Stat 241b: Advanced Topics in Learning and Decision Making

UC Berkeley

Offerings

  1. Spring 2026

Overview

Recent topics include: Graphical models and approximate inference algorithms. Markov chain Monte Carlo, mean field and probability propagation methods. Model selection and stochastic realization. Bayesian information theoretic and structural risk minimization approaches. Markov decision processes and partially observable Markov decision processes. Reinforcement learning.

Logistics

Three hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.

Prerequisites