CSC7333 Class website  - Machine Learning

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

    Classroom: 226 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  2:00pm to 3:30pm
 
         Other times:  By appointment
         
         

      Grader:  Mr. Jia (Jacob) Cheng

            Contact info:   E-mail: jacobch@cct.lsu.edu
                                    Tel:   578-7658
                                    Office:  233  Johnston Hall
            Office Hours:   Friday 1:30pm to 2:30pm
        
         
         
          More info. about the class: class announcement         guidelines to group projects and individual term papers


      Text Book: Machine Learning by Tom Mitchell

             web site of Tom Mitchell

   

       Homework Assignments

             homework1           homework2         homework3        homework4

       Reminder 


            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:  

                lecture notes: What is ML          more on introduction to ML
              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 Sutton and Barto's book on reinforcement learning     TD-gammon
                       
              link to ICML 08 proceedings papers

              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:    Vehicle Licence Plate Recognition

                      Group 2:     members     topic:    Vehicle Licence Plate Recognition by Neural Networks

                      Group 3:     members      topic:   Analysis of Various Subspace Clustering Methods
                   
                      Group 4:     members      topic:   Learning Game-Playing Heuristics

                      Group 5:     members      topic:    Performance comparison of various feedforward neural network structures

                      Group 6:     members      topic:   Applying GA for game playing

                      

         Individual Term Paper Presentations:

                   

              

        Class Final Exam (Presentations) Date/Time:

                    Saturday  May 9, 2009, from 10:00am  to 12noon
                   
                 Presenters:      Gbolahan Afonja
                                           Sri Harsha Alturi
                                           Vinay Amatya
                                           Michael Avinash
                                           Sameer Bhavanibatla
                                           Swathi Bommineni
                                            Kevin Cherry
                                            San Tat Bich Chu
                                           Duncan Williams
                                           Khadija Elbedweihy
                                           Sertan Kaya
                                           Gopal R. Kondam
                                           Di Lin
                                           Joseph Smiles LNU
                                           Kenneth Mcknight
                                           Manish Patil
                                           Swajan Pothemshetty
                                           Chandreadeep Sama
                                           Alfred Samman
                                           Shobhit Shakya
                                           Jyothi C. Sonti
                                           Rajesh Vellore Singaravelu
                                           Xinqi Wang
                                           Joshua Wascom
                                           Kyle Wall
                                         

       Additional Presentations  - May 2, 2009  from 2pm to  4:30pm

                 Presenters:      Robert J. Dibiano
                                           Qing Huang
                                           Claudia Leonardi
                                           Harry Moore
                                           Ashwat Ramani
                                           Dilip Somavarapu
                                           Bipin Thomas
                                           Kun Yan
                             

        Written Term Paper Due Date: 

                      Saturday May 9, 2009,  by 5pm.