Computer Science 9860
Computer Science 9860 -- Advanced Machine Learning
(For Masters and PhD students with some background knowledge in
machine learning)
... Constantly Under Construction, check often.
Instructor
Dr. Charles Ling, Professor
Office Hours: Tuesdays, 1:30 to 3:30 pm, or by appointment.
Office: Middlesex College 374.
E-mail: cling@csd.uwo.ca (the best contact method)
Course Information
Tentative schedule (subject to change)
- (Week 1: week of 9/8):
Course Outline (pdf file),
Chapter 1 of Mitchell and
Chapter 1 of Ng
Extra materials:
DARPA Grand Challenge (see videos for
2005, and
2007 competitions),
Netflix Data Mining Competition,
Heritage Provider Network Health Prize ($3M),
The game of checker,
The first learning program for Checker by Samuel in 1950's,
Chinook, from U of Alberta.
- (Week 2: week of 9/15):
Watch Ng's video on "Linear Regression with One Variable" before class
- (Week 3: week of 9/22):
Watch Ng's video on "Linear Algebra Review" (will not discuss in lecture),
and "Linear Regression with Multiple Variables" before class
- (Week 4: week of 9/29):
Watch Ng's video on "Octave Tutorial" (will not discuss in lecture),
and "Logistic Regression" before class
- (Week 5: week of 10/6):
Watch Ng's video on "Regularization" before class
Assignment 1 is ready.
- (Week 6: week of 10/13):
Dr. Ling is at conference... no lecture.
(Watch Ng's video on "Neural Networks: Representation")
- (Week 7: week of 10/20):
Dr. Ling is at conference... no lecture.
(Watch Ng's video on "Neural Networks: Learning")
- ......
- (Week of 11/10):
Watch Ng's video on "Recommender Systems" and
"Large Scale Machine Learning" before class
Assignment 1 is due on Nov 12 (midnight). Please
attach your report, codes etc., and email to
prof.ling.uwo@gmail.com .
- (Week of 11/17):
Watch Ng's video on "Application Example: Photo OCR"
before class
- (Week of 11/24):
No class.
- (Week of 12/1): Student presentation
Start at 9:30 on each day.
Each student has max of 15 min presentation, plus 5 min Q & A
Final report due on Dec 18 (midnight). Please
attach your report, codes etc., and email to
prof.ling.uwo@gmail.com
- 12/3 in MC 320: (teaching evaluation), Ruixiang Luo, Lei Shao,
Shuang Ao, Xiang Li, Wenjing Wan
- 12/5 in MC 316: Aoesha alsobhe, Nilesh Khiste, Nick Schudlo,
Shunwei Zhu, Saiqa Aleem
- 12/6 in MC 300: Jia Wang,
Xiaoqi Zhu, Alexandra L'Heureux, Mengshuo Chen,
Yu Qian, Caroline Rose, Fei Mao, Mike Ghesquiere, Haider Alazawi,
Doodle Poll