CSC2515 Fall 2006 - Info

*** TUESDAYS 2-4PM (Room WI1017) ***

Course info sheets (ps)(pdf)

Instructor: Sam Roweis; email csc2515 at cs dot toronto dot edu
Tutors: Inmar Givoni, Roland Memisevic, Andriy Mnih; email csc2515 at cs dot toronto dot edu

Please do NOT send Roweis or tutors email about the class directly to their personal accounts.
They are not able to answer class email except to csc2515 at cs dot toronto dot edu.

Lecture Times: Tuesdays 2-4pm
Lecture Location:Wilson Hall room 1017
First Lecture: September 12
Final lecture: December 1. (No lecture December 5.)

Tutorial Times: some Tuesdays, 4-5pm
Tutorial Location: Wilson Hall room 523
First tutorial September 19, last tutorial Nov 28.
Office hours: Tuesdays 4-5pm when no tutorial or by appointment, LP290F.

Prerequisite: none for DCS/ECE/STATS grads, instructor permission otherwise; Load: 26L, 13T

Readings
class notes, original papers (assigned), chapters from course textbook

Marking Scheme
weekly readings worth 13% (honour system), 3 assignments worth 18% each, one project worth 33%

Auditing
If you are not registered in the class, it is possible for you to audit it (sit in on the lectures), but only if you get the instructor's permission and follow some rules. See the audit page for more info.

Course Description

Basic methods for classification, regression, clustering, time series modeling, and novelty detection. These algorithms will include K-nearest neighbours, naive Bayes, decision trees, support vector machines, logistic regression, generalized additive models, K-means, mixtures of Gaussians, hidden markov models, principal components analysis, factor analysis and independent components analysis. Methods of fitting models including stochastic gradient and conjugate gradient methods, the Expectation Maximization algorithm and Markov Chain Monte Carlo. The fundamental problem of overfitting and techniques for dealing with it such as capacity control and model averaging.

All the basic algorithms will be implemented in Matlab, but prior knowledge of Matlab is not required.

CSC2515 - Machine Learning || www.cs.toronto.edu/~roweis/csc2515/