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Announcements¶
Jan 05 Welcome to CS6180!
Welcome to CS6180 Foundations of Gen. AI! We’re excited to work with you all this term! You can find all information about the course here on the course website.
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Calendar¶
| Topic | Assessments | Learning | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Week 1 - Foundations of AI and Deep Learning (1/2) | ||||
| Wed 01/07 | LEC 01 Introduction to AI and Machine Learning | |||
| Released HW1 Due 5:00 pm AI/ML Foundations | Released R1 Due 5:00 pm Learning Reflection 1 | |||
| Wed 01/07 | ||||
| Fri 01/09 | ||||
| Week 2 - Foundations of AI and Deep Learning (2/2) | ||||
| Wed 01/14 | LEC 02 Deep Learning Fundamentals | |||
| Wed 01/14 | LAB 01 Mastering Deep Learning with Fashion MNIST resources: colab | |||
| Fri 01/16 | ||||
| Week 3 - Foundations of NLP and Sequential Modeling (1/2) | ||||
| Wed 01/21 | LEC 03 Fundamentals of NLP, Embeddings, and Vector Spaces | |||
| Wed 01/21 | LAB 02 NLP and Embedding Space resources: colab | |||
| Fri 01/23 | ||||
| Week 4 - Foundations of NLP and Sequential Modeling (2/2) | ||||
| Wed 01/28 | LEC 04 Sequential Modeling: RNN to Transformer | |||
| Wed 01/28 | LAB 03 LSTM and Transformer resources: colab | |||
| Fri 01/30 | ||||
| Week 5 - Summer Break | ||||
| Wed 02/04 | HOLIDAY Summer Break | |||
| Wed 02/04 | ||||
| Fri 02/06 | HOLIDAY Summer Break | |||
| Week 6 - Advanced Techniques in LLMs (1/4) | ||||
| Wed 02/11 | LEC 05 Large Language Models | |||
| Wed 02/11 | ||||
| Fri 02/13 | ||||
| Week 7 - Advanced Techniques in LLMs (2/4) | ||||
| Wed 02/18 | LEC 06 Prompt Engineering | |||
| Wed 02/18 | LAB 04 The Art of Prompting resources: colab | |||
| Fri 02/20 | ||||
| Week 8 - Advanced Techniques in LLMs (3/4) | ||||
| Wed 02/25 | LEC 07 Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) | |||
| Released R2 Due 5:00 pm Learning Reflection 2 | ||||
| Wed 02/25 | LAB 05 RAG with LlamaIndex resources: colab | |||
| Fri 02/27 | ||||
| Week 9 - Advanced Techniques in LLMs (4/4) | ||||
| Wed 03/04 | LEC 08 Fine-Tuning and RLHF | |||
| Wed 03/04 | LAB 06 Detoxifying LLMs with RLHF resources: colab | |||
| Fri 03/06 | ||||
| Week 10 - Multimodal, AI Agents, MLOps (1/3) | ||||
| Wed 03/11 | LEC 10 Vision Language Models (VLMs) and Multimodal | |||
| Wed 03/11 | LAB 07 Image Captioning & VQA with VLMs resources: colab | |||
| Fri 03/13 | ||||
| Week 11 - Selected Topics Group Seminars | ||||
| Wed 03/18 | LEC 11 Group Seminars | |||
| Wed 03/18 | ||||
| Fri 03/20 | ||||
| Week 12 - Multimodal, AI Agents, MLOps (2/3) | ||||
| Wed 03/25 | LEC 12 MLops for Gen AI | |||
| Wed 03/25 | LAB 08 Optimized LLM Inference & Deployment Pipeline resources: colab | |||
| Fri 03/27 | ||||
| Week 13 - Multimodal, AI Agents, MLOps (3/3) | ||||
| Wed 04/01 | LEC 13 Gen. AI Agents | |||
| Wed 04/01 | LAB 09 Buidling Multi-Agent System with LangGraph resources: colab | |||
| Fri 04/03 | ||||
| Week 14 - Project Presentation and Wrap-Up | ||||
| Wed 04/08 | LEC 14 Project Presentation and Wrap-Up | |||
| Fri 04/10 | ||||
| Week 15 - Final Deliverables | ||||
| Wed 04/15 | LEC 15 Final Deliverables | |||