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STAT8056/PUB8475: Advanced Topics on Machine Learning and Data Science
Spring 2024(1/17/24-04/29/24)

Instructors:

STAT8056: Shen Xiaotong (Stat, xshen@stat.umn.edu) xshen
PUB8475: Pan Wei (Biostat, panxx014@umn.edu) panxx014

Course Website: http://www.stat.umn.edu/~xshen/stat8056.htm

Lecture Meeting: 09:45am-11:00am, MW, Health Sciences Edu Ctr 2-132

Office Hour: 11:00am-12:00pm, MW, or by appointment, Ford 391

Syllabus

No textbook. Slides and published research papers will be shared. Topics to be covered:


  • Data Exploration, Optimization, and High-dimensional learning


  • Deep learning, language models, and generaative models


  • Week 8 (March 4-8): Spring break


  • Recommender systems and graphical models



  • HWK due on 04/15/24 in class

  • Kaggle Data link


  • Final project report due on 04/29/24 in class