Date
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Topic
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Lecturers
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Materials
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04/02/24
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  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
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- Slides - Part A by Pietro: pdf
- Slides - Part B by Georgia: pdf
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04/04/24
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  Brief Recap on MLPs
- Definition of MLPs
- Backpropagation
- Stochastic Gradient Descent
- Momentum (paper)
- Adam (paper)
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04/09/24
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  Recurrent Neural Networks
- Word Embddings
- Hidden Markov Models (HMMs)
- Sequence to Sequence (paper)
- Attention (paper)
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04/11/24
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  Convolutional Neural Networks
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04/16/24
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  Transformers I: Self-Attention
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04/18/24
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  Guest Lecture: Towards Better Understanding of Representation
Collapsing in Representation Learning
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04/23/24
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  Transformers II: Encoder
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04/25/24
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  Transformers III: Decoder
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04/30/24
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  Self-Supervised Learning with Large Models
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05/02/24
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  Object Recognition at Scale - Part A
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05/07/24
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  Object Recognition at Scale - Part B
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05/09/24
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  Generative Models - Part A
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05/14/24
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  Generative Models - Part B
- Variational Autoencoders
- Tutorial on VAEs (paper)
- VQ-VAE (paper)
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05/16/24
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  Generative Models - Part C
- Diffusion Models
- DDPMs (paper)
- Denoising Score Matching (paper)
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05/21/24
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  Generative Models - Part D
- Generative Adversarial Networks (paper)
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05/23/24
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  Alignment
- Intro to RL
- REINFORCE, PPO
- InstructGPT (paper)
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05/28/24
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  Responsible AI
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05/30/24
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  Vision & Language
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