Homework 1, due on Thursday, Oct 3.

Project Proposal, due on Tuesday, Oct 29.

Homework 2, due on Friday, Nov 1.

Homework 3, due on Thursday, Dec 5.

Some project ideas  (there  are  so many options, this is by no means a complete  list):

• Message-passing algorithms (sum-product algorithm,  junction-tree algorithm), belief propagation

• Discrete hidden variable models, and tensors of given nonnegative rank

• Boltzmann machines

• Representation learning

• The potential outcomes framework

• Nonlinear additive noise causal models

• Dynamic causal models

• Algebraic statistics for linear causal models

• Log-concave graphical models

• Causal discovery with fewer independence tests