| Week | Date | Lect. | Topic | Readings | Slides |
| 01 | 01/20 | 01 | Introduction; review | 1up 4up | |
| 01 | 01/22 | 02 | Conjugate Priors | 1up 4up | |
| 02 | 01/27 | 03 | Conjugate priors | 1up 4up | |
| 02 | 01/29 | 04 | Phil Resnik's tutorial | 1up 4up | |
| 03 | 02/03 | 05 | Gibbs sampling | Phil Resnik's tutorial | 1up 4up |
| 03 | 02/05 | 06 | Latent Dirichlet Allocation | G&S'04,B&L'09 | 1up 4up |
| 04 | 02/10 | 07 | Variational inference for LDA | 1up 4up | |
| 04 | 02/12 | 08 | Words and pictures | Barnard et al. 03 | 1up |
| 05 | 02/17 | 09 | Words and pictures c'td | 1up | |
| 05 | 02/19 | 10 | HMMs | 1up 4up | |
| 06 | 02/24 | 11 | Comparing estimators for HMMs | Johnson '07, Gao and Johnson '08 | 1up 4up |
| 06 | 02/26 | 12 | Comparing estimators for HMMs | Johnson '07, Gao and Johnson '08 | 1up 4up |
| 07 | 03/03 | 13 | Class canceled | 1up 4up | |
| 07 | 03/05 | 14 | Sampling | 1up 4up | |
| 08 | 03/10 | 15 | Markov Chain Monte Carlo | 1up | |
| 08 | 03/12 | 16 | Markov Chain Monte Carlo | 1up | |
| 09 | 03/17 | 17 | Even more MCMC | 1up | |
| 09 | 03/19 | 18 | More on EM | 1up 4up | |
| 10 | 03/31 | 19 | Variational Inference | Jordan et al.(from campus) | 1up |
| 11 | 04/07 | 20 | Hierarchical Dirichlet Processes | Teh at al. 06 | .ppt .pdf |
| 10 | 04/08, 5pm SC3405 | 21 | Factorial HMMs | Ghahramani & Jordan | 1up 4up |
| 11 | 04/09 | 22 | Pitman-Yor Processes | Teh (2006) | 1up 4up |
| 12 | 04/14 | 23 | 1up 4up | ||
| 12 | 04/16 | 24 | 1up 4up | ||
| 13 | 04/21 | 25 | 1up 4up | ||
| 13 | 04/23 | 26 | 1up 4up | ||
| 14 | 04/28 | 27 | 1up 4up | ||
| 14 | 04/30 | 28 | 1up 4up | ||
| 15 | 05/04 | 29 | 1up 4up |