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CSE 150AIntroduction to Artificial Intelligence: Probabilistic Reasoning and Decision-Making

4 units · CSE · UC San Diego

Introduction to probabilistic models at the heart of modern artificial intelligence. Specific topics to be covered include probabilistic methods for reasoning and decision-making under uncertainty; inference and learning in Bayesian networks; prediction and planning in Markov decision processes; applications to intelligent systems, speech and natural language processing, information retrieval, and robotics.

Before you enroll

Prerequisites

From the catalog: “CSE 12 or DSC 40B and CSE 15L or CSE 29 or DSC 80 and COGS 118D or CSE 103 or ECE 109 or ECON 120A or MAE 108 or MATH 180A or MATH 180B or MATH 181A or MATH 183 or MATH 186 and MATH 20A and MATH 18 or MATH 31AH; restricted to students within the CS25, CS26, CS27, CS29, EC26, and DS25 majors. All other students will be allowed as space permits.”

Where it fits

Where it sits in degree plans

Suggested plans most often put it in Year 3 · Fall (2 programs).

Required in (1)

  • Artificial Intelligence

One of the options in (1)

  • Data Science (B.S.)
What it opens up

Courses that list CSE 150A as a prerequisite (3)

  • COGS 118B Introduction to Machine Learning
  • COGS 118D Computational Modeling and Analysis of Human Behavior
  • COGS 182 Introduction to Reinforcement Learning