CS165A: Artificial Intelligence (Winter 2020) |
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Piazza: piazza.com/ucsb/winter2020/cs165a
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Gradescope: [ link]
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Office hours:
Instructor Office Hour: Thursday
2:00-3:00pm, HFH 2121
TA1: Boyuan Feng, Office Hour: Monday 3:00-4:00pm, HFH-1138 (CSIL).
TA2: Jianyu Xu, Office Hour: Wednesday 2:00-3:00 pm, Trailer 936.
TA3: Yuqing Zhu, Office Hour: Tuesday 5:00-6:00 pm, HFH-1138 (CSIL).
Textbook: Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig, Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, Prentice Hall, Third Edition, 2010
Other reference books:
Sutton and Barto. Reinforcement learning: An introduction, MIT press, Second Edition, 2018.
Week | Date | Topic | Reading | Assignment |
1 | 7-Jan | Introduction and Course Overview | AIMA Ch.1 | |
9-Jan | AI Problem Solving and Intelligent Agents | AIMA Ch. 2, Ch. 26 | HW1 out | |
2 | 14-Jan | Machine Learning | AIMA Ch. 18, D2L Ch. 1, ESL Ch. 1 | |
16-Jan | Machine Learning | D2L Ch. 3, CH. 4, CH. 11 | ||
3 | 21-Jan | Probabilistic Graphical Models | AIMA Ch. 13 | |
23-Jan | Probablistic Graphical Models | AIMA Ch. 14, Jordan PGM Ch. 2.1 | HW1 Due, HW2 Out | |
4 | 28-Jan | Search: Solving Problems with Search | AIMA Ch. 3.1-3.4 | |
30-Jan | Search: Search algorithms | AIMA Ch. 3.4-3.6 | ||
5 | 4-Feb | Search: Informed Search and Adversarial Search | AIMA Ch. 3.5-3.6, 5.1-5.2 | |
6-Feb | Midterm Review | HW2 Due | ||
6 | 11-Feb | Midterm | ||
13-Feb | Search: Adversarial Search. RL: Introduction. | AIMA Ch. 5.2-5.3, Sutton and Barto: Ch 1 | HW3 out | |
7 | 18-Feb | RL: Markov Decision Processes | AIMA: Ch 17.1, 17.2, 17.3. Sutton and Barto: Ch 3 | |
20-Feb | RL: Bandits Problems and Exploration | Sutton and Barto: CH 2, AIMA Ch. 21.4 | ||
8 | 25-Feb | RL: Bandits, Off-Policy Evaluation and RL algorithms | AIMA Ch. 21.1-21.3 Sutton and Barto: Ch 4-6 | |
27-Feb | RL: Reinforcement learning algorithms | Sutton and Barto: Ch 4-6, Ch 13 | HW3 due / HW4 out | |
9 | 3-Mar | Logic: Logic intro & Propositional Logic | AIMA: Ch 7 | |
5-Mar | Logic: Propositional logic | AIMA Ch 7, Ch 8 | ||
10 | 10-Mar | Logic: First order logic | AIMA Ch. 8, Ch. 9 | |
12-Mar | Responsible AI, and final review | HW4 due (Friday Mar 13, 23:59pm) | ||
11 | 16-Mar | Final Exam. 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM |