Course schedule
This schedule is tentative and may be changed during the semester as necessary.
Practicum and homework assignments are due on Tuesdays at 23:59.
| Week | Lecture Date | Lecture/Seminar | Practicum Date | Practicum/Seminar | Assignment due |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 | 12.02.2025 | L1: Introduction, text as data. P1 exercises available. | 17.02.2025 | P1: Text processing | P1 (18.02.2025) |
| 25 | 19.02.2025 | L2: Text representations, word embeddings. P2 exercises available. | 24.02.2025 | P2: Text representations, word embeddings | P2 (25.02.2025) |
| 26 | 26.02.2025 | L3: Text classification. P3 exercises available. | 03.03.2025 | P3: Text classification | P3 (04.03.2025) |
| 27 | 05.03.2025 | L4: N-gram language modeling. P4 exercises available. | 10.03.2025 | P4: N-gram language modeling | P4, HW1 (11.03.2025) |
| 28 | 12.03.2025 | L5: Neural language modeling, RNNs and LSTMs. P5 exercises available. | 17.03.2025 | P5: Introduction to pytorch | P5 (18.03.2025) |
| 29 | 19.03.2025 | L6: Seq2seq modeling, attention mechanism. P6 exercises available. | 24.03.2025 | P6: RNNs and LSTMs with pytorch | P6 (25.03.2025) |
| 30 | 26.03.2025 | L7: Transformer architecture. P7 exercises available. | 31.03.2025 | P7: Attention mechanism with pytorch | P7 (01.04.2025) |
| 31 | 02.04.2025 | L8: Masked language modeling. P8 exercises available. | 07.04.2025 | P8: Using HPC to train on GPU | P8, HW2 (08.04.2025) |
| 32 | 09.04.2025 | L9: Large language models. P9 exercises available. | 14.04.2025 | P9: Using transformers library for fine-tuning | P9 (15.04.2025) |
| 33 | 16.04.2025 | L10: Using local LLMs for prompting. P10 exercises available. | 21.04.2025 | P10: Prompting | P10 (22.04.2025) |
| 34 | 23.04.2025 | PS1: Project method presentation | 28.04.2025 | PS2: Project method presentation | HW3 (29.04.2025) |
| 35 | 30.04.2025 | PS3: Project method presentation | 05.05.2025 | S1: Seminar on additional topics | |
| 36 | 07.05.2025 | S2: Seminar on additional topics | 12.05.2025 | S3: Seminar on additional topics | |
| 37 | 14.05.2025 | S4: Seminar on additional topics | 19.05.2025 | PS4: Project presentations | Project report draft (23.05.2025) |
| 38 | 21.05.2025 | PS5: Project presentations | 26.05.2025 | PS6: Project presentations | Project peer review (30.05.2025) |
| 39 | 28.05.2025 | Theory test | |||
| 41 | 11.06.2025 | Theory test (second option) | Project final report (13.06.2025) |