STAD68: Adavanced Machine Learning and Data Mining

Name: STAD68: Adavanced Machine Learning and Data Mining
Author: Qiang Sun

Winter 2026

Instructor: Qiang Sun

Lectures: Wed, 12:00 - 13:00, IA2050; Fri, 10:00 - 12:00, IA2160

Office Hours: Wed, 15:00 - 16:00, IA4030; Fri, 15:00 - 16:00, IA4030

Email: qiang.sun@utoronto.ca

TA: TBD, TBD

Please email if standard office hours times do not work for you.

Course Description

Artificial intelligence is transforming the world, enabling organizations of all sizes to innovate, scale, and make better decisions. Recent breakthroughs in large language models have accelerated progress in AI and machine learning, and frontier research is increasingly focused on native multimodal generative models that integrate text, vision, and other modalities. This course introduces the core concepts and practical methods of deep learning, with an emphasis on modern large language and vision models.

Textbook

There are no textbooks but lecture slides will be posted weekly.

Communications

Quercus

Disclaimer

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