Course Description
This course introduces and discusses advanced topics in machine learning. The objective is both to present some key topics not covered by basic graduate ML classes such as Foundations of Machine Learning, and to bring up advanced learning problems that can serve as an initiation to research or to the development of new techniques relevant to applications.
It is strongly recommended to those who can to also attend
the
Machine Learning Seminar.
Location and Time
Warren Weaver Hall Room 101,
Prerequisite
Students are expected to be familiar with basic machine learning
concepts and must have attended a graduate ML class such as
Foundations of
Machine Learning or equivalent, at Courant or elsewhere.
Projects and Assignments
There will be 2 homework assignments and a topic presentation and
report. The final grade is a combination of the assignment grades
and the topic presentation grade. The standard high level
of integrity
is expected from all students, as with all Math and CS courses.
Lectures
Technical Papers
An extensive list of recommended papers for further reading is
provided in the lecture slides.
Homework
Previous years
251 Mercer Street.
Tuesdays 5:10 PM - 7:00 PM.
References: C. Cortes, V. Kuznetsov, and MM. Ensemble methods for structured prediction. In ICML, 2014.
H. Kadri, M. Ghavamzadeh, and P. Preux. A Generalized Kernel Approach to Structured Output Learning. In ICML, 2013.
Reference: C. Papadimitriou and M. Yannakakis. On Complexity as Bounded Rationality. In STOC, pages 726-733, 1994.
Reference: E. Even-Dar, R. Kleinberg, S. Mannor, and Y. Mansour. Online Learning for Global Cost Functions. In COLT, 2009.
Reference: V. Dani and T.P. Hayes. How to Beat the Adaptive Multi-Armed Bandit, 2006.
Reference: Laurent Zwald and Gilles Blanchard. On the Convergence of Eigenspaces in Kernel Principal Component Analysis. In NIPS 2005.