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Schedule

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export PATH=/usr/local/anaconda/bin:$PATH

This is a tentative schedule of CS545 topics for Fall, 2020. This will be updated during the summer and as the fall semester continues.

August

Week	Topic	Material	Reading	Assignments
Week 1: Aug 24 - Aug 28	Overview of course and the machine learning field. Reminder of how python is used in machine learning.	01 Introduction to CS545 02 Searching for Good Weights in a Linear Model	From Python to Numpy, Chapters 1 - 2 Scipy Lectures, Section 1 Visualization with Matplotlib Deep Learning, Chapters 1 - 5.1.4

Week	Topic	Assignments
Week 2: Aug 31 - Sept 4	Review of gradients.
Week 3: Sept 7 - Sept 11	Implementing neural networks with numpy to predict real-valued variables. Deriving gradients.	A1.0 Polynomial Model due Tuesday, Sept 8th, at 10:00 PM
Week 4: Sept 14 - Sept 18	Error gradients for neural networks as matrix equations.
Week 5: Sept 21 - 25	Introduction to Pytorch and automatic differentation.

Week	Topic	Reading	Assignments
Week 6: Sept 28 - Oct 2	Neural Network class. Classification.
Week 7: Oct 5 - Oct 9	Classification with multiple labels.	Paper on need for causality
Week 8: Oct 12 - Oct 16	Convolutional neural networks in numpy, pytorch and tensorflow.
Week 9: Oct 19 - Oct 23	Convolutional nets. Reinforcement learning.		Project proposal due at 10 pm Wednesday evening, October 21st.
Week 10: Oct 26 - Oct 30	Reinforcement learning.	Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction, by Richard Sutton and Andrew Barto, 2nd edition

Week	Topic	Reading
Week 11: Nov 2 - Nov 6	Transfer learning in Reinforcement Learning Natural language processing.
Week 12: November 11 - 15	Natural Language Processing. Deep learning application development.	How to Code the Transformer in Pytorch by Samuel Lynn-Evans
Week 13: Nov 16 - Nov 20
Nov 23 - Nov 27	Fall Recess!

Week	Topic	Material	Reading	Assignments
Week 14: Nov 30 - Dec 4
Week 15: Dec 7 - Dec 11
Finals Week: Dec 14 - Dec 18				Final Project Reports due 10pm Tuesday.