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Instructors

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Georgia Gkioxari

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Pietro Perona

TAs

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Rogério Guimarães (Head TA)

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Hongkai Zheng

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Guanzhi Wang

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Xuefei (Julie) Wang

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Ayush Varshney

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Avyay Varadarajan

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Brian Hu

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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
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Pietro
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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)
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Pietro
04/09/24

  Recurrent Neural Networks

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

  Convolutional Neural Networks

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

  Transformers I: Self-Attention

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

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

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Yuandong Tian
04/23/24

  Transformers II: Encoder

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

  Transformers III: Decoder

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

  Self-Supervised Learning with Large Models

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

  Object Recognition at Scale - Part A

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Georgia
05/07/24

  Object Recognition at Scale - Part B

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

  Generative Models - Part A

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

  Generative Models - Part B

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

  Generative Models - Part C

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

  Generative Models - Part D

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

  Alignment

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

  Responsible AI

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

  Vision & Language

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Georgia
  • Georgia's slides: pdf