CS486/686 - Schedule


This is a tentative schedule only.  As the course progresses, the schedule will be adjusted.

[RN2] 2nd edition of Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach by Russell and Norvig
[RN3] 3rd edition of Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach by Russell and Norvig

Lecture
Date
Topic
Reading (textbook)
Notes
1
Sep 11
Introduction (Lecture slides)
[RN2] Chapt. 1 and 2
[RN3] Chapt. 1 and 2

2
Sep 13
Uninformed Search (Lecture slides)
[RN2] Sect. 3.1-3.5
[RN3] Sect. 3.1-3.4

3
Sep 18
Informed Search (Lecture slides)
[RN2] Sect. 4.1-4.2 (except RBFS)
[RN3] Sect. 3.5-3.6 (except RBFS)
A1 out

4
Sep 20
No lecture


5
Sep 25
Constraint Satisfaction Problems (Lecture slides)
[RN2] Sect. 5.1-5.2
[RN3] Sect. 6.1-6.3

6
Sep 27
Local Search (Lecture slides)
[RN2] Sect. 4.3
[RN3] Sect. 4.1

7
Oct 2
Uncertainty (Lecture slides)
[RN2] Sect. 13.1-13.6
[RN3] Sect. 13.1-13.5

8
Oct 4
Bayesian Networks (Lecture slides)
[RN2] Sect. 14.1-14.2
[RN3] Sect. 14.1-14.2
A1 due, A2 out
9
Oct 9
Bayesian Networks (Lecture slides)
[RN2] Sect. 14.4 (except clustering algorithms)
[RN3] Sect. 14.4 (except clustering algorithms)

10
Oct 11
Decision Theory (Lecture slides)
[RN2] Sect. 16.1-16.3
[RN3] Sect. 16.1-16.3

11
Oct 16
Decision Networks (Lecture slides)
[RN2] Sect. 16.5-16.6
[RN3] Sect. 16.5-16.6
Project proposals due
12
Oct 18
Probabilistic reasoning over time (Lecture slides)
[RN2] Chapt. 15.1-15.3, 15.5 (except approximate inference)
[RN3] Chapt. 15.1-15.3, 15.5 (except approximate inference)

13
Oct 23
Markov Decision Processes (Lecture slides)
[RN2] Sect. 17.1-17.2, 17.4-17.5
[RN3] Sect. 17.1-17.2, 17.4
A2 due
14
Oct 25
Decision tree learning (Lecture slides)
[RN2] Sect. 18.1-18.3
[RN3] Sect. 18.1-18.3
A3 out
15
Oct 30
Statistical Learning (Lecture Slides)
[RN2] Sect. 20.1-20.2 (up to p. 718)
[RN3] Sect. 20.1-20.2 (up to p. 809)

16
Nov 1
Midterm (in class: 4-5:20 pm)
RCH 204: A-J (last name)
RCH 211: K-Z (last name)

Midterm
17
Nov 6
Statistical Learning (Lecture slides)
[RN2] Sect. 20.3 (up to p. 731)
[RN3] Sect. 20.3 (up to p. 823)

18
Nov 8
Markov Networks (Lecture slides)
Michael Jordan, Graphical Models, Statistical Science (Special Issue on Bayesian Statistics), 19, 140-155, 2004.
19
Nov 13
Conditional random fields (Lecture slides)
Hanna M. Wallach, Conditional Random Fields: An Introduction, Technical Report MS-CIS-04-21, Department of Information Science, University of Pensylvania, 2004. A3 due, A4 out
20
Nov 15
First order logic (Lecture slides)
[RN2] Sect 7.1-7.6, Chapt. 8 and 9
[RN3] Sect 7.1-7.6, Chapt. 8 and 9

21
Nov 20
Markov Logic Network (Lecture slides)
Matt Richardson and Pedro Domingos (2006), Markov Logic Networks, Machine Learning, 62, 107-136.


22
Nov 22
Alchemy package & Applications (Lecture slides)
Marc Summer and Pedro Domingos (2007), The Alchemy Tutorial, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington.
23
Nov 27
Learning and Inference with Markov Logic Network (Lecture slides)


24
Nov 29
Course summary (Lecture slides)
A4 due