COMP 411: Tutorial on Machine Learning Fall 2021
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	ML: 13.3-13.5: 6.4-6.5    # DAY DATE TOPIC READING OUT DUE Week 1 1 Tu 7-Sep-21 Intro. Supervised, unsupervised, reinforcement learning ML: 1.1-1.5 DL: 5.1.1-5.1.3 2 Th 9-Sep-21 Machine learning concepts. Learning tasks ML: 2.1-2.4 HW 1                 Week 2 3 Tu 14-Sep-21 Probability. Conditional, independence, Bayes' formula DL: 3.1-3.8 4 Th 16-Sep-21 Random variables. Discrete, continuous, expectation HW 2 HW 1                 Week 3 5 Tu 21-Sep-21 Decision trees. Representation, learning ML: 3.1-3.8     6 Th 23-Sep-21 Decision trees. Learning, evaluation HW 3 HW 2             Week 4 7 Tu 28-Sep-21 Machine learning concepts. Training and evaluation  ML: 5.1-5.7 8 Th 30-Sep-21 Useful math and linear algebra. Vectors, linear functions DL: 2.1-2.3 HW 4 HW 3                 Week 5 9 Tu 5-Oct-21 Linear models. Classifiers and regressors 10 Th 7-Oct-21 Linear regression. Least mean squares regression DL: 4.1-4.3.1,       5.1.4, 5.9 HW 4                 Week 6 11 Tu 12-Oct-21 Linear classification. Perceptron ML: 4.1-4.4 HW 5   12 Th 14-Oct-21 Handling overfitting. Regularization                 Week 7 13 Tu 19-Oct-21 Gradient Descent Recap     14 Th 21-Oct-21 Perceptron Recap                 Week 8 Tu 26-Oct-21 FALL BREAK 15 Th 28-Oct-21 Neural network models. Multi-layer perceptron ML: 4.5.1, DL: 6.1 HW 5                 Week 9 16 Tu 2-Nov-21 Neural network models. Prediction (the forward pass) HW 6 17 Th 4-Nov-21 Neural networks. Optimization                       Week 10 18 Tu 9-Nov-21 Neural network models. Training (backpropagation) For additional background read DL: 6.2-6.6 ML: 4.5.2-4.7 HW 7 HW 6 19 Th 11-Nov-21 Neural network models. Training (issues in practice)                 Week 11 20 Tu 16-Nov-21 Neural network models. Tensorflow intro Tensorflow library HW 8 HW 7 21 Th 18-Nov-21 Neural network models. More Tensorflow                 Week 12 22 Tu 23-Nov-21 Neural network models. Recurrent neural networks 1 ML: 13.3-13.5 HW 8 Th 25-Nov-21 THANKSGIVING                 Week 13 23 Tu 30-Nov-21 Neural network models. Recurrent neural networks 2 RNN Training, RNN Effectiveness 24 Th 2-Dec-21 Neural network models. Long short-term memory ML: 13.6-13.8 HW9                 Week 14 25 Tu 7-Dec-21 Neural network models. Wrap-up 26 Th 9-Dec-21 Neural network models. Wrap-up Neural Network Zoo HW9