CS6140 Machine Learning, Spring 2013

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• TENTATIVE GRADES POSTED ONLINE. Final office hours : Monday 4/29  12pm-2pm, only discussing grading.
  
• Wednesday 4/24 office hours: 1pm-3pm
  
• I will be at office today 4/20 11am-1pm
  
• No office hours today 4/19 - NEU closed, Boston in chaos (again!). Send your questions by email.
  
• Project report due 4/24 printed on paper. By 4/26 also send an email with a zip file containg
  
• the report(pdf), 
• the slides in pdf, if not too big
  
• sample of the data if possible (and how to get it if public). I am not going to try to run the code on it.
  
• the code
  
• a README.txt file on the exact steps of the code in order to produce the results. Each code module/step should have a  comment "written by me" or "taken from XXX", "using XXX library" or "adapted from XXX".
  
• Send this email AFTER you gave me the printed copy.

• Please complete the TRACE evaluations
  
• Monday 4/15 : Due to Boston Marathon, office hours will happen late, 6:30pm-8:30pm. No office hours today, as Boston Downtown seems to be in chaos due to the explosions. For people presenting tomorrow 4/16:
• send your questios by email, you will get a reply from me today as soon as possible
• if absolutely necessary, we can arrange a skype meeting
• Grade script fixed.
  
• Project will be graded based on 7 aspects (separate points):
  
• Milestone 30p (yes/no)
• Data up to 40p (size, features, complexity, processing)
• Technicality up to 40p (the most intellectually challenging aspect/algorithm)
• Code Implementation up to 40p (efficiency)
• Evaluation up to 40p (result quality vs what else was done or can be done)
• Presentation up to 70p (slides and your speaking ability - remember that you have about 18 minutes)
• Report and other issues, up to 40p (writing, making key points)
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• New office hours schedule, for projects help:
  
• week of  4/8  :  Wed 5-7,  Thu 4-6
• week of  4/15:  Mon 6-8pm,  Wed 5-7,  Fri 12-2
  
• week of 4/22:   Wed 11-1,  Thu  4-6
  
• Tentative Presentation schedule
  
• No office hours Monday 4/8, as your instructor is sick at home. Will make sure to look at projects Wednesday and Thursday.
  
• Adding extra office hours for project discussion: Mondays 4:30pm-6:30pm, for the next 4 weeks April 1, 8, 15, 22.
  
• HW3: Adaboost PB3 should be run using cross-validation (late post, so you have few more days to work on it)
  
• HW4 posted
  
• HW3 edited. EM problem fixed.
  
• HW3 posted.
  
• Cheng's programming session on Friday March 1st rescheduled for Thursday April 28, 10:30 AM. This is a one time  only, the other sessions stay on Friday mornings.
  
• HW2 edited, some problems changed between regular and extra credit.
  
• HW2 being posted, might see some edits. You should definitely start with the programming assignments.
  
• The forum should be functional now, invites have been sent. You will be able to post if you accept the invite, and if your email is registered with Google.
  
• HW1 updated again. At least in some of the book editions, numbers do not correspond to the HW numbers, so please follow the problem text. Pb 5 is now extra credit, since it involves multiclass classification, which we did not talk about yet. Extra Credit can be submitted after the deadline.
  
• HW1 updated.
  
• HW1 posted, due Jan 29
  
• Please complete the student information and send it to vip@ccs.neu.edu
  
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