| Final Examination |
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CSE 415: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence The University of Washington, Seattle, Autumn 2019 |
| Date: Monday, December 9 (2:30-4:20 PM) |
| Format: The format of the final exam will be similar to that of the midterm exam. However, the exam will be longer. The topics covered will be drawn from the following, which includes some topics from the first part of the course and some from the second. |
Topics:
Turing Test
State-space search
States, state spaces, operators, preconditions, moves,
Heuristic evaluation functions,
Iterative depth-first search, recursive depth-first search,
Breadth-first search, best-first search, uniform-cost search,
Iterative deepening, A* search.
Admissible heuristics, Consistent heuristics
Problem formulation
States, operators, goal criteria
Minimax search for 2-player, zero-sum games
Static evaluation functions
Backed up values
Alpha-beta pruning
Expectimax search
Zobrist Hashing
Markov Decision Processes
States, actions, transition model, reward function
Values, Q-states, and Q-values
Bellman updates
Policies, policy extraction
Reinforcement Learning
Model-based vs model-free learning
Q-learning
Feature-based Q-learning
Application to the Towers-of-Hanoi puzzle and Grid Worlds
Probabilistic reasoning
Conditional probability
Bayes' rule
The joint probability distribution
Marginal probabilities
Independence of random variables
Bayes nets
Representation using graphs, marginals and conditional distributions
Number of free parameters
Inference in Bayes nets
D-Separation in Bayes nets
Perceptrons
How to compute AND, OR, and NOT
Simple pattern recognition (e.g., 5 x 5 binary image
inputs for optical character recognition)
Training sets, training sequences, and the perceptron
training algorithm
Linear separability and the perceptron training theorem
Natural Language Processing
Probabilistic Context-Free Grammars
Scoring parses with negative log probabilities
The Future of AI
Asimov's three laws of robotics, Kurzweil's "singularity"
Pros and cons of advanced artificial intelligence*
*Late addition to the topics list (Nov. 18). |