Instructors

Georgia Gkioxari

Pietro Perona

TAs

Rogério Guimarães (Head TA)

Hongkai Zheng

Guanzhi Wang

Xuefei (Julie) Wang

Ayush Varshney

Avyay Varadarajan

Brian Hu

Damon Lin


Syllabus

Date

Topic

Lecturers

Materials

04/02/24

  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
Pietro
Georgia
  • Slides - Part A by Pietro: pdf
  • Slides - Part B by Georgia: pdf
04/04/24

  Brief Recap on MLPs

  • Definition of MLPs
  • Backpropagation
  • Stochastic Gradient Descent
  • Momentum (paper)
  • Adam (paper)
Pietro
04/09/24

  Recurrent Neural Networks

  • Word Embddings
  • Hidden Markov Models (HMMs)
  • Sequence to Sequence (paper)
  • Attention (paper)
Rogério
  • Rogério's slides: pdf
04/11/24

  Convolutional Neural Networks

Georgia
  • Georgia's slides: pdf
04/16/24

  Transformers I: Self-Attention

Georgia
  • Georgia's slides: pdf
04/18/24

  Guest Lecture: Towards Better Understanding of Representation Collapsing in Representation Learning

Yuandong Tian
04/23/24

  Transformers II: Encoder

Georgia
  • Georgia's slides: pdf
04/25/24

  Transformers III: Decoder

Georgia
  • Georgia's slides: pdf
04/30/24

  Self-Supervised Learning with Large Models

Pietro
  • Pietro's slides: pdf
05/02/24

  Object Recognition at Scale - Part A

Georgia
05/07/24

  Object Recognition at Scale - Part B

Georgia
  • Georgia's slides: pdf
05/09/24

  Generative Models - Part A

Georgia
  • Georgia's slides: pdf
05/14/24

  Generative Models - Part B

  • Variational Autoencoders
  • Tutorial on VAEs (paper)
  • VQ-VAE (paper)
Georgia
  • Georgia's slides: pdf
05/16/24

  Generative Models - Part C

  • Diffusion Models
  • DDPMs (paper)
  • Denoising Score Matching (paper)
Georgia
  • Georgia's slides: pdf
05/21/24

  Generative Models - Part D

  • Generative Adversarial Networks (paper)
Pietro
  • Pietro's slides: pdf
05/23/24

  Alignment

  • Intro to RL
  • REINFORCE, PPO
  • InstructGPT (paper)
Pietro
  • Pietro's slides: pdf
05/28/24

  Responsible AI

Pietro
  • Pietro's slides: pdf
05/30/24

  Vision & Language

Georgia
  • Georgia's slides: pdf