Course: Seminar in Artificial Intelligence
ICS: 279
Instructor: Max Welling
Time: Tu-Th: 3.30-4.50 PM
Location: CS 253.
Prerequisites: None
Goals: The main objective of this course is for
the students to be introduced to some of the research
that is being conducted at ICS here in UCI. I have asked a number of faculty
who do research in
areas related to artificial intelligence to either talk about their most
representative work or to send me
an article about their most representative research, which we will treat in
class.
If time allows, some timely
topics in AI and statistics will be studied, in particular approximate
inference methods
on graphs such as belief propagation, mean field and exact sampling.
Students will be asked study a
paper from the literature and prepare a presentation on a topic related to the
material treated in class.
Homework : To be announced
Syllabus:
Sep.28 - M.
Welling: Introduction to graphical models
Sep.30 - M. Welling: Introduction to approximate inference
Oct.12 -
Vibhav Gogate: More on GBP.
Oct.14 - M. Welling: More on MCMC.
Oct.19 - P.
Gehler: Perfect sampling: coupling from the past (David
MacKay’s book, ch. 32 p.413)
Oct.21 - P. Gehler: Perfect sampling: CFTP (Propp &
Wilson paper)
Oct.26
– Ian: Population MCMC
Oct.28 – Hal Stern
Nov.02
– Matthias Seeger – Discussion on Gaussian Processes
Nov.04 - cancelled
Nov.09 -
Prof. P. Baldi
Nov.11 - holiday
Nov.16 -
Prof. E. Mjolsness
Nov.18 - Elroy
Nov.23 -
Prof. R. Dechter
Nov.25 - holiday
Nov.30 -
Prof. D. VanDyk
Dec.02 - Anna
Presenters
to be scheduled: Ian, Elroy, Anna, Earth.
Grading Criteria: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory