CS486/686 - Schedule


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

Lecture
Date
Topic
Reading (textbook)
Notes
1
May 3
Introduction (slides: 1/page 6/page)
Chapt. 1 and 2

2
May 5
Uninformed Search (slides: 1/page 6/page)
Sect. 3.1-3.5

3
May 10
Informed Search (slides: 1/page 6/page)
Sect. 4.1-4.2 (except RBFS)
A1 out
4
May 12
Local Search (slides: 1/page 6/page)
Sect. 4.3

5
May 17
Constraint Satisfaction Problems (slides: 1/page 6/page)
Sect. 5.1-5.2

6
May 19
Game Playing (slides: 1/page 6/page)
Chapt. 6

7
May 24
Probability Theory (slides: 1/page 6/page)
Sect. 13.1-13.6
June 9: Correction made to slide 7
8
May 26
Bayesian Networks (slides: 1/page 6/page)
Sect. 14.1-14.2
A1 due, A2 out
9
May 31
Bayesian Networks (slides: 1/page 6/page)
Sect. 14.4 (except clustering algorithms)

10
June 2
Decision Theory (slides: 1/page 6/page)
Sect. 16.1-16.3

11
June 7
Decision Networks (slides: 1/page 6/page)
Chapt. 16.5-16.6

12
June 9
Probabilistic Reasoning over Time (slides: 1/page 6/page)
Chapt. 15 (p. 537-542,549,559)

13
June 14
Markov Decision Processes (slides: 1/page 6/page)
Sect. 17.1, 17.2 (up to p. 620), 17.4, 17.5
June 30: Correction made to slide 17
14
June 16
Multi-agent Systems (slides: 1/page 6/page)
Sect. 17.6
A2 due
15
June 21
Reinforcement Learning (slides: 1/page 6/page)
Sect. 21.1-21.3
A3 out
16
June 23
Decision trees (slides: 1/page 6/page)
Sect. 18.1-18.3

17
June 28
Midterm in class: 8:30-10am or 11:30-1pm

Matlab tutorial slides by David Yeung (1/page 6/page)
18
June 30
Statistical Learning (slides: 1/page 6/page)
Sect. 20.1-20.2 (up to p. 718)
Project proposals due (CS686)
19
July 5
Statistical Learning (slides: 1/page 6/page)
Sect. 20.3 (up to p. 731)
Supplementary reference for the EM algorithm (optional)
20
July 7
Neural Networks (slides: 1/page 6/page)
Sect. 20.5

21
July 12
Ensemble Learning (slides: 1/page 6/page)
Sect. 18.4
A3 due, A4 out
22
July 14
Symbolic Language Processing (slides: 1/page 6/page)
Sect. 22.1-22.6

23
July 19
Probabilistic Language Processing (slides: 1/page 6/page)
Sect. 23.1-23.2

24
July 21
Computational Vision (slides: 1/page 6/page)
Sect. 24.1-24.3

25
July 26
Robotics (slides: 1/page 6/page)
Chapt. 25.1-25.4

26
July 28
Course summary (slides: 1/page 6/page)

A4 due