Course Schedule and Notes

Lecture is on Mon. and Wed. (08/24/2016 to 12/08/2016) from 3PM - 4:45PM at - OLS120

The lecture schedule below is tentative and is continually subject to change; We will move at whatever pace we find comfortable.  

Index Date Lectures References Notes
L1 Wed - Aug. 24 Lecture 1 minimum-test Introduction/Logistics
L2 Mon - Aug. 29 Lecture 2 Handout;
(HW1 out)
Linear Algebra Review
SECTION I: Supervised Regression
L3 Wed - Aug. 31 Lecture 3 Linear Regression / Normal Equation
L4 Mon - Sept. 5 Lecture 4 . Optimization for Learning Linear Regression Model;
L5 Wed - Sept. 7 Lecture 4 Optimization for Learning Linear Regression Model;
L6 Mon - Sept. 12 Lecture 5 HW1 due ; Nonlinear Prediction; Local Linear Prediction;
L7 Wed - Sept. 14 Lecture 6 HW2 out ; Linear Prediction with Regularization, Ridge, LASSO;
L8 Mon - Sept. 19 Lecture 7 Feature Selection
L9 Wed - Sept. 21 Lecture 8 HW2 due ; Optimization for linear regression with regularization
L10 Mon - Sept. 26 Lecture 9 Review of Regression
SECTION II: Supervised Classification
L11 Wed - Sept. 28 Lecture 10
Handout
Support Vector Machine (SVM)
R Mon - Oct. 3 READING DAY HW3 out; HW4 out; .
L12 Wed - Oct. 5 Lecture 10
Handout
. Support Vector Machine (SVM) - Pratical guide of using SVM
L13 Mon - Oct. 10 Lecture 10
Handout
Support Vector Machine (SVM) - Extra: Dual Form
L14 Wed - Oct. 12 Lecture 10
Handout
Support Vector Machine (SVM) - Kernel Trick
L15 Mon - Oct. 17 Lecture 11 HW3 due; Probability Review
L15 Wed - Oct. 19 Lecture 12 Generative Bayes Classifiers
L16 Mon - Oct. 24 Lecture 12 HW4 due; Naive Bayes Classifier
L17 Wed - Oct. 26 Midterm
L18 Mon - Oct. 31 Lecture 13
Handout for MLE
HW5 out; Two NBC for text classification
L19 Wed - Nov. 2 Lecture 14 Empirical Prediction Error / Discriminative vs. Generative /
L20 Mon - Nov. 7 Lecture 15 KNN / Bias-Variance Tradeoff /
L21 Wed - Nov. 9 Lecture 16 Decision Tree / Ensemble
L22 Mon - Nov. 14 Lecture 17 HW5 due; Neural Network / Deep Learning / Backprop /
SECTION III: Unsupervised Learning
L23 Wed - Nov. 16 Lecture 18 HW6 out ; HW7 out PCA and EigenFace for Image-based Face Recognition
EL24 Fri - Nov. 18 Lecture 17 @OSL120 / By TA: Jack Lanchantin/ 5pm / Extra session: deep learning
L25 Mon - Nov. 21 Lecture 19 Hierarchical clustering / K-means Clustering /
R Wed - Nov. 23 Thanksgiving Holiday .
L26 Mon - Nov. 28 Lecture 20
Lecture 21 - Extra EM
. GMM-EM
L27 Wed - Nov. 30 Lecture 22 Review
EL28 Fri - Dec. 2 @OSL120 / 3:30pm-5:30pm Review of HW7 / By TA: Muthuraman Chidambaram
E Mon - Dec. 5 Final In Class HW7 due@ Dec5;
HW6 due @ Dec12 ;
CourseEvaluation due @ Dec7

For Reference: The official Academic Calendar at UVA Registrar.
For Reference: The UVA Official Holiday Schedule .