Spring 2005
Lecture Overviews and Slides
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- 4 Jan: Intro
to
CI, example
domains, robot control game
(sorry, you had to be there!).
- 6 Jan: robot
systems, hierarchical
control.
- 11 Jan: Controllers
(cont).
- 13 Jan: Decision-theoretic
planning. See the value
iteration applet. and some very
drafty notes. A good reference
(that covers much more than we have
discussed) is:
- 18 Jan: Decision-theoretic
planning (cont.)
- 20 Jan: Reinforcement
Learning. See the Q-learning
applet. and some draft
notes. Some good reference on
reinforcement
learning are:
- Kaelbling, L.P.,
Littman, M.L., and Moore, A.W. (1996) Reinforcement
Learning: A Survey, Journal of
Artificial Intelligence
Research, Volume 4, pages
237-285.
- R.S. Sutton and A.G.
Barto, Reinforcement
Learning: an Introduction (MIT
Press, 1998).
- 25 Jan: Reinforcement
learning (cont).
- 1 Feb: Integrity
constraints and consistency-based diagnosis.
- 3 Feb: meta-interpreters,
advanced
meta-interpreters.
- 8 Feb: assumption-based
reasoning, default
reasoning.
- 10 Feb: abduction,
combining
evidential and causal reasoning,
See the code
for
Chapter 9.
- 15, 17 Feb. Midterm Break
- 22 Feb: Reasoning
under uncertainty.
- 24 Feb: Midterm Exam
- 1 Mar: Conditional
Independence and Belief networks.
- 3 Mar Understanding
Independence
- 8 Mar: Exact
Probabilistic
Inference.
- 10 Mar:
Probability and Time. See the Localization
applet. Probabilistic
Inference using stochastic simulation. Monte-Carlo localization
Videos from Sebastian
Thrun.
- 15 Mar. Search.
Learning
Probabilistic models.
- 17 Mar. Learning probabilities (cont).
- 22 Mar. Utility
theory.
- 24 Mar. Decision
networks.
- 29 Mar. Value of information and control.
- 31 Mar. Putting it together.
- 5 Apr. Project presentations.
- 7 Apr. Project presentations.
Last updated 2005 Feb 9, David Poole,
poole@cs.ubc.ca.