Section Name Description
Resources File Course General Information

General information about the course and its assignments.

File Book chapter about probability (in Hebrew) - Gal Chechnik et al
File Amir's old notes on Bayesian Networks
File Amir's old notes on Markov Networks
Folder Final exams from previous years
0. Probability and Graph Theory Background File Recitation 0 - Probability and Graph Theory Background
File Problem Set 0 - Probability
1. Graphical Models Representation File Gal's Notes on Bayesian Networks
File Recitation 1 - Bayesian Networks
File Problem Set 1 - Bayesian Networks
File Problem Set 1 - Programming Assignment
File Problem Set 1 - Partial Solution
File Gal's short note on BN equivalence classes
File Gal's notes on Markov Networks
File Recitation 2 - Markov Networks
File Gal's notes on Markov Networks II
File Recitation 3 - BN and MN
File Problem Set 2 - MNs and BNs (v2)
File Problem Set 2 - Partial Solution
2. Exact and Approximate Inference File Gal's Notes on Exact Inference
File Recitation 4 - MAP and Loopy BP
URL Factor product in python

A python example explaining factor product.

Disclaimer: there could be other implementations...


File Gal's notes on sampling
File Gal's notes on Gibb's (didn't cover last page)
File Recitation 5 - Sampling-based Inference
File Recitation 6 - Amir's Notes on Mean Field

Note that in Eq. 11-16 q_j(x_k) should be corrected to q_j(x_j). Also, please make sure you are familiar with Lagrange Multipliers.

File Gal's notes on Metropolis Hastings
File Problem Set 3 - Partial Solution
3. Parameter and Structure Learning File Gal's notes on parameter learning
File Gal's notes on structure learning
File Recitation 7 - Structure Learning and TAN
File Gal's notes on EM
File Recitation 8 - Hidden Markov Model (old notes)
File Recitation 8 - Hidden Markov Model - (Eitan's scanned notes)
File Recitation 11 - Eitan's scanned notes
4. Reinforcement Learning File Gal's notes on reinforcement learning (RL)
URL Intro to RL book by Sutton and Barto
File Gal's forgotten page on Policy Improvement
File Gal's notes on RL part 2
File Problem Set 6 - Partial Solution