This page will provide updated information on what is covered in each lecture along with pdf of the hand written material from each class.


Video recordings and all course notes are all being made available on LMS system.
The course notes are also available from course page. The calendar page for the previous offering of this course is available at here.
The calendar page for the current offering of this course is available on the LMS at here.
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Practice problem set: Please find here a growing list of practice problems. You can also refer to this wiki for definitions of several concepts relevant to this course, connections between those concepts through theorems and proofs of those theorems.

It is very important that you attempt the homework problems that were posted at the end of (almost) each lecture.

You can consider solving the following problems from PRML (Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning): 1.1 to 1.16, 1.20 to 1.32, 1.35 to 1.41, 2.1 to 2.8, 2.12, 2.13, 2.14 to 2.40, 3.2 to 3.10, 3.12 to 3.20, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.7, 4.9, 4.10, 4.12, 4.13, 4.14, 4.15 (harder), 4.16-4.21, 4.24, 5.1 - 5.9, 5.25 (hard), 5.27, 5.28, and following problems from Hastie et. al. : (A) 2.1, 3.2 , 3.5 , 3.6 , 3.7 , 3.12 , 3.19 , 3.21 , 3.23 , 3.27 , 3.28 , 3.29 , 3.30 , 4.2 , 4.3 , 4.4 , 4.5 , 4.6 , 4.7 , 4.8 , 5.16 , 6.2 , 6.4 , 6.6 , 6.9 , 6.11 , 8.1 , 8.2 , 8.5, 8.7, 10.5a, 10.8, 10.12, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5, 11.7, 12.1, 12.2, 12.9, 12.10, 12.11 (harder), 13.1, 14.1, 14.2, 14.23 (harder)