Week/Day | Date | Topic | Notes |
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1 T | Jan 21 | Overview of the class |
Slides Readings: Barber Chap 1 and 2; KF Chap 1. |
1 R | Jan 23 |
Directed Graphical Models
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Slides; Notes. Readings: Barber 3.3.1; KF 3.1-3.2.2 [Optional] Video: Sam Roweis -- Probabilistic Graphical Models. [Optional] Video: Daphne Koller -- Intro to Probabilistic Graphical Models. |
2 T | Jan 28 |
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Slides; Notes. Readings: Barber 3.3; KF 3.3.1-3.3.2 [Optional] Video: Daphne Koller -- Flow of Probabilistic Influence. |
2 R | Jan 30 |
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Slides; Notes. Readings: KF 3.2, 3.4 [Optional] Video: Daphne Koller -- Independencies in BNs. |
3 T | Feb 4 |
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Slides; Notes. Readings: KF 16, 17.1-17.4; Barber 9.1-9.4 [Optional] Video: Daphne Koller -- MLE for BNs; Bayesian Estimation for BNs. |
3 R | Feb 6 |
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HW1 is out. Slides; Notes. Readings: KF 18.1, 18.3; Barber 9.5, 10.4 [Optional] Video: Daphne Koller -- Structure learning overview; Likelihood Score; Chow-Liu. |
4 T | Feb 11 |
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Slides. Readings: KF 18.4; Barber 9.5, 10.4 [Optional] Video: Daphne Koller -- Structure learning via search; |
4 R | Feb 13 | VT closed due to inclement weather. No class. | |
5 T | Feb 18 |
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Slides; Notes. Readings: KF 9.1,9.2; Barber 5.1 [Optional] Video: Daphne Koller -- Conditional Prob. Inference; MAP Inference; Variable Elimination; |
5 R | Feb 20 |
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HW1 is due the day before. Slides; Notes. Readings: KF 9.3, 9.4; Barber 5.2. [Optional] Video: Daphne Koller -- Graph-view of VE. |
6 T | Feb 25 |
Undirected Graphical Models
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Slides; Notes. Readings: KF 4.1-3; Barber 4.1-2 [Optional] Video: Daphne Koller -- Pairwise MRFs; General Gibbs distribution. I-maps and P-maps; |
6 R | Feb 27 |
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HW2 is out. Slides; Notes. [Optional] Video: Daphne Koller -- Log-Linear Models; Conditional Random Fields; |
7 T | Mar 4 | No class. | |
7 R | Mar 6 | No class. | |
8 T | Mar 11 | Spring Break: No Class. | |
8 R | Mar 13 | Spring Break: No Class. |
Project proposal is due. |
9 T | Mar 18 |
Guest Lecture by Prof. Rosalyn Moran.
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HW2 is due. Slides. |
9 R | Mar 20 |
Guest Lecture by Prof. Rosalyn Moran.
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Slides. |
10 T | Mar 25 |
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Slides; Notes. [Optional] Video: Daphne Koller -- Belief Propagation; |
10 R | Mar 27 |
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Slides. [Optional] Video: Daphne Koller -- Cluster Graphs; Properties of BP; BP in practice. |
11 T | Apr 1 |
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Slides; Notes. [Optional] Video: Daphne Koller -- Clique Tree Algorithm: Correctness; Clique Tree Algorithm: Computation; Clique Trees & Independence; Clique Trees & VE. |
11 R | Apr 3 |
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HW3 is due on Apr 4. Readings: KF 11.1,11.2,11.5, Barber 28.1,28.3,28.4 Slides; Notes. Readings: KF 11.1, 11.2, 11.5, Barber 28.1, 28.3, 28.4. |
12 T | Apr 8 |
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Slides; Notes. Readings: KF 13.1-5, Barber 5.1,28.9 [Optional] Video: Daphne Koller -- Max-Sum Message Passing; Tractable MAP Problems; |
12 R | Apr 10 |
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Slides; Notes. Readings: KF 13.1-5, Barber 5.1,28.9 [Optional] Video: Daphne Koller -- Dual Decomposition: Intuition; Dual Decomposition: Algorithm. |
13 T | Apr 15 |
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Slides. Readings: KF 20.1-3, Barber 9.6 |
13 R | Apr 17 |
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Slides. [Optional] Video: Thorsten Joachims -- Structured Output Prediction with Structural SVMs. |
14 T | Apr 22 | In-class project presentations. | |
14 R | Apr 24 | In-class project presentations. | |
15 T | Apr 29 | No class. | |
15 R | May 1 |
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Slides. Readings: KF 19.1-3, Barber 11.1-2. [Optional] Video: Daphne Koller -- Learning with Incomplete Data; EM: Intro; EM: Analysis; EM in Practice. |
16 T | May 6 |
Advanced Topics
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Slides. HW4 is due on May 7. |
May 13 |
Take-home final and Project webpage are due by 11:55pm. |
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