| Elements of a Simple NLP System |
| 27-Aug | Course Overview / Introduction HW1 Out |
| 29-Aug | Text Classification, Data Basics, Perceptron |
| 03-Sep | Neural Network Basics |
| Language Modeling Fundamentals |
| 05-Sep | Lexical Semantics, Word Embeddings |
| 10-Sep | N-gram Language Models HW1 Due HW2 Out |
| 12-Sep | Tokenization |
| 17-Sep | Neural Language Models, Attention... |
| 19-Sep | Transformers |
| 24-Sep | Pre-training 1: Encoders (BERT) HW2 Due (Feb 10) |
| 26-Sep | Pre-training 2: BART/T5/GPT, Decoding Methods |
| 01-Oct | Pre-training 3: Scaling, Prompting, In-Context Learning, Chain-of-Thought |
| Learning from Labeled Data |
| 03-Oct | Alignment I: Instruction Tuning FP Proposals Due HW3 Out |
| 08-Oct | Alignment II: Reward Modeling / Preference Optimization |
| 10-Oct | Parameter Efficient Finetuning: (Q)LoRA |
| 15-Oct | Benchmarking |
| 17-Oct | Autumn Break |
| Linguistic Structure Prediction |
| 22-Oct | Sequence Tagging HW3 Due |
| 24-Oct | Parsing |
| Modern LMs in Practice |
| 29-Oct | Interpretability |
| 31-Oct | Efficiency |
| 05-Nov | Multimodal LMs |
| 07-Nov | Multilingual LMs FP Check in Due |
| 12-Nov | Retrieval |
| 14-Nov | Agents" |
| 19-Nov | Multilinguality |
| 21-Nov | Safety and Ethics |
| 26-Nov | Thanksgiving Break |
| 28-Nov | Thanksgiving Break |
| 03-Dec | TBD |
| 05-Dec | FP Presentations |
| 10-Dec | FP Presentations FP Final Reports Due April 25 |