| Date | Lecture Topic | Readings for this Lesson | Homework Due |
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| Mon, Jan 29, 2024 |
What class is this? [slides] |
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| Wed, Jan 31, 2024 |
What is NLP? [slides] |
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| Fri, Feb 2, 2024 |
Waitlist Deadline |
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| Mon, Feb 5, 2024 |
Examples of NLP Tasks [slides] |
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| Mon, Feb 5, 2024 |
Waitlists Deactivated |
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| Wed, Feb 7, 2024 |
Examples of NLP Tasks [slides] |
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| Fri, Feb 9, 2024 |
Last Day to Change Schedule |
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| Mon, Feb 12, 2024 |
Machine Learning Basics & Evaluation [slides] |
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| Wed, Feb 14, 2024 |
Machine Learning Basics & Evaluation [slides] |
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| Mon, Feb 19, 2024 |
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Project Milestone 1: Project Proposal |
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| Wed, Feb 21, 2024 |
PyTorch & HuggingFace Tutorial [slides] |
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| Mon, Feb 26, 2024 |
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| Wed, Feb 28, 2024 |
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HW1: Being up to the Task |
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| Mon, Mar 4, 2024 |
Classification with Logistic Regression [slides] |
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| Wed, Mar 6, 2024 |
Learning & Using Logistic Regression [slides] |
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| Mon, Mar 11, 2024 |
Vector Embeddings [slides] |
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Grad Checkpoint 1: Selection |
| Wed, Mar 13, 2024 |
Vector Embeddings [slides] |
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| Fri, Mar 15, 2024 |
No Class - Project Milestone Due |
Project Milestone 2: Literature Review |
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| Mon, Mar 18, 2024 |
Spring Break - No Class |
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| Wed, Mar 20, 2024 |
Spring Break - No Class |
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| Mon, Mar 25, 2024 |
N-Gram Language Models [slides] |
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| Wed, Mar 27, 2024 |
N-Gram Language Models [slides] |
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| Mon, Apr 1, 2024 |
Neural Language Models [slides] |
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| Wed, Apr 3, 2024 |
Recurrent Neural Network LMs [slides] |
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Project Milestone 3: Halfway Checkpoint |
| Fri, Apr 5, 2024 |
Last Day to Withdraw |
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| Mon, Apr 8, 2024 |
Recurrent Neural Network LMs Tutorial [slides] |
HW 2: Evaluation |
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| Wed, Apr 10, 2024 |
Attention & Transformers [slides] |
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| Mon, Apr 15, 2024 |
Decoding, Sampling, & Transformer Fine-tuning [slides] |
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| Wed, Apr 17, 2024 |
Types of Foundational Models [slides] |
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| Mon, Apr 22, 2024 |
Ethics of NLP [slides] |
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| Wed, Apr 24, 2024 |
Prompt Engineering Tutorial [slides] |
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Grad Checkpoint 2: Draft |
| Mon, Apr 29, 2024 |
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| Wed, May 1, 2024 |
Alignment [slides] |
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Grad Checkpoint 3: Feedback |
| Fri, May 3, 2024 |
No Class - Project Milestone Due |
Project Milestone 4: Rough Draft |
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| Mon, May 6, 2024 |
Applications: Machine Translation [slides] |
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HW 3: Prompt Engineering |
| Wed, May 8, 2024 |
Applications: Dialog Systems [slides] |
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| Mon, May 13, 2024 |
Applications: Creative Generation |
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| Fri, May 17, 2024 |
Project Presentations, 10:30 AM-12:30 PM |
Project Milestone 5: Final Submission Grad Checkpoint 4: Final Submission |