Trusted AI methods for sequential decision making (2025)

Welcome to Trusted AI methods for sequential decision making (2025)

Description: The theme of this course is automatic reasoning and learning, with a focus on decision making and in particular sequential decision making. These techniques are relevant whenever repeated interaction with an environment is required. As an example, consider the task of moving a robot from A to B. While a complete path can be statically computed, if the environment is dynamic and uncertain, the planned path can become inaccessible. Thus, on-the-fly adaptation is required.

This course will introduce a number of algorithmic solutions such as planning and safe reinforcement learning, explaining the algorithmic principles behind several offline and online sequential decision-making approaches.

The course will consist of several lectures as well as some hands-on exercises.

Prerequisites: You will need background in a mathematical discipline; in particular, you should have attended a course covering propositional logic. You also need basic programming experience (read and write simple computer programs) and familiarity with standard algorithms like search algorithms. Basic familiarity with machine learning is useful but not required.

Learning objectives: The students are familiar with algorithmic solutions to sequential decision making. 

Key literature: TBA

Organizer: Christian Schilling

Lecturers: Alvaro Torralba and Christian Schilling

ECTS: 2.0

Time: 10, 12, 17, 19 and 26 March 2025

Place: Aalborg University (Room: TBA)

Zip code: 9220

City: Aalborg

Maximal number of participants: 20

Deadline: 17 February 2025

Important information concerning PhD courses: 

There is a no-show fee of DKK 3,000 for each course where the student does not show up. Cancellations are accepted no later than 2 weeks before the start of the course. Registered illness is of course an acceptable reason for not showing up on those days. Furthermore, all courses open for registration approximately four months before start of the course.

We cannot ensure any seats before the deadline for enrolment, all participants will be informed after the deadline, approximately 3 weeks before the start of the course. 

For inquiries regarding registration, cancellation or waiting list, please contact the PhD administration at phdcourses@adm.aau.dk When contacting us please state the course title and course period. Thank you.