CE5053 - Statistical Learning (Fall 2025)

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Week Date Content Exercise
1 9/1 Overview of the course
2 9/8 1. Statistical learning
2. Important probability and statistics concepts
3 9/15 Bayesian network and d-separation Exercise 1 (due: 9/28 23:59:59)
4 9/22 1. Naive Bayesian
2. Bayesian network modeling examples
5 9/29 Teachers' Day, NO CLASS
6 10/6 Mid-autumn festival, NO CLASS
7 10/13 1. Markov Random Fields
2. Point estimation: MLE and MAP
Exercise 2 (due: 10/26 23:59:59)
8 10/20 Exponential family and conjugate prior
9 10/27 1. Hypothesis testing
2. Midterm review
10 11/3 Midterm exam
11 11/10 EM algorithm Exercise 3 (due: 11/23 23:59:59)
12 11/17 Invited talk (長庚醫院外傷急症外科鄭啟桐博士)
13 11/24 1. Monte Carlo methods
2. Inverse transform sampling, reject sampling, and importance sampling
3. Markov chain
4. Markov Chain Monte Carlo: Metropolis-Hastings and Gibbs sampling
Exercise 4 (due: 12/7 23:59:59)
14 12/1 1. Latent Dirichlet Allocation with MCMC
2. Bayesian linear regression: closed-form vs MCMC
3. Gaussian process
15 12/8 1. Gaussian process
2. Bayesian optimization
3. Summary of the course
16 12/15 Final exam