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Written Problem Sets and Programming Assignments (Machine Problems)

(Last updated 11/30/1999)

• Homework 1 (assigned 08/31/1999, due 09/16/1999): Version Spaces, PAC Learning, Decision Trees, and Perceptrons
  Problem set - MS Word 97 format
  Problem set - HTML format
• Homework 2 (assigned 09/22/1999, due 10/22/1999): Implementing Decision Trees, Perceptrons, Winnow, and Simple Bayes
  Machine problem - MS Word 97 format
  Machine problem - HTML format
  • Part 1
  • Part 2
  • Part 3
  • Part 4
  Data sets and submission instructions for Homework 2
• Homework 3 (assigned 10/26/1999, due 11/04/1999): Neural, Bayesian, and Reinforcement Learning
  Problem set - MS Word 97 format
• Homework 4 (assigned 11/9/1999, due 11/18/1999): Using The MLC++ Machine Learning Library
  Machine problem - MS Word 97 format
• Homework 5 (assigned 11/30/1999, due 12/09/1999): Using NeuroSolutions, Hugin, and Bayesian Knowledge Discoverer
  Machine problem - MS Word 97 format

Paper Reviews

(Last updated 10/08/1999)

• Due Thursday, 9/2/1999: "A Theory of the Learnable", L. G. Valiant.
• Due Thursday, 9/9/1999: "The Need for Biases in Learning Generalizations", T. M. Mitchell.
• Due Thursday, 9/16/1999: "Learning by Experimentation: Acquiring and Refining Problem-Solving Heuristics", T. M. Mitchell, P. E. Utgoff, and R. Banerji.
• Due Thursday, 9/23/1999: "MDL and Categorical Theories (Continued)", J. R. Quinlan.
• Due Thursday, 9/30/1999: "Learning in Natural Language", D. Roth.
• Due Thursday, 10/7/1999: "A Theory of Inferred Causation", J. Pearl and T. S. Verma.
• Due Thursday, 10/14/1999: "Feature Discovery by Competitive Learning", D. E. Rumelhart and D. Zipser.
• Due Thursday, 10/21/1999: "The Future of Time Series: Learning and Understanding", N. A. Gershenfeld and A. S. Weigend, Sections 1-4.
• Due Thursday, 10/28/1999: "Learning to Predict by the Method of Temporal Differences", R. Sutton, Sections 1-3, 6, and 7.
• Due Thursday, 11/4/1999: "Connectionist Learning Procedures", G. E. Hinton, Sections 6-10.
• Due Thursday, 11/11/1999: "Bagging, Boosting, and C4.5", J. R. Quinlan.
• Due Thursday, 11/18/1999: "Classifier Systems and Genetic Algorithms", L. B. Booker, D. E. Goldberg, and J. H. Holland.
• Due Thursday, 11/30/1999: "An Approach to Combining Explanation-Based and Neural Network Algorithms", J. W. Shavlik and G. G. Towell.

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