[ Home ] 6.825 - Techniques in Artificial Intelligence, Fall '06

Course Syllabus

This schedule is subject to change. "AIMA2e" in the readings stands for Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, second edition.

Past exams
Date No. Topic Readings Lecture Material Exercises Assignments
Thu, 7-Sep 1 Introduction, A* Search AIMA2e 1-4
Exercises
Solutions

Tue, 12-Sep 2 Propositional Logic, DPLL AIMA2e 7
Project 0 Out
Thu, 14-Sep 3 FOL Syntax and Semantics AIMA2e 7-8

Tue, 19-Sep 4 FOL Proofs AIMA2e 9
Exercises
Solutions

Thu, 21-Sep 5 FOL Proofs AIMA2e 9
Exercises
Solutions
[Project 0 Due
Wed 20-Sept 11:59pm]

Project 1a Out
Tue, 26-Sep 6 Planning AIMA2e 10.3, 11 Notes on Planning

Thu, 28-Sep 7 Planning AIMA2e 10.3, 11

Tue, 3-Oct 8 Probability AIMA2e 13

Exercises
Solutions

Project 1a due [5pm]
Project 1b Out
Thu, 5-Oct 9 Bayesian Networks AIMA2e 14.1-14.3

Tue, 10-Oct
Holiday



Thu, 12-Oct 10 Variable Elimination AIMA2e 14.4


Tue, 17-Oct 11 Sampling Methods AIMA2e 14.5
Project 1b due [5pm]
Project 2 Out
Thu, 19-Oct 12 HMMs AIMA2e 15 Lumiere handout
Tue, 24-Oct 13 HMMs
AIMA2e 15


Thu, 26-Oct
*** Review ***


Past exams

Tue, 31-Oct
*** Quiz - Open book ***
Covers material through HMMs


Quiz solutions
Thu, 2-Nov 14 Utility and Decision Theory AIMA2e 16


Tue, 7-Nov 15 Markov Decision Processes AIMA2e 17

Thu, 9-Nov 16 Markov Decision Processes AIMA2e 17
Project 2 due [5pm]
Project 3 Out
Tue, 14-Nov 17 POMDPs AIMA2e 17.5


Thu, 16-Nov 18 Reinforcement Learning AIMA2e 21

Tue, 21-Nov 19 Parameter Estimation AIMA2e 20.1-20.2


Thu, 23-Nov
Holiday



Tue, 28-Nov 20 Missing Data (EM) AIMA2e 20.3


Thu, 30-Nov 21 Supervised Learning AIMA2e 20.5-20.6 Generative methods
Tue, 5-Dec 22 Supervised Learning AIMA2e 20.5-20.6 Discriminative methods

Thu, 7-Dec 22 Supervised Learning AIMA2e 20.5-20.6 SVMs Project 3 due
Tue, 12-Dec 23 Wrapup/HKN Evaluations AIMA2e 26

21-Dec
*** Final Exam *** In 32-124 usual room