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The lecture schedule will be updated as the term progresses. You can find more details under the Modules tab.
Date Lecture Topic Activity Academic Papers Supplemental Media Homework Due
Thu, Aug 29, 2024 Intro to the class, Interactive Fiction, and Automated Story Generation
(Module 0) [slides]
Tue, Sep 3, 2024 Neural Language Models + Attention
(Module 1) [slides]
Wed, Sep 4, 2024 Waitlist Deadline
Thu, Sep 5, 2024 Waitlists Deactivated
Thu, Sep 5, 2024 Transformers
(Module 1) [slides]
Tue, Sep 10, 2024 Output
(Module 1) [slides]
Generating Room Descriptions
Wed, Sep 11, 2024
HW1: Build a Text-Adventure Game (7%)
Wed, Sep 11, 2024 Last day to drop without a W
Thu, Sep 12, 2024 Foundation Models + Word Embeddings
(Module 1) [slides]
Tue, Sep 17, 2024 Campus Closed - No Class
Thu, Sep 19, 2024 Neural Story Generation + Module 1 Paper Presentations
(Module 1) [slides]
Tue, Sep 24, 2024 Scripts and Events
(Module 2) [slides]
Make Your Own Mini Script
Thu, Sep 26, 2024 Understanding Procedures
(Module 2) [slides]
Mon, Sep 30, 2024
Project Milestone 1: Proposal
Tue, Oct 1, 2024 Guided Story Generation
(Module 2) [slides]
Thu, Oct 3, 2024 Module 2 Paper Presentations
(Module 2)
Mon, Oct 7, 2024
HW2: Prompting and Fine-tuning (12%)
Tue, Oct 8, 2024 Search
(Module 3) [slides]
Search Algorithms for Action Castle
Thu, Oct 10, 2024 Classical Planning + Story/Game Planning
(Module 3) [slides]
Tue, Oct 15, 2024 LLM-based Story Planning
(Module 3) [slides] by Nisha Simon
Thu, Oct 17, 2024 Commonsense Reasoning
(Module 4) [slides]

Tue, Oct 22, 2024 Class Cancelled
Thu, Oct 24, 2024 Façade Playthrough + Module 3 Paper Presentations
(Module 3) [slides]
Mon, Oct 28, 2024
Final Project Milestone 2: Project Progress HW3: Guided Generation (12%)
Tue, Oct 29, 2024 Neurosymbolic Knowledge Base Systems
(Module 4) [slides]
Thu, Oct 31, 2024 Storytelling with Ontologies + Recap
(Module 4) [slides]
Wed, Nov 6, 2024 Last day to withdraw from a course
Tue, Nov 5, 2024 Class Cancelled - Election Day
Thu, Nov 7, 2024 Module 4 Paper Presentations
(Module 4)
Tue, Nov 12, 2024 Character-Based Generation
(Module 5) [slides]
Thu, Nov 14, 2024 Confabulation: What Could LLM Hallucinations Do For Storytelling?
(Module 6) [slides] [video] by Peiqi "Patrick" Sui
Mon, Nov 18, 2024
HW4 (12%): Creating Sabre Problems
Tue, Nov 19, 2024 Co-creating Storytelling Machines
(Module 6) [slides] by Kory Mathewson
Thu, Nov 21, 2024 Sai Vallurupalli
(Module 6) by Sai Vallurupalli
Mon, Nov 25, 2024
Project Milestone 3: Rough Draft
Tue, Nov 26, 2024 Novel Interfaces for Creative Text Generation
(Module 6) [slides] [video] by Max Kreminiski
Thu, Nov 28, 2024 Thanksgiving - No lecture
Tue, Dec 3, 2024 Final Project In-Class Help
Thu, Dec 5, 2024 Human-aware AI for Procedural Content Generation
(Module 6) [slides] [video] by Zhiyu Lin (林之雨)
Mon, Dec 9, 2024
HW5 (12%): COMET-ATOMIC Schema
Tue, Dec 10, 2024 Module 5 Paper Presentations
(Module 5)
Thu, Dec 12, 2024 Final Project Presentations, 10:30am - 12:30pm, SHER 150
Project Milestone 4: Final Submission