CCS: Schedule

This the weekly plan for the course. It is distinct from the official timetable showing when and where specific teaching activities take place. When lecture slides are available, they will be linked from the lecture title.

See the CCS Reading List for a full list of obligatory and optional readings for the course.

Please note this is draft, and some lecture content may still change.

W/CMonday LectureThursday LectureTutorialsAssignment
21 SepLecture 1: Introduction
Reading: F&L ch. 1
Optional: Maths Tutorials
Lecture 2: Model Building
Reading: F&L ch. 2
Optional: CCS R Cheat Sheet
  
28 SepLecture 3: Parameter Estimation 
Reading: F&L ch. 3
Lecture 4: Maximum Likelihood Estimation
Reading: F&L ch. 4 
Optional: Maths Tutorials
  
5 OctLecture 5: Bayesian Estimation 1
Reading: F&L ch. 6
Lecture 6: Bayesian Estimation 2
Reading: F&L ch. 6
Tutorial 1: Basic Model Building
Solutions
 
12 OctLecture 7: Aggregation across Participants
Reading: F&L ch. 5
Lecture 8: Model Comparison
Reading: F&L ch. 10
Tutorial 2: Parameter Estimation
Solutions
 
19 OctLecture 9: Concepts
Reading: Tenenbaum (2000)
Lecture 10: Categorization
Reading: Battleday et al. (2020)
Tutorial 3: Model Comparison
Solutions
 
26 OctLecture 11: Causality 1
Reading: Baetu and Baker (2016)
Optional: Wasserman and Castro (2022)
Lecture 12: Causality 2
Reading: Tenenbaum and Griffiths (2001)
Optional: Charniak (1991), Pearl and Mackenzie (2018)
Tutorial 4: Bayesian Estimation
Solutions
Released 29 October
Materials on Learn
2 NovLecture 13: Active Learning
Reading: Steyvers et al. (2003)
Lecture 14: Language Acquisition 1
Reading: Frank et al. (2009)
Q&A 
9 NovLecture 15: Language Acquisition 2Lecture 16: Language Processing 1Tutorial 5: Active Learning
Solutions
 
16 NovLecture 17: Language Processing 2Lecture 18: Large Cognitive Models 1Tutorial 6
Solutions
Due 19 November 12:00 noon
23 NovLecture 19 Large Cognitive Models 2Lecture 20: Recap and Q&ATutorial 7
Solutions
 
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