CS 4033/5033 Machine Learning

Course Information

Course Readings: There is no single official textbook for this course. Instead, we will draw from the best chapters from several textbooks with photocopies provided either on D2L or at the copy center. We will also use chapters from Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction by Sutton & Barto (available online for free).
The course syllabus will be available here shortly.
Additional information, discussion boards, and announcements will be available on Desire2Learn.
Class schedule (updated as the semester progresses)

Coming up with a project:
- My list of suggested projects for 2008
- My list of suggested projects for 2007
- My list of suggested projects for 2006
- My list of suggested projects for 2005
- Ray Mooney's list of suggested projects (for his ML class at UT)
- A sample of final project reports from Fall 2005 (No, you can't repeat a project but this tells you the scope of previous projects)
- A sample of final project reports from Fall 2006
- A sample of final project reports from Fall 2007
Finding related research:
- Journal of Machine Learning Research (papers available for free)
- Machine Learning Journal (expensive but some articles available for free)
- International Conference on Machine learning (2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, ... google for other years, papers are generally available for free, try citeseer or google scholar searches to find them)
- Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (papers available for free)
- Citeseer (online paper search engine) and Google Scholar (ditto)
Acquiring data (if the source is not already specified from your project):
- Machine Learning datasets available at the ML repository at UCI
- Write your own simulator
- Use the hardware
Designing your experiments:
- Rob Holte's slides on experiment design
- Tom Dietterich and Marie desJardins' slides on experiment design
Writing it up:

Last updated: August 25, 2008 10:41 AM