Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: Computer Science

Meeting: 2:30PM - 3:45PM TR DCH 1070 (10-JAN-2022 - 22-APR-2022) 

Session: Full Term

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Method of Instruction: Face to Face

Credit Hours: 3

 

Section Max Enrollment: 50

Section Enrolled: 15

Enrollment data as of: 29-NOV-2023 3:39PM

 

 

Final Exam: GR Course-Dept Schedules Exam

 

Description: This course will overview both traditional and more recent graph-based machine learning algorithms. Graphs show up in machine learning in many forms. Oftentimes, the input data can be naturally represented as a graph, such as for relational learning tasks applied to social networks and graph kernels applied to chemical data. Other times, graphs are just a framework to express some intrinsic structure in the data, such as for graphical models and non-linear embedding. In both cases, recent advances in representation learning (or graph embedding) and deep learning have generated a renewed interest in machine learning on graphs. At the end of the course, students are expected to be able to: (1) identify the appropriate graph-based machine learning algorithm for a given problem; (2) extend existing algorithms to solve new related problems; and (3) recognize some of the key research challenges in the field. The course will be a mixture of lectures, a research paper presentation, homework assignments (including programming), and a hands-on class project. Recommended Prerequisite(s): Undergraduate-level linear algebra and undergraduate-level probability and statistics