Mathematics for Machine Learning 🧠
EECS 245, Winter 2026 at the University of Michigan
Homeworks 3 and 4 will be due on Mondays instead of Fridays. See below for the latest deadlines, and the Calendar for the latest office hours schedule.
Week 1: Welcome! 👋
- Wed Jan 7
LEC 1 Introduction
- Thu Jan 8
Lab 1 Math Foundations and Environment Setup
🧠 Problems✅ Solutions📕 Appendix 1📕 Appendix 2See the note in the Calendar about the Thursday 4:30-6:30PM lab section.
GitHub RepositoryWeek 2: Empirical Risk Minimization
- Mon Jan 12
LEC 2 Models and Loss Functions
- Wed Jan 14
LEC 3 Empirical Risk and Simple Linear Regression
- Thu Jan 15
Lab 2 Empirical Risk and Simple Linear Regression
- Fri Jan 16
HW 1 Means, Sums, and Calculus
SUR Welcome Survey
Week 3: Simple Linear Regression
- Mon Jan 19
No Lecture: MLK Day
- Wed Jan 21
LEC 4 Simple Linear Regression
- Thu Jan 22
Lab 3 Simple Linear Regression and Partial Derivatives
- Fri Jan 23
HW 2 Empirical Risk and Simple Linear Regression
Week 4: Introduction to Vectors
- Mon Jan 26
LEC 5 Vectors
- Wed Jan 28
LEC 6 Orthogonality and the Dot Product
- Thu Jan 29
Lab 4 Lab 4
Week 5: Projections and Spans
- Mon Feb 2
LEC 7 Projections
HW 3 Vectors and the Dot Product
- Wed Feb 4
LEC 8 Spans and Linear Independence
- Thu Feb 5
Lab 5 Lab 5
Week 6: Vector Spaces and Subspaces
- Mon Feb 9
LEC 9 Vector Spaces and Subspaces
HW 4 Homework 4
- Wed Feb 11
LEC 10 Bases and Dimension
- Thu Feb 12
Lab 6 Lab 6
- Fri Feb 13
REV Practice Midterm 1 (2:30-5:30PM, 1014 DOW)
HW 5 Homework 5
HW 5 will have at most 3 problems.
Week 7: Midterm 1; Matrices
- Mon Feb 16
EXAM Midterm 1 (7-9PM)
- Wed Feb 18
LEC 11 Matrices
- Thu Feb 19
Lab 7 Lab 7
Week 8: Rank and Inverses
- Mon Feb 23
LEC 12 Rank
- Wed Feb 25
LEC 13 Inverses
- Thu Feb 26
Lab 8 Lab 8
- Fri Feb 27
HW 6 Homework 6
Week 10: Regression using Linear Algebra
- Mon Mar 9
LEC 14 Inverses; Projections Revisited
- Wed Mar 11
LEC 15 Regression using Linear Algebra
- Thu Mar 12
Lab 9 Lab 9
- Fri Mar 13
HW 7 Homework 7
Week 11: Multiple Linear Regression; Gradients
- Mon Mar 16
LEC 16 Multiple Linear Regression
- Wed Mar 18
LEC 17 The Gradient Vector
- Thu Mar 19
Lab 10 Lab 10
- Fri Mar 20
HW 8 Homework 8
Week 12: Gradient Descent and Convexity
- Mon Mar 23
LEC 18 Gradient Descent
- Wed Mar 25
LEC 19 Convexity
- Thu Mar 26
Lab 11 Lab 11
- Fri Mar 27
REV Practice Midterm 2 (2:30-5:30PM, 1014 DOW)
HW 9 Homework 9
Week 13: Midterm 2; Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors
- Mon Mar 30
EXAM Midterm 2 (7-9PM)
- Wed Apr 1
LEC 20 Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors (no live lecture!)
Live lecture is cancelled, since Suraj will be out of town. A video will be posted in advance.
- Thu Apr 2
Lab 12 Lab 12
Week 14: Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors, Continued
- Mon Apr 6
LEC 21 Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors, Continued
- Wed Apr 8
LEC 22 Adjacency Matrices and Diagonalization
- Thu Apr 9
Lab 13 Lab 13
- Fri Apr 10
HW 10 Homework 10