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| Date | Topic | Assignment |
| Aug 26 | Intro to Neural Nets | |
| Sep 02 | Backpropagation | Personal ads due. |
| Deep Learning | ||
| Sep 09 | Reinforcement Learning | |
| Evolutionary Computation | ||
| Sep 16 | Neuroevolution | Homework 1 (DL/Backpropagation) assigned. |
| Decision Making | ||
| Sep 23 | Self-Organizing Maps | |
| Computational Neuroscience | ||
| Sep 30 | Brain Organization | Homework 1 (DL/Backpropagation) due. |
| Cognitive Modeling | Topic talk proposals due. | |
| Oct 07 | Exam | Practice questions; Exam Feedback |
| 10am CDT | ||
| Oct 14 | Image recognition (Matthew and Serdjan) | |
| Lifelong learning (Peter and Shiyu) | ||
| Oct 21 | Explainability (Anibal and Sihang) | Homework 2 (RL/Neuroevolution) assigned. |
| Policy-search RL (Caroline and Qiping) | ||
| Oct 28 | Physics-based models (Reid and Shruti) | |
| Neurosymbolic models (Wenxi and Yang) | ||
| Nov 04 | GANs; Brain imaging (Sundara, Zachary) | |
| Neuroscience models (Andrea and Nick) | Project proposals due | |
| Nov 11 | Time Series Anomalies (Daniel and Gin) | Homework 2 (RL/Neuroevolution) due. |
| Transformers (Kiran and Ojas) | ||
| Nov 18 | Question answering (Jay and Samantha) | |
| Multilingual NLP (Mengning and Shivang) | ||
| Nov 25 | No Class (TG) | |
| Dec 02 | Project talks & Class Evaluation | |
| 9:00 Evaluating RelTanh Activation Function (Jay and Samantha) | ||
| 9:12 Optimizing Image Distillation Models (Matthew and Serdjan) | ||
| 9:24 Segmenting Astroglia from Images (Andrea) | ||
| 9:36 fMRI Image Classification (Zachary) | ||
| 9:48 Social Distancing Data on COVID-19 Predictions (Gin and Daniel) | ||
| 10:00 Region-based COVID-19 Models (Caroline and Qiping) | ||
| 10:12 Classifying Depression Biomarkers (Nick) | ||
| 10:24 Coffee break | ||
| 10:36 Music Time Period Classification (Mengning and Shivang) | ||
| 10:48 Personality Classification (Peter and Shiyu) | ||
| 11:00 SAT with Neural Intuition (Wenxi and Yang) | ||
| 11:12 Solving Poisson's Equation with PINNs (Reid and Shruti) | ||
| 11:24 Attention in Atari Game Models (Anibal and Suna) | ||
| 11:36 Explainable Sentence Classification (Sundara) | ||
| 11:48 Factual Consistency in Text Summarization (Kiran and Ojas) | ||
| 12:00 Class Evaluation | ||
| Dec 14 | Project papers due. | |
| 10am CST |