COMP / ELEC / STAT 502
Spring 2012


Schedule

Class topics and Handouts will come on-line in a timely manner. My intention is to post them by the morning of the lecture. You may want to print a copy for class to help your note taking. Should you have trouble printing anything please notify me.

The Lecture Notes and Handouts constitute the mandatory reading, and consist of two main ingredients:

Key to notation: CFi/k = Chapter k of Colin Fyfe's Volume i. Note that since I am using chapters from two different volumes two printed chapters may have the same number. Mark the volume # on your hardcopies.
Lx-"title" = set #x of my lecture slides titled "title". EM-"other" = "other" electronic material that I may post.

Additional, optional reading are also listed to quench your thirst for more knowledge than contained in the Lecture Notes. The references to those are given in the Course materials.

If a .ps or .pdf file comes up with poor resolutin on your screen, the printed version should still be perfectly fine. If that is not the case alert me.
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No.

Date

Topic

Lecture Notes
& Handouts

mandatory reading

Homework
Turn in a hardcopy by 2:30pm on the due date,
as well as upload an electronic copy to Owl Space
unless otherwise indicated.

Optional Reading

1

Jan 10

Orientation, Introduction

CF2/1
L1-Introduction-502.pdf

HW1 due 1/17, electronic copy only.

Haykin Ch1

2

Jan 12

Background review

CF2/1, CF2/2
L2-ReviewOfBasics.pdf

Haykin Ch1

3

Jan 17

Background review, cont'd

CF2/1, CF2/2
L2-ReviewOfBasics.pdf
info-stat-basics_supplement.pdf

HW2 due 1/26

Haykin Ch10 or Cover & Thomas Ch1 and Ch9

4

Jan 19

Associative memory CF1/2
L3-NoisyNeuron.pdf
L4-AssociativeMemory.pdf

Haykin Ch2.11

5

Jan 24

Associative memory, cont'd, error correction CF1/2
L4-AssociativeMemory.pdf updated

Haykin Ch2.1-4, Ch2.11

6

Jan 26

Wrap up Associative memory
Perceptron
CF1/3
L5-Perceptron.pdf

HW3 due 2/2

Haykin Ch3

7

Jan 31 Perceptron, cont'd CF1/3
L5-Perceptron.pdf

Haykin Ch3

8

Feb 2 Multilayer Perceptron (Back Propagation) CF1/4
L6-MultiLayerPerceptron.pdf

HW4 Part1 due 2/9

Haykin Ch4.1-4.4

9

Feb 7 Issues With Backprop CF1/4
L7-IssuesWithMLPs.pdf

HW4 Part2 due 2/16

Haykin Ch4.5-4.8

10

Feb 9 Issues With Backprop: Momentum CF1/4
L7-IssuesWithMLPs.pdf

Haykin Ch4.5-4.8

11

Feb 14 More practical issues (EM); Vector Backprop; BP clinic (BB) CF1/4
L7-IssuesWithMLPs.pdf

Haykin Ch4.5-4.8

12

Feb 16 VC dimension CF1/4
L8-VCdimension.pdf
HW5-P1andP2 due 2/24 5pm Haykin Ch4.5-4.8, Haykin pp 94 - 102, Bishop

13

Feb 21 QUIZ1 Network Pruning CF2/3
L9-NetworkPruning.pdf


L10-UnsupervisedLearning.pdf
Haykin CH8.1-5

14

Feb 23 Network Pruning
Unsupervised learning; Oja's PCA net
CF2/3
L9-NetworkPruning.pdf


L10-UnsupervisedLearning.pdf
Haykin CH8.1-5

Feb 27 - Mar 3 SPRING BREAK, no classes

15

Mar 6 Unsupervised learning; Sanger's PCA net
Competitive learning: SOM
CF2/3, CF1/5.6-8


L10-UnsupervisedLearning.pdf
L11-CompetitiveLearning.pdf
HW6 due 3/13 Haykin CH8.1-5, CH9.1-6

16

Mar 8 Competitive learning: SOM, cont'd CF2/3, CF1/5.6-8


L11-CompetitiveLearning.pdf
Self_Organizing_Maps-EM502.pdf
Haykin CH8.1-5, CH9.1-6

17

Mar 13 Discussion of project proposals Meet in my office
bring hardcopy of your draft proposal
HW7 due 3/20

18

Mar 15 Competitive Learning (SOM, LVQ), cont'd CF1/5.6-8, CF1/7.1-7.2
L12-RecurrentNetworks.pdf
Haykin CH9.1-6, CH14

19

Mar 20 Recurrent nets CF1/7.1-7.2,
L12-RecurrentNetworks.pdf
Haykin Ch14

Mar 20 Midterm exam handed out Exam due 3/27
Material for midterm up to (including) GHA, and HW-6 exercise.  

Mar 22 NO CLASS (spring recess) HW8 due 3/29

20

Mar 27 Recurrent nets, cont'd
Simulated Annealing
CF1/7.1-7.2,
L12-RecurrentNetworks.pdf
L13-RecurrentNetworks-SAandBM.pdf
Haykin Ch14

21

Mar 29 Recurrent nets, cont'd: Boltzmann Machine
Network Growing: Cascade Correlation
CF1/7.1-7.2,CF2/5.4-5.6
L13-RecurrentNetworks-SAandBM.pdf L14-NetworkGrowing.pdf
Haykin Ch11

22

Apr 3 Cross-Entropy as Objective Function
Conjugate Gradients
(Faster Supervised Learning)
CF2/5.4-5.6, CF1/8.3-5, 8.7
L15-InfoTheoreticalObjectiveFunctions.pdf
L16-ConjugateGradients.pdf
Haykin Ch10

23

Apr 5 QUIZ2
Information Theoretic Models, cont'd
Material for QUIZ2: from QUIZ1 to April 3

24

Apr 10 Blind Source Separation
Factorial codes
CF 2/6 ANN-NLPCA-and-ICA.pdf
FactorialCodes.pdf
Parts of Haykin Ch10

25

Apr 12 Class project prevew presentations and feedback, 10+2 minutes per group

25

Apr 17 No class. Compensation for midterm time.
Instructor out of town.

26

Apr 19 No class. Class period given up in compensation for project write-ups.
Project reports due 4/20, 5pm. Turn in one hardcopy and upload one electronic copy to Owl Space. Recommended length: 10-12 pages. Max. (cutoff) length 15 pages. Appendices s.a. code do not count in the max page number.
You can hand the hard copy to Margaret Poon (DH 2124, poon@rice.edu, -6032).

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