Introduction to Machine Learning

University of California, Berkeley, Fall 2024

Welcome to CS 189/289A! This class covers theoretical foundations, algorithms, methodologies, and applications for machine learning. Topics may include supervised methods for regression and classication (linear models, trees, neural networks, ensemble methods, instance-based methods); generative and discriminative probabilistic models; deep learning models including CNNs, transformers, graph neural networks for vision and language tasks; and Markovian models for reinforcement learning and robotics.

Textbook: Deep Learning by Bishop and Bishop.

Professors will post slides prior to lecture at this Google Drive folder (for faster access). The material here is redundant with the website, but it may take up to a day or two for the website to get updated with the slides after lecture. The “Post-Lecture” subfolder contains updates to slides that the professors may make right after lecture. In addition, lecture recordings will be uploaded automatically to this Haas Panopto folder.

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Note: The topics for future lectures, discussions, and HWs are tentative and may be moved around, changed, or removed.

Overview

Week 1

8/29	Lecture 1 Introduction and Logistics (Slides)	Reading 1.1-1.2.4
	Homework 1 Math Review (Due 9/11 9/12 11:59pm)	PDF / Files / LaTeX Template

Week 2

9/3	Lecture 2 Maximum Likelihood Estimation (Slides)	Reading 2-2.1.2 (rules of probability: sum, product) 2.1.6 (independent RVs) 2.2-2.2.1 (probability densities in continuous spaces) 2.3-2.3.2 (univariate Gaussian, likelihood) 3-3.1.3 (Bernoulli, binomial, multinomial, MLE)
	Discussion 0 Math Pre-Requisites Review	Worksheet / Solutions
9/5	Lecture 3 Multivariate Gaussians (Slides)	Reading 3-3.2.3 (multivariate Gaussians: geometry, moments, covariance forms)

Week 3

9/10	Lecture 4 Linear Regression 1 (Slides)	Reading 4-4.1.4
	Discussion 1 MLE & Gaussians	Worksheet / Solutions
9/12	Lecture 5 Linear Regression 2 (Slides)	Reading 1.25-1.26 (regularization, model selection) 2.1.3 (Bayes theorem) 2.6 (Bayesian modeling) 4.1.6 (regularization for linear regression) 9.2.2 (Lasso regularization)
	Homework 2 Linear/Logistic Regression & Classification (Due 9/25 11:59pm)	PDF / Files / LaTeX Template

Week 4

9/17	Lecture 6 Classification - Generative & Discriminative (Slides)	Reading 5.1, 5.2.1, 5.2.2, 5.2.4, 5.3
	Discussion 2 Regularization & MAP	Worksheet / Solutions
9/19	Lecture 7 Logistic Regression & Neural Networks (Slides)	Reading 5.3.1, 5.4.1-5.4.4, 6.1-6.2

Week 5

9/24	Lecture 8 Backpropagation and Gradient Descent 1 (Slides)	Reading 6.2, 6.4, 7.1, 7.2, 5.4.4
	Discussion 3 Classification & Logistic Regression	Worksheet / Solutions
9/26	Lecture 9 Backpropagation and Gradient Descent 2 (Slides)	Reading 5.4.4, 8
	Homework 3 Neural Networks (Due 10/9 11:59pm)	PDF / Files / LaTeX Template

Week 6

10/1	Lecture 10 Neural Networks - CNNs, Batch Norm, & ResNets (Slides)	Reading 7.4, 9.5, 10
	Discussion 4 Neural Networks and Backpropagation	Worksheet / Solutions
10/3	Lecture 11 Neural Networks - Attention & Transformers (Slides)	Reading 5.3, 12.1

Week 7

10/8	Lecture 12 Dimensionality Reduction & PCA (Slides)	Reading 16.1
	Discussion 5 Convolution and Attention	Worksheet / Solutions
10/10	Lecture 13 t-SNE (Slides)
	Homework 4 Dimensionality Reduction & Decision Theory (Due 10/25 11:59pm)	PDF / Files

Week 8

10/15	Lecture 14 Clustering	Reading 15.1 (not including 15.1.1), 15.2
	Discussion 6 Dimensionality Reduction Techniques
10/16	Midterm (7-9pm, Location TBD)
10/17	Lecture 15 Multiway Classification, Decision Theory, & Model Evaluation

Week 9

10/22	Lecture 16 Nearest Neighbors & Metric Learning
	Discussion 7 Clustering and Decision Theory
10/24	Lecture 17 Decision Trees & Ensembling
	Homework 5 Bias/Variance, Nearest Neighbors, Decision Trees (Due 11/6 11:59pm)

Week 10

10/29	Lecture 18 Bias-Variance Tradeoff & Over/Under-Fitting
	Discussion 8 Bias/Variance and Nearest Neighbors
10/31	Lecture 19 Hidden Markov Models & Graphical Models 1

Week 11

11/5	Lecture 20 Hidden Markov Models & Graphical Models 2
	Discussion 9 Decision Trees and HMMs Intro
11/7	Lecture 21 Markov Decision Processes
	Homework 6 Markovian Models & Reinforcement Learning (Due 11/20 11:59pm)

Week 12

11/12	Lecture 22 Reinforcement Learning
	Discussion 10 HMMs Advanced and MDPs
11/14	Lecture 23 Robotics and Machine Learning

Week 13

11/19	Lecture 24 Graph Neural Networks & Rotational Equivariance 1
	Discussion 11 MDPs & Reinforcement Learning
11/21	Lecture 25 Graph Neural Networks & Rotational Equivariance 2
	Homework 7 Graph Neural Networks & Applications of Deep Learning (Due 12/4 11:59pm)

Week 14

11/26	Lecture 26 Language and Vision Applications
11/28	No Lecture (Thanksgiving)

Week 15

12/3	Lecture 27 Special Topics - Causality
	Discussion 12 Graph Neural Networks
12/5	Lecture 28 Special Topics - Computational Biology

Week 16 (RRR Week)

No lectures or discussions this week

Week 17 (Finals Week)

12/17

Final Exam (8-11am, location TBD)