COV884 - Uncertainty in AI - Spring 2018 Wednesday 2:30-3:50 pm in Bharti 201 |
Instructor:
Mausam
(mausam at cse dot iitd dot ac dot in) Office hours: by appointment, SIT 402 |
TAs: (office hours by appointment) Shivanshu Gupta (shivanshugupta1995 at gmail.com) |
Start | End | Topics & Lecture Notes | Required Readings | Additional Resources | |
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Jan 3 | Jan 17 | Introduction | AIMA Chapter 1 |
Applications of AI |
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Jan 17 | Jan 17 | Intro to Probability |
AIMA Chapter 13 |
History of Bayes Theorem |
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Jan 31 | Jan 31 | Bayesian Networks Representation |
AIMA Chapter 14.1-14.4 |
Influence Flow in Bayes Nets |
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Feb 21 | Feb 21 | Bayesian Networks Inference and Learning |
AIMA Chapter 14.5, 20 |
Log Probabilities |
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Feb 24 | Mar 23 | Programming Assignment | |||
Mar 7 | Mar 7 | Decision Theory |
AIMA Chapter 16.1-16.3, 16.6 |
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Mar 7 | Mar 14 | Markov Decision Processes |
AIMA Chapter 17.1-17.3 |
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Apr 4 | Apr 11 | Reinforcement Learning |
AIMA Chapter 21.1-21.3 |
TD Learning for Backgammon |
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Apr 11 | Apr 11 | Bandits and Monte Carlo Tree Search |
Monte Carlo Planning (Sections 3.1-3.3) AIMA Chapter 21.4 |
UCT for Go Monte Carlo Planning |
Stuart Russell & Peter Norvig,
Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach,
Prentice-Hall, Third Edition (2009) (required).
Assignment(s): 50%; Exam: 50%; Class participation, online discussions: extra credit.
There will be 1-2 programming assignments.
As adapted from Dan Weld's guidelines.
Collaboration is a very good thing. On the other hand, cheating is considered a very serious offense. Please don't do it! Concern about cheating creates an unpleasant environment for everyone. If you cheat, you get a zero in the assignment, and additionally you risk losing your position as a student in the department and the institute. The department's policy on cheating is to report any cases to the disciplinary committee. What follows afterwards is not fun.
So how do you draw the line between collaboration and cheating? Here's a reasonable set of ground rules. Failure to understand and follow these rules will constitute cheating, and will be dealt with as per institute guidelines.
- The Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi Rule: This rule says that you are free to meet with fellow students(s) and discuss assignments with them. Writing on a board or shared piece of paper is acceptable during the meeting; however, you should not take any written (electronic or otherwise) record away from the meeting. This applies when the assignment is supposed to be an individual effort or whenever two teams discuss common problems they are each encountering (inter-group collaboration). After the meeting, engage in a half hour of mind-numbing activity (like watching an episode of Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi), before starting to work on the assignment. This will assure that you are able to reconstruct what you learned from the meeting, by yourself, using your own brain.
- The Right to Information Rule: To assure that all collaboration is on the level, you must always write the name(s) of your collaborators on your assignment. This also applies when two groups collaborate.