• CMPUT 467/504 Machine Learning II (Winter 2025) Another miracle has come to pass, and we will now have a Machine Learning II course! This follows CMPUT 267, now called Machine Learning I. This course is meant to provide more depth than 466, and relies on having knowledge from Machine Learning I.
      This course replaces CMPUT 367, but much of the content is similar. As with all courses, the content has evolved, both to simply be better with more iteration and to update as the world changes.
      For TMI, CMPUT 367 was moved to CMPUT 467 because (a) it was confusing everyone that CMPUT 367 was seemingly more advanced than CMPUT 466 but at the 300-level and (b) we realized that offering ML III (Advanced ML) could and should be done only at the graduate level with the option for undergrads to request enrollment after completing ML II. We all appreciate you being patient as we figured out how to modify and improve our AI and ML offerings.
      See the website for the syllabus and a tentative schedule.
      [Website]

    • CMPUT 367 Intermediate Machine Learning (Fall 2021, Fall 2022) A miracle has come to pass, and we will now have an Intermediate Machine Learning course! This follows CMPUT 267 (previously called CMPUT 296). This will be the first offering of this course, and it is being created from scratch. It should be fun (and challenging) for everyone involved. This course will have a similar structure to CMPUT 267. It will cover more advanced topics in machine learning, relying on the foundations given by CMPUT 267. See the website for the syllabus and a tentative schedule.
      [Website]

    • CMPUT 267 Basics of Machine Learning (Fall 2021, Winter 2022 and Winter 2023) This course is equivalent to CMPUT 296, now with a non-topics number as it will be taught every year. It will become a standard pre-req for later machine learning courses, including Intermediate Machine Learning and for CMPUT 365 Reinforcement Learning. I will teach CMPUT 267 both in the Fall semester, and then again in the Winter semester.
      [Website]

    • We did a NeurIPS Tutorial on Policy Optimization in Reinforcement Learning. It has some fun notebooks and lectures from myself, Sham Kakade and Nicolas Le Roux.

    • CMPUT 296 Basics of Machine Learning (Winter 2021) This is a new course, starting with the Basics of Machine Learning. We will actually cover a lot of the same core concepts as the more advanced machine learning course, 466, though with simpler modeling approaches. The goal is to provide the mathematical foundations to continue onto more advanced ML courses. An Intermediate ML course should be taught in Fall 2021, and will continue to be taught in following years. 296 will become the base course for several following ML courses, and is a better choice than 466 if you plan to take ML in more depth.
      [Website]

    • CMPUT 655 Reinforcement Learning I (Fall 2020). This course will introduce RL, at a graduate level. This course is useful to take the graduate course, RL 2, taught by Rich Sutton. We will cover the RL Mooc designed for undergrads, but we will do so more quickly, will cover more advanced topics in class and will have a big focus on a research project.
      [Website]

    • CMPUT 397 Reinforcement Learning (Fall 2020). All materials on the website, [github pages].
    • CMPUT 296 Basics of Machine Learning (Winter 2020) -- Materials still hosted on [Website]
    • CMPUT 397 Reinforcement Learning (Fall 2019). This course was previously taught as CMPUT 366, and was introduced as an explicit course on Reinforcement Learning. Materials still hosted on [github pages].
    • CMPUT 466/566 Machine Learning (Fall 2019) -- Materials still hosted on [github pages].
    • CMPUT 659 Fundamentals of Stochastic Approximation Theory (Winter 2019) -- The schedule for this course is hosted on [github pages].
    • CMPUT 466/566 Machine Learning (Fall 2018) -- Materials still hosted on [github pages].
    • CMPUT 659: Optimization Principles for Reinforcement Learning (Winter 2018) -- Students at the University of Alberta can access scribed notes from this course with a description of the course here.
    • CMPUT 466/551 Machine Learning (Fall 2017) -- Materials still hosted on [github pages].
    • CSCI-B 455 Principles of Machine Learning (Spring 2017) -- All materials publicly available on Canvas
    • CSCI-B 555 Machine Learning (Fall 2016) -- All materials publicly available on Canvas
    • CSCI-B 659 Stochastic Optimization for Machine Learning (Spring 2016) -- All materials publicly available on Canvas
    • CSCI-B 555 Machine Learning (Fall 2015) -- All materials publicly available on Canvas
    • CSCI-B 554 Probabilistic Approaches to AI (Spring 2015) -- Syllabus     Oncourse website     Public schedule
    • CMPUT 379 Operating Systems Concepts (Winter 2014) -- Summary schedule All materials on eClass (restricted access)