CSC7333 Spring 2013 Class website  - Machine Learning

    Class time: Tuesday and Thursday from 12:00pm to 1:20pm

    Classroom: Room 1116 Patrick Taylor Hall 

   Instructor: Dr. Jianhua Chen

         Contact info:   E-mail: jianhua@csc.lsu.edu
                                  Tel: 225-578-4340
                                  Office:  3122-C  Patrick Taylor  Hall
        
         Office Hours:   T, TH  2:00pm to 4:00pm
 
         Other times:  By appointment
         
         

    Grader: Mr. Forrest Osterman

                       Office hrs:    Monday 3pm to 5pm
                       Office:          168 D Coates Hall   
                       Phone:           225-304-0669    
                       Email:            forrest280z@gmail.com   
 
        
         
          More info. about the class: class announcement         guidelines to group projects

      Required Text Book:

      Machine Learning by Tom Mitchell, Publisher: McGraw-Hill

             web site of Tom Mitchell
         

      Recommended Text Book:

     The Elements of Statistical Learning by T. Hastie, R. Tibshirani, J. Friedman

          
            Quiz dates:  Thursday Feb. 28, 2013 and Thursday April 11, 2013

   

       Homework Assignments - Due by 5pm of the due date

             Homework1          Homework2         Homework3          Homework4


              Attention for students who submit homework electronically:


              Please e-mail your homework to BOTH the instructor and the TA
              and then submit a hard-copy within 24 hours of the due date/time

            Late homework submission policy:

           
Homework  submitted after the due date will be accepted within 3 days past the due date,
            with a late penalty of 10 points per day late.  No late submission is accepted after that.


 
                                                                                    

       Reminder 


            link to DT and feature learning paper
          
            link to Valiant's paper on learnability

         
link to the random key (GA) paper 
        
          link to a tutorial paper on NN    some interesting applications of NN

            

        Other links


          lecture slides available from the book author: 


               link to the website of the book "Introduction to data mining" by Tan, Steinbach and Kumar

                lecture notes: What is ML          more on introduction to ML
              link to a paper by Dr. Chen and colleagues on UUV control by NN and GA

              link to a paper on applying GA for playing checkers          link to a paper on using GA for QAP

              link to a website containing intersting applications of GA
                
              the iterated prisoners dilemma game     the checkers game
  
              the traveling sales man problem           the vehicle routing problem       the quadratic assignment problem        

              link to Sutton and Barto's book on reinforcement learning     TD-gammon

              link to ICML 2012 papers
            
              link to ICML 2011 proceedings
          
              link to ICML 2010 proceedings

              link to ICML 09 proceedings
                       
              link to ICML 08 proceedings papers

              link to ICML 07 proceedings

             
link to ICML06 proceedings
                              
             link to ICML05 proceedings          

             link to ICML04 proceedings

              link to ICML03 proceedings

            

         Group Presentations:

                Group1        Members       Topic:     Predicting Income from Census Data using Multiple Classifiers    Slides
               
                Group2        Members      Topic:      Hand-written Digits Recognition using Back-propagation Neural Networks

                Group3        Members      Topic:         Predicting Alcoholism from EEG Data: A Comparative Study with Multiple Classifiers and Support Feature Machines (SFM)         Slides

                Group4        Members       Topic:        Learning to play the game of Super Mario     Slides
               
                Group5        Members        Topic:       Design of a Click-Tracking Network for basic search engine      Slides

                Group6        Members       Topic:         Hand-written Character Recognition using Parallel Computing, Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms
   
                Group7        Members        Topic:        Vehicle Detection using Bayesian Networks

                Group 8      Members         Topic:       Used Cars classification and Classifiers Evaluation

 

        Class Final Exam (open book) Date/Time:

                    Monday May 6, 2013, from 3:00pm to 5:00pm