Slides of the lectures

Lecture Date Topic Material
1 28.10.2013 Introduction to Probabilistic Inference and Bayesian Networks Slides
2 04.11.2013
Probabilistic Inference in Bayesian Networks without undirected cycles via Factor Graphs
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3 18.11.2013
Markov Networks, and Comparison with Bayesian Networks
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4
22.11.2013
The Junction Tree Algorithm for Probabilistic Inference in arbitrary Graphical Models
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5
25.11.2013
Learning as Probabilistic Inference
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6
29.11.2013
Continuation: Learning as Probabilistic Inference
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7
02.12.2013
Lagrange Multipliers and Decision Making

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8
16.12.2013
Expectation Maximization: A Powerful Tool for Fitting Complex Statistical Models to Data
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9
13.01.2014
Completion of EM, and a few further useful Tricks and Concepts in Machine Learning
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