University of Delaware
Introduction to Machine Learning
Summer 2025

Schedule

  • Event
    Date
    Description
    Course Material
  • Lecture
    06/10/2025
    Tuesday
    Overview
    [notes] [slides]

    Readings:

    • PML: Chapter 1
    • PRML: Chapter 1
  • Lecture
    06/12/2025
    Thursday
    ML Foundations
    [notes] [slides]

    Readings:

  • Assignment
    06/12/2025
    Thursday
    HW 1 Released!
    [HW 1]
  • Lecture
    06/17/2025
    Tuesday
    Linear Regression
    [notes] [slides]

    Readings:

    • PML: Chapter 11.1-11.4
  • Holiday
    06/19/2025
    Thursday
    Juneteenth. No class.
  • Lecture
    06/24/2025
    Tuesday
    Optimization Basics
    [notes] [slides] [Matrix Calculus] [Jupyter Notebook]

    Readings:

    • PML: Chapter 8.1, 8.2, 8.4
  • Lecture
    06/26/2025
    Thursday
    Maximum Likelihood Estimation
    [notes] [slides]
  • Due
    06/27/2025 23:59
    Friday
    HW 1 Due
  • Lecture
    07/01/2025
    Tuesday
    Logistic Regression
    [notes] [slides]

    Readings:

    • PML: Chapter 10.1-10.3
  • Assignment
    07/02/2025
    Wednesday
    HW 2 Released!
    [HW 2]
  • Lecture
    07/03/2025
    Thursday
    Support Vector Machines (I)
    [notes] [slides]

    Readings:

    • PML: Chapter 17.3, 8.5
  • Lecture
    07/08/2025
    Tuesday
    Support Vector Machines (II)
    [notes] [slides]

    Readings:

    • PML: Chapter 17.3, 8.5
  • Lecture
    07/10/2025
    Thursday
    Decision Trees
    [slides]

    Readings:

    • PML: Chapter 18.1
  • Due
    07/14/2025 23:59
    Monday
    HW 2 Due
  • Lecture
    07/15/2025
    Tuesday
    Midterm Review
    [slides]
  • Exam
    07/17/2025
    Thursday
    Midterm
    • In-class exam
    • Closd book. No cheatsheet
  • Assignment
    07/21/2025
    Monday
    HW 3 Released!
    [HW 3]
  • Lecture
    07/22/2025
    Tuesday
    Perceptron + Neural Networks
    [Perceptron] [Neural Networks]

    Readings

    • PML: Chapter 10.2.5
  • Lecture
    07/24/2025
    Thursday
    Convolutional Neural Networks
    [slides]

    Resources related to PyTorch

    Readings

    • PML: Chapter 14.1-14.3
  • Lecture
    07/29/2025
    Tuesday
    DL Recipe
    [slides]

    Readings

    • PML: Chapter 13.1-13.5
  • Lecture
    07/31/2025
    Thursday
    Unsupervised Learning
    [slides]

    Readings

    • PML: Chapter 21.1-21.3
  • Due
    07/31/2025 23:59
    Thursday
    HW 3 Due
  • Assignment
    08/04/2025
    Monday
    HW 4 Released!
    [HW 4]
  • Lecture
    08/05/2025
    Tuesday
    Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs)
    [slides]
  • Lecture
    08/07/2025
    Thursday
    Autoencoders (AEs)
    [slides]
  • Lecture
    08/12/2025
    Tuesday
    Transformers
    [slides]

    Reading:

  • Lecture
    08/14/2025
    Thursday
    Final Review
    [slides]
  • Exam
    08/15/2025
    Friday
    Final Exam
    • 4:30 PM - 6:30 PM, SHL 105
  • Due
    08/15/2025 23:59
    Friday
    HW 4 Due