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Schedule

DateTopicsReading/ResourcesExercisesAssignmentsReminders
Foundations
Week 1
2025-01-06 Course Introduction Syllabus
Meet Prof. Simpkins
2025-01-08 Machine Learning UDL: 1, 2 Registration Ends (2025-01-10)
Payment Deadline (2025-01-10)
Week 2
2025-01-13 Shallow Networks UDL: 3
2025-01-15 Deep Networks UDL: 4 Assigned: PS1
Assigned: Project
Financial Aid Disbursement (2025-01-17)
Graduation Petition Deadline (2025-01-17)
Week 3
2025-01-20 MLK Jr Day - No Class
2025-01-22 Deep Networks UDL: 4 Assigned: PA1
Week 4
2025-01-27 Workshop
2025-01-29 Probability UDL: Appendix A
DLFC: 2, 3
ITLA 1, 2
Assigned: PS2
Week 5
2025-02-03 Loss Functions UDL: 5 Due 2025-02-04:PS1
2025-02-05 Loss Functions UDL: 5
Week 6
2025-02-10 Fitting Models UDL: 6
UDL: Appendix B.5
DLFC: Appendix A
DDL: 2.3-2.4
Matrix Cookbook
Due: Project Proposal
2025-02-12 Gradients and Initialization UDL: 7 Due 2025-02-13: PA1
Week 7
2025-02-17 Midterm Review Midterm Review
Midterm Review Answers
Due: PS2
2025-02-19 Midterm Exam
Week 8
2025-02-24 Midterm Grades Review
2025-02-26 Measuring Performance UDL: 8
Week 9
2025-03-03 Regularization UDL: 9
2025-03-05 PyTorch Workshop
Week 10: Spring Break
2025-03-10 Spring Break - No Class
2025-03-12 Spring Break - No Class
Supervised Deep Learning
Week 11
2025-03-17 Convolutional Networks UDL: 10
2025-03-19 Convolutional Networks UDL: 10 Midterm Grades Due (2025-03-21)
Week 12
2025-03-24 Residual Networks UDL: 11
2025-03-26 Residual Networks UDL: 11
Generative Deep Learning
Week 13
2025-03-31 Transformers UDL: 12 Assigned: PS3
2025-04-02 Transformers UDL: 12
Week 14
2025-04-07 Transformers UDL: 12
2025-04-09 Generative Adversarial Networks UDL: 14,15 Due: Project Results
Week 15
2025-04-14 Reinforcement Learning UDL: 19
2025-04-16 Deep Learning Philosophy UDL: 20
Week 16
2025-04-21 Project Presentations
2025-04-23 Project Presentations Due: Final Project Paper
Week 17
2025-04-28 Final Exam Review Due: PS4
Week 18
2025-05-05 Final Exam, 15:30-17:30