The CIS 5210 Podcast
by Chris Callison-Burch
Latest episode
CIS 5210 - Module 8 - Reinforcement Learning
CIS 5210 - Module 8 - Reinforcement Learning
About this podcast
This is a podcast for the University of Pennsylvania’s Artificial Intelligence Course (CIS 5210). The episodes are automatically generated using NotebookLM by uploading Prof. Chris Callison-Burch’s lecture notes and lecture slides.
Episodes
- CIS 5210 - Module 8 - Reinforcement Learning · 15 min · Episode 8This episode explores reinforcement learning and its relationship to MDPs. Also mentioned: exploration v. exploitation, multi-arm bandits, model-free learning, q-learning…
- CIS 5210 - Module 7 - Markov Decision Processes · 17 min · Episode 7This episode explores MDPs, covering stochastic environments, transition functions, reward functions, policies, value iteration, policy iteration, expected utility, finite vs…
- CIS 5210 - Module 6 - Knowledge-Based Agents and Logical Reasoning · 14 min · Episode 6This episode explores knowledge-based agents in AI, covering knowledge bases, inference, propositional logic, theorem proving, logical equivalence, resolution, conjunctive normal…
- CIS 5210 - Module 5 - CSPs · 11 min · Episode 5This episode explores constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs), covering variables, domains, constraints, backtracking search, heuristics, forward checking, constraint…
- CIS 5210 - Module 4 - Adversarial Search · 10 min · Episode 4This episode explores adversarial search in game-playing AI, covering game formulation, minimax, game trees, evaluation functions, alpha-beta pruning and expectimax. Disclosure…
- CIS 5210 - Module 3 - Informed Search · 13 min · Episode 3This episode explores informed search algorithms in AI, focusing on A* search. Key topics include: Importance of heuristics in guiding searches, and the role of admissible…
- CIS 5210 - Module 2 - Uninformed Search · 13 min · Episode 2This episode explores uninformed search algorithms like BFS, DFS, and iterative deepening search. Disclosure: This episode was generated using NotebookLM.
- CIS 5210 - Module 1 - Rational Agents · 19 min · Episode 1This episode explores rational agents in AI, covering: Philosophical foundations Historical context Task environments Disclosure: This episode was generated using NotebookLM.







