M692 (Spring 2002): Mathematics of Machine Learning


Schedule

All talks are on Thursdays at 3:45pm in Chapman 206.

Date Speaker Topic (slides)
13 Jan Ed Bueler Getting started on machine learning
20 Jan Ed Bueler Getting started on machine learning cont.
planning discussion
27 Jan Liam Toney (and Ed) laptop day: Try actual ML computations! I'll show how to run Matlab codes. Anyone can show how to get started on any ML example in their preferred environment (e.g. R, PyTorch, Tensorflow, ...).
3 Feb Glen Woodworth convolutions and convolutional neural nets
10 Feb Stefano Fochesatto decision tree learning from scratch
17 Feb Austin Smith perceptrons and XOR
24 Feb Nathan Barnes autoencoders
3 Mar Kyungmin Kim support vector machines
17 Mar Ed Bueler online optimization
24 Mar Kyle Blum machine learning in ice sheet modeling
31 Mar Oscar Hernandez universal approximation and the efficiency of depth
7 Apr Gabrielle Nowak graph neural networks
14 Apr Blake Mino biological motivations of artificial neural networks
21 Apr Stefan Awender recognizing digits with a neural network