CSC 2517 -- Discrete Mathematical Models of Sentence Structure

Fall 2025

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Contact information

Instructor: Gerald Penn
Office: PT 283A (St. George campus)
Tel: 978-7390
Email: gpenn@cs.utoronto.ca
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Meeting times

Lectures: T 3-5, UC B203
Lectures will be simulcast on Zoom. See Quercus or contact the instructor for further details.
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Presented Readings

 

Who
When
What
Where
David Wei 16 September On the Complexity of Neural Network Classifiers: A Comparison Between Shallow and Deep Architectures (Bianchini & Scarselli) TNNLS 25(8), pp. 1553-1565, 2014
Johnny Meng 23 September On Characterizing the Capacity of Neural Networks using Algebraic Topology arxiv:1802.04443
Andrew Liu and Devan Srinivasan 30 September Neural Persistence: a Complexity Measure for Deep Neural Networks using Algebraic Topology Proc. ICLR 2019
Ryan Meredith 7 October The Shape of Words - Topological Structure in Natural Language Data Proc. ICLR Workshop on Topology, Algebra and Geometry in Machine Learning, 2022
Karush Suri 14 October Zeroth-Order Topological Insights into Iterative Magnitude Pruning Proc. ICLR Workshop on Topology, Algebra and Geometry in Machine Learning, 2022
Teddy Wang 21 October GALE: Globally Assessing Local Explanations Proc. ICLR Workshop on Topology, Algebra and Geometry in Machine Learning, 2022

Additional Readings for the Lectures


Title Author Publication Details
Speech and Language Processing D. Jurafsky & J. Martin 3rd ed., draft

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Tentative course outline

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Calendar of important course-related events
Date Event
Tue, 2nd September First meeting
Wed, 17th September Last day to add course
Mon, 27th October Last day to drop course
Tue, 28th October No meeting (FAS reading week)
Mon, 3rd November Paper proposals due
Tue, 25th November Last meeting
Tue, 23rd December Term papers/projects due

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Evaluation

Your final mark will be determined by a term paper/project, and a presentation of a paper in class.  The relative weights of these components towards the final mark are shown in the table below:
 

Class presentation 30%
Term paper/project 70%

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Announcements

In this space, you will find announcements related to the course. Please check this space at least weekly. Back to the index

Gerald Penn, 14 October, 2025
This web-page was adapted from the web-page for another course, created by Vassos Hadzilacos.