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The following schedule is tentative and is being updated.

August

Week Topic Lecture Notes Reading Assignments
Week 1:
Aug 22, 24
Course overview. Jupyter notebooks. 01 Introduction to CS545
02 Searching for Good Weights in a Linear Model
JupyterLab Introduction, watch the video then play with jupyter lab.
The Batch from DeepLearning.AI. Yay, Colorado!
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 29, 31
Jupyter notebook animations. Optimization algorithms. Simple linear and nonlinear models. 01a Simple Animations
02 Searching for Good Weights in a Linear Model
02a Generative AI--Friend or Foe
03 Searching for Good Weights in a Linear Model

September

Week Topic Lecture Notes Reading Assignments
Week 3:
Sept 5, 7
Chuck's office hours Thursday will be from 2 to 3:30.
Confidence intervals. Introduction to neural networks. 04 Training Multiple Models to Obtain Confidence Intervals
05 Introduction to Neural Networks
A1 due Friday, September 8th, 10:00 PM
Week 4:
Sept 12, 14
Design of NeuralNetwork class. Optimizers. Weight Initialization for Deep Learning Neural Networks, by Jason Brownlee
Week 5:
Sept 19, 21
Introduction to classification. A2 NeuralNetwork Class due Wednesday, September 20th, 10:00 PM
Week 6:
Sept 26, 28
Classification. Convolutional neural networks.

October

Week Topic Lecture Notes Reading Assignments
Week 7:
Oct 3, 5
Introduction to Jax and Pytorch.
Week 8:
Oct 10, 12
More convolutional neural networks.
Week 9:
Oct 17, 19
Introduction to reinforcement leanring. Learning to play games.
Week 10:
Oct 24, 26
Reinforcement learning for control of dynamic systems.

November

Week Topic Lecture Notes Reading Assignments
Week 11:
Oct 31 Nov 2
Recurrent neural networks.
Week 12:
Nov 7, 9
Unsupervised learning. Dimensionality reduction. Autoencorders.
Week 13:
Nov 14, 16
Clustering.
Fall Break:
Nov 20-24
No classes
Week 14:
Nov 28, 30
Ensemble methods. Mixture-of-experts. Transformers.

December

Week Topic Lecture Notes Reading Assignments
Week 15:
Dec 5, 7
Other topics in current research. AI Scientists’ Perspectives on AI
Dec 11-15 Final Exam Week No Exams in this course
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