CSC7333 Class website  - Machine Learning

    Class time: Tuesday and Thursday from 12:10pm to 1:30pm

    Classroom: 200 Tureaud Hall

   Instructor: Dr. Jianhua Chen

         Contact info:   E-mail: jianhua@csc.lsu.edu
                                  Tel: 225-578-4340
                                  Office:  282 Coates Hall
        
         Office Hours:   T, TH  1:40pm to 3:30pm
 
         Other times:  By appointment
         
         

      Grader: No TA for this class

        
         
         
          More info. about the class: class announcement


      Text Book: Machine Learning by Tom Mitchell

             web site of Tom Mitchell

   

       Homework Assignments

             Homework3     NOTE:  The due date of homeowrk3 has been extended to Thursday May 1, 2008

       Reminder 

           QUIZ 1 to be conducted on Tuesday March 11, 2008  

           QUIZ 2 to be conducted on Tuesday April 15, 2008


            link to DT and feature learning paper
          
            link to Valiant's paper on learnability

         
link to the random key (GA) paper 
        
          link to a tutorial paper on NN    some interesting applications of NN

            

        Other links


          lecture slides available from the book author:  


              link to a paper by Dr. Chen and colleagues on UUV control by NN and GA

              link to a paper on applying GA for playing checkers          link to a paper on using GA for QAP

              link to a website containing intersting applications of GA
                
              the iterated prisoners dilemma game     the checkers game
  
              the traveling sales man problem           the vehicle routing problem       the quadratic assignment problem        


              link to ICML 07 proceedings

              link to ICML06 proceedings
                              
             link to ICML05 proceedings          

             link to ICML04 proceedings

              link to ICML03 proceedings

            

         Group Presentations:

                      Group 1:     members     topic:    Robot Cub 

                      Group 2:     members     topic:    Adaptive mapping using floodfill algorithm  link to the website

                      Group 3:     members      topic:   Learning for Efficient Retrieval of Structured Data      link to paper
                   
                      Group 4:     members      topic:   Unsupervised  Estimation for Noisy Chanel Model       link to paper

         Individual Term Paper Presentations:

                   

              

        Class Final Exam (Presentations) Date/Time:

                    Saturday  May 10, 2008, from 7:30am  to 11:30am.
                   
                 Presenters:
                      Junaid ahmed                                      Topic: Learning to Solve game Trees         link to paper
                      Ram Sri Harsha Bhagawaty               Topic:  Evolving Strategies for Focused Web Crawling   link to paper
                      Jia  Cheng                                            Topic: Speech Recognition using Dynamic Bayesian Networks   link to paper
                      Sai Sunil Devaiahgari                          Topic: Learning to Compress Images and Videos              link to paper
                      Richard D Guidry Jr                             Topic: Natural Language Processing
                      Kexi Liu                                                Topic:   Application of Genetic Algorithms to Texture Analysis     link to paper
                      Raqueeb Alam Mohammed                 Topic:   Neighbourhood Component analysis               link to paper
                      Jagadish Kumar Mohan Kumar           Topic:  Beyond pageRank: Machine Learning for static Page Ranking link to paper
                      Sreekanth Pothanis                             Topic: Learning to predict actions in a two-player game
                      Chindu C. Rajan                                   Topic:  Swarm Intelligence for Machine Learning           link to paper
                      Shree R. Rajendran                             Topic: Network Intrusion Detection using GA
                      Cesar A. Rincon                                    Topic:  Detection of Major Disturbances and Optimization of Transmission Line Protective Relay using NN
                                                                                                                         paper1      paper2      paper3       presentation slides
                       Rajiv Soundararajan                           Topic: Evolable Hardware
                      Archana Vallabhaneni                         Topic:  ECG beat classification using neuro-fuzzy network           link to paper
                      Zhifeng Yun                                          Topic:   Principal Component Analysis and Neural Network Based Face Recognition  link to paper

       Additional Presentations

           Thursday  May 1, 2008  (in-class)

                 Presenters:
                      Monika Gadre                         Topic:   Using Genetic Algorithms for Cryptanalysis/code breaking  link to paper
                      Neelavardhan Mallepally        Topic:  Generalized Low-Rank Approximation of Matrix   link to paper
                      Bharat Narahari                     Topic: Self Reconfigurable Modular Robot    link to paper   link to website   youtube video
                      Sean O'Connell                       Topic:  Implementations of Neural Networks on GPU (graphics hardwares)   link to presentation
                      Jerry Weltman                         Topic:  Proposal for a Case-Based Reasoning Framework to Collect Common-Sense
                    
                             

        Written Term Paper Due Date: 

                      Saturday May 10, 2008,  by 5pm.