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Introduction and Project Logistics |
Why are LLMs are exciting right now; where we are today in LLMs; what makes now unique; how to explore this new frontier; opportunities; course logistics. |
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| 1/11 |
Project Pitches |
Students get a chance to pitch their project ideas and recruit teammates. |
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Project mini-pitch due |
| 1/16 |
Team Building & More Project Pitches |
Students continue pitching and forming teams. |
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Final Project Proposal due |
| 1/18 |
About LLMs, LMMs |
Langage modeling; Shortfalls of pre-trained LMs; hallucination and practical challenges |
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Final Project Team due |
| 1/23 |
AI Models and Scalable Apps |
AI model scalability, costs; emergence, roadmap for prompting |
Sprint 1 Start |
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| 1/25 |
Agile Development and Prompts |
Agile approach to develop prompts; examples; strengths & weaknesses |
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| 1/30 |
Baseten Demo, Assembling Prompts |
Benefits & shortfalls of open source models; Baseten model deployment w/Truss; examples of prompts in production |
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| 2/1 |
Sprint 1 Presentations |
Groups present their progress on Sprint 1. |
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Sprint 1 End |
| 2/6 |
Practical Guide to Prompt LLMs |
Guest lecture by Vijay Parthasarathy, Head of AI @ Zoom |
Sprint 2 Start |
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| 2/8 |
MLOps & LLMOps with Hamilton |
Guest lecture by Stefan Krawczyk, CEO @ DAGWorks |
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| 2/13 |
Demystifying LLMs |
Guest lecture by Devendra Chaplot, AI Research Scientist @ Mistral AI |
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| 2/15 |
Sprint 2 Presentations |
Groups present their progress on Sprint 2. |
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Sprint 2 End |
| 2/20 |
Large Model Quality and Evaluation |
Guest lecture by Anoop Sinha, Research Director @ Google |
Sprint 3 Start |
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| 2/22 |
LLMs for Code Generation |
Guest lecture by Josh Payne, Founder @ Coframe |
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| 2/27 |
Working with LLMs |
Guest lecture by Shashaank Shekhar Singhal, Head of Product for Conversational AI @ Uber & Arindam Bhattacharya, Staff Machine Learning Engineer @ Uber |
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| 2/29 |
Sprint 3 Presentations |
Groups present their progress on Sprint 3. |
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Sprint 3 End |
| 3/5 |
Full Stack LLMs |
Guest lecture by Anirban Das, Capital One |
Sprint 4 Start |
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| 3/7 |
LLMs and Safety |
Guest lecture by Max Lamparth, Stanford |
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| 3/12 |
LLM Guardrails; How to Give an Effective Pitch |
Guest lecture by Shreya Rajpal, CEO @ Guardrails AI for the first half; John Whaley for the second half |
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| 3/14 |
Final project presentation |
Groups present their final projects. |
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Sprint 4 End |
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Final Project Report + Code + (recommended) video demo Due 3/15 |