6.S080 Introduction to Inference
Spring 2014
Instructors: Konstantinos Daskalakis, Polina Golland
TAs: George H Chen, Chelsea B Finn, Aldo Pacchiano Camacho, Oren Rippel
Lecture:
MW 10-11
(32-155)
Recitations: TR11 (5-134) or TR12 (5-134) or TR1 (13-4101) or TR2 (13-4101)
TA Office Hours: M4 (George), T12 (Oren), T4 (Chelsea), T7 (Aldo), W2:30 (TAs)
(24-316)
Lecturer Office Hours: By appointment
Course Description:
Introduction to probabilistic modeling for problems of inference and machine learning from data, emphasizing analytical and computational aspects. Distributions, marginalization, conditioning, and structure; graphical representations. Belief propagation, decision making, classification, estimation, and prediction. Sampling methods and analysis. Introduction to asymptotic analysis and information measures, and applications.
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Announcements
Final Exam, Review Session, Office Hours
Hello all,These are exciting times. The final exam is approaching, it will take place on Thursday, May 22 from 9:00AM - 12:00 NOON in 32-141. You are allowed to bring 3 cheat sheets to the test.
The TAs will hold a review session on Tuesday, May 20th, from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm (plus an extra time for questions). The review session will take place in 32-155.
Additionally, the TAs will hold OHs on Wednesday May 21st:
Oren 10AM - 11AM
George 11AM - 12(NOON)
Chelsea 1PM-2PM
Aldo 2PM-3PM
The Office Hours will take place int he same room as usual, 24-316.
Good luck to all! You will do great!
Announced on 17 May 2014 7:11 p.m. by Aldo Pacchiano Camacho
Course evaluations
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Monday, May 19.
Thank you and best of luck with with finals!
Polina.
Announced on 15 May 2014 10:42 a.m. by Polina Golland
Recitation Cancelled, Grades, & Study Resources
Hi all,Recitation: As mentioned in lecture, tomorrow's recitation has been *cancelled*. There will instead be a review session next week, likely on Tuesday evening.
Grades: All grades have been updated in the Stellar gradebook! Please double-check for mistakes. Problem sets that have not been received are blank. Late submissions are marked with a 0. If you plan on submitting late problem sets before the end of the course, please do so by *Tuesday night* by emailing it to the course staff or in person at the review session.
Study Resources: The Fall 2012 final exam and solutions have been posted to Stellar.
More details regarding the exam, the review session, and office hours are coming soon.
Good luck studying!
Chelsea
Announced on 14 May 2014 2:08 p.m. by Chelsea B Finn
Course Evaluation
Our response rates are really low. Please take a minute or two to do this:
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Cheers,
Costis
Announced on 13 May 2014 10:52 a.m. by Konstantinos Daskalakis
Problem Set 11
Hello class!In response to a Piazza post: problem Set 11 solutions were incomplete and actually contained numerous bugs. I just updated the document so that hopefully all the bugs are gone and now there are solutions to all parts of all problems. For problem 11.2, I added a useful fact about the tail probability of an exponential distribution. I also tried to work out many of the integrals in a reasonable amount of detail.
Sorry for any inconvenience caused by the earlier draft that appeared.
Cheers,
George
Announced on 12 May 2014 2:08 a.m. by George H Chen
