CS 540 - Introduction to Artificial Intelligence Section 1 Fall 2019

CS 540 Homework Assignments

• General Information
  • Questions and answers related to homework assignments should be posted on the Piazza course web site.
  • How to Hand In a Homework Assignment
  • Late Penalty Rule
  • Corrections to any grading must be resolved within one week after a homework is handed back.
  • Some Useful Java Links

• Homework #5: Bayesian Networks and Naive Bayes Classifier (Due: Wednesday, December 4)
  • HW #5
  • skeleton_code.zip containing skeleton code plus training and testing datasets (updated 11/21)
  • Stanford large movie review dataset as described in the paper A. Maas, R. Daly, P. Pham, D. Huang, A. Ng, and C. Potts, Learning word vectors for sentiment analysis, Proc. 49th Annual Meeting of the Assoc. for Computational Linguistics, 2011.
  • Naive Bayes classifier description (Wikipedia)
  • Solutions to the written problems
  • For questions on grading see the TA or grader who posted your score on Canvas

• Homework #4: Neural Networks and CSPs (Due: Tuesday, November 12)
  • HW #4
  • Skeleton code: skeleton-code.zip
  • Original Handwritten Digit dataset (from UCI Machine Learning Repository)
  • Definitions of ReLU and SoftMax activation functions
  • Definition of Cross-Entropy loss function
  • Tutorial example on backpropagtion algorithm
  • Solutions to the written problems
  • For questions on grading see the TA or grader who posted your score on Canvas

• Homework #3: Clustering and Decision Trees (Due: Sunday, October 20)
  • HW #3
  • Skeleton code and datasets for testing your code: skeleton-code.zip
  • A repository of datasets used for machine learning (UC Irvine)
  • Solutions to the written problems
  • Testcases used for grading P3
  • For questions on grading see the TA or grader who posted your score on Canvas

• Homework #2: Search and Game Playing (Due: Sunday, October 6)
  • HW #2
  • skeleton_code.zip file containing provided skeleton code for your program and some test cases
  • Solutions to the written problems
  • Some games that are especially hard for computers to play well
    • Arimaa
    • Go
    • Try playing Go yourself

• Homework #1: Search (Due: Monday, September 23)
  • HW #1
  • skeleton-code.zip compressed zip file containing provided skeletal code for your program and sample test files
  • For questions on grading of the programming problem, contact TA Young Wu
  • HW #1 solutions to problems 1 and 2