Spring 2025 Lectures, Playlists, and Files

Additional Resources for Spring 2025:

Lecture Blog Posts in Chronological Order:

(unlinked lecture titles are what is tentatively planned for the future)
  • Lecture 1A (2025-01-14): Introduction to the Course, Its Policies, and Its Motivations
  • Lecture 1B (2025-01-16): The Evolutionary Approach to Engineering Design Optimization
  • Lecture 1C (2025-01-21): Population Genetics of Evolutionary Algorithms
  • Lecture 1D (2025-01-28): The Genetic Algorithm and its Implementation, Part 1
  • Lecture 1E (2025-01-30): The Genetic Algorithm and its Implementation, Part 2
  • Lecture 2A (2025-02-04): GA Approaches Beyond Optimization - Artificial Immune Systems
  • Lecture 2B (2025-02-06): GA Approaches Beyond Optimization - AIS and Intro. to Evolutionary Programming
  • Lecture 3A (2025-02-11): Introduction to Multi-criteria Decision Making and Pareto Optimality
  • Lecture 3B (2025-02-13): Multi-Objective Genetic Algorithms (MOGA and Friends), Part 1
  • Lecture 3C (2025-02-18): Multi-Objective Genetic Algorithms (MOGA and Friends), Part 2
  • Lecture 4A (2025-02-20): From Multiobjective Genetic Algorithms to DGA, PGA, and Multimodal Optimization
  • Lecture 4B  (2025-02-25): Niching Methods for Multi-modal Optimization
  • Lecture 5A (2025-02-27): Introduction to Simulated Annealing and Maximum Entropy (MaxEnt) Methods
  • Lecture 5B (2025-03-04): From MaxEnt Methods to MCMC Sampling
  • Lecture 5C (2025-03-18): From MCMC Sampling to Optimization by Simulated Annealing
  • Lecture 5D/6A (2025-03-20): Simulated Annealing Wrap-up and Distributed AI and Swarm Intelligence, Part 1 - Ant Colony Optimization (ACO)
  • Lecture 6B (2025-03-25): Distributed AI and Swarm Intelligence, Part 2 - ACO and Introduction to Bacterial Foraging Optimization (BFO)
  • Lecture 6C (2025-03-27): Distributed AI and Swarm Intelligence, Part 3 - BFO and Intro to Classical Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) & Its Motivations
  • Lecture 6D (2025-04-01): Distributed AI and Swarm Intelligence, Part 4 - Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO)
  • Lecture 7A (2025-04-03): Introduction to Neural Networks
  • Lecture 7B (2025-04-08): Introduction to Neural Networks: SLP, RBFNN, and MLP
  • Lecture 7C (2025-04-10): Deep Neural Networks (UAT, MLP, and Backpropagation)
  • Lecture 7D (2025-04-15): CNNs, Insect Brains, More Complex Neural Networks (TDNNs and RNNs)
  • Lecture 7E (2025-04-17): RNNs and Their Training, LSTM, and Reservoir Machines
  • Lecture 7F (2025-04-22): ANN Reinforcement Learning, Unsupervised Learning, Multidimensional Scaling, & Hebbian/Associative Learning
  • Lecture 7G (2025-04-24): Decentralized Associative/Hebbian Learning and Intro. to Spiking Neural Networks and Neuromorphic Computing
  • Lecture 7H (2025-04-29): From Spiking Neural Networks to Continual Learning and Beyond
  • Lecture 8A (2025-05-01) – Split into two parts:
    • Lecture 8A-Intro: Clarifications about Final Exam and Final Project
    • Lecture 8A: Complex Systems Approaches to Computation - Interacting Particle Systems and the Voter Model

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