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Weekly Lectures and Homework
Week 1 (Aug 21 – Aug 25): Introduction
Week 2 (Aug 29 – Sep 2): Linear Regression and Bias-variance Trade-off
Week 3 (Sep 4 – Sep 8): Ridge Regression
Week 4 (Sep 11 – Sep 15): Lasso
Week 5 (Sep 19 – Sep 23): K-nearest neighbors and nonparametric estimation
Week 6 (Sep 25 – Sep 29): Kernel Methods, Smoothing and Adaptiveness
Week 7 (Oct 2 - Oct 6): Support Vector Machines
Week 9 (Oct 16 – Oct 20): Discriminant Analysis
Week 10 (Oct 23 – Oct 27): Ensemble Models
Week 11 (Oct 30 – Nov 3): Unsupervised Learning I
Week 12 (Nov 6 – Nov 10): Unsupervised Learning II
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Final Project
Syllabus
Quizzes
Last Updated: April 4, 2024
Dates
Oct 10
Nov 16
Formats
10 - 15 single/multiple choices
Cumulative
Examples
Midterm 1 2021
Midterm 2 2021
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