Notices

  • Materials on Google Drives

    Posted by Omar Al-Ghattas Tuesday 27 August 2019, 02:03:51 PM, last modified Tuesday 27 August 2019, 02:16:53 PM.

    Dear Students,

    I will be removing access to the google drives for lecture/tutorial/homework etc materials on Sunday night (1st September). If you would like a copy of the material to keep for yourself, please make sure to download them before then.

    Update: To make it easier to download I've put them all in one folder accessible HERE

  • Exam Issues and Feedback

    Posted by Michael Bain Tuesday 20 August 2019, 01:53:36 PM.

    A number of issues on the Q&A forum have been raised regarding the final exam. Some of these are about possible errors on the paper, others about the design of the questions and concerns about the marking. We will make all efforts to address these and ensure the assessment is fair and reasonable.

    In the meantime, if you have specific queries or concerns please email the LiC or course admin and we will address them for you, rather than further posts on the forum.

  • Homework 2 update

    Posted by Michael Bain Monday 19 August 2019, 12:21:06 PM.

    Although most of your submissions have been correctly auto-marked, it appears that some submission files were corrupted during auto-marking. We're working to fix this and will update you as soon as that happens.

  • Homework 2 Issues

    Posted by Omar Al-Ghattas Sunday 18 August 2019, 06:51:58 PM.

    Hi Everyone,

    I understand some of you have questions about your marks, but as I have stated before, I am not responsible for marking of the homework, so please do not email me about this. You can contact the LiC or post your issue on the Homework2 forum.


  • Homework 2 – results available

    Posted by Michael Bain Sunday 18 August 2019, 06:18:07 PM.

    Marks for homework2 should now be viewable via sturec / give.

  • Consultation Hours Reminder

    Posted by Omar Al-Ghattas Thursday 15 August 2019, 12:39:47 PM.

    Hi Everyone, sorry for the late notice but I've had to make my consultation slightly earlier, it will now be from 2-5pm on Friday the 16th in 4.03. Here is a summary of all consultation hours available before the final exam:

    Peng Yi, Thursday 15th Aug, 3-5pm, K17 203

    Omar Ghattas, Friday 16th Aug, 2-5pm, K17 403

    Mike Bain, Monday 19th Aug, 12:30-1:30, K17 403

    One final reminder to please fill out your MyExperience survey.

  • Peng Yi Consultation Hours

    Posted by Omar Al-Ghattas Tuesday 13 August 2019, 04:16:54 PM.

    Hi again,

    Peng Yi will also have consultation hours on Thursday 15th Aug from 3-5pm in K17 203

  • Extra Consultation Hours

    Posted by Omar Al-Ghattas Tuesday 13 August 2019, 03:39:42 PM, last modified Thursday 15 August 2019, 12:41:21 PM.

    Hi Everyone,

    I hope your revision is going well - I wasn't able to secure a large enough room to hold a tutorial but I will make myself available for an extended consultation in room 4.03 in CSE from 2-5pm on Friday the 16th. Hopefully this is enough time to answer all your revision questions, though I'm happy to stick around for a bit longer if needed.

    Please also remember to fill out your MyExperience surveys before the Friday deadline


  • MyExperience Survey

    Posted by Omar Al-Ghattas Monday 12 August 2019, 10:35:58 AM, last modified Monday 12 August 2019, 10:38:05 AM.

    Hi everyone,

    Please take the time to provide feedback for the course/your tutors by filling out the MyExperience survey - which may be accessed HERE . The more detailed your feedback the better we can make this course in future years. Keep in mind that evaluations close on Friday

    Thanks!

  • Reminder: Consultation (Office Hours) each Monday 12:30 - 1:30 every week from 1st July

    Posted by Michael Bain Sunday 11 August 2019, 11:08:14 PM.

    Hi – just a reminder we have consultation at the usual time tomorrow (Monday 12 August) and next week (Monday 19 August) for questions about the exam, etc.

  • Some information about the final exam.

    Posted by Michael Bain Friday 09 August 2019, 09:56:40 PM.

    The exam will be of 2 hours duration. It will count for 60% of the total grade for the course. The focus of the exam questions will be the lecture material, although any material covered in the course is potentially examinable.

