| Elements of a Simple NLP System |
| 08-Jan | Course Overview / Introduction HW1 Out |
| 10-Jan | Text Classification, Data Basics, Perceptron |
| 15-Jan | Neural Network Basics |
| Language Modeling Fundamentals |
| 17-Jan | Lexical Semantics, Word Embeddings |
| 22-Jan | N-gram Language Models HW1 Due HW2 Out |
| 24-Jan | Tokenization |
| 29-Jan | Neural Language Models, Attention... |
| 31-Jan | Transformers |
| 05-Feb | No class |
| 07-Feb | Pre-training 1: Encoders (BERT) HW2 Due (Feb 10) |
| 12-Feb | Pre-training 2: BART/T5/GPT, Decoding Methods |
| 14-Feb | Pre-training 3: Scaling, Prompting, In-Context Learning, Chain-of-Thought |
| Learning from Labeled Data |
| 19-Feb | Alignment I: Instruction Tuning FP Proposals Due HW3 Out |
| 21-Feb | Alignment II: Reward Modeling / Preference Optimization |
| 26-Feb | Parameter Efficient Finetuning: (Q)LoRA |
| 28-Feb | Benchmarking |
| Linguistic Structure Prediction |
| 05-Mar | Sequence Tagging HW3 Due |
| 07-Mar | Parsing |
| 12-Mar | NO CLASS |
| 14-Mar | NO CLASS |
| Modern LMs in Practice |
| 19-Mar | Interpretability |
| 21-Mar | Efficiency |
| 26-Mar | Multimodal LMs |
| 28-Mar | Multilingual LMs FP Check in Due |
| 02-Apr | Retrieval Augmented LMs |
| 04-Apr | Agents" |
| 09-Apr | Safety and Ethics |
| 11-Apr | FP Presentations |
| 16-Apr | FP Presentations FP Final Reports Due TBD |