Tentative schedule for CSCE 52803 - 001 Graph and Combinatorial Algorithms

Date

Topic

Lecture Slides

Recommended Reading

17-Aug

Introduction and preliminaries

0-intro

1-graph-basics

Guichard Ch.5.1

19-Aug

21-Aug

24-Aug

Tractable graph problems

2-graph-theory

Guichard Ch.5.2, Ch.5.4, Ch.5.6

26-Aug

28-Aug

31-Aug

P and NP problems

3-np

Vazirani Ch.1

2-Sep

4-Sep

7-Sep

Labor Day

9-Sep

Approximation algorithms

4-appro-alg-1

Vazirani Ch.2, Ch.15

11-Sep

14-Sep

16-Sep

18-Sep

21-Sep

23-Sep

Traveling salesman problem

25-Sep

Machine learning revisit

28-Sep

Learning-augmented algorithms

30-Sep

2-Oct

Graph neural networks

5-Oct

7-Oct

9-Oct

Reinforcement learning

12-Oct

14-Oct

16-Oct

19-Oct

Fall break

21-Oct

Machine learning for graph problems

 

23-Oct

26-Oct

Paper reading and discussion

28-Oct

30-Oct

2-Nov

4-Nov

6-Nov

9-Nov

11-Nov

13-Nov

16-Nov

18-Nov

20-Nov

23-Nov

25-Nov

27-Nov

Thanksgiving

30-Nov

Paper reading and discussion

2-Dec

Wrap up

4-Dec

Reading Day