6.867 Machine Learning (Fall 2008)


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Lectures: tentative agenda

Mon/Wed 1-2:30pm in 54-100

Date Lecture Notes etc
Wed 9/3 Lecture 1: Linear classification, perceptron slides, notes
Mon 9/8 Lecture 2: Convergence of the perceptron, support vector machines slides, notes part 1, notes part 2
Wed 9/10 Lecture 3: Kernel methods slides, SVM applet
Mon 9/15 Lecture 4: Kernel methods (continued), support vector machines slides, notes on kernels, notes on svms
Wed 9/17 Lecture 5: Support vector machines (continued), kernel methods for regression slides, notes on regression
Mon 9/22 Student holiday, no classes
Wed 9/24 Lecture 6: Multi-class classification notes
Mon 9/29 Lecture 7: 1-class (anomaly detection), rating and collaborative filtering notes, tutorial on Lagrange multipliers
Wed 10/1 Lecture 8: Rating (cont'd), model selection, generalization notes
Mon 10/6 Lecture 9: Generalization, VC-dimension notes
Wed 10/8 Lecture 10: Model selection (cont'd), ensembles, boosting
Mon 10/13 Columbus day holiday
Wed 10/15 MIDTERM: in-class, open book
Mon 10/20 Lecture 11: Boosting, feature selection
Wed 10/22 Lecture 12:
Mon 10/27 Lecture 13:
Wed 10/29 Lecture 14:
Mon 11/3 Lecture 15:
Wed 11/5 Lecture 16:
Mon 11/10 Veteran's day holiday
Wed 11/12 Lecture 17:
Mon 11/17 Lecture 18:
Wed 11/19 Lecture 19:
Mon 11/24 Lecture 20:
Wed 11/26 Lecture 21:
Mon 12/1 Lecture 22:
Wed 12/3 Lecture 23:
Mon 12/8 FINAL: in-class, open book
Wed 12/10 Lecture 24: