Lectures
The lecture schedule will be updated as the course progresses.
| Date | Lecture # | Topic | Materials |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 16 | 1 | Introduction to Course, Halving Alg, Exp. Weights Alg. | Lecture 1 Notes |
| Jan 23 | 2 | Zero-Sum Games, Minimax, and the Perceptron | Lecture 2 Notes |
| Jan 30 | 3 | Online Convex Optimization, Online Gradient Descent, and Reductions | Lecture 3 Notes |
| Feb 6 | 4 | Blackwell Approachability, Multi-Armed Bandits, UCB, EXP3 | Lecture 4 Notes, Slides |
| Feb 13 | 5 | Kelly Betting, Cover’s Universal Portfolios | Lecture 5 Notes |
| Feb 20 | EXAM 1 | ||
| Feb 27 | 6 | Kolmogorov Complexity, Universal Probability, Solomonoff Induction | |
| Mar 6 | 7 | The Grand Unification & Limits of Predictability | Lecture 7 Notes |
| Mar 13 | 8 | Transformers and Large Language Models | |
| Mar 20 | 9 | Random walks, sampling, and diffusion models | |
| Mar 27 | Spring Break - No Class | ||
| Apr 3 | EXAM 2 | ||
| Apr 10 | Student Presentations | ||
| Apr 17 | Student Presentations | ||
| Apr 24 | Student Presentations |