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