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 2
Introduction (slides: 1/page 6/page)
Chapt. 1 and 2

2
May 4
Uninformed Search (slides: 1/page 6/page)
Sect. 3.1-3.5

3
May 9
Informed Search (slides: 1/page 6/page)
Sect. 4.1-4.2 (except RBFS)
A1 out
4
May 11
Local Search (slides: 1/page 6/page)
Sect. 4.3

5
May 16
Constraint Satisfaction Problems (slides: 1/page 6/page)
Sect. 5.1-5.2

6
May 18
Game Playing (slides: 1/page 6/page)
Chapt. 6

7
May 23
Probability Theory (slides: 1/page 6/page)
Sect. 13.1-13.6

8
May 25
Bayesian Networks (slides: 1/page 6/page)
Sect. 14.1-14.2
A1 due, A2 out
9
May 30
Bayesian Networks (slides: 1/page 6/page)
Sect. 14.4 (except clustering algorithms)
corrected slide 9 (June 12)
10
June 1
Decision Theory (slides: 1/page 6/page)
Sect. 16.1-16.3

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

12
June 8
Probabilistic Reasoning over Time (slides: 1/page 6/page)
Chapt. 15 (p. 537-542,549,559)
Project proposals due
13
June 13
Markov Decision Processes (slides: 1/page 6/page)
Sect. 17.1, 17.2 (up to p. 620), 17.4, 17.5

14
June 15
Multi-agent Systems (slides: 1/page 6/page)
Sect. 17.6
A2 due, A3 out
15
June 20
Reinforcement Learning (slides: 1/page 6/page)
Sect. 21.1-21.3

16
June 22
Decision trees (slides: 1/page 6/page)
Sect. 18.1-18.3

17
June 27
No lecture (midterm in class)

Midterm
18
June 29
Statistical Learning (slides: 1/page 6/page)
Sect. 20.1-20.2 (up to p. 718)

19
July 4
Statistical Learning (slides: 1/page 6/page)
Sect. 20.3 (up to p. 731)

20
July 6
Neural Networks (slides: 1/page 6/page)
Sect. 20.5
A3 due, A4 out
21
July 11
Ensemble Learning (slides: 1/page 6/page)
Sect. 18.4

22
July 13
Symbolic Language Processing (slides: 1/page 6/page)
Sect. 22.1-22.6

23
July 18
Probabilistic Language Processing (slides: 1/page 6/page)
Sect. 23.1-23.2

24
July 20
Robotics (slides: 1/page 6/page)
Sect. 25.1-25.4

25
July 25
Course summary (slides: 1/page 6/page)

A4 due