learning
5/19 W Principal Componenet Analysis (Sewoong) HTF 2.3-2.5, 7.11, 8.2
Murphy 6.1-6.3, 12.1.0, 12.2
Daume, chapter 15
  Optional: HTF 5.9, 12.3; 14.5
Lecture 23 (Sewoong), Annotated Lecture 23 (Sewoong)
5/21 F PCA and matrix completion (Sewoong) PCA note 1 and notes 2,
Matrix completion paper analyzing gradient descent paper
, Influential paper on deanonymizing netflix challenge using IMDB paper
Lecture 24 (Sewoong), Annotated Lecture 24 (Sewoong)
5/24 M k-means and Gaussian mixtures (Sewoong) HTF 14.3.6-14.3.7
Murphy 11.2-11.4,
k-means ++ paper
Lecture 25 (Sewoong), Annotated Lecture 25 (Sewoong)
5/26 W Feature Extraction (Simon) Dive into Deep Learning, Zhang et al Combined Lectures 26, 27(Simon), Lectures 26 (Simon), Annotated Lecture 26(Simon)
5/28 F Feature Extraction (Simon) Dive into Deep Learning, Zhang et al Lectures 27 (Simon), Annotated Lecture 27(Simon)
5/31 M Memorial day (no lecture)
6/2 W Trees, Random forests, boosting (Simon) Murphy 16.2, 16.4
Lecture 28 (Simon), Annotated Lecture 28 (Simon)
6/4 F Robust machine learning (Sewoong) Lecture 29 (Sewoong), Annotated Lecture 29 (Sewoong)