Duties before class (please review well before the class):

• Read section 11 and 12 of the review paper on representation learning.
• Listen to the last two videos of lecture 16.
• Please prepare a question for April 25.
• Please try to implement and evaluate an unsupervised pre-training strategy (based on RBMs or regularized auto-encoders) for the kaggle competition.

Planned for the class:

• We will discuss questions you have raised in posts or comments, or questions about the past exams.