CS 273A: Machine Learning

When: Tuesdays and Thursdays at 11am–12:20
Where:
- About half the lectures will be in-person and half virtual; please see the schedule below for the planned (subject to change) location of each lecture.
- In-person: SH 128. Links to last year’s recordings of the same syllabus will be uploaded to this page (with access for uci.edu accounts).
- Virtual: zoom. These lectures will be recorded and uploaded to this page (with access for uci.edu accounts).
Announcements and forum: ed discussion
- Important course announcements will be made on the forum.
- Please post on the forum, publicly or privately, all course-related questions.
- Please do not email course staff, except for personal matters unrelated to the course.
Assignments: gradescope
- Assignments will be uploaded to this page.
Teams, reports, and grades: canvas
Instructor: Prof. Roy Fox
- Office hours: calendly
- Enrolled students are welcome to:
  - Schedule 15-minute slots (more than once if needed);
  - Give at least 4-hour notice;
  - Attend individually or with classmates.
Teaching assistant: Xiangyi Yan
- Office hours: calendly

Assignments: 40%
- 4 best of 5 assignments count for 10% each.
- No late submission.
Exams: 40%
- Midterm: 18%
- Final: 22%
Project: 15%
- Team roster: 1%
- Abstract: 2%
- Report: 12%
Participation (in-class, on-forum, evaluations): 5%

(p.) = in-person; (v.) = virtual

(Week) Dates	Tuesday	Thursday
(0) Sep 23		Introduction (p.) Winter'21 video:
(1) Sep 28, 30	Nearest Neighbors (p.) Winter'21 video:	Bayes Classifiers (v.) Winter'21 video:
(2) Oct 5, 7	Linear Regression (v.) Stochastic Gradient Descent: Winter'21 video:	Linear Regression (cont.) (p.) Winter'21 video: Assignment 1 due
(3) Oct 12, 14	Regularization (p.) Winter'21 video:	Linear Classifiers (p.) Winter'21 video:
(4) Oct 19, 21	Decision Trees (video) Winter'21 video: Team roster due Assignment 2 due	Logistic Regression (v.) Winter'21 video:
(5) Oct 26, 28	VC Dimension (v.)	Midterm Review (p.)
(6) Nov 2, 4	Support Vector Machines (p.) Winter'21 video: Assignment 3 due	Midterm exam (p.)
(7) Nov 9, 11	Ensemble Methods (v.) Winter'21 video:	-- Veterans Day -- Assignment 4 due Friday
(8) Nov 16, 18	Clustering (p.) Winter'21 video: Project abstract due	Latent-Space Models (p.) Winter'21 videos:
(9) Nov 23, 25	Active and Online Learning (p.) Winter'21 video:	-- Thanksgiving --
(10) Nov 30, Dec 2	Reinforcement Learning (p.) Winter'21 video: Assignment 5 due	Final Review (p.)
(11) Dec 7, 9	Final exam (10:30am–12:30)	Project report due

Note: the planned schedule is subject to change.