Announcements

Apr 3, 2020	Uploaded solutions to tutorial 8.
Apr 3, 2020	Uploaded slides on exam info. Regarding the online exam, please continue monitoring the school’s and the uni’s websites and announcements.
Mar 30, 2020	The material for tutorial 8 is online.
Mar 29, 2020	Uploaded the slides on Variational Inference and Learning, the optional slides on Learning for HMMs, and the slides with the course recap.
Mar 27, 2020	Uploaded solutions to tutorial 7.
Mar 21, 2020	We will use Blackboard Collaborate for the online teaching (lectures and tutorials). I have updated the Learn page accordingly. You can access it via “Course Materials” in the navigation panel on the Learn page.
Mar 21, 2020	Uploaded the slides on Score Matching, Sampling and Monte Carlo Integration, and the material for tutorial 7.
Mar 18, 2020	Corrected typo on p27 of the slides Intractable Likelihood Functions. It should be $\nabla_{\mathbf{\theta}} \log Z(\mathbf{\theta})$ instead of $\nabla_{\mathbf{\theta}} Z(\mathbf{\theta})$ in the first equation on the slide.
Mar 15, 2020	COVID-19: Following the announcement of the Principal, the lectures and tutorials of PMR are paused during the week of March 16 to March 20. But we will continue responding to questions on piazza. The current plan is to move to online teaching the week after (from March 23 onward).
Mar 13, 2020	Uploaded the solutions to tutorial 6.
Mar 9, 2020	Uploaded the solutions to tutorial 5 and the material for tutorial 6.
Mar 2, 2020	Uploaded the slides on Factor Analysis and Independent Component Analysis, and the slides on Intractable Likelihood Functions.
Mar 2, 2020	Uploaded the solutions to tutorial 4 and the material for tutorial 5.
Feb 27, 2020	Uploaded the slides on the Basics of Model-Based Learning.
Feb 20, 2020	Uploaded tutorial 4.
Feb 10, 2020	Uploaded the slides on Exact Inference for Hidden Markov Models.
Feb 10, 2020	Fixed a dead link to the optional reading “Factor Graphs and the Sum-Product Algorithm”, 2001, by F. Kschischang et al.
Feb 7, 2020	Uploaded solutions to tutorial 2 and the material for tutorial 3 (an additional computer exercise is to come).
Feb 2, 2020	Uploaded the material on Factor Graphs and Exact Inference. Amended the example on p22 and p23 of the slides on the Expressive Power of Graphical Models so that the DAG in the example is acyclic.
Jan 31, 2020	Uploaded solutions to tutorial 1, the material for tutorial 2, and the slides on the expressive power of graphical models.
Jan 22, 2020	Uploaded tutorial 1 and the lecture material for week 3.
Jan 17, 2020	Uploaded the material for week 2.
Jan 8, 2020	Added the first week’s lecture material.
Nov 4, 2019	Course homepage updated. Last year’s course website is here .