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8/18/2025Course OverviewProj. 0 OutPS0 Out
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8/20/2025Machine Learning Recap - Naive Bayes, MLEPS0 Due (8/21), PS1 Out
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8/25/2025Machine Learning Recap - logistic regression, perceptron, SVM
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8/27/2025Machine Learning Recap - multi-class classificationProj. 0 Due (8/29)
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9/1/2025No class - Labor Day holiday PyTorch TutorialThis is a tentative schedule -- subject to change as the semester progresses.
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9/3/2025Neural Networks - feedforward network, training, optimization; course projectProj. 1 Out PS1 Due (9/5)
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9/8/2025Word Embeddings
Midterm will be in-class, no make-up exam.
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9/10/2025Sequence Labeling
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9/15/2025Conditional Random Fields
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9/17/2025Recurrent Neural Networks, Neural CRF
Proj. 1 Due (9/19), Proj. 2 Out
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9/22/2025Encoder-Decoder, Attention
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9/24/2025ML Seminar (Greg Durrett) 12:00-1:00 at CODA 9th floor no class at normal class time)
Instructions Out for a (lightweight) project proposal
Instructions Out for 2-min presentation per individual student (on one recent papers at top NLP/ML conferences)
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9/29/2025Transformer
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10/1/2025MT Evaluation, CNNProj. 2 Due (10/3)PS2 Out
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10/6/2025No class - Fall Break ๐Ÿ‚
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10/8/2025Pretrained Language Models (part 1 - ELMo, BERT, BART/T5, Variants of BERT models)
Course Project Proposal Due (10/10)
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10/13/2025Pretrained Language Models (part 2 - GPT2/3, knowledge distillation, decoding)
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10/15/2025Pretrained Language Models (part 3 - Post-training of Language Models), midterm review
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10/20/2025Pretrained Language Models (part 4 - Open-source Language Models)
2-min presentation Due (10/21)
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10/22/2025Pretrained Language Models (part 5 - Tokenization)PS2 Due (10/17 10/24)
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10/27/2025Guest Lecture (Ruiqi Zhong / Thinking Machines) - virtual over Zoom (link on Canvas/Piazza)Proj. 3 Out
10/25 withdraw deadline (https://registrar.gatech.edu/registration/withdrawal-and-dropping-courses)
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10/29/2025student in-class presentation (First names A-D)
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11/3/2025Guest Lecture - LLM evaluation and benchmark - virtual over Zoom
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11/5/2025Midterm ๐Ÿ“
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11/10/2025student in-class presentation (First names E-Man)
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11/12/2025student in-class presentation (First names Max-Sne)
Proj. 3 Due (11/14) - last homework to use flexible days
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11/17/2025student in-class presentation (First names Sri-Z)
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11/19/2025Guest Lecture - virtual over Zoom
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11/24/2025No class - reading day ๐Ÿ“–
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11/26/2025No class - school recess ๐Ÿฆƒ
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12/1/2025No class - reading day ๐Ÿ“–
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12/5/20252:40pm Final Project (written report + recorded oral presentations; not in person)
Final Project Due - no late submission allowed
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