Artificial Neural Networks

May 6 - Week 16

Policy Gradient Methods.

Suggested Reading:

Prepare for the final on May 13.

Good resources for review include:

April 29 - Week 15

Deep Q-Networks.

Suggested Reading:

Submit any questions you may have to the discussion forum for Week 15.

Prepare for the quiz on May 6.

April 22 - Week 14

Tabular Reinforcement Learning.

Suggested Reading:

Submit any questions you may have to the discussion forum for Week 14.

Contact the members of your group for Project 3:

Begin work on Project 3.

April 15 - Week 13

Transformers and Introduction to Reinforcement Learning.

Suggested Reading:

Submit any questions you may have to the discussion forum for Week 13.

Prepare for the Quiz on April 22.

April 8 - Week 12

RNNs and Embedding.

Suggested Reading:

Submit any questions you may have to the discussion forum for Week 12.

April 1 - Week 11

No class meeting this week - Spring Recess.

March 25 - Week 10

Recurrent Neural Networks.

Suggested Reading:

Submit any questions you may have to the discussion forum for Week 10.

Prepare for the quiz on April 8.

Contact the members of your group for Project 2:

Begin work on Project 2.

March 18 - Week 9

Representation Learning and Generative Adversarial Networks.

Suggested Reading:

Submit any questions you may have to the discussion forum for Week 9.

March 11 - Week 8

Convolutional Networks.

Suggested Reading:

Submit any questions you may have to the discussion forum for Week 8.

March 4 - Week 7

Backpropagation and Regularization.

Suggested Reading:

Prepare for the quiz on March 11.

Submit any questions you may have to the discussion forum for Week 7.

Contact the members of your group for Project 1:

Begin work on Project 1.

February 26 - Week 6

Optimization and Backpropagation.

Suggested Reading:

Submit any questions you may have to the discussion forum for Week 6.

February 19 - Week 5

No class meeting - Presidents' Day.

February 12 - Week 4

Classification and Gradient Descent.

Suggested Reading:

Prepare for the quiz on February 26.

Submit any questions you may have to the discussion forum for Week 4.

February 5 - Week 3

Class is remote this week - see Canvas for details.

Machine Learning Basics.

Suggested Reading:

Submit any questions you may have to the discussion forum for Week 3.

January 29 - Week 2

Introduction.

Read the Syllabus.

Read How to Read a Math Textbook from the Macalester College Academic Excellence Center.

Choose some of the books recommended in the Syllabus, and find and read the sections corresponding to this week's lecture content.

Submit any questions you may have to the discussion forum for Week 2.

January 22 - Week 1

No class meeting - see the Student Strike FAQ for more information.