Teaching schedule with links to material¶
This course will be delivered in a hybrid mode, with online lectures and on site or online laboratory sessions.
Four lectures per week, Fall semester, 10 ECTS. The lectures are in person but will be recorded and linked to this site and the official University of Oslo website for the course;
Two hours of laboratory sessions for work on computational projects and exercises for each group. There will also be fully digital laboratory sessions for those who cannot attend;
Three projects which are graded and count 1/3 each of the final grade;
A selected number of weekly assignments;
The course is part of the CS Master of Science program, but is open to other bachelor and Master of Science students at the University of Oslo;
The course is offered as a FYS-MAT4155 (Master of Science level) and a FYS-MAT3155 (senior undergraduate) course;
Videos of teaching material are available via the links at https://compphysics.github.io/MachineLearning/doc/web/course.html
Weekly emails with summary of activities will be mailed to all participants;
Weekly Schedule¶
For the reading assignments we use the following abbreviations:
GBC: Goodfellow, Bengio, and Courville, Deep Learning
CMB: Christopher M. Bishop, Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning
HTF: Hastie, Tibshirani, and Friedman, The Elements of Statistical Learning
AG: Aurelien Geron, Hands‑On Machine Learning with Scikit‑Learn and TensorFlow
Week 34 August 23-27¶
Lab Wednesday: Introduction to software and repetition of Python Programming
Lecture Thursday: Introduction to the course, what is Machine Learning and introduction to Linear Regression.
Video of Lecture August 26, 2021 at https://www.uio.no/studier/emner/matnat/fys/FYS-STK4155/h21/forelesningsvideoer/LectureThursdayAugust26.mp4?vrtx=view-as-webpage
Lecture Friday: Basics of Linear Regression
Video of Lecture August 27, 2021 at https://www.uio.no/studier/emner/matnat/fys/FYS-STK4155/h21/forelesningsvideoer/LectureThursdayAugust27.mp4?vrtx=view-as-webpage
Reading recommendations:
Refresh linear algebra, GBC chapters 1 and 2.
CMB sections 1.1 and 3.1.
HTF chapters 2 and 3.
See lecture notes for week 34 at https://compphysics.github.io/MachineLearning/doc/web/course.html
Week 35 August 30-September 3¶
Lab Wednesday: Work on exercises 1-3 for week 35
Thursday: Review of ordinary Least Squares with applications and discussion of Ridge Regression and Singular Value Decomposition
Video of lecture Thursday at https://www.uio.no/studier/emner/matnat/fys/FYS-STK3155/h21/forelesningsvideoer/LectureSeptember2.mp4?vrtx=view-as-webpage.
Friday: Analysis of Ridge and Lasso Regression and links with Singular Value Decomposition
Video of lecture Friday at https://www.uio.no/studier/emner/matnat/fys/FYS-STK3155/h21/forelesningsvideoer/LectureSeptember3.mp4?vrtx=view-as-webpage
Reading recommendations:
See lecture notes for week 35 at https://compphysics.github.io/MachineLearning/doc/web/course.html.
HTF chapter 3. GBC chapters 1 and and sections 3.1-3.11 and 5.1
CMB sections 1.1 and 3.1
Week 36 September 6-10¶
Lab Wednesday: Exercises 1 and 2 from week 36
Lecture Thursday: Summary from last week on SVD, Statistics, probability theory and linear regression
Video of Lecture https://www.uio.no/studier/emner/matnat/fys/FYS-STK3155/h21/forelesningsvideoer/LectureSeptember9.mp4?vrtx=view-as-webpage
Friday: Linear Regression and links with Statistics, Resampling methods and presentation of first project.
Video of Lecture at https://www.uio.no/studier/emner/matnat/fys/FYS-STK4155/h21/forelesningsvideoer/LectureSeptember10.mp4?vrtx=view-as-webpage
Reading recommendations:
Lectures on Regression for week 36 at https://compphysics.github.io/MachineLearning/doc/web/course.html.
Bishop 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3 and 3.1
Hastie et al chapter 3
Week 37 September 13-17¶
Lab Wednesday: Work on Project 1
Lecture Thursday: Resampling methods, cross-validation and Bootstrap
Thursday September 16: Summary of Ridge and Lasso with examples and start resampling techniques
Video of Lecture, first part at https://www.uio.no/studier/emner/matnat/fys/FYS-STK3155/h21/forelesningsvideoer/LectureSeptember16Firstpart.mp4?vrtx=view-as-webpage”
Video of Lecture, second part at https://www.uio.no/studier/emner/matnat/fys/FYS-STK3155/h21/forelesningsvideoer/LectureSeptember16SecondPart.mp4?vrtx=view-as-webpage
Lecture Friday: More on Resampling methods and summary of linear regression
Reading recommendations:
Lectures on Resampling methods for week 37 at https://compphysics.github.io/MachineLearning/doc/web/course.html.
