CSE 473: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence

Summer 2026

Mon, Jun 22
1 Introduction
Slides (pptx)
Project 0 Setup
due Thu 6/25 at 11:59pm
Wed, Jun 24
2 Agents and Environments
Slides (pptx)
R&N Chapter 2
Fri, Jun 26
3 Uninformed Search
Slides (pptx)
R&N Chapter 3.1 - 3.4
Homework 1 Search
due Fri 7/3 at 11:59pm
Project 1 Search
due Thu 7/9 at 11:59pm
Mon, Jun 29
4 Informed Search
Slides (pptx)
R&N Chapter 3.5 - 3.7
Wed, Jul 1
5 Adversarial Search
Slides (pptx)
R&N Chapter 5
Fri, Jul 3
Holiday No Class

Reinforcement Learning

Mon, Jul 6
6 Markov Decision Processes
Slides (pptx)
R&N Chapter 17.1
Wed, Jul 8
7 MDPs II
Slides (pptx)
R&N Chapter 17.2 - 17.3
Fri, Jul 10
Test Search and MDPs
Blank Test (Solutions)
Project 2 Multi-Agent Search
due Thu 7/17 at 11:59pm
Homework 2 Reinforcement Learning
due Thu 7/23 at 11:59pm
Mon, Jul 13
8 Reinforcement Learning
Slides (pptx)
R&N Chapter 21.1 - 21.2
Wed, Jul 15
9 Reinforcement Learning II: Q-Learning
Slides (pptx)
R&N Chapter 21.3
Fri, Jul 17
* No Lecture (Canceled)
R&N Chapter 21.3
Project 3 Reinforcement Learning
due Thu 7/30 at 11:59pm

Modeling

Mon, Jul 20
10 Probability
Slides (pptx)
R&N Chapter 13.1 - 13.5
Wed, Jul 22
11 Bayes Nets
Slides (pptx)
R&N Chapter 14.1 - 14.3
Fri, Jul 24
12 Bayes Nets II: Inference
Slides (pptx)
R&N Chapter 14.4
Homework 3 Probabilistic Inference
due Thu 8/6 at 11:59pm
Mon, Jul 27
13 Bayes Nets III: Sampling
Slides (pptx)
R&N Chapter 14.5
Wed, Jul 29
14 Markov Models, Particle Filters
Slides (pptx)
R&N Chapter 15.3, 15.5

Machine Learning

Fri, Jul 31
15 Machine Learning
Slides (pptx)
R&N Chapter 18.1 - 18.2
Project 4 Machine Learning
due Thu 8/13 at 11:59pm
Mon, Aug 3
16 Machine Learning II: Regression
Slides (pptx)
R&N Chapter 18.4 - 18.6
Wed, Aug 5
17 Machine Learning III: Classification
Slides (pptx)
R&N Chapter 18.3 - 18.8
Fri, Aug 7
Test Reinforcement Learning, Bayes Nets, Machine Learning
Blank Test (Solutions)
Homework 4 Machine Learning
due Thu 8/20 at 11:59pm
Mon, Aug 10
18 Neural Networks
Slides (pptx)
R&N Chapter 18.7
Wed, Aug 12
19 Deep Learning
Slides (pptx)
D2L Chapter 7, D2L Chapter 9
Fri, Aug 14
20 Language Modeling, Transformers
Slides (pptx)
Vaswani et al. (2017) “Attention Is All You Need”, D2L Chapter 11
Mon, Aug 17
21 Large Language Models
Slides (pptx)
D2L Chapter 15, D2L Chapter 16
Wed, Aug 19
22 RLHF, Alignment
Christiano et al. (2023) “Reinforcement Learning from Human Preferences”
Fri, Aug 21
23 Looking Forward