Week 1 Mon: Jan. 13
Introduction
Week 1 Wed: Jan. 15
Topic: Text Classification (1)
Week 2 Mon: Jan. 20
No Class (MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. DAY)
Week 2 Wed: Jan. 22
No Class
Week 3 Mon: Jan. 27
Topic: Text Classification (2)
Week 3 Wed: Jan. 29
Topic: Word Embeddings (1)
Quiz 1: Text Classification
Week 4 Mon: Feb. 3
Topic: Word Embeddings (2)
Week 4 Wed: Feb. 5
Topic: Language Modeling (1)
Quiz 2: Word Embeddings
Week 5 Mon: Feb. 10
Topic: Language Modeling (2)
Week 5 Wed: Feb. 12
Topic: Machine Translation, Sequence-to-Sequence Models
Quiz 3: Language Modeling
Week 6 Mon: Feb. 17
Topic: Natural Language Generation
Week 6 Wed: Feb. 19
Topic: Quizzes and Project Q&A
Quiz 4: Machine Translation, Sequence-to-Sequence Models
Week 7 Mon: Feb. 24
Project Proposal
Week 7 Wed: Feb. 26
Project Proposal
Week 8 Mon: Mar. 3
Topic: Attention and Transformers (1)
Quiz 5: Natural Language Generation
Week 8 Wed: Mar. 5
Topic: Attention and Transformers (2)
Week 9 Mon: Mar. 10
Topic: Pre-trained Language Models (1)
Quiz 6: Attention and Transformers
Week 9 Wed: Mar. 12
Topic: Pre-trained Language Models (2)
Week 10 Mon: Mar. 17
No Class (Spring Break)
Week 10 Wed: Mar. 19
No Class (Spring Break)
Week 11 Mon: Mar. 24
Topic: Large Language Models (1)
Quiz 7: Pre-trained Models
Week 11 Wed: Mar. 26
Topic: Large Language Models (2)
Week 12 Mon: Mar. 31
Topic: Prompting, In-context Learning
Quiz 8: Large Language Models
Week 12 Wed: Apr. 2
No Class (Hanjie traveling)
Week 14 Mon: Apr. 14
Topic: Interpretability
Quiz 9 (optional, 3' bonus): All Topics
Week 14 Wed: Apr. 16
Topic: Robustness, Fairness
Week 15 Mon: Apr. 21
Final Presentation
Week 15 Wed: Apr. 23
Final Presentation