Tentative Schedule

Date Content Reading Lecture slides
Probabilistic graphical models Optional reading: Lauritzen Ch3, KollerFriedman Ch3-4,
1/5 Welcome/overview probability.pdf and statistics.pdf (my notes on background materials to help with hw0) overview.pdf
prelecture_note1.pdf
livelecture_note1.pdf
1/7 Directed graphical models graph.pdf
markov.pdf
Proof of equivalence of Markov properties
prelecture_note2.pdf livelecture_note2.pdf
1/12 Undirected graphical models prelecture_note3.pdf
livelecture_note3.pdf
1/14 Relations between graphical models prelecture_note4.pdf
livelecture_note4.pdf
Belief propagation Optional reading: KollerFriedman Ch9,10,13,7, Lauritzen Ch5
1/19 Sum-product algorithm (belieif propagation) and max-product algorithm bp.pdf
maxproduct.pdf
prelecture_note5.pdf
livelecture_note5.pdf
1/21 prelecture_note6.pdf
livelecture_note6.pdf
1/26 Sum-product algorithm on factor graphs prelecture_note7.pdf
livelecture_note7.pdf
1/28 Density evolution densityevolution.pdf prelecture_note8.pdf
livelecture_note8.pdf
2/2 Density evolution prelecture_note9.pdf
livelecture_note9.pdf
2/4 Gaussian graphical models gauss.pdf prelecture_note10.pdf
livelecture_note10.pdf
2/9 Gaussian Belief Propagation prelecture_note11.pdf
livelecture_note11.pdf
Variational metohds and sampling Optional reading: KollerFriedman Ch11-12,
2/11 Variational methods variational.pdf prelecture_note12.pdf
livelecture_note12.pdf
2/16 Variational methods prelecture_note13.pdf
livelecture_note13.pdf
2/18 Variational methods prelecture_note14.pdf
livelecture_note14.pdf
2/23 Markov chain Monte Carlo mcmc.pdf prelecture_note15.pdf
livelecture_note15.pdf
2/25 Markov chain Monte Carlo prelecture_note16.pdf
livelecture_note16.pdf
Learning graphical models Optional reaeding: KollerFridman Ch16-20,
3/2 Learning graphical models learning.pdf prelecture_note17.pdf
livelecture_note17.pdf
3/4 Learning graphical models prelecture_note18.pdf
livelecture_note18.pdf
3/9 Causal structure discovery prelecture_note19.pdf
livelecture_note19.pdf
3/11 Causal structure discovery / Summary prelecture_note20.pdf