During this second week, you will add more features to your neural network from last week, and in the process we will discover some more advanced topics of functional programming as well.
These are primary recommendations. You can find equivalent material in other books if you prefer.
The schedule will not be prepared until we see how we fare in the first week. The following is an outline of topics which we plan to cover.
| Time | Topic | Reading |
|---|---|---|
| Monday 9 February | ||
| 8:15-10 | Review of last week | |
| rest of day | Catch up with Tutorials 5-6 | |
| Tuesday 10 February | ||
| 8:15-10 | Lecture: From perceptron to back-propagation | Marsland Chapter 4 |
| rest of day | Implementation and testing of back-propagation | |
| Question and Answer session (TBA) | ||
| Wednesday 11 February | ||
| 8.15-10 | Complete your back-propagation networks | |
| 10.15-11 | Lecture: Pseudo-random number generators | |
| 10.15-13 | Implement random initialisation of weights Take a lunch break in some point |
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| 13.15-14 | Lecture: State Machines and Monads | Thompson Chapter 18 |
| rest of day | Catch up with exercises | |
| Thursday 12 February | ||
| 8:30-10 | Lecture: Neural Networks in the Real World | Marsland Chapter 4 |
| Practical Problems for the Neural Network Discussion Exercises |
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| Friday 13 February | ||
| 8:30-10 | Lecture: Curse of Dimensionality | Marsland Chapter 6 |
| Rest of Day | Catch up with previous tutorials | |
| Optional | Exercises on dimensionality reduction | Marsland Chapter 6 |