CS 457/557: Machine Learning
Prof. Jason Sauppe | Fall 2024This 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. | 09/02 | —No Class— | ||
| Wed. | 09/04 | Syllabus, 19.1 | ||||
| Fri. | 09/06 | 19.2 | ||||
| Linear Regression | 02 | Mon. | 09/09 | 19.6.1 | ||
| Wed. | 09/11 | |||||
| Fri. | 09/13 | 19.6.3 | Assignment 01 available | |||
| Gradient Descent & Polynomial Regression |
03 | Mon. | 09/16 | 19.6.2 | ||
| Wed. | 09/18 | |||||
| Fri. | 09/20 | |||||
| Model Selection & Regularization |
04 | Mon. | 09/23 | 19.4.1, 19.4.4 | ||
| Wed. | 09/25 | 19.4.3 | ||||
| Fri. | 09/27 | |||||
| Linear Classification | 05 | Mon. | 09/30 | 19.6.5 | ||
| Wed. | 10/02 | 19.6.4 | ||||
| Fri. | 10/04 | Assignment 01 due | ||||
| Evaluating Classifiers & Decision Trees |
06 | Mon. | 10/07 | |||
| Wed. | 10/09 | 19.3.1, 19.3.2 | ||||
| Fri. | 10/11 | 19.3.3-5 | Assignment 02 available | |||
| Decision Trees & Midterm |
07 | Mon. | 10/14 | |||
| Wed. | 10/16 | Review | ||||
| Fri. | 10/18 | Exam | ||||
| k-Nearest Neighbors & Support Vector Machines |
08 | Mon. | 10/21 | 19.7.1 | ||
| Wed. | 10/23 | |||||
| Fri. | 10/25 | 19.7.2, 19.7.3 | ||||
| SVMs & Neural Networks |
09 | Mon. | 10/28 | 19.7.5 | ||
| Wed. | 10/30 | 19.7.6 | ||||
| Fri. | 11/01 | Assignment 02 due | ||||
| Neural Networks | 10 | Mon. | 11/04 | |||
| Wed. | 11/06 | 21.1, 21.2 | ||||
| Fri. | 11/08 | Assignment 03 available | ||||
| Neural Networks & Deep Learning |
11 | Mon. | 11/11 | 21.4, 21.5 | ||
| Wed. | 11/13 | |||||
| Fri. | 11/15 | 21.3, 21.6 | ||||
| Markov Decision Processes |
12 | Mon. | 11/18 | 17.1.1 | ||
| Wed. | 11/20 | 17.1.2 | ||||
| Fri. | 11/22 | 17.2.1, 17.2.2 | ||||
| Reinforcement Learning |
13 | Mon. | 11/25 | 22.1, | Assignment 04 available | |
| Wed. | 11/27 | 22.2 | ||||
| Fri. | 11/29 | —No Class— | ||||
| Reinforcement Learning |
14 | Mon. | 12/02 | 22.3 | ||
| Wed. | 12/04 | 22.4 | ||||
| Fri. | 12/06 | 22.4.3, 22.7 | ||||
| Additional Topics & Review |
15 | Mon. | 12/09 | —(Office hours in classroom)— | Assignment 03 due | |
| Wed. | 12/11 | Review | Assignment 04 due | |||
| Fri. | 12/13 | —No Class— | ||||
| Final Exam | 16 | Wed. | 12/18 | —Final Exam (10:00 AM – 12:00 PM, Centennial 2205) — | ||