Topic
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Date
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Notes
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Introduction, Bayesian learning, and Python
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09/06/2017
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Introduction
Background
Unix and login to NJIT machines
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Bayesian learning
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09/11/2017
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Bayesian learning
Bayesian decision theory example problem
Textbook reading: 4.1 to 4.5, 5.1, 5.2, 5.4, 5.5
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Python
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09/13/2017
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Python
More on Python
Python cheat sheet
Python practice problems
Python example 1
Python example 2
Python example 3
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Nearest means and naive-bayes
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09/18/2017
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Nearest mean algorithm
Nearest means (part I)
Nearest means (part II)
Naive Bayes algorithm
Assignment 1
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Kernel nearest means
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09/20/2017
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Datasets
Balanced error
Balanced error in Perl
Kernels
More on kernels
Kernel nearest means
Script to compute average test error
Textbook reading: 13.5, 13.6, 13.7
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Separating hyperplanes and least squares
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09/25/2017
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Hyperplanes as classifiers
Least squares
Textbook reading: 10.2, 10.3, 10.6, 11.2, 11.3, 11.5, 11.7
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Multi-layer perceptrons
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09/27/2017
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Multi-layer perceptrons
Assignment 2: Implement gradient descent for least squares
Predicted labels for ionosphere trainlabels.0 training and eta=.0001
Least squares in Perl
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Support vector machines
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10/02/2017
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Textbook reading: 13.1 to 13.3
Support vector machines
Assignment 3: Implement hinge loss gradient descent
Efficiency of coordinate
descent methods on huge-scale optimization problems
Hardness of separating hyperplanes
Learning Linear and Kernel
Predictors with the 01 Loss Function
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More on kernels
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10/04/2017
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Kernels
Multiple kernel learning by Lanckriet et. al.
Multiple kernel learning by Gonen and Alpaydin
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Logistic regression
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10/09/2017
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Logistic regression
Solver for regularized risk minimization
Textbook reading: 10.7
Assignment 4: Implement logistic discrimination algorithm
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Empirical and regularized risk minimization
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10/11/2017
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Empirical risk minimization
Regularized risk minimization
Regularization and overfitting
Solver for regularized risk minimization
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Mid-term exam review
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10/16/2017
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Midterm exam review sheet
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Mid-term exam
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10/18/2017
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Feature selection
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10/23/2017
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Feature selection
Feature selection (additional notes)
A comparison of univariate and multivariate gene selection techniques for classification of cancer datasets
Feature selection with SVMs and F-score
Ranking genomic causal variants with chi-square and SVM
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Dimensionality reduction
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10/25/2017
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Unsupervised dimensionality reduction
Dimensionality reduction (additional notes)
Proof of JL Lemma
Textbook reading: Chapter 6 sections 6.1, 6.3, and 6.6
Course project
Training dataset
Training labels
Test dataset
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Dimensionality reduction
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10/30/2017
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Supervised dimensionality reduction
Maximum margin criterion
Laplacian linear discriminant analysis
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| Decision trees, bagging, boosting, and stacking
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11/01/2017
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Decision trees, bagging, boosting, and stacking
Decision trees (additional notes)
Ensemble methods (additional notes)
Assignment 5: Implement a decision stump in Python
Univariate vs. multivariate trees
Gradient boosted trees: Slides by Tianqi Chen
Textbook reading: Chapters 9 and 17 sections 9.2, 17.4, 17.6, 17.7
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| Ensemble methods, random projections, and stacking
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11/06/2017
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Stacking
Random projections in
dimensionality reduction
Assignment 6: Implement a bagged decision stump in Python
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| Regression
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11/08/2017
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Regression
Textbook reading: Chapter 4 section 4.6, Chapter 10 section 10.8, Chapter 13 section 13.10
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Unsupervised learning - clustering
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11/13/2017
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Clustering
Assignment 7: Implement k-means clustering in Python
Tutorial on spectral clustering
K-means via PCA
Convergence properties of k-means
Textbook reading: Chapter 7 sections 7.1, 7.3, 7.7, and 7.8
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Clustering
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11/15/2017
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Clustering
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11/20/2017
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| Feature learning
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11/27/2017
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Random Bits Regression: a Strong General Predictor for Big
Data
Learning Feature Representations
with K-means
Analysis of single-layer networks in unsupervised feature learning
On Random Weights and Unsupervised Feature Learning
Feature learning with
k-means
Assignment 8 (optional extra credit)
Random hyperplanes
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| Hidden Markov models
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11/29/2017
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Hidden Markov models
Textbook reading: Chapter 15 (all of it)
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| Convolutional neural networks and multi-class classification
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12/04/2017
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Convolutional neural networks for image recognition
Gradient based learning applied in document recognition
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| Comparison of classifiers and big data
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12/06/2017
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ROC area under curve
Comparison of classifiers
Do we Need Hundreds of Classifiers to Solve Real World Classification Problems?
An Empirical Comparison of Supervised Learning Algorithms
Statistical Comparisons of Classifiers over Multiple Data Sets
Big data
Mini-batch k-means
Stochastic gradient descent
Mapreduce for machine
learning on multi-core
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Some advanced topics and papers
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12/11/2017
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Representation learning
Geometrical and Statistical properties of systems of linear inequalities with
applications in pattern recognition (Cover 1965)
Approximations by superpositions of sigmoidal functions (Cybenko 1989)
Approximation Capabilities of Multilayer Feedforward Networks (Hornik 1991)
ImageNet
classification with deep neural networks (Krizhevsky et. al. 2012)
Random projections preserve margin
Random projections preserve margin II
Python Image Library
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| Review for final
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12/13/2016
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Final exam for review sheet
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