Assignments

Due dates

• All assignments will be due on Tuesdays at the start of class.

• Assignments will be posted on this web page two weeks before they are due.

Marking scheme and lateness penalties

• Each of the 4 assignments will be worth 16% of the final grade.

• Except in the case of an official Student Medical Certificate, assignments that are submitted late will have their score reduced by 25% per day or part of a day (so after 4 days they will get zero however good they are). The time past the deadline will be rounded UP to an integer number of days.

Collaboration Policy for Assignments

• You are expected to work on the assignments by yourself. You should not discuss them with anyone except the tutors or the instructor. The report you hand in should be entirely your own work.
• Assignment 1
  This involves answering some questions about generalization and implementing the backpropagation algorithm to learn to recognize hand-written digits.
  

• Description of Assignment 2 (assign2.pdf)
  You will need to download the following matlab files to use the modified version of minimize.m. Do not use the version available from Rasmussen's webpage.
  minimize.m
  checkgrad.m
  ECG.m
  runme.m
  toydata.mat
  toydata_test.mat
  

• Assignment 3

• Assignment 4