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Announcements¶
Feb 17 HW4 Released!
📢 HW4: Building a Q&A RAG Pipeline is now live on Canvas!
In this homework, you’ll dive into Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) by optimizing document ingestion, experimenting with multimodal retrieval, and implementing hybrid search techniques. As always, I highly recommend starting early to give yourself plenty of time to explore, troubleshoot, and ask questions if needed.
Excited to see what you build — happy coding! 🚀👨💻👩💻
Feb 06 HW3 Released!
📢 HW3: Gen AI-Powered App (LLMs & Vector Search) is now live on Canvas! In this assignment you will explore LLMs, experiment with search strategies, and enhance an AI-powered app. Again, 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! 🎉👩💻👨💻
Jan 23 HW2 Released!
HW2 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) | ||||
| Wed 01/07 | LEC 01 Introduction to AI and Machine Learning | |||
| Released R1 Due 5:00 pm Learning Reflection 1 | ||||
| Wed 01/07 | ||||
| Fri 01/09 | ||||
| Released HW1 Due 5pm / 8pm Deep Learning Foundations | ||||
| Week 2 - Foundations of AI and DL (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 | ACT 01 Weekly Activity 1 Due 5pm (PT)/8pm (ET): SUBMIT | |||
| Released HW2 Due 5pm / 8pm NLP & Sequential Language Modeling | ||||
| 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 | ACT 02 Weekly Activity 2 Due 5pm (PT)/8pm (ET): SUBMIT | |||
| Week 5 - Advanced Techniques in LLMs (1/4) | ||||
| Wed 02/04 | LEC 05 Large Language Models | |||
| Wed 02/04 | LAB 04 Text Generation with Gemma 3 resources: colab | |||
| Fri 02/06 | ACT 03 Weekly Activity 3 Due 5pm (PT)/8pm (ET): SUBMIT | |||
| Released HW3 Due 5pm / 8pm Gen. AI-Powered App (LLMs & Vector Search) | ||||
| Week 6 - Advanced Techniques in LLMs (2/4) | ||||
| Wed 02/11 | LEC 06 Prompt Engineering | |||
| Wed 02/11 | LAB 05 The Art of Prompting resources: colab | |||
| Fri 02/13 | ACT 04 Weekly Activity 4 Due 5pm (PT)/8pm (ET): SUBMIT | |||
| Week 7 - Advanced Techniques in LLMs (3/4) | ||||
| Wed 02/18 | LEC 07 Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) | |||
| Wed 02/18 | LAB 06 RAG with LlamaIndex resources: colab | |||
| Fri 02/20 | ACT 05 Weekly Activity 5 Due 5pm (PT)/8pm (ET): SUBMIT | |||
| Released HW4 Due 5pm / 8pm Building a Q&A RAG System | ||||
| Week 8 - Advanced Techniques in LLMs (4/4) | ||||
| Wed 02/25 | LEC 08 Fine-Tuning and RLHF | |||
| Wed 02/25 | LAB 07 Detoxifying LLMs with RLHF resources: colab | |||
| Fri 02/27 | ACT 06 Weekly Activity 6 Due 5pm (PT)/8pm (ET): SUBMIT | |||
| Week 9 - Spring Break | ||||
| Wed 03/04 | HOLIDAY Spring Break | |||
| Wed 03/04 | ||||
| Fri 03/06 | HOLIDAY Spring Break | |||
| Week 10 - Multimodal, AI Agents, MLOps (1/3) | ||||
| Wed 03/11 | LEC 09 Vision Language Models (VLMs) and Multimodal | |||
| Wed 03/11 | LAB 08 Image Captioning & VQA with VLMs resources: colab | |||
| Fri 03/13 | ||||
| Week 11 - Multimodal, AI Agents, MLOps (2/3) | ||||
| Wed 03/18 | LEC 10 MLops for Gen AI | |||
| Wed 03/18 | LAB 09 Optimized LLM Inference & Deployment Pipeline resources: colab | |||
| Fri 03/20 | ||||
| Week 12 - Multimodal, AI Agents, MLOps (3/3) | ||||
| Wed 03/25 | LEC 11 Gen. AI Agents | |||
| Wed 03/25 | LAB 10 Buidling Multi-Agent System with LangGraph resources: colab | |||
| Fri 03/27 | ||||
| Week 13 - Project Progress Presentation | ||||
| Wed 04/01 | LEC 12 Project Progress Presentation | |||
| Wed 04/01 | ||||
| Fri 04/03 | ||||
| Week 14 - Course Wrap-Up and Future Directions | ||||
| Wed 04/08 | LEC 13 Course Wrap-Up & Future Directions | |||
| Fri 04/10 | ||||
| Week 15 - Technical Interviews - Final Deliverables | ||||
| Wed 04/15 | LEC 14 Technical Interviews & Final Deliverables | |||