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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 5 Announcements
- Midterm
- The midterm accommodations logistics form has been released and is located here. Please read through and complete this ASAP if you need any accommodations (including DSP). It is due Thu, Feb 26 at 11:59 PM PT. If you are okay with taking the exam in-person at the normal time (Mon, Mar 9, 7-9PM) without any accommodations, then you don’t need to fill out this form.
- Assignments
- Homework 4 is due Thu, Feb 26 at 11:59 PM PT.
- Office Hours
- Office hour 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.
- Discussions
- Discussions 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.
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
(due Thu Feb 12) |
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Thu Feb 05 | 6. CSPs II Slides / Video / Recording |
AIMA 6.2-6.5
2.4-2.6 |
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| 4 |
Tue Feb 10 | 7. Game Trees I Slides / Video / Recording |
AIMA 5.2-5.5
3.1-3.2 |
2. CSPs Discussion: Worksheet / Solutions / Video Exam Prep: Worksheet / Solutions / Video |
HW3
(due Thu Feb 19) |
Project 2
(due Fri Feb 20) |
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Thu Feb 12 | 8. Game Trees II Slides / Video / Recording |
AIMA 5.2-5.5, 16.1-16.3
3.3-3.6 |
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| 5 |
Tue Feb 17 | 9. MDPs I Slides / Video / Recording |
AIMA 17.1-17.2
4.1-4.2 |
3. Game Trees Discussion: Worksheet / Solutions / Video Exam Prep: Worksheet / Solutions / Video |
HW4
(due Thu Feb 26) |
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Thu Feb 19 | 10. MDPs II Slides / Video / Recording |
AIMA 17.1-17.2
4.3-4.5 |
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| 6 |
Tue Feb 24 | 11. RL I Slides / Video |
AIMA 22
5.1-5.3 |
4. MDPs Discussion: Worksheet / Solutions / Video Exam Prep: Worksheet / Solutions / Video |
HW5
(due Thu Mar 05) |
Project 3
(due Fri Mar 13) |
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Thu Feb 26 | 12. RL II Slides / 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 | |||||
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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 | ||||||
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Tue May 12 | |||||
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Thu May 14 | Final Exam (Thu May 14, 3-6pm PT) |