Lectures take place on Mondays and Wednesdays where students will engage in lectures given by Professor Taylor and guest lectures. Lectures are on Monday from 1:00PM – 2:15PM ET, Bloomberg 61X and will cover these topics:
- Dataset Curation
- Building an End-to-End ML Pipeline
- Regression for Predicting Housing Prices
- Clustering for Document Retrieval
- Classification for Product Recommendation
- Deep Learning for Image Search
- Ethics in ML
Guest lectures will be given by experts working in related fields including data curation, AI, ML, and computer vision.
Late assignments will be dropped one letter grade per day late. Students have 6 late days to use for assignments throughout the semester. Students have 1 week after assignments are graded to make a regrade request (no exceptions). Send an email to Prof. Taylor and Jinzhao Kang.
Course Schedule (Tentative)
Week # |
Lecture (M) |
Lecture (W) |
1: Week of 1/23 |
Introduction to PAML |
Revisit Preliminaries |
2: Week of 1/30 |
Building an End-to-End ML Pipeline I |
Building an End-to-End ML Pipeline II |
3: Week of 2/6 |
Dataset Creation, Acquisition, and Handling |
Dataset Creation, Acquisition, and Handling |
4: Week of 2/13 |
Introduction to Regression I |
Introduction to Regression II |
5: Week of 2/20 |
Regression for Predicting Housing Prices I |
Regression for Predicting Housing Prices II |
6: Week of 2/27 |
No Class – February Break |
Scaling to Large Datasets |
7: Week of 3/6 |
Introduction to Classification I |
Introduction to Classification II |
8: Week of 3/13 |
Classification for Product Recommendation I |
Classification for Product Recommendation II |
9: Week of 3/20 |
Introduction to Clustering I |
Introduction to Clustering II |
10: Week of 3/27 |
Clustering for Document Retrieval I |
Clustering for Document Retrieval II |
11: Week of 4/3 |
No Class – Spring Break |
No Class – Spring Break |
12: Week of 4/10 |
Deep Learning Fundamentals I |
Deep Learning for Image Search II |
13: Week of 4/17 |
Deep Learning for Image Search II |
Final Project Discussion |
14: Week of 4/24 |
FP Working Day |
Guest Lecture – Tariq Iqbal (UVA) |
15: Week of 5/1 |
FP Working Day |
FP Working Day/Final Project Midpoint Report |
16: Week of 5/8 |
Last Day of Instruction |
No Class |
17: Week of 5/15 |
Final Project Presentation |
Final Project Report & Code Due |