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Fall 2023, subject to change
| Week | Lectures, Readings | Homework | Miniproject | Info |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Week 1 09/04 - 09/08 | M: No Lecture W: Lec 1: Course Intro/Search Readings: AIMA 3.1-3.4, 1(opt), 2(opt) | HW 0: Background | --- | |
| Week 2 09/11 - 09/15 | M: Lec 2: Heuristic search, MCTS Readings: AIMA 3.5.1-3.5.4, 3.6.1-2, 5.4 W: Lec 3: Constraint satisfaction Readings: AIMA 6.1-6.2 | HW 1: Search, intro CSP | --- | Problem Session 01 Handout Solution MCTS Visualization |
| Week 3 09/18 - 09/22 | M: Lec 4: More CSP, Planning Readings: AIMA 6.3 W: Lec 5: PDDL planning Readings: AIMA 11.1-3, 11.5 | HW 2: CSP, PDDL | MP 1: Planning with non-det uncertainty | Problem Session 02 Handout Solution |
| Week 4 09/25 - 09/29 | M: Lec 6: Continuous-space planning Readings: AIMA 4.2, 26.5.1, 26.5.2, 26.5.4 W: Lec 7: Conditional, conformant planning Readings: AIMA 4.3, 4.4 | HW 3: Continuous, conditional, conformant planning | --- | |
| Week 5 10/02 - 10/06 | M: Lec 8: Propositional logic intro Readings: AIMA 7.3-7.4 W: Lec 9: Propositional logic Readings: AIMA 7.5 | HW 4: Prop logic due wed 10/11 | --- | |
| Week 6 10/09 - 10/13 | M: No Lecture W: Lec 10: Probabilistic graphical models Readings: AIMA 12.1--5, 13.1--2;Barber 4.1, 4.2, 4.4 | HW 5: Intro graphical models | --- | M 10/9 Holiday Problem Session 05 Notes |
| Week 7 10/16 - 10/20 | M: Lec 11: Inference in discrete PGMs Readings: AIMA 13.3--4; Barber 5.1 W: Lec 12: Discrete temporal PGMs Readings: AIMA 14.1--3; Barber 5.2.1, 23.2 | HW 6: Discrete graphical models | MP 2: Probabilistic graphical models | |
| Week 8 10/23 - 10/27 | M: Lec 13: Continuous PGMs Readings: AIMA 14.4 KAlg 19.3 W: Lec 14: Sampling in continuous temporal PGMs Readings: AIMA 14.5.3 KAlg 19.6 | HW 7: Continuous, temporal models | --- | |
| Week 9 10/30 - 11/03 | M: Midterm 10/30 (in class) W: Lec 15: MDPs, online approaches Readings: AIMA 16.1, 16.3.2, 16.6; 17.1, 17.2.4 | No (new) Homework | --- | M 10/30 Midterm Problem Session 07 Handout Solutions Notes |
| Week 10 11/06 - 11/10 | M: Lec 16: MDPs offline dynamic prog Readings: AIMA 17.2.1--17.2.3 KAlg 7.2--7.7 (optional) 7.8 (req) W: Lec 17: Continuous MDPs: LQR and offline RL Readings: KAlg 8.1-3, 8.6-7 | HW 8: MDPs | --- | Note! Lecture 17 on M 11/06 at 11AM in 3-333 |
| Week 11 11/13 - 11/17 | M: Lec 18: POMDP Intro Readings: AIMA 17.4.1 KAlg 20.1-3; 21.1, 22.1-2, 22.4-5 W: Lec 19: POMDP inference Readings: AIMA 17.5 KAlg 20.5-6; 21.4-5 | HW 9: POMDPs | MP 3: Reasoning under uncertainty | |
| Week 12 11/20 - 11/24 | M: Lec 20: Bandit problems W: No Lecture | No (new) Homework | --- | W 11/22 Lecture cancelled 11/24 Holiday |
| Week 13 11/27 - 12/01 | M: Lec 21: First-order logic W: Lec 22: FOL inference | HW 10: Bandits and FOL, due 12/8 | --- | |
| Week 14 12/04 - 12/08 | M: Lec 23: Connections to machine learning W: Lec 24: Probabilistic programming | No (new) Homework | --- | |
| Week 15 12/11 - 12/15 | M: Lec 25: More ML; Wrap Up W: TA Review Session | No (new) Homework | --- | |
| Finals 12/18 - 12/22 |