CSI 4106: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence

Author

Marcel Turcotte

Published

September 14, 2026

This page contains an outline of the topics, content, and assignments for the semester.

Note that this schedule will be updated as the semester progresses, with all changes documented here.

Date Topic Lecture Assignment Exam
Sept. 9 Defining AI - -
Sept. 14 Intro to machine learning (ML) - -
Sept. 16 Learning Algorithms - -
Sept. 21 Linear regression and gradient descent - -
Sept. 23 Logistic regression - -
Sept. 28 Cross-entropy, geometric interpretation - -
Sept. 30 Performance evaluation - -
Oct. 5 Model Evaluation and Hyperparameter Tuning - -
Oct. 5 - - A1: Jupyter -
Oct. 7 - - - Quiz
Oct. 12 Thanksgiving - no lecture - -
Oct. 14 Machine Learning Engineering - -
Oct. 19 Introduction to Artificial Neural Networks - -
Oct. 21 Training Artificial Neural Networks (Part 1) - -
Oct. 26 - - A2: ML -
Oct. 26 Reading week - no lecture - - -
Oct. 28 Reading week - no lecture - - -
Nov. 2 Training Artificial Neural Networks (Part 2) - -
Nov. 4 Sofmax, cross-entropy and regularization - -
Nov. 9 Neural Network Architectures - -
Nov. 11 Introduction to Search - -
Nov. 16 Informed Search - -
Nov. 16 - - A3: DL -
Nov. 18 - - - Quiz
Nov. 23 Local Search - -
Nov. 25 Population-Based Metaheuristics - -
Nov. 30 Population-Based Metaheuristics (continued) - -
Dec. 2 Adversarial Search - -
Dec. 7 Monte Carlo Tree Search - -
Dec. 9 Monte Carlo Tree Search (continued) - -
Dec. 9 - - A4: Search -