COM SCI 262A · CS 262ALearning and Reasoning with Bayesian Networks
Computer Science · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Review of several formalisms for representing and managing uncertainty in reasoning systems; presentation of comprehensive description of Bayesian inference using belief networks representation.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Winter 2026
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisite: course 112 or Electrical Engineering 131A.
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Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
COM SCI 262A
- COM SCI 112Modeling Uncertainty in Information Systems
- COM SCI 111Operating Systems Principles
- COM SCI 33Introduction to Computer Organization
- C&EE 110Introduction to Probability and Statistics for Engineers
- MATH 170AProbability Theory I
- MATH 131AAnalysis
- STATS 100AIntroduction to Probability
- EC ENGR 131AProbability and Statistics
2 direct requisites. Showing 22 courses over 3 levels; the branches marked with a count carry on past it. Every course here opens its own tree.
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What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
COM SCI 262A
- COM SCI 262ZCurrent Topics in Cognitive Systems
- STATS M241Current Topics in Causal Modeling, Inference, and Reasoning
2 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 2 courses over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.