Statistical Machine Learning (W4400) • Spring 2014

This class provides an introduction to Machine Learning and its core algorithms.

Course Slides

Here is the complete set of course slides (version: 1 May) as a single file.

Teaching Assistants

Lu Meng (lumeng@stat.columbia.edu)
Office hours: Tue 5:30-7:30pm, 1025 SSW (tenth floor, Department of Statistics)
Jingjing Zou (jingjing@stat.columbia.edu)
If you have questions on how your homework was graded, please address them to Jingjing.

Syllabus

There will be five or six homework assignments; you will usually have two weeks to complete each homework. The final grade will be computed as

The midterm will cover the material of the first half of the class. The final will cover only the material covered after the midterm; you will not have to repeat everything all over again.