6.438 Algorithms for Inference
Fall 2015
Instructor: Gregory W Wornell
TAs: Christina Esther Lee, Dongeek Shin
Lecture:
TR9.30-11
(4-370)
Recitation: F10 or F11
(8-119)
Office Hours (TA): Mondays 5-7 (36-155) and Thursdays 4-5 (24-322)
Greg's Office Hours: By appointment
Information:
Introduction to statistical inference with probabilistic graphical models. Directed and undirected graphical models, and factor graphs, over discrete and Gaussian distributions; hidden Markov models, linear dynamical systems. Sum-product and junction tree algorithms; forward-backward algorithm, Kalman filtering and smoothing. Min-sum and Viterbi algorithms. Variational methods, mean-field theory, and loopy belief propagation. Particle methods and filtering. Building graphical models from data, including parameter estimation and structure learning; Baum-Welch and Chow-Liu algorithms. Selected special topics.
Announcements
Finals Office Hours
There will NOT be recitation tomorrow. There will still be the usual Thursday (today) office hours 4-5pm. In addition, there will be Friday office hours 11am-12pm in building 36, 6th floor lounge, and 4-5pm in 6th floor LIDS lounge (building 32, D tower, 6th floor).Announced on 10 December 2015 11:32 a.m. by Christina Esther Lee
Updated Problem 8.4
A modified version of pset 8 has been posted which includes additional hints and definitions for problem 8.4.Announced on 20 November 2015 12:47 a.m. by Christina Esther Lee
Updated Pset8
Announced on 17 November 2015 1:06 p.m. by Christina Esther Lee
Updated project document in Materials
The project document has been updated to include two important things:1. Completion of both parts of this project and the associated write-ups is a subject requirement.
2. For part II, submit a short doc describing your approach.
Please refer to the last page of the updated project document to
understand these statements in context.
Announced on 14 November 2015 12:52 p.m. by Dongeek Shin
Extra office hours for project
I will be holding extra OH tomorrow (Nov. 13) from 2 to 3 at the 6th floor lobby of 36. Feel free to come by for questions and clarifications.Announced on 12 November 2015 7:58 p.m. by Dongeek Shin
