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CMPUT 455: Search, Knowledge and Simulation

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  • Units: 3
  • Prerequisites: any 300-level Computing Science course.
  • Offered: Now: Fall 2026

When making decisions in games, computers rely on three main ideas: search, knowledge and simulations. Knowledge can be created by machine learning techniques and encoded in deep neural networks. Search and simulations help to understand the short and long-term consequences of possible actions. This course leads from basic concepts to state-of-the-art decision-making algorithms.

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