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Jan 11
Lecture 1: Course description and policy.
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Jan 13
Lecture 2: Curve fitting, error function, overfitting, regularization,  and maximum likelihood stimation for Gaussian distributions
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Jan 18
Lecture 3: Bayesian predictive distributions, brief review of  probability theory, decision theory, and elements in information theory (entropy, mutual information and  KL divergence) PDF slides
Jan 20
Lecture 4: Entropy, mutual information, KL divergence, maximum likelihood and Bayesian estimation for Bernoulli distributions, Beta distributions, conjugate priors
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Jan 25
Lecture 5: Dirichilet distributions, ML and Bayesian estimation of multinomial distributions
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Jan 27
Lecture 6: ML and Bayesian estimation of Gaussian distributions
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Feb 1
Class canceled due to the winter storm

Feb 3
Lecture 7: t-distributions, mixture of Gaussians, exponential family, sufficient statistics, ML and Bayesian estimation for exponential family
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Feb 8
Lecture 8: Non-informative prior, Nonparametric methods, Parzen windows, K-nearest neighbors
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Feb 10
Lecture 9: K-nearest neighbors, Linear Regression with basis functions  PDF slides
Feb 15 Lecture 10: Ridge regression, Lasso
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Feb 22
Lecture 11: Bayesian regression, Model comparison, Bayes factor, empirical Bayes
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Feb 24
Lecture 12: Empriical Bayes, Linear Classification Models, Margin, Fishe'sr Linear Discriminant PDF slides
March 1
Lecture 13: Fishe'sr Linear Discriminant, Perceptron, Generative Models for classification, Linear Gaussian Classifier, Logistiic Regression PDF slides
March 3
Lecture 14: Probit Regression, Newton-Raphson Optitimization, Laplace's approximation, Bayesian logistic regression, Kernel methods PDF slides
March 8
Lecture 15: Kernel construction, Kernel ridge regression, Kernel PCA
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March 8
Lecture 16: Introduction to Gaussian processes, consistency condition
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March 15,17
Spring Break

March 22
Lecture 17: Gaussian process regression, automatic relevance determination, Gaussian process classfication
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March 24
Lecture 18: Midterm review
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March 29
Lecture 19: Support Vector Machines for cassification, Introduction to Lagrange multipliers PDF slides
April 5
Lecture 20: Karush-Kuhn-Tucker (KKT) condition, Support vector machines for classification and regression
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April 7
Lecture 21: SVM regression, Bayesian networks, conditional independence, explaining away effect, D-separation PDF slides
April 14
Lecture 22: Markov blankets,  Markov random fields,  inference on chain
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April 19
Lecture 23: Factor graphs, the sum-product algorithm (belief propagation), the junction tree algorithm
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April 21
Lecture 24: The max-sum algorithm, K-mean clustering,  mixture of Gaussians, expectation maximization, lower-bound interpretation of EM
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April 26
Lecture 25: EM, Hidden Markov models, and course review
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