Syllabus and Course Schedule
This syllabus is tentative. The topics and deadlines may change.
| Date | Tag | Topic | Slides + Readings + Other Miscellaneous Information | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Week 2 | February 2 | Lecture | Feature Engineering, Text Classification | |
| February 2 | Assignment | HW1 released | ||
| Week 3 | February 9 | Lecture | Word Embeddings, Intro FFNNs | |
| Week 4 | February 16 | [NO CLASS - February Break] | ||
| February 20 | Assignment | HW1 due (11.59 p.m.) | ||
| Week 5 | February 23 | Lecture | FFNNs, Backprop. | |
| February 23 | Assignment | HW2 released | ||
| Week 6 | March 2 | Lecture | RNNs, Midterm Review Session | |
| March 5 | Exam | [Midterm] | Location: HLS110, HLSB14, KMBB11 Time: 7.30 | |
| Week 7 | March 9 | Lecture | RNN attention, Intro Transformers | |
| Week 8 | March 16 | Lecture | Transformers | |
| March 20 | Assignment | HW2 due (11.59 p.m.) | ||
| Week 9 | March 23 | Lecture | ELMo, BERT | |
| March 23 | Assignment | HW3 released | ||
| Week 10 | March 30 | [NO CLASS - Spring Break] | ||
| Week 11 | April 6 | Lecture | ModernLLMs: GPT2, GPT3 | |
| Week 12 | April 13 | Lecture | ModernLLMs: TBD | |
| April 15 | Assignment | HW3 due (11.59 p.m.) | ||
| April 16 | Assignment | HW4 released | ||
| Week 13 | April 20 | Lecture | ModernLLMs: Instruction-Tuning, RL | |
| Week 14 | April 27 | Lecture | LLM++: Factuality, Retrieval Augmented LLMs (RAG) | |
| Week 15 | May 4 | Lecture | LLM++: Efficiency, Safety, Final Review Session | |
| May 8 | Assignment | HW4 due (11.59 p.m.) | ||
| [TBA] | Exam | [Final] |