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Class Announcements 

• 12/18/2006
  Final grades have been posted. There was a discrepancy in the initial post, which has been fixed.


• 12/10/2006
  Homework 3 grades have been posted. If you wish to dispute a grade, please contact me before Friday (Dec 15).


• 11/30/2006
  For 11/30 (Thu) and 12/06 (Tue), Arindam's office hours will be from 5:15-6:15pm, instead of the usual 4-5pm.


• 11/22/2006
  Another typo in homework 3 has been fixed. The updated version of homework 3 is here.


• 11/21/2006
  There was a typo in problem 2 of Homework 3 (Thanks Jie). The typo has been fixed in the current version of Homework 3.


• 11/21/2006
  Homework 3 is online, which is due on next Thursday (11/30/2006) before the class.


• 11/21/2006
  Homework 2 grades are up, please contact me if you have any question.


• 11/12/2006
  Progress report score+feedback are up.


• 10/31/2006
  Homework 2 has been posted, which is due on next Thursday (11/09/2006) before the class
  Notice that you need to run svm library under linux machines, it does not work under solaris machines.
  
  
• 10/24/2006
  Proposal score+feedback are posted.


• 10/23/2006
  Guidelines for project writeups and detailed break-up of grading of projects have been added on the 'Project' section.
  Samples of some of the high-scoring project reports have been put up.


• 10/19/2006
  On popular demand, papers on Sample Compression have been added on the 'Papers' section.
  We will not be covering this material in class.


• 10/17/2006
  Grades for Midterm are up. Please send me email or drop by my office hours if you have any question.


• 10/06/2006
  Grades for HW1 are up. Please check it and contact me if you have any question.


• 10/05/2006
  Yu's office hours is temporarily changed from 10:00am - 12:00pm on Wednesday (10/11/2006) to 4:00pm-6:00pm on Monday (10/09/2006). Please drop by if you have any question regarding the midterm.


• 10/04/2006
  Solution for HW1 has been posted.


• 10/02/2006
  A paper about the local minima problem in neural network has been posted on the 'Papers' section.


• 09/28/2006
  The optional lecture covering background material for the class will be on
  Thu, 09/28/06, 5:30-7:30 pm at EE/CS 3-115.


• 09/26/2006
  New project idea on a bioinformatics problem has been posted on the 'Projects' page.
  The problem and data is from Professor Tongbin Li, Department of Neuroscience.


• 09/20/2006
  For HW1, you can write the algorithms following Mitchell.
  The logical flow of the algorithm must be clear from the presentation.
  You can present the estimation equations and/or optimization methods separately.
  Also, comment your code so that its readable.


• 09/20/2006
  A paper comparing numerical optimizers for logistic regression has been posted on the 'Papers' section.
  The recommended reading list has been updated in the 'Schedule' section.


• 09/18/2006
  Some ideas have been posted on the project page.
  Resource page has been updated.
  Homework 1 has been posted, which is due on 09/28/2006 before the class
  
  
• 09/14/2006
  A new section on 'Papers' have been added. It has the paper on
  optimality of naive-Bayes classifiers, which we briefly discussed in class today.


• 09/11/2006
  HW0 is due on 09/12/2006 before the class.


• 09/11/2006
  You can find links to some matlab and probability/statistics material on the resource page.


• 09/07/2006
  You will get 9 days for submitting all subsequent homeworks.
  See updated due dates in these slides (page 3).


• 09/07/2006
  A link to Boyd and Vandenberghe's book on 'Convex Optimization' has been put on
  the Resources page. The book is available online in pdf.
  


• 08/15/2006
  Welcome to CSci 5525! Be sure to check here often for important announcements.
  Please initiate your ITLABS account  if you do not have a CS grad account.