Syllabus

Author

Akhilesh Kakolu Ramarao, Anna Sophia Stein

Last changed: 23.10.24

Date General Topic Homework Assignments
09.10 Admin, Architectures: Statistical and Probabilistic Language Models Familiarization with Google Colab
16.10 Architectures: Perceptrons and Neural Networks
23.10 Architectures: Perceptrons and Neural Networks (part 2) Assignment 1
30.10 Transformer: General architecture
06.11 Transformer: The Attention mechanism
13.11 Transformer: Transformer models: Decoder/Encode only models Assignment 2
20.11 Using pre-trained models
27.11 Study week
04.12 Transfer learning: fine-tuning
11.12 Adapting models for specific tasks Assignment 3
18.12 Adapting models for specific tasks
08.01 Adapting models for specific tasks Assignment 4
15.01 Probing LLMs
22.01 Probing LLMs Assignment 5
29.01 TBD