Stanford's CS329A Self-Improving AI Agents course: 9 free lectures now online
omarsar0 · x · 2026-11-15
Stanford Online has released full video recordings of CS329A: Self-Improving AI Agents, a graduate-level course (9 lectures, 148K views total) and one of the few systematic public courses on self-improving agents.
Topics per the screenshot include:
- Course overview
- Test-time compute scaling
- Robust verification
- Learning from feedback with tools/code
- Planning and multi-step reasoning
ELI5 author Elvis Saravia (omarsar0) recommends it for its content and rich references, and is compiling his own notes.
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