CMPSCI 689

Advanced Machine Learning

Spring 2003


Course Schedule

(Will be revised and expanded!)

Lecture Date Class topic Relevant Reading
Lecture 1 Jan 28 Introduction and course overview
Lectures 2, 3, 4 Jan 30, Feb 4, 6 Decision and Regression Trees (Ugoff)
Lectures 5, 6 Feb 11, 13 Ensemble Methods (Barto)
Lectures 7, 8, 9 Feb 18, 20, 25 Regression (Barto)
Lectures 10, 11, 12 Feb 27, Mar 4, 6 Computational Learning Theory and Support Vector Machines (Siegelmann)
Lectures 13-18 Mar 11, 13, 25, 27, April 1, 3 Learning and Bayes Nets (Mahadevan and Raphael(?) )
Lectures 19, 20 April 8, 10 Constructive methods (Utgoff)
Lectures 21, 22 April 15, 17 Relational Learning (Jensen)
Lectures 22, 24 April 22, 24 Semi-supervised Learning (McCallum)
Lecture 25 May 1 Active Learning (McCallum)
Lectures 26, 27 May 6, 8 Advanced clustering (Seigelmann)
Lecture 28 May 13 Discussion