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CS 188 Fall 2026

Instructors: Emma Pierson, Peyrin Kao / Lecture: MoWe, 2:00–3:30 PM, The Gateway Building 1210 [Zoom, Recordings Playlist, Recordings Media Gallery (accessible to enrolled students only)]

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Announcements

Week 3 Announcements

Sep 14
  • DUE Sessions (New This Semester!)
    • Some projects this semester will have a DUE (Demo, Understand, Experiment) session: a short, in-person check-in with course staff after the project deadline where you’ll demo your project, explain your code at a high level, and talk through a few related scenarios.
    • DUEs are low-stakes, and we expect everyone who shows up to pass.
    • The full DUE guidelines are required reading, and can be found at: https://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs188/fa26/dues/
  • Assignments
    • Homework 2 [Required] is due Wed, Sep 16 at 11:59 PM PT.
    • Project 1 [Required] is due Fri, Sep 18 at 11:59 PM PT.
    • Homework 3 [Required] is due Wed, Sep 23 at 11:59 PM PT
  • Office Hours
  • Discussions

Past announcements

Course Calendar

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Wk. Date Lecture (pptx) Readings Discussion HW Project
1 Wed
Aug 26 		1. Intro, Agents, and Environments
Slides / Video / Recording		 AIMA 1-2
1.1		 No Discussion HW0 [optional]
(due Wed Sep 02)		 Project 0 (optional)
(due Wed Sep 02)
2 Mon
Aug 31 		2. Uninformed Search
Slides / Video / Recording		 AIMA 3.1-3.4
1.2-1.3		 No Discussion HW1
(due Wed Sep 09)		 Project 1
(due Fri Sep 18)
Wed
Sep 02 		3. A* Search and Heuristics
Slides / Video / Recording		 AIMA 3.5-3.6
1.4
3 Mon
Sep 07

No Lecture (Labor Day)

 1. Search

Discussion: Worksheet / Solutions / Video

Exam Prep: Worksheet / Solutions / Video		 HW2
(due Wed Sep 16)
Wed
Sep 09 		4. CSPs I
Slides / Video / Recording		 AIMA 6.1
2.1-2.4
CSP Demo
4 Mon
Sep 14 		5. CSPs II
Slides / Video / Recording		 AIMA 6.2-6.5
2.4-2.6		 2. CSPs

Discussion: Worksheet

Exam Prep: Worksheet		 HW3
(due Wed Sep 23)
Wed
Sep 16 		6. Game Trees I
Slides / Video / Recording		 AIMA 5.2-5.5
3.1-3.2
5 Mon
Sep 21 		7. Game Trees II
Slides / Video		 AIMA 5.2-5.5, 16.1-16.3
3.3-3.6		 3. Game Trees HW4
(due Wed Sep 30)		 Project 2
(due Fri Oct 02)
Wed
Sep 23 		8. MDPs I
Video		 AIMA 17.1-17.2
4.1-4.2
6 Mon
Sep 28 		9. MDPs II
Video		 AIMA 17.1-17.2
4.3-4.5		 4. MDPs HW5
(due Wed Oct 07)
Wed
Sep 30 		10. RL I
Video		 AIMA 22
5.1-5.3
7 Mon
Oct 05 		11. RL II
Video		 AIMA 22
5.4-5.5		 5. RL HW6
(due Wed Oct 14)		 Project 3
(due Fri Oct 23)
Wed
Oct 07 		12. Probability
Video		 AIMA 12.1-12.5
6.1-6.2
8 Mon
Oct 12 		13. Bayes Nets: Representation
Video		 AIMA 13.1-13.3
6.3-6.4		 6. Probability and Bayes Nets
Wed
Oct 14 		14. Bayes Nets: Independence
Video		 AIMA 13.2
6.5
9 Mon
Oct 19

Midterm (Mon Oct 19, 7–9pm PT)

 No Discussion
Wed
Oct 21 		15. Bayes Nets: Inference
Video		 AIMA 13.3
6.6
10 Mon
Oct 26 		16. Bayes Nets: Sampling
Video		 AIMA 13.3-13.4
6.7-6.8		 7. BN Inference and Sampling HW7
(due Wed Nov 04)		 Project 4
(due Fri Nov 13)
Wed
Oct 28 		17. Decision Networks and VPI
Video		 AIMA 16.5-16.6
7.1-7.3
11 Mon
Nov 02 		18. HMMs
Video		 AIMA 14.3, 14.5
8.1-8.3		 8. VPI and HMMs HW8
(due Wed Nov 11)
Wed
Nov 04 		19. Guest Lecture: Josh Blumenstock
12 Mon
Nov 09 		20. ML I: Naive Bayes
Video		 AIMA 20.1-20.2
9.1-9.2		 9. Particle Filtering and Naive Bayes HW9
(due Wed Nov 18)
Wed
Nov 11

No Lecture (Veterans Day)
13 Mon
Nov 16 		21. ML II: Perceptrons
Video		 AIMA 19.6
9.3-9.5, 9.7, 9.8		 10. ML HW10
(due Mon Nov 30)		 Project 5
(due Fri Dec 04)
Wed
Nov 18 		22. ML III: Neural Networks
Video		 AIMA 19.7
9.6, 9.9
14 Mon
Nov 23 		23. ML IV: Applications & Decision Trees
Video		 AIMA 19.3 No Discussion
Wed
Nov 25

No Lecture (Thanksgiving)
15 Mon
Nov 30 		24. ML V: Transformers AIMA 24.4-24.5 11. ML 2
Wed
Dec 02 		25. Course Wrap Up
16 Mon
Dec 07

RRR Week
Wed
Dec 09
17 Thu
Dec 17

Final Exam (Thu Dec 17, 3-6pm PT)