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Written Problem Sets and Programming Assignments (Machine Problems)

(Last updated 26 Oct 2001)

• Homework 1 (assigned 13 Sep 2001, due 20 Sep 2001): Version Spaces, PAC Learning, Decision Trees, and Perceptrons
  Problem set - MS Word 97/2000/XP format
  Problem set - HTML format

Problem set- Acorbat Pdf Format
• Homework 2 (assigned 30 Sep 2001, due 18 Oct 2001): Implementing Decision Trees, Perceptrons, Winnow, and Simple Bayes
  Machine problem - MS Word 97/2000/XP format
  Machine problem - HTML format
  Machine problem - Acrobat Pdf Format
• Homework 3 (assigned 08 Oct 2001, due 25 Oct 2001): Neural, Bayesian, and Reinforcement Learning
  Problem set - MS Word 97/2000/XP format
  Problem set - Html format
  Problem set - Acrobat Pdf 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
  Machine problem - Html format

Paper Reviews

(Last updated 13 Sep 2001)

• 01. Due Thursday, 06 Sep 2001: "A Theory of the Learnable", L. G. Valiant.
• 02. Due Thursday, 13 Sep 2001: "The Need for Biases in Learning Generalizations", T. M. Mitchell.
• 03. Due Thursday, 20 Sep 2001: "Learning by Experimentation: Acquiring and Refining Problem-Solving Heuristics", T. M. Mitchell, P. E. Utgoff, and R. Banerji.
• 04. Due Thursday, 27 Sep 2001: "MDL and Categorical Theories (Continued)", J. R. Quinlan.
• 05. Due Thursday, 04 Oct 2001: "Learning in Natural Language", D. Roth.
• 06. Due Thursday, 11 Oct 2001: to be announced (new paper)
• 07. Due Thursday, 18 Oct 2001: "Feature Discovery by Competitive Learning", D. E. Rumelhart and D. Zipser.
• 08. Due Thursday, 25 Oct 2001: "The Future of Time Series: Learning and Understanding", N. A. Gershenfeld and A. S. Weigend, Sections 1-4.
• 09. Due Thursday, 01 Nov 2001: "Learning to Predict by the Method of Temporal Differences", R. Sutton, Sections 1-3, 6, and 7.
• 10. Due Thursday, 08 Nov 2001: "Connectionist Learning Procedures", G. E. Hinton, Sections 6-10.
• 11. Due Thursday, 15 Nov 2001: "Bagging, Boosting, and C4.5", J. R. Quinlan.
• 12. Due Thursday, 29 Nov 2001: "Classifier Systems and Genetic Algorithms", L. B. Booker, D. E. Goldberg, and J. H. Holland. (sections TBA
• 13. Due Thursday, 06 Dec 2001: "An Approach to Combining Explanation-Based and Neural Network Algorithms", J. W. Shavlik and G. G. Towell.

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