Artificial Intelligence Course Schedule Fall 2024
Important Dates and Topics
| Date | Topic | Reading | Assignments |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 Tue 10/1, Thu 10/3 | YG: More About Training A Network (Updated) Introduction to Natural Language Processing Part 1, Part 2 | The Matrix Cookbook The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks | |
| 2024 Tue 10/8 | Midterm Exam Last day to drop class without a “W”: Tuesday, 10/8/2024 | ||
| 2024 Thu 10/10 | MB: Introduction to Computer Vision. 1st Lecture on Computer Vision. | Russell: Perception. | |
| 2024 Tu 10/15 | No class. Monday schedule. | Talk review 1 due | |
| 2024 Thu 10/17, Tu 10/22 | MP: ImageNet. Face Recognition and Other Biometrics | ImageNet website. LFW website. MegaFace. FaceScrub. IARPA Janus Benchmark A, CFP Dataset, AFLW 2000 Dataset. Cao et al. 2018, Zhu et al. 2019 Zhu et al. 2020, Zhu et al. 2022 Best-Rowden, Jain 2017 Banerjee et al., 2013. IAB IIT Jodhpur West Virginia biometrics | H4 (CNN): Notebook, PDF |
| 2024 Thu 10/24 | MP: Introduction to Pose Estimation | Project writeup: Notebook, PDF Report template | |
| 2024 Tu 10/29, Thu 10/31 | YG: Markov Models, Hidden Markov Models with Discrete Observations, Training HMMs | Rabiner (up to p. 275) | |
| 2024 Tu 11/5 | YG: HMMs with Continuous Output Densities, Speech Recognition. | Rabiner (up to p. 275) | |
| 2024 Th 11/7, Tu 11/12, Th 11/14, Tu 11/19 | Guest Lecture by Dr. Andrew Wood: Policy Learning 1 , 2 and Reinforcement Learning 1 , 2 , 3 . Last day to drop class with a “W”: Tuesday, 11/12/2024 | Russell 21 | H5 (HMM, MDP, RI) Talk review 2 due |
| 2024 Th 11/21, Tu 11/26 | MP: Game Playing: Minimax Alpha-Beta Algorithm for Adversarial Games. Lecture notes on Adversarial Search. Heuristic Pruning of Game Trees (progressive deepening, tapered search, horizon effect, continuation heuristics). Stochastic Games. Partially Observable Games. | Russell: Adversarial Search (Ch 5), Wikipedia: Minimax. Alpha-Beta, Iterative Deepening, IBM’s Chess Playing Computer versus Kasparov. FIDE, World Chess Federation Network. Global Games Market 2022. Watson, IBM’s Jeopardy! playing computing system, | H6 (Games) |
| 2024 Wed 11/27- Sun 12/1 | Thanksgiving Recess | ||
| 2024 Tu 12/3 | MP: Search Strategies & Robot Path Planning: Lecture notes. | Lozano-Perez, Robot Motion Planning, Visibility Graph. | |
| 2024 Th 12/5 | YG: Logic and Planning, Resolution Proofs. | Russell: First-Order Logic, Inference, Classical Planning, Planning and Acting in the Real World (Ch 8, 9, 10.1, 10.4, 11.4). Wikipedia: First-order_logic, Resolution(logic), Skolem_normal_form. | |
| 2024 Tu 12/10 | YG/MP: Talk presentations by student teams. | 640 Final Project Report due H6 due. Talk review 3 due | |
| Tue, 12/17, 2024 | Final Exam 12 -2 pm |
The lecture schedule may change depending on the time spent on each topic and whether alternative subjects are introduced.