UPenn launches CIS 6280 World Models course: 23 lectures by Jiatao Gu, slides free online
trawasthi_ai · x · 2026-09-12
UPenn's Fall 2026 offering CIS 6280 "World Models", taught by Jiatao Gu, covers learned representations and predictors of environment dynamics for perception, planning, and decision making across RL, video/3D, multimodal agents, and robotics.
- Structure: 23 lectures plus a final project and exam, with 4 assignments
- Syllabus: from core concepts (observation, state, transition, memory, action, prediction, simulation, planning) through probabilistic formulations (trajectory distributions, latent state, partial observability, one-step vs rollout objectives) to applications in 3D and robotics
- Representation, prediction, and interaction are recurring themes woven through later units
- All slides (PDF) and interactive HTML pages are publicly posted; the recommender audited the first 3 lectures and calls it a goldmine
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