Reinforcement Learning

Graduate Course | Spring 2026 | YU

Course Information

Instructor: Prof. Iddo Drori

Prerequisites: Machine Learning or Artificial Intelligence or Deep Learning or an equivalent class

Schedule

Lecture Topic Links
1 Introduction NotebookLM (infographic, slide deck, etc)

Homework 1

Expert Iteration
2 Multi-arm Bandits, Markov Decision Process
3 Reinforcement Learning
4 Reinforcement Learning
5 Reinforcement Learning
6 Deep Reinforcement Learning
7 Deep Reinforcement Learning
8 Deep Reinforcement Learning
9 Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
10 Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
11 Games
12 Reinforcement Learning and Language Models
13 Imitation Learning
14 TBD
15 Summary

Grading

Participation: 5%

In-class presentations: 30%

Quizzes: 35%

Homeworks: 30%