Artificial Intelligence
CS 6300
Spring 2022
Schedule: Tue/Thr 12:25-1:45pm
Location: WEB 2230
Instructor: John Hollerbach
Office Hours: MEB 2178; TH 11:00am -- 12:15pm
TA: Arnab Banerjee
Office Hours: M 10am-12pm, W 1-3pm MEB 3105

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In the readings, RN refers to Russell and Norvig; SB refers to Sutton and Barto.

Date Topics Readings Due Notes
11 Jan Introduction to AI opt: RN 1.1,2
Search
13 Jan Search I
Depth and breadth first search
3.1,3.3,3.4
opt: RN 3.2
18 Jan Search II
A* search and heuristics
3.5-3.6
opt: RN 4.1-4.2
P0 (19 Jan)
20 Jan Constraint Satisfaction Problems
Search, constraints and filtering
RN 6-6.3
25 Jan Game Playing I
Minimax search
RN 5-5.3 HW01
27 Jan Game Playing II
Expectimax search
RN 5.4-5.5
1 Feb Probability
Everything you need to know!
RN 13-13.5
opt: RN 13.6
HW02
3 Feb Utility
Consistency and risk
16-16.3
opt: RN 16.4
P1 (4 Feb)
Reinforcement Learning
8 Feb Markov Decision Processes I
Value iteration
RN 17.1-2
SB 3, 4.4
HW03
10 Feb Exam 1 Review
15 Feb Exam 1
17 Feb Markov Decision Processes II
Policy iteration
RN 17.3
SB 4.1-3
P2 (18 Feb)
22 Feb Reinforcement Learning I
TD-Learning
RN 21.1-2
SB 6.1-4
24 Feb Reinforcement Learning II
Q-Learning
RN 21.3
SB 6.5
HW04
1 Mar Reinforcement Learning III
Functional Approximation
RN 21.4-5
SB 8.1,8.2
3 Mar Non-Instructional Day HW05
8/10 Mar Spring break
15 Mar Reinforcement Learning IV
Policy representation and policy search
Reasoning Under Uncertainty
17 Mar Bayes' Nets I
Representation
RN 14-14.4 P3 (18 Mar)
22 Mar Exam 2 Review HW06
24 Mar Exam 2
29 Mar Bayes' Nets II
Independence, factors
RN 14.4-5
31 Mar Bayes' Nets III
Variable elimination, sampling
5 Apr Decision Diagrams, Markov Chains
VPI, Mini-Forward Algorithm
RN 16.5-6, 15.1-3 HW07
7 Apr Hidden Markov Models I
Filtering
RN 15.2
12 Apr Hidden Markov Models II
Viterbi algorithm
RN 15.5 HW08
14 Apr Hidden Markov Models III
Particle filtering, Dynamic Bayes Nets
RN 15.5
19 Apr Partially-Observable Markov Decision Processes
Representation, value iteration
RN 17.4
Dummies, Sec 3-6
HW09
21 Apr POMDPS II
P4 (22 Apr)
26 Apr Exam 3 Review HW10
3 May Exam 3
10:30 am - 12 pm