CS/CNS/EE 156a: Learning Systems (Fall 2007)

**Change of Collaboration Policy for HW 4 and 5: You are allowed to start working on the final solutions of a problem while still collaborating on another problem.**

Class Time: Tuesday and Thursday 2:30--3:55 pm in Baxter Lecture Hall.

People

e-mail Office Hours
Instructor Yaser Abu-Mostafa yaser(at)its Monday and Wednesday 1:30-3:00, Moore 150
Head TA Amrit Pratap apratap(at)its 7-9pm the day before HW is due, Moore 139
TA Qing Liu qliu(at)its Please access Room 139 from the north door (by
passing through the Moore building garden) if you
cannot get into the building after hours
TA Mohamed Aly malaa(at)its
TA Hsuan-Tien Lin htlin(at)its

Announcement

Hsuan-Tien would be holding office hours on Sunday (11/11) from 7:30-9:00PM in Moore 139. This is in addition to the regular office hours for Homework#3 which will be on Monday (11/12) 7-9PM

Mailing Lists

Announcements mailing list: http://work.caltech.edu/mailman/listinfo/cs156

Questions are welcome at cs156ta(at)work.caltech.edu. If you have concerns about TA's or just want to be confidential, please send emails directly to the instructor.


Handouts

[10/01] Course Description (ps, pdf)
[10/01] References (ps, pdf)
[10/01] Policies (ps, pdf)
[10/09] Neural Networks and Backpropagation (ps, pdf)
[10/23] Proof of VC Inequality (ps, pdf)
[11/06] Optimization Handout(ps, pdf)

Homeworks

See the FAQ page for some common questions and clarifications about the homework.

[10/11] Homework #1 (ps, pdf) DataSets (train.dat, test.dat), TA in charge: Amrit Pratap
[10/25] Homework #2 (ps, pdf) DataSets (insample.dat, test.dat), TA in charge: Qing Liu, Questions/Queries: cs156ta(at)work.caltech.edu
[11/06] Homework #3 (ps, pdf) Parameter file (parameters.txt) , TA in charge:Mohamed Aly, Questions/Queries: cs156ta(at)work.caltech.edu
[11/15] Homework #4 (ps, pdf) DataSets (train.dat, test.dat) TA in charge:Mohamed Aly, Questions/Queries: cs156ta(at)work.caltech.edu
[11/29] Homework #5 (ps, pdf) DataSets (train.dat, test.dat) TA in charge:Hsuan-Tien Lin, Questions/Queries: cs156ta(at)work.caltech.edu

Updated: 11/29/2007 Learning Systems Group