CS281A/Stat241A recitation notes

  1. August 30, 2007: review of basic probability, statistics, and linear algebra
  2. September 10, 2007: least squares regression, LMS algorithm
  3. September 17, 2007: towards the junction tree algorithm
  4. September 24, 2007: matrix calculus and MLE for the multivariate normal
  5. October 1, 2007: posterior calculations for Gaussian and multinomials, maximum likelihood for multinomial
  6. October 8, 2007: multivariate Gaussians, GLIMs
  7. October 15, 2007: multinomials, exponential families for graphical models, iterative proportional fitting
  8. October 22, 2007: hidden Markov models
  9. October 29, 2007: modeling, HMM variants, conditional random fields
  10. November 5, 2007: Kalman filtering
  11. November 12, 2007: sampling
  12. November 19, 2007: Kalman filtering and EM
  13. November 26, 2007: Gibbs sampling, mean-field for factorial HMMs
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