Date Lecture Topics Deliverables Notes
Week 1 Lecture 1 4/3/2023 Introduction Slides
Lecture 2 4/5/2023 Supervised learning setup. LMS. Problem Set 0 Released Slides / Section 1 of Main Notes
TA Lecture 1 4/7/2023 Linear Algebra Review Notes
Weighted Least Squares. Logistic regression.
Week 2 Lecture 3 4/10/2023 Newton's Method Slides / Section 2 of Main Notes
Exponential family. Generalized Linear Models. Multi-
Lecture 4 4/12/2023 class classification. Problem Set 1 Released Slides / Section 3 of Main Notes
4/12/2023 Problem Set 0 (Due at 11:59 pm PT - Ungraded)
TA Lecture 2 4/14/2023 Probability Review Notes; Slides
Week 3 Lecture 5 4/17/2023 Gaussian discriminant analysis. Section 4.1 of Main Notes
Lecture 6 4/19/2023 Kernels Section 5 of Main Notes
4/21/2023 Final Project Proposal (Due at 11:59 pm PT)
TA Lecture 3 4/21/2023 Python/Numpy Slides; Materials
Week 4 Lecture 7 4/24/2023 SVM. Neural Networks. Section 6 & 7 of Main Notes
Lecture 8 4/26/2023 Neural Networks 2; Architecture Problem Set 2 Released Sections 7.1 & 7.2 of Main Notes
4/26/2023 Problem Set 1 (Due at 11:59 pm PT)
TA Lecture 4 4/28/2023 Deep Learning Slides; Notebook
Week 5 Lecture 9 5/1/2023 Neural Networks 3; Backprop Section 7.3 of Main Notes
Bias - Variance. Regularization. Feature / Model
Lecture 10 5/3/2023 Selection Section 8 of Main Notes
TA Lecture 5 5/5/2023 Evaluation Metrics Slides
Week 6 Lecture 11 5/8/2023 ML Advice. Section 9 of Main Notes; slides (2023 version)
Lecture 12 5/10/2023 K-Means. GMM (non EM). Expectation Maximization. Problem Set 3 Released Sections 10, 11.1, 11.2 of Main Notes; slides
5/10/2023 Problem Set 2 (Due at 11:59 pm PT)
5/12/2023 Final Project Milestone (Due at 11:59 pm PT)
TA Lecture 6 5/12/2023 Midterm Review Slides
Week 7 Lecture 13 5/15/2023 GMM. Factor Analysis. Slides
Lecture 14 5/17/2023 PCA/ICA Sections 12 & 13 of Main Notes, Slides
5/18/2023 MIDTERM (CEMEX, 6 pm - 9 pm PT)
No TA Lecture (Midterm Week)
Week 8 Lecture 15 5/22/2023 Weak supervised / unsupervised learning Slides
Lecture 16 5/24/2023 Reinforcement Learning, policy gradients Problem Set 4 Released Section 15&17 of Main Notes
5/24/2023 Problem Set 3 (Due at 11:59 pm PT)
5/26/2023 No TA Lecture
Week 9 Lecture 17 5/29/2023 No Lecture - Memorial Day
Lecture 18 5/31/2023 Pre-training / foundation models / supervised learning Section 14.3.1 of Main Notes
6/2/2023
LLMs, in-context learning, prompting, instruct tuning,
Week 10 Lecture 19 6/5/2023 RLHF Slides
Lecture 20 6/7/2023 Guest Lecture by Diyi Yang on Societal impact of ML
Date Lecture Topics Deliverables Notes
6/8/2023 Problem Set 4 (Due at 11:59 pm PT)
TA Lecture 7 6/9/2032 Notes
6/12/2023 Final Project Report (Due at 11:59 pm PT)
6/13/2023 Final Project Poster Session (Burnham Pavilion, 3:30 pm - 6:30 pm PT)