Schedule for CMU 10-718: Spring 2026

Week Date Class Type Topic Resources Announcements
1 Tue Jan 13 lecture Intro and Overview - History, Motivation, Logistics [Slides]
Resources
1 Thu Jan 15 lecture ML Project Deep Dive - Project definition and scoping [Slides]
Resources
Required Readings
2 Tue Jan 20 lecture Data Preparation - Scraping, Data Integration, Visualization [Slides]
Required Readings
2 Thu Jan 22 lecture Problem Formulation - How ML maps to real world problems [Slides]
Required Readings
3 Tue Jan 27 lecture Data & Feature Engineering [Slides]
HW Deadlines
  • Project Assignment 0 due (team and alpha version of proposal)
Required Readings
3 Thu Jan 29 lecture Evaluation [Slides]
Required Readings
4 Tue Feb 3 lecture Project Checkins 1
HW Deadlines
  • Project Assignment 1 due (project checkins)
4 Thu Feb 5 lecture Project Checkins 2
5 Tue Feb 10 lecture Hyperparameter tuning [Slides]
HW Deadlines
  • hyperband.pptx
Required Readings
5 Thu Feb 12 lecture Interpretability
Required Readings
6 Tue Feb 17 lecture Project Pitches
HW Deadlines
  • Project Assignment 2 due (project pitches)
6 Thu Feb 19 lecture Project Pitches
7 Tue Feb 24 lecture Privacy
7 Thu Feb 26 lecture Distribution Shift and Robustness
8 Tue Mar 3 lecture Spring break 1 - no class
8 Thu Mar 5 lecture Spring break 2 - no class
9 Tue Mar 10 lecture Fairness
HW Deadlines
  • Project Assignment 3 due (initial result writeups)
9 Thu Mar 12 lecture Safety
10 Tue Mar 17 lecture Model Compression
10 Thu Mar 19 lecture Uncertainty and Calibration
11 Tue Mar 24 lecture Causality
11 Thu Mar 26 lecture ML and Intervention
12 Tue Mar 31 lecture Project Presentations - 1
HW Deadlines
  • Project Assignment 4 due (proposed extensons)
12 Thu Apr 2 lecture Project Presentations - 2
13 Tue Apr 7 lecture Network Effects and ML
13 Thu Apr 9 lecture Carnival - no class
14 Tue Apr 14 lecture TBA
14 Thu Apr 16 lecture TBA
15 Tue Apr 21 lecture Final Project Presentations - 1
HW Deadlines
  • Project Assignment 5 due (final writeup and reflections)
15 Thu Apr 23 lecture Final Project Presentations - 2