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Syllabus

Date Topic Lecturers Materials
04/02/24 Intro to Large Language & Vision Models What is AI and why pursue it Weak vs Strong AI Intro to Large Models for vision and language AI4Science applications Current LLVMs and failures Class overview, homeworks, grading policy Pietro Georgia Slides - Part A by Pietro: pdf Slides - Part B by Georgia: pdf
04/04/24 Brief Recap on MLPs Definition of MLPs Backpropagation Stochastic Gradient Descent Momentum (paper) Adam (paper) Pietro Pietro's slides: pdf Assignment 1: main & code.
04/09/24 Recurrent Neural Networks Word Embddings Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) Sequence to Sequence (paper) Attention (paper) Rogério Rogério's slides: pdf
04/11/24 Convolutional Neural Networks CNNs (LeNet, AlexNet) Residual Nets (paper) U-Net (paper) Normalization, Dropout Georgia Georgia's slides: pdf
04/16/24 Transformers I: Self-Attention Attention is all you need (paper) ViT (paper) Georgia Georgia's slides: pdf
04/18/24 Guest Lecture: Towards Better Understanding of Representation Collapsing in Representation Learning Yuandong's slides: pdf Assignment 2: main &code &code starter for ResNet & code starter for ViT
04/23/24 Transformers II: Encoder Georgia Georgia's slides: pdf
04/25/24 Transformers III: Decoder Georgia Georgia's slides: pdf
04/30/24 Self-Supervised Learning with Large Models SimCLR (paper) BERT (paper) MAE (paper) DINO (paper) DINOv2 (paper) Pietro Pietro's slides: pdf
05/02/24 Object Recognition at Scale - Part A Faster R-CNN (paper) Mask R-CNN (paper) ViTDet (paper) DETR (paper) Georgia Georgia's slides: pdf Assignment 3: main,code,colab1,colab2
05/07/24 Object Recognition at Scale - Part B Faster R-CNN (paper) Mask R-CNN (paper) ViTDet (paper) DETR (paper) Georgia Georgia's slides: pdf
05/09/24 Generative Models - Part A Intro to Generative Models Autoregresive Models GPT (GPT,GPT2, GPT3) PixelCNN (paper) WaveNet (paper) Georgia Georgia's slides: pdf
05/14/24 Generative Models - Part B Variational Autoencoders Tutorial on VAEs (paper) VQ-VAE (paper) Georgia Georgia's slides: pdf
05/16/24 Generative Models - Part C Diffusion Models DDPMs (paper) Denoising Score Matching (paper) Georgia Georgia's slides: pdf
05/21/24 Generative Models - Part D Generative Adversarial Networks (paper) Pietro Pietro's slides: pdf
05/23/24 Alignment Intro to RL REINFORCE, PPO InstructGPT (paper) Pietro Pietro's slides: pdf
05/28/24 Responsible AI Pietro Pietro's slides: pdf
05/30/24 Vision & Language CLIP (paper) Georgia Georgia's slides: pdf