CS 457/557: Machine Learning

Prof. Jason Sauppe | Fall 2022

This page contains a course schedule for CS 457/557. Rows in gray are tentative and will be updated as the course progresses. Other course content (e.g., assignments) can be found on Canvas.

Content Week Day Date In-Class Reading Assignments
Intro 01 Mon. 09/05 No Class
Wed. 09/07 Syllabus, 19.1
Fri. 09/09 19.2
Linear Regression 02 Mon. 09/12 19.6.1
Wed. 09/14 19.6.2
Fri. 09/16 19.6.3 Assignment 01 available
Model Selection
& Regularization
03 Mon. 09/19 19.4.1
Wed. 09/21 19.4.4
Fri. 09/23 19.4.3
Linear Classification 04 Mon. 09/26 19.6.5
Wed. 09/28 19.6.4
Fri. 09/30 Assignment 01 due
Decision Trees 05 Mon. 10/03
Wed. 10/05 19.3.1, 19.3.2
Fri. 10/07 19.3.3 Assignment 02 available
Decision Trees &
k-Nearest Neighbors
06 Mon. 10/10 19.3.4, 19.3.5
Wed. 10/12 19.7.1
Fri. 10/14 19.7.2, 19.7.3
Midterm 07 Mon. 10/17 No Class
Wed. 10/19 Review
Fri. 10/21 Exam
Support Vector
Machines
08 Mon. 10/24 19.7.5
Wed. 10/26 Assignment 02 due on Thursday
Fri. 10/28 19.7.6
Neural Networks 09 Mon. 10/31 21.1, 21.2
Wed. 11/02
Fri. 11/04 21.4, 21.5 Assignment 03 available
Deep Learning &
Markov Decision
Processes
10 Mon. 11/07 21.3, 21.6
Wed. 11/09 17.1.1
Fri. 11/11
MDPs &
Reinforcement
Learning
11 Mon. 11/14 17.1.2
Wed. 11/16 17.2.1, 17.2.2
Fri. 11/18 22.1, 22.2
Reinforcement
Learning
12 Mon. 11/21 22.3
Wed. 11/23 Class Cancelled
Fri. 11/25 No Class
Reinforcement
Learning
13 Mon. 11/28 Assignment 03 due; Assignment 04 available
Wed. 11/30 22.4
Fri. 12/02 22.4.3, 22.7
Additional Topics 14 Mon. 12/05
Wed. 12/07
Fri. 12/09
Additional Topics
& Review
15 Mon. 12/12
Wed. 12/14 Review Assignment 04 due
Fri. 12/16 No Class
Final Exam 16 Tue. 12/20 Final Exam (12:15 PM – 2:15 PM, Centennial 2301) —