    Owing to reduced time for marking as a result of moving to the new trimester-based teaching schedule, the exam format will be multiple-choice answers. However, with the aim of assessing problem-solving as well as knowledge, the structure of the exam will adopt aspects of short-answer design, as follows.

    The exam will be in two sections. The first section will have a number of multiple-choice questions, with each question on a particular topic we covered in the course.

    The second, longer, section will comprise a selection of "problem-solving" type exercises on particular topics. You will need to complete each exercise, which will be immediately followed by a number (from 2--5) of multiple-choice questions on aspects of your solution.

    All questions must be answered. For all questions only ONE answer is required.

    Only UNSW-approved calculators may be be taken into the exam. No other materials or notes are permitted.

    A sample of questions (with sample answers) from previous papers is available for download under "Lectures" for Week 10. Although the exam format is different from this term's exam, it should give you a sense of the topics that are likely to be covered in the exam.

  • Assignment Submission

    Posted by Omar Al-Ghattas Friday 09 August 2019, 12:45:14 PM.

    Hi Everyone, I've been getting an increasing number of emails from students requesting an extension to the deadline because they have had a lot of deadlines on this week. I just want to make it clear that there will be no extensions granted for this reason, as the majority of students in this course would be facing the same problem and so an extension to any one team would be unfair on the rest of the students. We released the assignment very early on to give you enough time not to have left it to the last minute. Similarly, if you are requesting an extension based on last minute changes in your team, the answer is also no.

    Extensions will only be granted for extraordinary circumstances, such as illness (if the request is made with some proof such as a medical certificate).

  • Homework 2 – deadline extended

    Posted by Michael Bain Monday 05 August 2019, 10:45:09 AM.

    Hi – due to numerous requests, the deadline for Homework 2 has been extended.

    The REVISED deadline is: Tuesday 6 August 23:59:59, 2019.

    Please note the revised time as well, reverting to the traditional time of just before midnight !

  • Homework 2 submission

    Posted by Michael Bain Sunday 04 August 2019, 06:45:51 PM.

    Hi – the submission for homework 2 has been updated. Give will now run a syntax check on your submission and give you feedback on whether there are any syntax errors. If you previously submitted and are confident that your submission was syntactically correct you do not have to do anything further. Otherwise, please resubmit to have the syntax checked.

  • Updates

    Posted by Omar Al-Ghattas Saturday 03 August 2019, 02:55:52 PM.

    Hi Everyone, please take note of the following:

    1. Tutorial material for next week has been released.

    2. An explanation of how to submit your assignment has been added to the Assignment page, please see the last update "Submission Update".

    3. Please also see the last update on the Homework 2 page about submission


  • Homework 2

    Posted by Omar Al-Ghattas Monday 29 July 2019, 12:46:50 PM.

    has been released, the due date is 17:59:59, Monday August 5, 2019.

  • Unsupervised Learning Tutorial

    Posted by Omar Al-Ghattas Friday 26 July 2019, 11:50:56 PM.

    has been released, solutions for ensemble methods tutorial have also been uploaded to the drive.

  • Ensemble Learning Tutorial

    Posted by Omar Al-Ghattas Friday 19 July 2019, 11:47:05 PM.

    now available, solutions for Kernel Methods tutorial now available. I've also added an extended solutions for Questions 2 and 4 for those of you that were still confused/wanted to dig deeper into the concepts. Enjoy the weekend

  • Kernel Methods Tutorial

    Posted by Omar Al-Ghattas Friday 12 July 2019, 11:35:53 PM.

    has been released, solutions for neural learning have also been uploaded to the drive.

  • A note on assignment proposals

    Posted by Omar Al-Ghattas Wednesday 10 July 2019, 08:44:09 PM.

    Hi everyone, many of you are sending through your assignment proposals and I just wanted to make two quick notes:

    1. I know many of you have done the deep learning course at UNSW and in that course, have covered topics such as Q-learning, DQN, NLP, and simple CNNs. There are no issues with you wanting to do deep learning projects for your assignment, but I just want you to be careful about reusing code that has already been submitted in previous assignments at the CSE. All code is checked against previous CSE submissions and this is an easy way to commit plagiarism - if you do use code taken from COMP9444 (or anywhere else for that matter) please be sure to reference it very clearly in your submission. The same goes for any material taken from COMP9318 or any of the MATH courses at UNSW.

