This lecture schedule is subject to change. In particular, the midterm date will not be finalized until a week or so into the course.
Note: Unreleased project out and due dates are just guesses and will likely change slightly.
| Day |
Topic |
Reading |
Slides |
Out |
Due |
| Th 8/27 |
Introduction to AI |
Ch. 1, 2 |
2PP
6PP
|
Project 0: Tutorial |
9/2 |
| Tu 9/1 |
Agents and Search |
Ch. 3 |
2PP
6PP
|
Project 1: Search
|
9/14 |
| Th 9/3 |
A* Search and Heuristics |
Ch. 4.1-2 |
2PP
6PP
|
|
|
| Tu 9/8 |
Constraint Satisfaction Problems |
Ch. 5.1 |
2PP
6PP
|
|
|
| Th 9/10 |
CSPs II |
Ch. 5.2-4 |
2PP
6PP
|
W1: Search and CSPs
|
9/24 |
| Tu 9/15 |
Game Trees: Minimax |
Ch. 6.2-5 |
2PP
6PP
|
|
|
| Th 9/17 |
Game Trees: Expectimax |
Ch. 6.2-5 |
2PP
6PP
|
Project 2: Multi-Agent Pacman |
9/30 |
| Tu 9/22 |
Utility Theory |
Ch. 16.1-3 |
2PP
6PP
|
|
|
| Th 9/24 |
Markov Decision Processes |
Sutton
and Barto Ch. 3-4 |
2PP
6PP
|
P3: Reinforcement Learning |
10/12 |
| Tu 9/29 |
MDPs II |
Ch. 17.1-3, Sutton
and Barto Ch. 6.1,2,5 |
2PP
6PP
|
|
|
| Th 10/1 |
Reinforcement Learning |
|
2PP
6PP
|
W2: MDPs, RL, and Probability |
10/15 |
| Tu 10/6 |
Reinforcement Learning II |
|
2PP
6PP
|
|
|
| Th 10/8 |
Probability |
Ch. 13.1-6 |
2PP
6PP
|
|
|
| Tu 10/13 |
Bayes' Nets: Representation |
Ch. 14.1-2,4 |
2PP
6PP
|
|
|
| Th 10/15 |
Bayes' Nets: Independence |
Ch. 14.3, Jordan
2.1 |
2PP
6PP
|
|
|
| Tu 10/20 |
Bayes' Nets: Inference |
Ch. 14.4-5 |
2PP
6PP
|
|
|
| Th 10/22 |
MIDTERM EXAM (evening, tentative date)
|
|
|
|
|
| Tu 10/27 |
Bayes' Nets: Sampling |
Ch. 14.4-5 |
2PP
6PP
|
|
|
| Th 10/29 |
Decision Diagrams |
Ch. 15.1-3,6 |
2PP
6PP
|
W3: BNs and HMMs |
11/12 |
| Tu 11/3 |
HMMs: Filtering |
Ch. 15.2,5 |
2PP
6PP
|
|
|
| Th 11/5 |
HMMs: Particle Filtering |
Ch. 15.2,6 |
2PP
6PP
|
P4: Ghostbusters |
11/19 |
| Tu 11/10 |
Speech / Viterbi |
Ch. 15.2,6 |
2PP
6PP
|
|
|
| Th 11/12 |
ML: Naive Bayes |
|
2PP
6PP
|
|
|
| Tu 11/17 |
ML: Perceptrons |
|
2PP
6PP
|
|
|
| Th 11/19 |
ML: Kernels |
|
2PP
6PP
|
P5: Classification
|
|
| Tu 11/24 |
Language / Robotics / Vision |
|
2PP
6PP
|
|
|
| Th 11/26 |
No Class |
| Tu 12/1 |
Language / Robotics / Vision |
|
2PP
6PP
|
|
|
| Th 12/3 |
Advanced Topics and Pacman Contest |
|
2PP
6PP
|
|
|
| Tu 12/15 |
FINAL EXAM (5-8pm) |
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