CUHK-STAT3009 | Schedule

Date	Lecture	Readings	Logistics
Th 09/05	Lecture #1 : Overview of Recommender Systems [ slides notes \| pynb ]	Python Numpy Tutorial - CS231n Stanford Python Tutorial
Th 09/12	Lecture #2 : Background and baseline methods [ slides notes \| pynb ]	Wiki-Netflix Prize The Netflix Prize The Netflix Prize - How a $1 Million Contest Changed Binge-Watching Forever Recommender Systems Datasets - UCSD CSE
Th 09/19	Lecture #3 : Machine Learning I [ slides notes \| pynb ]	Chapters 2-3 in The Elements of Statistical Learning Linear regression in sklearn scikit-learn Tutorials
Th 09/26	⏰ Lab Quiz 1: Run baseline methods in Kaggle G25 LSB [Kaggle Tutorial]
Th 10/03	Lecture #4 : Machine Learning II [ slides notes \| pynb ]	scikit-BaseEstimator A Gentle Introduction to k-fold Cross-Validation Cross Validation Explained - Evaluating estimator performance	HW1 out [colab link] (due Oct 10)
Th 10/10	Lecture #5 : MF Models I [ slides notes \| pynb ]	Netflix Update - Try This at Home Matrix factorization techniques for recommender systems Matrix completion and low-Rank SVD via fast alternating least squares Coordinate Descent (Slides by Ryan Tibshirani)
Th 10/17	Lecture #6 : MF Models II [ slides notes \| pynb ]	Improving regularized singular value decomposition for collaborative filtering Factorization meets the neighborhood - a multifaceted collaborative filtering model SurPRISE - A Python scikit for recommender systems.
Th 10/24	⏰ Lab Quiz 2: Run SVD methods in Kaggle G25 LSB
Th 10/31	Lecture #7 : Neural Networks [ slides notes \| pynb ]	Keras Documentation Keras Tutorial by Machine Learning Mastery Keras Examples	HW2 out [colab link] (due Nov 07)
Th 11/07	Lecture #8 : Neural Matrix Factorization [ slides notes \| pynb ]	Neural Collaborative Filtering LightFM GitHub Repository (for hybrid models) Google - ML - Recsys
Th 11/14	No lecture HW3 out [colab link] (due Nov 21)
Th 11/21	Lecture #9 : Neural Recsys with Side Information [ slides notes \| pynb ]	Deep learning for recommender systems - A Netflix case study Home Depot Product Search Relevance Deep Learning based Recommender System
Th 11/28	⏰ Lab Quiz 2: Question sets in Jupyter Notebook Lab Room: TBD [Final Quiz Instructions]