    2. If you are choosing one of the topics under 2:core topics: I'm sure you can see that these topics are extremely simple relative to other topics, and really are meant for those of you struggling heavily with the course material - after all we have pretty much implemented both models from scratch in the tutorials. If you are aiming to score highly in this assignment, I would urge you to consider a more challenging topic. Please also be aware that if you have a three or four person team, the expectations are higher (this is true of all projects) - so a three or four person team doing KNN will make it very difficult to achieve a high grade. Of course you will still be approved if you feel strongly about doing this topic.


  • Homework 1 submission

    Posted by Michael Bain Sunday 07 July 2019, 10:24:25 PM, last modified Sunday 07 July 2019, 10:24:40 PM.

    Hi – seems the submission was down between about 6:30 and 10pm tonight. Looks like It is back up now.

    I will extend the deadline to 11:59:59 tomorrow (Monday 8th July) to avoid anyone who tried to submit this evening being penalised.

    Apologies for the inconvenience.

  • Homework 1 submission

    Posted by Omar Al-Ghattas Sunday 07 July 2019, 06:43:05 PM.

    Some of you are having issues submitting, I’ve notified Mike and hopefully it should be sorted soon. Don’t panic, and please don’t send any more emails.

  • Neural Learning Tutorial

    Posted by Omar Al-Ghattas Saturday 06 July 2019, 10:38:08 AM.

    Materials have been released

  • Tree Learning Tutorial Solutions

    Posted by Omar Al-Ghattas Friday 05 July 2019, 10:54:54 PM.

    Solutions have now been uploaded to the google drive.

  • Naive Bayes Supplementary

    Posted by Omar Al-Ghattas Tuesday 02 July 2019, 01:28:22 AM, last modified Tuesday 02 July 2019, 01:30:09 AM.

    I've added some further explanations of Naive Bayes and the spam email classifier question in the tutorial from last week. If you missed your tutorial due to the outage or if you were still confused by this question, hopefully this helps. Any mistakes are my own - please point them out on the forum. The file is on the google drive along with the rest of the material for tutorial 3 (NaiveBayesSupp.pdf)

  • Assignment and Homework Updates

    Posted by Omar Al-Ghattas Monday 01 July 2019, 03:09:02 PM.

    Please check the Assignment and Homework 1 pages regularly (once a day), I will post updates there and don't want to make a course notice every time

  • A note about emails

    Posted by Omar Al-Ghattas Sunday 30 June 2019, 11:15:48 PM.

    Hi Everyone,

    I've been receiving a growing number of emails about course content related matters. Please do not email me unless your email contains something personal that cannot be shared on the forum, or if it is an assignment proposal. All other emails will be ignored from now on, please use the forum.

  • Consultation (Office Hours) each Monday 12:30 - 1:30 every week from 1st July

    Posted by Michael Bain Sunday 30 June 2019, 10:24:10 PM.

    From tomorrow (Monday 1st July) there will be a consultation (office hours) slot each week:

    Monday 12:30-1:30 in K17, Level 4, Rm 403.

    See you there.

  • Assignment has been released

    Posted by Omar Al-Ghattas Saturday 29 June 2019, 11:06:27 PM.

    See 'Assignment' tab

  • Homework 1 and Tutorial materials

    Posted by Omar Al-Ghattas Friday 28 June 2019, 04:26:13 PM.

    Hi Everyone,

    1. Homework 1 has been released, see the Homework 1 tab

    2. Tutorial materials for next week have been released, under 'Week 5/ Tutorial: Tree Learning '

    3. Solutions to this weeks tutorial have been released (on the same drive where you found the questions).

    Enjoy the weekend,

    Omar

  • Power restored in Clancy - lecture about to start

    Posted by Michael Bain Friday 28 June 2019, 02:31:36 PM.

    Power is back in Clancy so we are going to start now. If you miss the start (which will be about 2:35 pm) it should be recorded.

    We will work out how to make up the lost time and let you know.

