CSE 473: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence

Autumn 2026

Wed, Sep 30
1 Introduction
Slides (pptx),
Practice(docx)
Project 0 Setup
due Wed 10/7 at 11:59pm
Fri, Oct 1
2 Agents and Environments
Slides (pptx),
Practice(docx)
R&N Chapter 2, “Some Studies in Machine Learning”, Samuel
Mon, Oct 5
3 Uninformed Search
Slides (pptx),
Practice(docx)
R&N Chapter 3.1 - 3.4
Homework 1 Search
due Wed 10/14 at 11:59pm
Project 1 Search
due Mon 10/19 at 11:59pm
Wed, Oct 7
4 Informed Search
Slides (pptx),
Practice(docx)
R&N Chapter 3.5 - 3.7
Project 0 Due
Fri, Oct 9
5 Adversarial Search
Slides (pptx),
Practice(docx)
R&N Chapter 5
Mon, Oct 12
5B Constraint Satisfaction
Slides (pptx),
Practice(docx)
R&N Chapter 6
Wed, Oct 14
5B Constraint Satisfaction Part 2
Slides (pptx),
Practice(docx)
Homework 1 Due

Reinforcement Learning

Fri, Oct 16
6 Markov Decision Processes
Slides (pptx),
Practice(docx)
Homework 2 Reinforcement Learning
due Fri 10/30 at 11:59pm
R&N Chapter 17.1
Mon, Oct 19
7 MDPs II
Slides (pptx),
Practice(docx)
R&N Chapter 17.2 - 17.3
Project 2 Mult-Agent Search
due Mon 11/2 at 11:59pm
Project 1 Due
Wed, Oct 21
8 Reinforcement Learning
Slides (pptx),
Practice(docx)
R&N Chapter 21.1 - 21.2
Fri, Oct 23
Test Search and MDPs
Mon, Oct 26
9 Reinforcement Learning II: Q-Learning
Slides (pptx),
Practice(docx)
R&N Chapter 21.3
Wed, Oct 28
9 Reinforcement Learning II: Q-Learning
Slides (pptx),
Practice(docx)
R&N Chapter 21.3

Modeling Uncertainty

Fri, Oct 30
10 Probability
Slides (pptx),
Practice(docx)
Homework 2 Due Reinforcement Learning
R&N Chapter 13.1 - 13.5
Mon, Nov 2
11 Bayes Nets
Slides (pptx),
Practice(docx)
Homework 3 Probability Inference
due Mon 11/16 at 11:59pm
Project 2 Due Multi-Agent Search
R&N Chapter 14.1 - 14.3
Wed, Nov 4
12 Bayes Nets II: Inference
Slides (pptx),
Practice(docx)
Project 3 Reinforcement Learning
due Fri 11/20 at 11:59pm
R&N Chapter 14.4
Fri, Nov 6
13 Bayes Nets III: Sampling
Slides (pptx),
Practice(docx)
R&N Chapter 14.5
Mon, Nov 9
14 Markov Models, Particle Filters
Slides (pptx),
Practice(docx)
R&N Chapter 15.3, 15.5
Wed, Nov 11
Holiday Veterans Day, No Class
Fri, Nov 13
Test Reinforcement Learning, Probability, Bayes Nets

Machine Learning

Mon, Nov 16
15 Machine Learning
R&N Chapter 18.1 - 18.2
Wed, Nov 18
16 Machine Learning II: Regression
R&N Chapter 18.4 - 18.6
Fri, Nov 20
17 Machine Learning III: Classification
R&N Chapter 18.3 - 18.8
Mon, Nov 23
18 Neural Networks
R&N Chapter 18.7
Wed, Nov 25
19 Deep Learning
D2L Chapter 7, D2L Chapter 9
Thur, Nov 26
Holiday Thanksgiving
Fri, Nov 27
Holiday Thanksgiving Break; No Class
Tue, Dec 15 2:30-4:20 PM
Test Machine Learning and Language Models