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Announcements¶
Oct 15 HW3 Released!
📢 HW3: Gen AI-Powered App (LLMs & Vector Search) is now live on Canvas! I highly recommend starting early to give yourself plenty of time to understand the problem, experiment, troubleshoot, and ask questions if needed. Have fun, and happy coding! 🎉👩💻👨💻
Sep 30 HW2 Released!
HW2 is now available on Canvas! I highly recommend starting early to give yourself plenty of time to understand the problem, troubleshoot, and ask questions if needed. Have fun and Good luck!
Sep 16 HW1 Released!
HW1 is now available on Canvas! Please plan your time accordingly to complete the assignment by the deadline. I highly recommend starting early to give yourself plenty of time to understand the problem, troubleshoot, and ask questions if needed. Have fun and Good luck!
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Calendar¶
| Topic | Assessments | Learning | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Week 1 - Foundations of AI and DL (1/2) | ||||
| Tue 09/15 | LEC 01 Introduction to AI/ML and the Course | |||
| Tue 09/15 | ||||
| Fri 09/18 | ||||
| Released HW1 Due 5pm (MST) Deep Learning Foundations | ||||
| Week 2 - Foundations of AI and DL (2/2) | ||||
| Tue 09/22 | LEC 02 Deep Learning Crash Course | |||
| Tue 09/22 | LAB 01 Mastering Deep Learning with Fashion MNIST resources: colab | |||
| Fri 09/25 | ||||
| Week 3 - Foundations of NLP and Sequential Modeling (1/2) | ||||
| Tue 09/29 | LEC 03 Fundamentals of NLP, Embeddings, and Vector Spaces | |||
| Tue 09/29 | LAB 02 NLP and Embedding Space resources: colab | |||
| Fri 10/02 | ACT 01 Weekly Activity 1 Due 5pm (Arizona Time): START | |||
| Released HW2 Due 5pm (MST) NLP & Sequential Language Modeling | ||||
| Week 4 - Foundations of NLP and Sequential Modeling (2/2) | ||||
| Tue 10/06 | LEC 04 Sequential Modeling: RNN to Transformer | |||
| Tue 10/06 | LAB 03 LSTM and Transformer resources: colab | |||
| Fri 10/09 | ACT 02 Weekly Activity 2 Due 5pm (Arizona Time): START | |||
| Week 5 - LLMs and Their Applications (1/4) | ||||
| Tue 10/13 | LEC 05 Large Language Models | |||
| Tue 10/13 | LAB 04 Text Generation, Decoding & Hallucination resources: colab | |||
| Fri 10/16 | ACT 03 Weekly Activity 3 Due 5pm (Arizona Time): SUBMIT | |||
| Released HW3 Due 5pm (MST) Gen. AI-Powered App (LLMs & Vector Search) | Released R1 Due 5pm (MST) Learning Reflection 1 | |||
| Week 6 - LLMs and Their Applications (2/4) | ||||
| Tue 10/20 | LEC 06 Prompt Engineering | |||
| Tue 10/20 | LAB 05 The Art of Prompting resources: colab | |||
| Fri 10/23 | ACT 04 Weekly Activity 4 | |||
| Week 7 - LLMs and Their Applications (3/4) | ||||
| Tue 10/27 | LEC 07 Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) | |||
| Tue 10/27 | LAB 06 RAG with LlamaIndex resources: colab | |||
| Fri 10/30 | ACT 05 Weekly Activity 5 | |||
| Week 8 - LLMs and Their Applications (4/4) | ||||
| Tue 11/03 | LEC 08 Fine-Tuning and RLHF | |||
| Tue 11/03 | LAB 07 Detoxifying LLMs with RLHF resources: colab | |||
| Fri 11/06 | ACT 06 Weekly Activity 6 | |||
| Week 9 - Multimodal, AI Agents, MLOps (1/3) | ||||
| Tue 11/10 | LEC 09 Vision Language Models (VLMs) and Multimodal | |||
| Tue 11/10 | LAB 08 Image Captioning & VQA with VLMs resources: colab | |||
| Fri 11/13 | ACT 07 Weekly Activity 7 | |||
| Week 10 - Multimodal, AI Agents, MLOps (2/3) | ||||
| Tue 11/17 | LEC 10 Gen. AI Agents | |||
| Tue 11/17 | LAB 09 Buidling Multi-Agent System with LangGraph resources: colab | |||
| Fri 11/20 | ACT 08 Weekly Activity 8 | |||
| Week 11 - Multimodal, AI Agents, MLOps (3/3) | ||||
| Tue 11/24 | LEC 11 MLops for Gen AI / LLMops | |||
| Tue 11/24 | LAB 10 Optimized LLM Inference & Deployment Pipeline resources: colab | |||
| Fri 11/27 | ||||
| Week 12 - Course Wrap-Up and Future Directions | ||||
| Tue 12/01 | LEC 12 Course Wrap-Up & Future Directions | |||
| Tue 12/01 | ||||
| Fri 12/04 | ||||
| Week 13 - Project Presentation - Q&A | ||||
| Tue 12/08 | LEC 13 Project Progress Presentation | |||
| Fri 12/11 | ||||
| Week 14 - Technical Interviews - Final Deliverables | ||||
| Tue 12/15 | LEC 14 Technical Interviews & Final Deliverables | |||