  • Power Outage

    Posted by Omar Al-Ghattas Friday 28 June 2019, 12:28:26 PM.

    Hi Everyone,

    If the power outage has caused you to miss one of your tutorials, please feel free to attend any of the other tutorials offered today. You can find the list of available tutorials under the 'Timetable' heading on the left hand side tab.


  • Week 4 Tutorial now available

    Posted by Omar Al-Ghattas Friday 21 June 2019, 11:42:44 PM.

    See Tutorial: Classification (2)

  • Tutorial solutions now available

    Posted by Omar Al-Ghattas Friday 21 June 2019, 06:09:42 PM.

    The link has been posted in Tutorial: Classification (1)

  • Bring laptops to tutorials this week

    Posted by Omar Al-Ghattas Monday 17 June 2019, 10:56:14 PM.

    The tutorials this week will be more practical, so it would be helpful if you can bring your laptop to the tutorial

  • Notebook for the Week 3 tutorials posted under "Course Work / Lectures / Week 3"

    Posted by Michael Bain Monday 17 June 2019, 12:31:05 AM.

    Hi, apologies for the delay, hopefully you have enough time before your tutes to see what you can do with coding in this notebook !

  • Supplementary Material for Tutorial 1

    Posted by Omar Al-Ghattas Saturday 15 June 2019, 12:24:56 PM.

    Hi everyone,

    I hope you're enjoying the first two weeks of the course and finding the tutorials helpful. There have been some requests for seeing derivations of least squares using matrices so I will make the notes I used for my tutorials available here . The notes contain solutions to the tutorial and a bit extra, I also include a notebook that should clarify the equivalence between the two approaches used in the notes to find the least squares estimates. Before anyone asks, you do not need to know matrix calculus for this course , this is just provided for those of you who are curious about it.

    Some good reasons to go through this material:

    1. Machine Learning literature heavily relies on vectors/matrices

    2. When working with real world data in numpy, you are working with arrays which are just matrices, so it doesn't hurt to understand how to think about machine learning from this viewpoint.

    Note that this is my own material, there will be an official solutions file for the tutorial released shortly, so any mistakes are my own.

  • T12A Tutorial: Error with Room Location

    Posted by Omar Al-Ghattas Tuesday 11 June 2019, 01:38:26 PM.

    To students in T12A, apologies today for the mixup in the room location, the room will be QUADG032 from now on.

    If you missed out on the tutorial today my other tutes are T15A, T16A and F10A - or feel free to attend any of the other tutorials offered this week.

  • Tutorials

    Posted by Michael Bain Friday 07 June 2019, 06:14:15 PM, last modified Friday 07 June 2019, 06:17:52 PM.

    Just a reminder: tutorials start in Week 2 and run until Week 10 !

    To keep things simple the tutorial or lab materials will be posted under "Course Work / Lectures" for the week in which the tutorial runs.

    So, look for Week 2's tute stuff under "Course Work / Lectures / Week 2".

  • Reminder about course schedule

    Posted by Michael Bain Monday 03 June 2019, 01:11:12 PM, last modified Monday 03 June 2019, 01:53:38 PM.

    Just a reminder to everyone that our course schedule is (contrary to what the UNSW Timetable says):

    Lectures – Week 1 to Week 9

    Tutorials – Week 2 to Week 10

    More information in the Course Outline.

  • Introduction to Machine Learning in Python

    Posted by Michael Bain Thursday 30 May 2019, 06:37:59 PM, last modified Thursday 30 May 2019, 06:55:44 PM.

    Welcome to COMP9417 !

    Please note: in the first week of the course (Week 1) we have NO TUTORIALS !

    However, we do have some introductory practical exercises to get you started with Machine Learning in Python.

    This is available by navigating to Course Work > Lectures > Week 1.

    The activity will enable you to:

    • get started with Python for machine learning
    • try out some activities of the kind you will see during the course
    • supply missing code to complete the exercises

    On Thursday of Week 1 we will provide sample solutions to the exercises. This will enable you to compare your solutions with those provided. Although we will not be formally assessing your solutions, this comparison will give you an indication of what will be expected of you as you go through the tutorials in this course.

    Have fun, and please post your comments or questions under the activity rather than here !


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