nilichen/comp_prob_inference

Summary of mini-projects

• Inference with Bayes' Theorem

  • Movie Recommendations

    You decide to reward yourself by watching a movie. But which one? This is a question that clearly merits a full scientific investigation. You decide to perform Bayesian inference to determine which movie you should watch next.

• Inference in Graphical Models

  • Robot Localization

    Your pet robot is stuck on Mars somewhere on a grid of width 12 and height 8. You would like to figure out where your robot is over time so that you can rescue it.

   python inference.py --load=test_missing.txt
  

• Learning Probabilistic Models

  • Naive Bayes Classi˝fication: Email Spam Detection

    We are going to build a Naive Bayes classifier to detect spam.

  • Undirected Tree-Structured Graphical Model: Coconut Oil Price Movements

    You really want coconut oil, but you don't know which of your four nearby markets to buy the coconut oil at. You decide to do a detailed study on how these four markets relate, beginning with how coconut oil prices change across these markets.