4 courses with the subject ORCS E, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
ORCS E4200Data-driven Decision Modeling3.00
Introduction to modeling, estimating, and solving decision-making problems in the context of artificial intelligence and analytics. Potential topics include choice models, quantity models, online learning using multi-armed bandits, dynamic decision modeling, dynamic games, and Bayesian learning theory. Practice both theory and applications using Python programming
- Subject
- ORCS E
- Credits (min)
- 3
- Credits (max)
- 3
- Credit unit
- points
- Type
- course
- Edition
- 2026
- Source
- bulletin.columbia.edu
ORCS E4201Policy for Privacy Technologies3.00
Introduction to privacy technologies, their use in practice, and privacy regulations. Potential topics include anonymization, differential privacy, cryptography, secure multi-party computation, and legislation. Course material will be abased in real-world use cases of these tools
- Subject
- ORCS E
- Credits (min)
- 3
- Credits (max)
- 3
- Credit unit
- points
- Type
- course
- Edition
- 2026
- Source
- bulletin.columbia.edu
ORCS E4529Reinforcement Learning3.00
Prerequisites: Probability and statistics, basic optimization e.g., familiarity with linear and convex optimization, gradient descent, basic algorithm design constructs, familiarity with programming in python. Markov Decision Processes (MDP) and Reinforcement Learning (RL) problems. Reinforcement Learning algorithms including Q-learning, policy gradient methods, actor-critic method. Reinforcement learning while doing exploration-exploitation dilemma, multi-armed bandit problem. Monte Carlo Tree Search methods, Distributional, Multi-agent, and Causal Reinforcement Learning
- Subject
- ORCS E
- Credits (min)
- 3
- Credits (max)
- 3
- Credit unit
- points
- Type
- course
- Edition
- 2026
- Source
- bulletin.columbia.edu
Source: Teachers College at Columbia University's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 61
