Handouts:
Week 1+2: Probability Review and HMMs
Probability review from Gal Chechik's book Pdf
Hmm Notes: Postscript
Tirgul notes Pdf
Background reading:
- Rabiners HMM tutorial (watch out for different notation)
- Biological Sequence Analysis, R.Durbin - don't be fooled by the biological title. The book
has a simple and intuitive presentation of HMMs along with examples.
Matlab tutorial at icnc
Lagrange multipliers notes from last year: Postscript
Week 3: Representation
Week 4+5: Exact inference in Trees - Belief Propagation
Week 6: Exact inference in Graphs - Junction/Clique Trees
- Tirgul notes on cluster trees PDF
- Notes on Inference and Clique Trees (by Yair Weiss and Michael Jordan) PS
- J. Pearl, Probabilistic Reasoning in Intelligent Systems: Networks of Plausible Inference, Morgan Kaufmann, 1988
Week 7: Approximate Inference and Sampling Methods
- Approximate inference notes Postscript
- Tirgul notes on sampling PDF
Week 8: Approximate Inference and MCMC Methods
Week 9:Decision Theory
- Decision Theory notes in PDF
- Influence Diagrams notes and
Utility notes from Stanford University
- A link to Daniel Kahneman talk