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Schedule

This tentative schedule will be updated during the semester.

August

Week	Topic	Material	Reading	Assignments
Week 1: Aug 24, 26	Overview of course. Review of neural networks training and use.	01 Introduction to CS545 02 Searching for Good Weights in a Linear Model		Ungraded Quiz 1 due Friday, August 27, 10:00 PM
Week 2: Aug 31, Sept 2	Regression with neural networks.	03 Fitting Simple Models Using Gradient Descent in the Squared Error 04 Introduction to Neural Networks

Week	Topic	Material	Reading	Assignments
Week 3: Sept 7, 9	A1 questions. Optimizers. Neural Network class.	05 Optimizers		A1 Three-Layer Neural Network due Wednesday, Sept 8th, at 10:00 PM
Week 4: Sept 14, 16	A2. Autoencoders. Classification.	06 Autoencoders 07 Introduction to Classification
Week 5: Sept 21, 23	A2 questions. Classification.	08 Classification with Linear Logistic Regression 09 Classification with Nonlinear Logistic Regression Using Neural Networks		A2 NeuralNetwork Class due Tuesday, Sept. 21, at 10:00 PM . Examles of good solutions are available here.
Week 6: Sept 28, 30	Lectures and Chuck's office hours canceled this week. Prerecorded lectures available in Echo360 in Canvas on Jax and Streamlit packages.	10 JAX neuralnetworks_app.tar	JAX Ecosystem Streamlit

Week	Topic	Material	Reading	Assignments
Week 7: Oct 5, 7	Convolutional neural networks.	11 Convolutional Neural Networks CNN Backpropagation Notes	The Great AI Reckoning	A3 Neural Network Classifier due Friday, Oct 8, at 10:00 PM.
Week 8: Oct 12, 14	Pytorch. Convolutional neural nets	12 Introduction to Pytorch 13 Convolutional Neural Networks in Pytorch 14 Convolutional Neural Networks in Numpy
Week 9: Oct 19, 21	Reinforcement Learning	15 Introduction to Reinforcement Learning 16 Reinforcement Learning with Neural Network as Q Function 17 Reinforcement Learning for Two Player Games 18 Reinforcement Learning to Control a Marble
Week 10: Oct 26, 28				A4.2 Convolutional Neural Networks due Monday, Oct 25, at 10:00 PM.

Week	Topic	Material	Reading	Assignments
Week 15: Dec 7, 9
Dec 13-17	Final Exam Week	No Exams in this course