CS 159 Spring 2018

Online Learning, Bandits, Reinforcement and Imitation Learning

The goal of this course is to familiarize students with the basics of interactive machine learning with a focus on imitation learning and reinforcement learning. Students will read and discuss recent research papers, as well as conduct a research project.

Course Description

• Research-oriented course. Students will present lectures and conduct a research project.
• Lectures on Tu/Th 10.30am-11:55am in Annenberg 105
• First lecture: 4/3/2018
• Piazza Forum: https://piazza.com/class/jfgffpd1m4p3an

Evaluation

• Lecture presentation: 20%
• Final project (Report + poster session): 80%
  • Project Proposal Due April 27th.
    • Details available here: https://piazza.com/class/jfgffpd1m4p3an?cid=12
    • Office hours details here: https://piazza.com/class/jfgffpd1m4p3an?cid=13

Prerequisites:

• CS 155 or permission from instructor

Instructor

• Yisong Yue: yyue@caltech.edu

TAs:

• Hoang Le: hmle@caltech.edu
• Stephan Zheng: stephan@caltech.edu
• Jialin Song: jssong@caltech.edu
• Eric Zhan: ezhan@caltech.edu