Neural Machine Learning I

COMP / ELEC / STAT 502, Fall 2024

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Class meets: TR 10:50am - 12:05pm, room MXF 252
This class is based on in-person instruction, subject to changes if Covid-19 measures should require. Classes will not be recorded unless Covid-19 enforces remote instruction.
Instructor: Erzsébet Merényi
email: erzsebet@rice.edu
Office/Phone: MXF 229, 713-348-3595  email preferred
Office hour: by appointment
Preferred window: Tuesday 4:00 - 5:30pm (preliminary)
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Teaching Assistant, grader and contact information:
Ziting Tang, email: zt21@rice.edu
Yixuan Zhao, email: yz250@rice.edu
Advising by TAs: by appointment (contact TAs by email)
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Last Updated: November 10, 2024
Welcome to biologically inspired neural information processing!
Short course description: Review of major Artificial Neural Network paradigms. Analytical discussion of supervised and unsupervised learning. Emphasis on state-of-the-art Hebbian (biologically most plausible) learning paradigms and their relation to information theoretical methods. Applications to data analysis such as pattern recognition, clustering (information discovery), classification, non-linear PCA, independent component analysis, with examples from image and signal processing and other areas.