CSI 4130/5130: Artificial Intelligence

Dr. Tianle Ma  ยท  Winter 2026

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Explore the foundations and modern techniques of AI. Each lecture includes interactive demos and Jupyter notebooks for hands-on learning.

Lecture Materials

Lecture 04

Deep Learning with PyTorch

Interactive Resources
Lecture 09

GPT-OSS: Model Implementation

Interactive Resources
Lecture 10

GLM-5: from Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering

Interactive Resources
Lecture 12

Policy Gradients and Variance Reduction

Lecture 13

PPO, GRPO & DAPO โ€” Policy Optimization for LLMs

Lecture 14

Reward Signals โ€” Preferences, Verification, DPO, and Process Rewards

Lecture 15

From Base Model to Frontier Reasoner โ€” Pipelines, Test-Time Compute, and Agentic RL

Lecture 16

Course Review & The Future