| Date | Class Period & Lecture Topic | Reading | Assignment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 04 | 1. Syllabus, policies, business | ||
| Jan 06 | No meeting (ICCCX) | Topic Suggestions | |
| Jan 11 | 2. Sparse coding | Sparse Coding papers | |
| Jan 13 | 3. Sparse coding | ||
| Jan 18 | No meeting (holiday) | ||
| Jan 22 | 4. Sparse coding (Langrange/Dual) | ||
| Jan 25 | 5. Deep networks | Deep Networks papers | |
| Jan 27 | 6. Deep networks | ||
| Feb 01 | 7. Markov random fields | ||
| Feb 03 | 8. Markov random fields | Markov Random Fields papers | |
| Feb 08 | No meeting (NSF) | ||
| Feb 10 | 9. Snow day | ||
| Feb 12 | 10. Structure SVMs | Structured SVM papers | |
| Feb 15 | No meeting (holiday) | ||
| Feb 16 | 11.Structure SVMs | ||
| Feb 17 | 12.Feature Selection (Rob) | Feature Selection papers | |
| Feb 22 | 13. Feature Selection (Rob) | ||
| Midterm (Feb 23–26, Take Home) | |||
| Feb 24 | 14. No meeting (midterm) | ||
| Mar 01 | 15. SVM Model Selection (Beau) | SVM Model Selection papers | |
| Mar 03 | 16. SVM Model Selection (Beau) | ||
| Mar 08 | 17. NeuroEvolution (Dave) | NeuroEvolution papers | |
| Mar 10 | 18. NeuroEvolution (Dave) | ||
| Mar 15 | 19. POMDP (Mike) | POMDP papers | |
| Mar 17 | 20. POMDP (Mike) | ||
| Mar 22 | 21. Deep Transfer (Spencer) | Deep Transfer papers | |
| Mar 24 | 22. Deep Transfer (Spencer) | ||
| Mar 29 | 23. Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning (Brian) | Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning papers | |
| Mar 31 | 24. Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning (Brian) | ||
| Apr 05 | 25. Active Learning (Sabra) | Active Learning papers | |
| Apr 07 | 26. Active Learning (Sabra) | ||
| Apr 12 | 27. Culinary Search | Culinary Search papers | |
| Apr 17 | Final (7:00–10:00am in class) | ||