IE598: Syllabus

Sewoong Oh, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Here is a rough syllabus (changes are possible, and suggestions/feedback are welcome).

week 1 1.Overview, 2.Graphical models
week 2 3.Markov Property
week 3 4.Elimination algorithm/Belief propagation
week 4 4.BP 5.Density evolution
week 5 6. Max-product algorithm 7.Gaussian graphical models
week 6 7. Gaussian graphical models, (No class Sep 29th - Allerton conference)
week 7 Mid-term quiz, Application: Crowdsourcing
week 8 Application: Diffusion, 8.Variational inference
week 9 8.Variational inference
week 10 (No class Oct 27th - traveling)
week 11 9.Markov chain Monte Carlo, 10 Learning
week 12 11.Restricted Boltzmann machines
week 13
week 14 (No class - Thanks Giving)
week 15
week 16