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)]
If you have logistics questions, please see our FAQs page.
Announcements
Week 7 Announcements
- DUE Sessions
- Additional Project 1 DUE slots are now open, with the sign up link on Ed.
- As these are the final Project 1 DUE slots, we highly recommend signing up for and completing a DUE this week.
- You can check your DUE completion status by submitting any dummy file to the ungraded assignment on Gradescope.
- If you were directed to complete a reDUE during your original DUE, please sign up for a slot this week as well, using the same link.
- The full DUE guidelines are required reading, and can be found at: https://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs188/fa26/dues/
- Direct any questions about DUEs to the dedicated DUE logistics Ed post.
- Midterm
- Exam logistics are now posted on the course website. Please read this page in its entirety, as it contains important information about the midterm exam. If you have questions about midterm logistics, please comment below.
- The pre-midterm logistics form has been released and is located here. Please read through and complete this ASAP if you need any alterations. It was due Thursday, October 8. This form will remain open until Sunday, October 18, if you encounter extenuating circumstances after the original form deadline, but we cannot guarantee that we will process any submissions made after October 8. If you are okay with taking the exam in-person at the normal time (Mon, Oct 19, 7-9pm PT) without any requests or accommodations, then you don’t need to fill out this form.
- Assignments
- Homework 6 [Required] is due Wed, Oct 14 at 11:59 PM PT.
- Project 3 [Required] is due Fri, Oct 23 at 11:59 PM PT.
- Homework 7 [Required] will not be released until after the midterm.
Course Calendar
| Wk. | Date | Lecture (pptx) | Readings | Discussion | HW | Project |
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| 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) |
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Wed Sep 02 | 3. A* Search and Heuristics Slides / Video / Recording |
AIMA 3.5-3.6
1.4 |
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| 3 |
Mon Sep 07 | No Lecture (Labor Day) |
1. Search Discussion: Worksheet / Solutions / Video Exam Prep: Worksheet / Solutions / Video |
HW2
(due Wed Sep 16) |
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Wed Sep 09 | 4. CSPs I Slides / Video / Recording |
AIMA 6.1
2.1-2.4 CSP Demo |
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| 4 |
Mon Sep 14 | 5. CSPs II Slides / Video / Recording |
AIMA 6.2-6.5
2.4-2.6 |
2. CSPs Discussion: Worksheet / Solutions / Video Exam Prep: Worksheet / Solutions / Video |
HW3
(due Wed Sep 23) |
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Wed Sep 16 | 6. Game Trees I Slides / Video / Recording |
AIMA 5.2-5.5
3.1-3.2 |
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| 5 |
Mon Sep 21 | 7. Game Trees II Slides / Video / Recording |
AIMA 5.2-5.5, 16.1-16.3
3.3-3.6 |
3. Game Trees Discussion: Worksheet / Solutions / Video Exam Prep: Worksheet / Solutions / Video |
HW4
(due Wed Sep 30) |
Project 2
(due Fri Oct 02) |
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Wed Sep 23 | 8. MDPs I Slides / Video / Recording |
AIMA 17.1-17.2
4.1-4.2 |
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| 6 |
Mon Sep 28 | 9. MDPs II Slides / Video / Recording |
AIMA 17.1-17.2
4.3-4.5 |
4. MDPs Discussion: Worksheet / Solutions / Video Exam Prep: Worksheet / Solutions / Video |
HW5
(due Wed Oct 07) |
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Wed Sep 30 | 10. RL I Slides / Video / Recording |
AIMA 22
5.1-5.3 |
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| 7 |
Mon Oct 05 | 11. RL II Slides / Video / Recording |
AIMA 22
5.4-5.5 |
5. RL Discussion: Worksheet / Solutions / Video Exam Prep: Worksheet / Solutions / Video |
HW6
(due Wed Oct 14) |
Project 3
(due Fri Oct 23) |
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Wed Oct 07 | 12. Probability Slides / Video / Recording |
AIMA 12.1-12.5
6.1-6.2 |
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| 8 |
Mon Oct 12 | 13. Bayes Nets: Representation Slides / Video / Recording |
AIMA 13.1-13.3
6.3-6.4 |
6. Probability and Bayes Nets | ||
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Wed Oct 14 | 14. Bayes Nets: Independence Slides / Video |
AIMA 13.2
6.5 |
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| 9 |
Mon Oct 19 | Midterm (Mon Oct 19, 7–9pm PT) |
No Discussion | |||
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Wed Oct 21 | 15. Bayes Nets: Inference Slides / Video |
AIMA 13.3
6.6 |
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| 10 |
Mon Oct 26 | 16. Bayes Nets: Sampling Slides / 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) |
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Wed Oct 28 | 17. Decision Networks and VPI Video |
AIMA 16.5-16.6
7.1-7.3 |
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| 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) |
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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) |
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Wed Nov 11 | No Lecture (Veterans Day) |
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| 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) |
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Wed Nov 18 | 22. ML III: Neural Networks Video |
AIMA 19.7
9.6, 9.9 |
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| 14 |
Mon Nov 23 | 23. ML IV: Applications & Decision Trees Video |
AIMA 19.3 | No Discussion | ||
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Wed Nov 25 | No Lecture (Thanksgiving) |
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| 15 |
Mon Nov 30 | 24. ML V: Transformers | AIMA 24.4-24.5 | 11. ML 2 | ||
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Wed Dec 02 | 25. Course Wrap Up | |||||
| 16 |
Mon Dec 07 | RRR Week |
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Wed Dec 09 | ||||||
| 17 |
Thu Dec 17 | Final Exam (Thu Dec 17, 3-6pm PT) |