CS545: Machine Learning

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August

Week	Topic	Lecture Notes	Reading	Assignments
Week 1: Aug 20, 22	Course overview. Machine Learning and AI: History and Present Boom Jupyter notebooks.	01 Introduction to CS545 01a Simple Animations 02 Searching for Good Weights in a Linear Model	JupyterLab Introduction, watch the video then play with jupyter lab. What is Data Analysis? How to Visualize Data with Python, Numpy, Pandas, Matplotlib & Seaborn Tutorial, by Aakash NS	Not graded: Please fill out this anonymous survey before Thursday class.
Week 2: Aug 27, 29	Jupyter notebook animations. Optimization algorithms. Simple linear and nonlinear models.

Week	Topic	Reading
Week 3: Sept 3, 5 Chuck's office hours Thursday will be from 2 to 3:30.	Confidence intervals. Introduction to neural networks.
Week 4: Sept 10, 12	Design of NeuralNetwork class. Optimizers.	Weight Initialization for Deep Learning Neural Networks, by Jason Brownlee
Week 5: Sept 17, 19	Using optimizers.
Week 6: Sept 24, 26	Early stopping (new version of optimizers). A3. Introduction to classification.

Week	Topic	Reading
Week 7: Oct 1, 3	Classification with QDA, LDA, and linear logistic regression.
Week 8: Oct 8, 10	Classification with Nonlinear Logistic Regression. Introduction to Reinforcement Learning.
Week 9: Oct 15, 17	Reinforcement learning with Q Function as Neural Network. Learning to play games.	Last Week in AI Geoffrey Hinton: AI Dangers, on 60 Minutes
Week 10: Oct 22, 24	Modular framework for reinforcement learning. Convolutional Neural Networks.
Week 11: Oct 29, 31	Pytorch. Jax. Ray.	President Biden's Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence

Week	Topic	Reading
Week 12: Nov 5, 7	Convolutional Neural Networks.
Week 13: Nov 12, 14	Ensembles. Mixture of Experts.
Week 14: Nov 19, 21	Clustering. K-Nearest Neighbors. Web Apps with Streamlit.	ChatGPT generates fake data set to support scientific hypothesis
Fall Break: Nov 25-29	No classes.

Week	Topic	Lecture Notes	Reading	Assignments
Week 15: Dec 3, 5	Word embeddings. Transformers.
Dec 10-12	Final Exam Week	No Exams in this course