The lecture schedule will be updated as the term progresses.
| Date | Topic | Readings |
|---|---|---|
| Wed, Aug 27, 2025 | Introduction | |
| Mon, Sep 1, 2025 | No Lecture, Labor Day Holiday | |
| Wed, Sep 3, 2025 | Sentiment and NB | |
| Mon, Sep 8, 2025 | Logistic Regression + Perceptron | |
| Wed, Sep 10, 2025 | Ngram Language Models | |
| Fri, Sep 12, 2025 | Quiz 1 | |
| Mon, Sep 15, 2025 | Vector Space Models; | |
| Wed, Sep 17, 2025 | Homework 1 - Text Classification | |
| Wed, Sep 17, 2025 | Neural Vector Space Models | |
| Fri, Sep 19, 2025 | Quiz 2 | |
| Mon, Sep 22, 2025 | Neural Network Introduction 1 - MLPs | |
| Wed, Sep 24, 2025 | Neural Network Introduction 2 - backprop + NLM | |
| Fri, Sep 26, 2025 | Quiz 3 | |
| Mon, Sep 29, 2025 | RNNs | |
| Wed, Oct 1, 2025 | Seq 2 Seq and Attention; | |
| Fri, Oct 3, 2025 | Quiz 4 | |
| Mon, Oct 6, 2025 | Transformer | |
| Wed, Oct 8, 2025 | Homework 2 - Deep Averaging Networks due | |
| Wed, Oct 8, 2025 | Class cancelled, Fall Break | |
| Mon, Oct 13, 2025 | Contextualized embeddings; | |
| Wed, Oct 15, 2025 | Project Proposal due | |
| Wed, Oct 15, 2025 | NLP Datasets and Applications | |
| Fri, Oct 17, 2025 | Quiz 5 | |
| Mon, Oct 20, 2025 | NLP Datasets and Applications | |
| Wed, Oct 22, 2025 | MT + Neural MT; | |
| Fri, Oct 24, 2025 | Quiz 6 | |
| Mon, Oct 27, 2025 | Large LMs | |
| Wed, Oct 29, 2025 | Homework 3 - Transformer LM | |
| Wed, Oct 29, 2025 | Aligning LMs; | |
| Fri, Oct 31, 2025 | Quiz 7 | |
| Mon, Nov 3, 2025 | Efficient LMs | |
| Wed, Nov 5, 2025 | Project Milestone 1 - Literature Review | |
| Wed, Nov 5, 2025 | Efficient LMs; | |
| Mon, Nov 10, 2025 | Interpretability | |
| Wed, Nov 12, 2025 | Homework 4 - Finetuning language models due | |
| Wed, Nov 12, 2025 | Multimodality | |
| Fri, Nov 14, 2025 | Quiz 9 | |
| Mon, Nov 17, 2025 | Dataset Biases | |
| Wed, Nov 19, 2025 | Gender Bias; | |
| Wed, Nov 19, 2025 | Project Milestone 2 - Baselines | |
| Mon, Nov 24, 2025 | PhD research spotlight; | |
| Wed, Nov 26, 2025 | Homework 5 - Prompting Due | |
| Wed, Nov 26, 2025 | Class cancelled, Thanksgiving | |
| Mon, Dec 1, 2025 | PhD research spotlight | |
| Wed, Dec 3, 2025 | Wrap up and Final Thoughts | |
| Mon, Dec 8, 2025 | Project Milestone 3 - 1 extension | |
| Thu, Dec 18, 2025 | Project Milestone 4 - Final |