(Winter 2021) CS 510/610 - Topic on probabilistic graphical models
Schedule (subject to change)
General guideline
- Zoom link for lectures, TR 12:00 - 13:15.
- Zoom link for office hours, F 10 - 11am and by appointment.
Schedule (subject to change)
| Week | Date | Topic | Reading & Note |
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| 1 | T,01/05 | Intro Review: probability theory |
KF 1,2 Jordan Survey |
| Th,01/07 | Review: probability cont’d, graphs | KF 2 S228 HTML |
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| 2 | T,01/12 | Representation: Bayesian networks Recording |
KF 3 MJ 2.1 PDF |
| Th,01/14 | Bayesian networks cont’d Recording |
KF 3 MJ 2.1 PDF |
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| 3 | T,01/19 | Undirected models Recording |
KF 4 MJ 2.2 PDF |
| Th,01/21 | Undirected models cont’d Exact Inference Recording |
KF 9 MJ 3 PDF |
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| 4 | T,01/26 | Exact Inference cont’d Graph elimination Recording |
KF 9,10.2 MJ 3 PDF |
| Th,01/28 | Belief propagation Recording |
KF 10.2 S228 note |
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| 5 | T,02/02 | Inference by sampling Recording | KF 12.1-2 MacKay 29.1-3 PDF Notes on Tail bounds I II |
| Th,02/04 | Monte Carlo methods Markov Chain Monte Carlo Recording |
KF 12.3 MacKay 29.4-6 PDF S228 note |
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| 6 | T,02/09 | MCMC, cont’d Recording |
KF 12.3 S228 note Note on MC Chapter 6 PDF |
| Th,02/11 | Variational inference Recording |
KF 11 Tutorial at NeurIPS’16 PDF |
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| 7 | T,02/16 | Variational inference cont’d MAP inference Recorded audio lecture on GC |
KF 11 PDF S228 note Note on LP relaxation |
| Th,02/18 | Learning intro Recording |
KF 16,17 PDF S228 note |
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| 8 | T,02/23 | Learning undirected models Recording |
KF 20 S228 note |
| Th,02/25 | Structural learning Recording |
KF 18 S228 note |
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| 9 | T,03/02 | Selected topics Recording |
SSS’JACM09 |
| Th,03/04 | Selected topics Recording |
HW’SODA20 | |
| 10 | T,03/09 | Project presentation | |
| Th,03/11 | Project presentation |
Assignments
Earn extra credit by typing in LaTeX. See Resource for LaTeX tutorials. Submit on Google Classroom (Classcode: ncoc6b2).