Course Schedule 2025
There are two lectures per week, on Tuesday and Thursday, and there is one tutorial session per week after the lecture on Thursday. During the weekly tutorial sessions you can work on practice exercises and the practical assignment. Please consult My Timetable for the times and locations of the lectures and tutorial sessions. In the schedule below, lecture 38A is the lecture on Tuesday in week 38, 40B is the lecture on Thursday in week 40, 43C is the tutorial session in week 43, and 42D is a deadline in week 42. All deadlines are on Friday.
Currently, last year's slides are online; they will possibly be updated shortly before or after the lecture.
| Lecture | Subject/Slides | Literature | Deadlines |
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| 36B | Introduction and Overview | ||
| 37A | Classification and Regression Trees (1) | Lecture notes on classification trees Chapter 8 of Book ISLR |
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| 37B | Classification and Regression Trees (2) | Lecture notes on classification trees Chapter 8 of Book ISLR |
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| 37C | Work on exercises | ||
| 38A | Tree Ensembles Some small proofs |
Lecture notes on classification trees Chapter 8 of Book ISLR |
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| 38B | Text Mining (1) | Jurafsky and Martin, Chapter 4 |
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| 38C | Work on exercises | ||
| 38D | Homework 1 | Friday, September 19th | |
| 39A | Text Mining (2) | Jurafsky and Martin, Chapter 5 |
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| 39B | Undirected Graphical Models (1) Log-Linear Expansion Example |
Lecture notes on graphical models | |
| 39C | Work on assignment | ||
| 40A | Undirected Graphical Models (2) Counting u-terms |
Lecture notes on graphical models | |
| 40B | Undirected Graphical Models (continued) | ||
| 40C | Work on assignment | ||
| 40D | Homework 2 | Friday, October 3rd | |
| 41A | Frequent Pattern Mining (1) | Lecture Notes on Frequent Item Set Mining | |
| 41B | Frequent Pattern Mining (2) | Just the slides | |
| 41C | Work on assignment | ||
| 41D | Homework 3 | Friday, October 10th | |
| 42A | Bayesian Networks (1) | Lecture Notes on Bayesian Networks | |
| 42B | Bayesian Networks (2) | Lecture Notes on Bayesian Networks | |
| 42C | Work on assignment | ||
| 42D | Assignment | Friday, October 17th | |
| 43A | Social Network Mining: Node Classification | Article Lu and Getoor | HW 4: Tuesday, October 22nd |
| 43B | Social Network Mining: Link Prediction | Articles Liben-Nowell and Kleinberg/El Hasan et al. | |
| 43C | Work on exercises | ||
| 43D | Homework 4 | Friday, October 24th | |
| 44A | TBD | ||
| 44B | TBD | ||
| 44C | Work on exercises | ||
| 45 | Digital Exam in Remindo |