| Aug. 27, Aug. 29 |
Introduction, Text classification I |
Slides 01 and Slides 02 and Demo |
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| Sep. 3, Sep. 5 |
No class |
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| Sep. 10, Sep. 12 |
Text classification II |
Slides and Demo |
Sep. 12: Homework 1 out |
| Sep. 17, Sep. 19 |
Word embeddings: LSA |
Slides |
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| Sep. 24, Sep. 26 |
Word embeddings: Word2vec |
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Sep. 25: Homework 2 out |
| Oct. 1, Oct. 3 |
Language modeling: n-gram LMs |
Slides and Demo |
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| Oct. 8, Oct. 10 |
Language modeling: Neural LMs |
Slides |
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| Oct. 17 |
Statistical machine translation |
Slides |
Oct. 16: Project proposal due |
| Oct. 22, Oct. 24 |
Sequence-to-sequence models |
Slides (2nd part) |
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| Oct. 29, Oct. 31 |
Text generation and summarization |
Slides and Demo |
Oct. 29: Homework 03 out |
| Nov. 5, Nov. 7 |
Transformers, GPT, and BERT |
Slides and Demo |
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| Nov. 12, Nov. 14 |
Parameter-efficient fine-tuning |
Slides |
No class on Nov. 12 |
| Nov. 19, Nov. 21 |
In-context Learning |
Slides |
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| Nov. 26 |
Quantization: Benefits and Cost |
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| Dec. 3, Dec. 5 |
NLP applications |
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Dec. 5: Final project due (tentative) |