RELEVANT READINGS

Class Date Reading
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1     1/28 First half of Chapter 2 and Chapter 4 (Maximum Likelihood)
2     2/04 Chapter 7 (Exponential Family)
3     2/11 Chapter 9 and Chapter 10 (Mixture Models and EM)
4     2/18 Continuing 9,10. If there is time 2,3 (EM and Graphical Models) 
5     2/25 Chapters 2,3,8 (Basic Graph Algorithms)
6     3/04 Chapters 8 and 16 (Learning Graphical Models)
7     3/11 Continuing Chapters 8 and 16 (Junction Tree Algorithm)
8     3/18 Vacation Week - No Class
9     3/25 Chapter 16 and Chapter 11 (Junction Tree Algorithm)
10    4/01 Chapter 11 and Chapter 17 (Hidden Markov Models)
11    4/08 Chapter 17 and Handout (Variational Methods)
12    4/15 Chapter 19 (Maximum Entropy)
13    4/26 Handout (Support Vector Machines)
14    4/29 Handout (Extensions and Connections)
15    5/06 Presentations