This is a draft schedule and is subject to change.
| Week | Date | Broad Area | Reading List | Slides / Video |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aug 20 | Course Intro | Lecture 1 Slides | |
| Aug 22 | Intro to RL | Lecture 2 Slides | ||
| 2 | Aug 27 | RL Methods Overview | Lecture 3 Slides | |
| Aug 29 | Policy Gradients | Lecture 4 Slides | ||
| 3 | Sep 3 | Actor Critic Methods | Lecture 5 Slides | |
| Sep 5 | Value Function Methods | Lecture 6 Slides | ||
| 4 | Sep 10 | Deep RL with Q Functions | Lecture 7 Slides | |
| Sep 12 | Advanced Policy Gradients | Lecture 8 Slides | ||
| 5 | Sep 17 | Optimal Control and Planning | Lecture 9 Slides | |
| Sep 19 | Model-Based Reinforcement Learning | |||
| 6 | Sep 24 | Model-Based Policy Learning | ||
| Sep 26 | Differentiable Simulation + RL | |||
| 7 | Oct 1 | Exploration 1 | ||
| Oct 3 | Exploration 2 | |||
| 8 | Oct 8 | Inverse RL 1 | ||
| Oct 10 | Inverse RL 2 | |||
| 9 | Oct 15 | Fall Break | ||
| Oct 17 | Hierarchical RL | |||
| 10 | Oct 22 | Constrained RL | ||
| Oct 24 | Multi Agent RL | |||
| 11 | Oct 29 | Behavior Cloning 1 | ||
| Oct 31 | Behavior Cloning 2 | |||
| 12 | Nov 5 | Offline Reinforcement Learning | ||
| Nov 7 | Guest Lecture | |||
| 13 | Nov 12 | |||
| Nov 14 | RL with Sequence Models | |||
| 14 | Nov 19 | Meta Learning and Transfer Learning | ||
| Nov 21 | RL with Human Feedback (RLHF) | |||
| 15 | Nov 26 | Challenges and Open Problems | ||
| Nov 28 | Thanksgiving | |||
| 16 | Dec 3 | Guest Lecture | ||
| Dec 5 |