2000-01-03-schedule.html

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<h2 id="schedule">Schedule</h2>

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  <td><b>Week 1</b><br />15 Aug
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Motivation / Likelihood-based Models Part I: Autoregressive Models
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  [&nbsp;«&nbsp;<a href="#" data-toggle="#div1">Recording&nbsp;@&nbsp;YouTube&nbsp;</a>&nbsp;]
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  <td><b>Week 2</b><br />22 Aug
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Likelihood-based Models: Autoregressive Models / Flow Models
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  [&nbsp;«&nbsp;<a href="#" data-toggle="#div2">Recording&nbsp;@&nbsp;YouTube&nbsp;</a>&nbsp;]
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  <td><b>Week 3</b><br />29 Aug
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Lossless Compression / Flow Models
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  [&nbsp;«&nbsp;<a href="#" data-toggle="#div3">Recording&nbsp;@&nbsp;YouTube&nbsp;</a>&nbsp;]
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  <td><b>Week 4</b><br />5 Sep
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Lecture 3a: Likelihood-based Models Part II: Flow Models (ctd) (same slides as week 2) /
Lecture 3b: Latent Variable Models - part 1 
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  <td><b>Week 5</b><br />12 Sep
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Lecture 4a: Latent Variable Models - part 2 /
Lecture 4b: Bits-Back Coding
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  <td><b>Week 6</b><br />19 Sep
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Lecture 5a: Latent Variable Models - wrap-up (same slides as Latent Variable Models - part 2) /
Lecture 5b: ANS coding (same slides as bits-back coding) / 
Lecture 5c: Implicit Models / Generative Adversarial Networks
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<td>Preliminary project titles and team members due on Slack's <code>#projects</code></td>
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  <td><b>Recess Week</b><br />26 Sep
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Lecture 6a: Implicit Models / Generative Adversarial Networks (ctd) (same slides as 5c) /
Lecture 6b: Non-Generative Representation Learning [UPDATED 3/24]
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  <td><b>Week 7</b><br />3 Oct
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Lecture 7: Non-Generative Representation Learning (same slides as 6b)
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  <td>Preliminary abstracts due to <code>#projects</code>
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  <td><b>Week 8</b><br />10 Oct
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Lecture 8a: Strengths/Weaknesses of Unsupervised Learning Methods Covered Thus Far /
Lecture 8b: Semi-Supervised Learning /
Lecture 8c: Guest Lecture by Ilya Sutskever
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  <td><b>Week 9</b><br />17 Oct
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Lecture 9a: Unsupervised Distribution Alignment /
Lecture 9b: Guest Lecture by Alyosha Efros
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  <td><b>Week 10</b><br />24 Oct
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Lecture 10: Language Models (Alec Radford)
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  <td><b>Week 11</b><br />31 Oct
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<em>No lecture due to the <a href="https://wing.comp.nus.edu.sg/~ssnlp/">Singapore Symposium on Natural Language Processing</a> (SSNLP '19).</em>
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  <td><b>Week 12</b><br />7 Nov
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Lecture 11: Representation Learning in Reinforcement Learning
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  <td><b>Week 13</b><br />14 Nov
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  TBA
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  <td>Participation on evening of 15th STePS
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