This is a draft schedule and is subject to change.

Week Date Broad Area Reading List Slides / Video
1 Aug 18 Course Intro   Lecture 1 Slides
  Aug 20 Intro to RL   Lecture 2 Slides
2 Aug 25 RL methods overview   Lecture 3 Slides
  Aug 27 Policy Gradients   Lecture 4 Slides
3 Sep 1 Labor Day Actor-critic   Lecture 5 Slides
  Sep 3 Value function methods   Lecture 6 Slides
4 Sep 8 Deep RL with Q-Functions   Lecture 7 Slides
  Sep 10 Advanced Policy Gradients   Lecture 8 Slides
5 Sep 15 Optimal Control and Planning   Lecture 9 Slides
  Sep 17 Model-Based Reinforcement Learning    
6 Sep 22 Model-Based Reinforcement Learning    
  Sep 24 Model-Based Reinforcement Learning    
7 Sep 29 Model-Based Policy Learning    
  Oct 1 Diff Sim + RL    
8 Oct 6 Fall Break Supervised Learning + Modern Architectures    
  Oct 8 Inverse Reinforcement Learning    
9 Oct 13 Multi-agent RL    
  Oct 15 Offline Reinforcement Learning    
10 Oct 20 Exploration    
  Oct 22 Exploration    
11 Oct 27 Hierarchical RL    
  Oct 29 RL with Sequence Models    
12 Nov 3 No Class    
  Nov 5 Online Lecture      
13 Nov 10      
  Nov 12 Constrained RL: Safe RL    
14 Nov 17 Goal-Conditioned RL, Meta-Learning and Transfer Learning    
  Nov 19 RL for Preference alignment    
15 Nov 24 Challenges and Open Problems    
  Nov 26 Thanksgiving Break      
16 Dec 1 final class