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CS-4824: Machine Learning

Description: Algorithms and principles involved in machine learning; focus on perception problems arising in computer vision, natural language processing and robotics; fundamentals of representing uncertainty, learning from data, supervised learning, ensemble methods, unsupervised learning, structured models, learning theory and reinforcement learning; design and analysis of machine perception systems; design and implementation of a technical project applied to real-world datasets (images, text, robotics). A grade of C- or better in prerequisites.

Pathways: N/A

Course Hours: 3 credits

Prerequisites: (CS-2114 or ECE-3514) and (CMDA-2006 or STAT-3704 or STAT-4105 or STAT-4604 or STAT-4714 or STAT-4705)

Required By: N/A

Corequisites: N/A

Crosslist: ECE-4424

Repeatability: N/A

Sections Taught: 23

Average GPA: 3.07 (rounds to B)

Strict A Rate (No A-) : 26.99%

Average Withdrawal Rate: 9.12%

Chris L Wyatt202216.1%32.9%17.2%13.0%3.5%17.3%2.504
Ming Jin202438.2%35.7%12.2%0.5%2.5%10.9%3.175
Debarati Bhattacharya202443.6%26.4%9.2%7.5%7.5%6.0%2.962
Dawei Zhou202365.6%25.0%3.1%0.0%0.0%6.3%3.661
Hoda M Eldardiry202452.4%35.0%2.5%2.5%0.0%7.5%3.431
Amr E Hilal202334.2%33.0%17.1%8.7%2.5%4.6%2.934
Bert Huang202356.0%20.8%7.1%5.6%2.1%8.2%3.313
Debswapna Bhattacharya202463.3%14.3%10.2%4.0%2.1%6.1%3.411
Hongjie Chen202266.7%11.1%11.1%0.0%0.0%11.1%3.551
Anuj Karpatne202053.0%23.5%17.7%0.0%5.9%0.0%3.251

Grade Distribution Over Time

1234GPA
Spring 2019Fall 2019Spring 2020Fall 2020Spring 2021Fall 2021Spring 2022Summer I 2022Fall 2022Spring 2023Fall 2023Spring 2024Fall 2024Term050% W