Neural Network Design and Application Fall 2012 CPTS 434 & 534, Tuesday and Thursday, Noon-1:15pm Instructor: John Miller PhD Associate Professor of Computer Science Office: West 134E WSU Tri-Cities jhmiller@tricity.wsu.edu Class web page can be found at http://www.tricity.wsu.edu/~jhmiller No Required Text Suggested texts: Building Neural Networks by David M. Skapura, Introduction to Machine Learning, 2nd ed by Ethem Alpaydin Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning by Christopher M. Bishop

Graduate Project Reports: Nuts and Bolts Grades: Tests and Assignments have equal weight Graduate credit: project approved by instructor Tests: given in class with open books, lecture notes, and computers Assignments: Unless prior arrangements are made, assignments will not be accepted more than one week after their due date Graduate Project Reports: Topic approved by instructor 3 – 5 pages double spaced Due last class period before dead week

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Objectives of the class: Lean to apply artificial neural networks to classification and regression problems 2. To understand artificial neural networks as a non-parametric statistical method of data analysis 3. To compare artificial neural networks to other supervised machine-learning techniques

Tentative Schedule Tu Aug 21 Discussion of class syllabus Th Aug 23 Introduction to supervised machine learning Tu Aug 28 Introduction to supervised machine learning Th Aug 30 Introduction to Bayesian statistics Tu Sep 4 Introduction to Bayesian statistics Th Sep 6 Parametric methods Tu Sep 11 Parametric methods Th Sep 11 Multivariate Data Tu Sep 18 Multivariate Data Th Sep 20 Test #1 Tu Sep 25 Artificial Neural Networks Th Sep 27 Artificial Neural Networks Tu Oct 2 Artificial Neural Networks Th Oct 4 Artificial Neural Networks Tu Oct 9 Artificial Neural Networks Th Oct 11 Genetic Algorithm Tu Oct 16 Genetic Algorithm Th Oct 18 Genetic Algorithm Tu Oct 23 Dimensionality reduction Th Oct 25 Dimensionality reduction Tu Oct 30 Dimensionality reduction Th Nov 1 Test #2. Tu Nov 6 Radial basis functions Th Nov 8 Radial basis functions Tu Nov 13 Support vector machines Th Nov 15 Thanksgiving break Tu Nov 20 Thanksgiving break Th Nov 22 Support Vector machines Tu Nov 27 Self-organizing Maps Th Nov 29 Self-organizing Maps Dec 3-7 Review Dec 10-14 Finals week Test #3