CS 5453: Empirical Methods
Schedule

Note: schedule and readings are subject to change.

EMAI = Empirical Methods for Artificial Intelligence

Class # Date Topic Reading Assignment Due
1 Tue, Jan 18 Class Introduction Syllabus
2 Thu, Jan 20 What is Empirical Research? Tichy, W. (1998). Should Computer Scientists Experiment More? IEEE Computer. May. pp. 32-40. Denning, P. (2005).
Is computer science science? Communications of the ACM. 48(4):27-31
EMAI Preface and Ch 1
3 Tue, Jan 25 Probability Review n/a
4 Thu, Jan 27 Exploratory Data Analysis I EMAI 2-2.3 HW 1
5 Tue, Feb 1 Exploratory Data Analysis II EMAI 2.4
6 Thu, Feb 3 Exploratory Data Analysis III EMAI 2.5-2.6 HW 1
7 Tue, Feb 8 Project 1 n/a Proposal Presentation
8 Thu, Feb 10 Project 1 n/a Proposal Presentation
9 Tue, Feb 15 Experiment Design I EMAI 3-3.2 Project 1: Written Document
10 Thu, Feb 17 Experiment Design II EMAI 3.3-3.10
11 Tue, Feb 22 Hypothesis Testing I EMAI 4-4.3
12 Thu, Feb 24 Hypothesis Testing II EMAI 4.4-4.5 HW 2
13 Tue, Mar 1 Project 2 n/a Project 2: Presentation
14 Thu, Mar 3 Hypothesis Testing III EMAI 4.6-4.10
15 Tue, Mar 8 Hypothesis Testing IV n/a Project 2: Written Document
16 Thu, Mar 10 Multiple Comparisons Problem Jensen, D., and P. Cohen (2000). Multiple comparisons in induction algorithms. Machine Learning. 38(3):309-338. HW 2
- Tue, Mar 15 Holiday
- Thu, Mar 17 Holiday
17 Tue, Mar 22 Compute-Intensive Methods I EMAI 5-5.2
18 Thu, Mar 24 Compute-Intensive Methods II EMAI 5.3-5.8
19 Tue, Mar 29 Project 3 n/a Project 3: Presentation
20 Thu, Mar 31 Compute-Intensive Methods III n/a
21 Tue, Apr 5 Compute-Intensive Methods IV n/a HW 3 Project 3: Written Document
22 Thu, Apr 7 Performance Assessment I EMAI 6-6.4
23 Tue, Apr 12 Performance Assessment II EMAI 6.5-6.13 HW 3
24 Thu, Apr 14 Project 4 n/a Project 4: Presentation
25 Tue, Apr 19 Performance Assessment III EMAI 6.14-6.A HW 4 Project 4: Written
26 Thu, Apr 21 Hypothesis Testing and Learning Curves Piater, J., Cohen, P., Zhang, X. and Atighetchi, M. (1998) A Randomized ANOVA Procedure For Comparing Performance Curves Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Machine Learning, pp. 430-438
27 Tue, Apr 26 Interactions and Dependencies I EMAI 7-7.4
28 Thu, Apr 28 Interactions and Dependencies II EMAI 7.5-7.8 HW 4
29 Tue, May 3 Interactions and Dependencies III EMAI 7.A
30 Thu, May 5 Project 5 Presentations n/a Project 5: Presentation
and Written Document
31 Wed, May 11 Project 5 Presentations 1:30-3:30


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