Week 1: Aug. 27
Course Introduction
Week 2: Sept. 3
Lecture: Pretraining, Post-training
Week 3: Sept. 10
Lecture: Test-Time Scaling, Reasoning
Week 4: Sept. 17
Lecture: LLM Agents
Week 5: Sept. 24
Lecture: Multimodal Models
Week 6: Oct. 1
Lecture: Interpretability, Controllability
Week 7: Oct. 8
Lecture: Alignment, Safety
Week 8: Oct. 15
Student Presentation: Pretraining, Post-training
Week 9: Oct. 22
Student Presentation: Test-Time Scaling, Reasoning
Week 10: Oct. 29
Student Presentation: LLM Agents
Week 11: Nov. 5
Student Presentation: Multimodal Models
Week 12: Nov. 12
Student Presentation: Interpretability, Controllability
Week 13: Nov. 19
Student Presentation: Alignment, Safety
Week 14: Nov. 26
THANKSGIVING RECESS
Week 15: Dec. 3
Student Presentation: Interpretability, Controllability, Safety