Bishop 1.3 (cross-validation) and 3.2 (bias-variance tradeoff)
Hastie et al Chapter 7, here we recommend 7.1-7.5 and 7.10 (cross-validation) and 7.11 (bootstrap)
Goodfellow et al discuss some of these topics in sections 5.2-5.5.
Week 38 September 20-24¶
Lab Wednesday: Work on Project 1
Lecture Thursday: Classification problems and Logistic Regression, from binary cases to several categories
Lecture Friday: Logistic Regression and gradient optimization
Reading recommendations:
See lecture notes for week 38 at https://compphysics.github.io/MachineLearning/doc/web/course.html.
Bishop 4.1, 4.2 and 4.3. Not all the material is relevant or will be covered. Section 4.3 is the most relevant, but 4.1 and 4.2 give interesting background readings for logistic regression
Hastie et al 4.1, 4.2 and 4.3 on logistic regression
For a good discussion on gradient methods, see Goodfellow et al section 4.3-4.5 and chapter 8. We will come back to the latter chapter in our discussion of Neural networks as well.
Week 39 September 27- October 1¶
Lab Wednesday: Work on Project 1
Lecture Thursday: Gradient Optimization methods
Lecture Friday: Gradient methods and Deep Learning and Neural Networks
Reading recommendations:
See lecture notes for week 39 at https://compphysics.github.io/MachineLearning/doc/web/course.html.
For a good discussion on gradient methods, see Goodfellow et al section 4.3-4.5 and chapter 8. We will come back to the latter chapter in our discussion of Neural networks as well.
For neural networks we recommend Goodfellow et al chapters 6 and 7 and Bishop 5.1-5.4
Week 40 October 4-8¶
Lab Wednesday: Wrap up project 1 and start project 2
Lecture Thursday: Writing a feed-forward Neural Network code for regression and classification
Lecture Friday: Deep Learning and TensorFlow and Keras
Reading recommendations:
See lecture notes for week 40 at https://compphysics.github.io/MachineLearning/doc/web/course.html.
For neural networks we recommend Goodfellow et al chapters 6 and 7 and Bishop 5.1-5.4
Week 41 October 11-15¶
Lab Wednesday: Work on project 2
Lecture Thursday: Deep learning and Neural Networks
Lecture Friday: Convolutional Neural Networks, basic elements
Reading recommendations:
See lecture notes for week 41 at https://compphysics.github.io/MachineLearning/doc/web/course.html.
For neural networks we recommend Goodfellow et al chapters 6 and 7. For CNNs, see Goodfellow et al chapter 9. chapter 11 and 12 on practicalities and applications
Week 42 October 18-22¶
Lab Wednesday: Work on project 2
Lecture Thursday: Convolutional Neural Networks and classification problems
Lecture Friday: Convolutional Neural Networks and classification problems
Reading recommendations:
See lecture notes for week 42 at https://compphysics.github.io/MachineLearning/doc/web/course.html.
For neural networks we recommend Goodfellow et al chapters 6 and 7. For CNNs, see Goodfellow et al chapter 9. See also chapter 11 and 12 on practicalities and applications
Week 43 October 25-29¶
Lab Wednesday: Work on project 2
Lecture Thursday: Recurrent Neural Networks
Lecture Friday: Recurrent Neural Networks and time series
Reading recommendations:
See lecture notes for week 43 at https://compphysics.github.io/MachineLearning/doc/web/course.html.
For RNNs, see Goodfellow et al chapter 10 and discussions in chapter 11 and 12 on practicalities and applications
Week 44 November 1-5¶
Lab Wednesday: Work on project 2
Lecture Thursday: Decision trees, classification and regression
Lecture Friday: Decision trees, basic algorithms
Reading recommendations:
See lecture notes for week 44 at https://compphysics.github.io/MachineLearning/doc/web/course.html.
Hastie et al sections 9.1 and 9.2
Week 45 November 8-12¶
Lab Wednesday: Work on project 3
Lecture Thursday: Ensemble methods, bagging and random forests
Lecture Friday: Boosting and gradient boosting
Reading recommendations:
See lecture notes for week 45 at https://compphysics.github.io/MachineLearning/doc/web/course.html.
Hastie et al chapter 10
Week 46 November 15-19¶
Lab Wednesday: Work on project 3
Lecture Thursday: Support Vector machines
Lecture Friday: Support Vector machines
Reading recommendations:
See lecture notes for week 46 at https://compphysics.github.io/MachineLearning/doc/web/course.html.
Hastie et al chapter 12
Week 47 November 22-26¶
Lab Wednesday: Work on project 3
Lecture Thursday: Unsupervised Learning, Principal Component Analysis (PCA)
Lecture Friday: Unsupervised Learning and PCA, k-means and Clustering
Reading recommendations:
See lecture notes for week 47 at https://compphysics.github.io/MachineLearning/doc/web/course.html.
Week 48 November 29- December 2¶
Lab Wednesday: Work on project 3
Lecture Thursday: Unsupervised Learning and Clustering
Lecture Friday: Summary of course
Reading recommendations:
See lecture notes for week 48 at https://compphysics.github.io/MachineLearning/doc/web/course.html.