Schedule

All lectures will take place at 16bis rue de l’Estrapade, 75005 Paris.

Event

Date

Room

Instructor

Description

Course Material
Lecture

01/07/2026
Wednesday

16bis rue de l'Estrapade, 75005 Paris

JM

Lecture 1 - Kernels, RKHS, kernel trick
[Video 1] [Video 2] [Video 3] [Video 4]
Additional Materials:
- Uniqueness of the RKHS
- Aronszajn’s theorem
Lecture

01/21/2026
Wednesday

16bis rue de l'Estrapade, 75005 Paris

JM

Lecture 2 - Representer theorem, Kernel Ridge and Logistic regression, Large-margin classifiers
[Video 1] [Video 2] [Video 3]
Lecture

01/28/2026
Wednesday

16bis rue de l'Estrapade, 75005 Paris

MA

Lecture 3 - Support Vector Machines and Unsupervised learning
[Video 1] [Video 2] [Video 3]
Lecture

02/04/2026
Wednesday

online (check your emails for the link)

JM

Lecture 4 - Kernels for graphs
Assignment

02/04/2026
Wednesday

Assignment released!
Assignment

02/04/2026
Wednesday

Kaggle challenge released!
Lecture

02/18/2026
Wednesday

16bis rue de l'Estrapade, 75005 Paris

MA

Lecture 5 - Green, Mercer, Herglotz, Bochner and friends
Lecture

02/25/2026
Wednesday

16bis rue de l'Estrapade, 75005 Paris

MA

Lecture 6 -
Additional Videos:
- Statistical convergence rates
- Shorter version of Green, Mercer and Bochner
Due

02/25/2026 13:30
Wednesday

Assignment due
Lecture

03/11/2026
Wednesday

16bis rue de l'Estrapade, 75005 Paris

MA

Lecture 7 -
Lecture

03/18/2026
Wednesday

16bis rue de l'Estrapade, 75005 Paris

JM

Lecture 8 -
Due

03/18/2026 12:00
Wednesday

Kaggle challenge ends
Exam

03/25/2026 02:00
Wednesday

Amphi Amyot, 3 Rue Amyot, 75005 Paris

Written Exam