CSC 581A/482A Reading guide for Prediction, Learning, and Games

Prediction, Learning, and Games. Cesa-Bianchi and Lugosi. Cambridge University Press. 2006.

• I annotated the PDF on Brightspace (the link above) to indicate what parts you can skip.
• You can also freely access a digital version of the entire book via UVic's library via this link

• Read all of Chapter 1
• Read Chapter 2 from the beginning until the end of Section 2.2, but you can skip some parts of Section 2.1. Specifically:
• You can skip starting from "For reasons that will become apparent shortly, we find it convenient to write this function as the derivative of a nonnegative, convex, and increasing function" on page 9 up until just before the start of "Exponentially Weighted Average Forecaster" on page 14.
• Start reading again from "Exponentially Weighted Average Forecaster" on page 14, but you can skip again starting from "A simple application of Theorem 2.1" at the bottom of page 14 until the end of Section 2.1.