18-847F Fall 2018

18-847F: Schedule

Tentative Course Calendar

Date	Day	Seminar Topic	Speaker	Slides
August
27	Mon.	Intro and Logistics		PDF
29	Wed.	Overview of the Topics		PDF
September
3	Mon.	Labor Day; No Classes
5	Wed.	Lecture: Review of Probability Theory		PDF
10	Mon.	Grid Computing Survey Lecture: Intro to Queueing Theory	Mansi Sood	PDF
12	Wed.	Tail at Scale Lecture: Scheduling for Parallel Computing	Varun Joshi	PDF
17	Mon.	MapReduce Lecture: Straggler Replication	Ganesh Palanikumar	PDF
19	Wed.	Sparrow Lecture: Task Replication in Queueing Systems	Nishal Pereira	PDF
24	Mon.	RDDs for Spark Lecture: Intro to Coding Theory	Abhiram Gogate	PDF
26	Wed.	When Queueing Meets Coding Guest talk: Coded DNNs	Yasamin Hashemi Sanghamitra Dutta
October
1	Mon.	Lecture: Coding for Distributed Storage XORing Elephants	Vineet Kanetkar	PDF
3	Wed.	Speeding up ML using codes Lecture: Rateless Codes for Coded Computing	Ganesh Palanikumar	PDF
8	Mon.	Polynomial Codes Guest Talk: Coded PageRank	Yaoqing Yang
10	Wed.	Gradient Coding Guest talk: Coded Fourier Transform	Krithika Vijayan Haewon Jeong
15	Mon.	Survey of SGD methods Lecture: SGD Convergence Analysis	Martial Sawasawa
17	Wed.	Distributed Deep Learning ImageNet Classification	Abhishek Sawarkar Anupma Sharan
22	Mon.	Stale-Sync-Parallel Lecture: Slow and Stale Gradients	Sushant Mehta	PDF
24	Wed.	HogWild Guest talk: PipeDream	Radhika Parik Aaron Harlap
29	Mon.	Federated Learning Lecture: Elastic Averaging SGD	Mayank Sharma	PDF
31	Wed.	Gradient Compression Model Compression	Hongting Wang Rahul Sharma
November
5	Mon.	Guest Lecture on Large-scale Machine Learning	Prof. Virginia Smith
7	Wed.	Decentralized SGD Lecture: Multi-armed Bandits	Varun Joshi
12	Mon.	HyperBand Lecture: Bayesian Optimization	Zhouyi Yang
14	Wed.	Spearmint Parallel Bayesian Optimization	Akshay Bhaskar Akarsh Prabhakara
19	Mon	Generative Adversarial Networks Guest Talk: PacGANs	Ashwin Jadhav Zinan Lin
21	Wed.	Thanksgiving break; No Class
26	Mon.	Lecture: Reinforcement Learning; Draft of project report due
28	Wed.	No Class; Project Office Hours
December
3	Mon.	Project Presentations	Abhiram, Akshay, Yasamin Abhishek, Anupma, Mayank, Nishal Ashwin, Krithika, Vineet Ganesh
5	Wed.	Project Presentations	Radhika, Sushant, Varun Akarsh Rahul Mansi Hongting, Martial, Zhouyi
7	Fri	Project Reports Due