These abbreviations are used in the following assignments:
| Date | Lecture Topics | Assigned Readings |
|---|---|---|
| 9/2 |
How the Brain Computes (Lecture Slides) |
G. Fischbach: Mind and Brain, Scientific American, Sept 1992, 48 - 57 (pdf) |
| 9/4 |
Learning
(Lecture Slides) Neural Computation (Slides) |
Mehrotra, Chap. 1 Demuth, Chap. 1 and 2 |
| 9/9 |
Logical Neurons Perceptron Basics (Lecture Slides) Matlab Assignments |
Griffith J, Mathematical Neurobiology, 1971, 29-32
(pdf) Mehrotra, Sects. 2.1, 2.2 (see Useful Links off class page) |
| 9/11 |
Neural Network Toolbox Perceptron Properties |
Demuth, Chap. 3 (Assignment 1 out; due 11 AM 9/25) |
| 9/16 |
Perceptron Properties Perceptron Learning |
Mehrotra, Sects. 2.3-2.5.1 |
| 9/18 |
Perceptrons: Practical Issues Linear Associative Memory (Lecture Slides) LMS Learning Preliminaries |
Mehrotra Sect. 2.5.2-2.6 |
| 9/23 |
LMS Rule Hebb's Rule |
Demuth 4.1-8, 4.13-19 Mehrotra pp. 217-222 (Assignment 2 out; due 11 AM 10/2) |
| 9/25 |
Linear Nets (concluded) Error Backpropagation (Lecture Slides) |
Mehrotra Sects. 3.1-3.3 Rumelhart et al: Learning Representations by BackPropagating Errors, Nature, 329, 1986, 533-6 (pdf) |
| 9/30 |
Review Assignment 1 EBP Derivation Representation (Lecture Slides) |
Mehrotra, Sects. 3.4 - 3.5 (omit 3.5.3) |
| 10/2 |
EBP in Practice EBP Learning Variations |
Demuth, 5.1-5.22 Reidmiller, RPROP Algorithm, Proc. ICNN, 1993, 586 - 591 (pdf) (Assignment 3 out; due 10/16 and 10/19) |
| 10/7 |
Review Assignment 2 EBP Issues and Variations |
Mehrotra, Sects. 4.3.2, 4.5, 4.6 |
| 10/9 |
Data Separation, Regularization EBP Applications (Lecture Slides) |
Mehrotra, Sects. 3.7, 3.8 Pazzani M & Dyer M, Concept Identification, Proc. 10th IJCAI, 1987, 147-150 (pdf) |
| 10/14 |
Hidden Layer Analysis (Lecture Slides) Dynamic Architectures (Lecture Slides) RBF Networks |
Mehrotra, Sects. 4.2-4.2.2, 4.2.5 Mehrotra, Sect. 4.4 |
| 10/16 |
RBF Networks TBA |
TBA |
| 10/X | TBA | TBA |