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CS 188 Spring 2026
Instructors: Dan Klein, Stuart Russell / Lecture: TuTh, 12:30-2:00 PM, Lewis 100 [Zoom, Recordings Playlist, Recordings Media Gallery (accessible to enrolled students only)]
Announcements
Week 2 Announcements
- Assignments
- Homework 1 [Required] is due Thu, Feb 5 at 11:59 PM PT.
- Project 1 [Required] is due Fri, Feb 6 at 11:59 PM PT.
- Office Hours
- Office hours started on Fri Jan 30 and times are posted on the course calendar: https://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs188/sp26/calendar/. Any future changes to the office hours schedule will be posted to the course calendar.
- The OH queue link can be found on the course website header, but we have also linked it here: https://cs188-oh.apps.cs61a.org/
- Discussions
- Discussions start on Wed Feb 4 and times are posted on the course calendar: https://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs188/sp26/calendar/. Any future changes to the discussion schedule will be posted to the course calendar.
- See course policies for more information regarding discussions.
Course Calendar
| Wk. | Date | Lecture (pptx) | Readings | Discussion | HW | Project |
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| 1 |
Tue Jan 20 | 1. Intro, Agents, and Environments Slides / Video / Recording |
AIMA 1-2
1.1 |
No Discussion | HW0 [optional]
(due Fri Jan 23) |
Project 0 (optional)
(due Fri Jan 23) |
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Thu Jan 22 | 2. Uninformed Search Slides / Video / Recording |
AIMA 3.1-3.4
1.2-1.3 |
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| 2 |
Tue Jan 27 | 3. A* Search and Heuristics Slides / Video / Recording |
AIMA 3.5-3.6
1.4 |
No Discussion | HW1
(due Thu Feb 05) |
Project 1
(due Fri Feb 06) |
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Thu Jan 29 | 4. Local Search Slides / Recording |
AIMA 4.1-4.2
1.5 |
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| 3 |
Tue Feb 03 | 5. CSPs I Slides / Video / Recording |
AIMA 6.1
2.1-2.4 CSP Demo |
1. Search Discussion: Worksheet / Solutions / Video Exam Prep: Worksheet / Solutions / Video |
HW2
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Thu Feb 05 | 6. CSPs II Slides / Video |
AIMA 6.2-6.5
2.4-2.6 |
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| 4 |
Tue Feb 10 | 7. Game Trees I Video |
AIMA 5.2-5.5
3.1-3.2 |
2. CSPs | HW3
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Project 2
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Thu Feb 12 | 8. Game Trees II Video |
AIMA 5.2-5.5, 16.1-16.3
3.3-3.6 |
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| 5 |
Tue Feb 17 | 9. MDPs I Video |
AIMA 17.1-17.2
4.1-4.2 |
3. Game Trees | HW4
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Thu Feb 19 | 10. MDPs II Video |
AIMA 17.1-17.2
4.3-4.5 |
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| 6 |
Tue Feb 24 | 11. RL I Video |
AIMA 22
5.1-5.3 |
4. MDPs | HW5
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Project 3
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Thu Feb 26 | 12. RL II Video |
AIMA 22
5.4-5.5 |
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| 7 |
Tue Mar 03 | 13. Probability Video |
AIMA 12.1-12.5
6.1-6.2 |
5. RL | HW6
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Thu Mar 05 | 14. Bayes Nets: Representation Video |
AIMA 13.1-13.3
6.3-6.4 |
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| 8 |
Mon Mar 09 | Midterm (Mon Mar 9, 7–9pm PT) |
6. Probability and Bayes Nets | HW7
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Tue Mar 10 | 15. Bayes Nets: Independence Video |
AIMA 13.2
6.5 |
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Thu Mar 12 | 16. Bayes Nets: Inference Video |
AIMA 13.3
6.6 |
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| 9 |
Tue Mar 17 | 17. Bayes Nets: Sampling Video |
AIMA 13.3-13.4
6.7-6.8 |
7. BN Inference and Sampling | HW8
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Project 4
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Thu Mar 19 | 18. Decision Networks and VPI Video |
AIMA 16.5-16.6
7.1-7.3 |
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| 10 |
Tue Mar 24 | Spring Break |
No Discussion | |||
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Thu Mar 26 | ||||||
| 11 |
Tue Mar 31 | 19. HMMs Video |
AIMA 14.3, 14.5
8.1-8.3 |
8. VPI and HMMs | HW9
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Thu Apr 02 | 20. Particle Filtering Video |
AIMA 14.3
8.4-8.5 |
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| 12 |
Tue Apr 07 | 21. ML I: Decision Trees Video |
AIMA 20.1-20.2
9.1-9.2 |
9. Particle Filtering and Naive Bayes | HW10
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Thu Apr 09 | 22. ML II: Naive Bayes and Perceptrons Video |
AIMA 19.6
9.3-9.5, 9.7, 9.8 |
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| 13 |
Tue Apr 14 | 23. ML III: Neural Networks Video |
AIMA 19.7
9.6, 9.9 |
10. ML | Project 5
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Thu Apr 16 | 24. LLMs I: Language Models Video |
AIMA 19.3 | ||||
| 14 |
Tue Apr 21 | 25. LLMs II: Fine-Tuning and Aligning | AIMA 24.4-24.5 | 11. ML 2 | ||
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Thu Apr 23 | 26. Application: AI for Global Nuclear Monitoring | |||||
| 15 |
Tue Apr 28 | 27. AI Safety | ||||
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Thu Apr 30 | 28. Further Thoughts | |||||
| 16 |
Tue May 05 | RRR Week |
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Thu May 07 | ||||||
| 17 |
Tue May 12 | |||||
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Thu May 14 | Final Exam (Thu May 14, 3-6pm PT) |