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====== Schedule ====== ---- Video of the lectures is available via the [[http://echo.colostate.edu:8080/ess/portal/section/0857d976-41e9-4ffd-a18d-144bc57b08ea | echo360 portal]] of the course ===== August ===== |< 100% 17% 40% 20% 13% >| | ^ Topics ^ Reading ^ Assignments ^ ^ Week 1: August 26-30 | | | | | Tuesday | Course introduction ({{wiki:01_intro.pdf | slides}}). | Prolog and Chapter 1 in the textbook | | | Thursday | Course introduction (continued). Short intro to python [ [[notes:python_getting_started | notes]] ]. | Prolog and Chapter 1 | | ===== September ===== |< 100% 17% 40% 20% 13% >| | ^ Topics ^ Reading ^ Assignments ^ ^ Week 2: Sept 2-6 | | | | | Tuesday | Two simple linear models: the closest centroid algorithm and the perceptron algorithm ({{wiki:02_linear.pdf | slides}}) | Chapter 7 | [[assignments:assignment1 | assignment 1]] is out | | Thursday | Evaluating and using ML classifiers({{wiki:03_classifier_evaluation.pdf | slides}}). And here's a [[notes:evaluating_classifier_performance | demo]] of the process in PyML. | Chapter 2 | | ^ Week 3: Sept 9-13 | | | | | Tuesday | Overview of Latex. Go over the code for the [[code:perceptron|perceptron]] classifier. | Chapter 2,7 | | | Thursday | Classifier evaluation (continued) | Chapter 2 | | ^ Week 4: Sept 16-20 | | | | | Tuesday | Linear regression ({{wiki:04_linear_regression.pdf | slides}}). | Chapter 7 | | | Thursday | Linear regression - continued (6 slides were added to tuesday's batch). Here's code for [[code:ridge_regression|ridge regression]] that you can try out in PyML. | Chapter 7 | Assignment 1 is due. [[assignments:assignment2 | Assignment 2]] is out | ^ Week 5: Sept 23-27 | | | | | Tuesday | Large margin classifiers: support vector machines ({{wiki:05_svm.pdf | slides}}). | Chapter 7 | | | Thursday | support vector machines (continued). | Chapter 7 | | ===== October ===== |< 100% 17% 40% 20% 13% >| | ^ Topics ^ Reading ^ Assignments ^ ^ Week 6: Sept 30 - Oct 4 | | | | | Tuesday | SVMs and regularization; SVMs for unbalanced data ({{wiki:05_svm_unbalanced.pdf | slides}}) | A nice tutorial on SVMs: [[http://www.cs.colostate.edu/~asa/pdfs/howto.pdf| A user's guide to support vector machines]]. | | | Thursday | Extending SVMs to nonlinear classification ({{wiki:06_kernels.pdf | slides}}). Here's a nice [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3liCbRZPrZA|video]] that illustrates the idea. | Chapter 7 | Assignment 2 is due on Friday | ^ Week 7: Oct 7 - 11 | | | | | Tuesday | Kernel classifiers: kernel versions of the perceptron and linear regression ({{wiki:07_kernel_algorithms.pdf | slides}}) and multi-class classification with binary classifiers ({{wiki:08_multi_class.pdf|slides}}) | Chapter 7.5, Chapter 3 | [[assignments:assignment3 | Assignment 3]] is out | | Thursday | Evaluating and using ML classifiers: model selection ({{wiki:09_evaluation.pdf | slides}}) | paper on [[http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.79.2501&rep=rep1&type=pdf| Dataset selection]] | | ^ Week 8: Oct 14 - 18 | | | | | Tuesday | More on kernel functions ({{wiki:10_more_kernels.pdf | slides}}) | | | | Thursday | Kernel methods for protein-protein interactions ({{wiki:ppi545.pdf | slides}}) | A. Ben-Hur and W.S. Noble. [[ http://www.cs.colostate.edu/~asa/pdfs/sppii.pdf|Kernel methods for predicting protein-protein interactions]]. Bioinformatics 21(Suppl. 1): i38-i46, 2005. | | ^ Week 9: Oct 21 - 25 | | | | | Tuesday | Distance based models and nearest neighbor classifiers ({{wiki:11_distances.pdf | slides}}) | Chapter 8 | Assignment 3 is due. [[assignments:assignment4 | Assignment 4]] is out | | Thursday | Distance based clustering ({{wiki:12_clustering.pdf | slides}}) | Chapter 8 | | ^ Week 10: Oct 28 - Nov 1 | | | | | Tuesday | Probability theory, probabilistic models, and naive Bayes classification ({{wiki:13_naive_bayes.pdf | slides}}) | Chapter 9 | Assignment 4 is due. [[assignments:assignment5 | Assignment 5]] is out | | Thursday | Continue discussion of naive Bayes. Obtaining probabilities from linear classifiers ({{wiki:14_callibration.pdf | slides}}) | Chapter 7.4 | | ===== November ===== |< 100% 17% 40% 20% 13% >| ^ Week 11: Nov 4 - Nov 8 | | | | | Tuesday | Logistic regression ({{wiki:15_logistic_regression.pdf | slides}}) | Chapter 9 | Assignment 4 is due. [[assignments:assignment5 | Assignment 5]] is out | | Thursday | Features and feature selection ({{wiki:16_features.pdf | slides}}) | Chapter 10 | Project proposal is due on friday | ^ Week 12: Nov 11 - Nov 15 | | | | | Tuesday | Potential [[feature_selection_bias| bias]] when using feature selection. Principal components analysis (PCA) ({{wiki:17_pca.pdf | slides}}) | Chapter 10 | | | Thursday | Decision trees ({{wiki:18_decision_trees.pdf | slides}}) | Chapter 5 | | ^ Week 13: Nov 18 - Nov 22 | | | | | Tuesday | Ensemble methods ({{wiki:19_ensembles.pdf | slides}}) | Chapter 11 | Assignment 5 is due. | | Thursday | An application of ML in bioinformatics: prediction of Calmodulin binding sites ({{wiki:20_mi1.pdf | slides}}) | F.A. Minhas and A. Ben-Hur. [[ http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/content/28/18/i416.full | Multiple instance learning of Calmodulin binding sites]]. Bioinformatics 28(18): i416-i422, 2012 | | ===== December ===== |< 100% 17% 40% 20% 13% >| ^ Week 14: Dec 2 - Dec 6 | | | | | Tuesday | Neural networks ({{wiki:21_nn.pdf | slides}}) | | | | Thursday | Neural networks (cont); course summary ({{wiki:22_epilogue.pdf | slides}}) | | | ^ Week 15: Dec 9 - Dec 13 | | | | | Tuesday | No class today | | | | Thursday | Student presentations | | | ^ Finals week: Dec 16 - Dec 20 | | | | | Tuesday | Student presentations 5-8pm at CSB425 | | | | Thursday | Student presentations 5-8pm at CSB425 | | |