lecture slides

Below are the links to all slides covered in class. Slides will be posted as soon as they are available.

Lecture # Date Topic Slides Recording Quiz Reading
0 7 Sept Intro Lecture Slides Recording Quiz 0
1 12 Sept Tasks, Benchmarks, and Metrics Slides Recording Quiz 1
2 14 Sept Text Classifiers, BOW Models Slides Recording Quiz 2
3 19 Sept Distributional Hypothesis & Word Embeddings Slides Recording Quiz 3
4 21 Sept Topic Modeling Slides Recording Quiz 4
5 26 Sept Statistical Machine Translation Slides Recording Quiz 5
6 28 Sept Ngram Language Models Slides Recording Quiz 6
7 3 Oct Neural Architectures for NLP Part 1: MLPs, RNNs Slides Recording Quiz 7
8 5 Oct Neural Architectures for NLP Part 2: Transformers and NMT Slides Recording Quiz 8
9 10 Oct Pretraining Slides Recording Quiz 9
10 12 Oct Finetuning Slides Recording Quiz 10
11 17 Oct Morphology, Tokenization Slides Recording Quiz 11
12 19 Oct Lexicon (Part of Speech, Word Sense) Slides Recording Quiz 12
13 24 Oct Syntax: Grammars and Parsing Slides Recording Quiz 13
14 26 Oct Semantics: Semantic Representations and Parsing Slides Recording Quiz 14
15 31 Oct Interpretability Part 1: What happened to CoreNLP? Slides Recording Quiz 15
16 2 Nov Interpretability Part 2: Mechanistic Interpretability (Guest Lecture, Jack Merullo) Slides Recording No Quiz
17 7 Nov Instruction Tuning Slides Recording Quiz 16
18 9 Nov A Brief History of Pretraining and Post-training Language Models (Guest Lecture, Albert Webson) Slides Recording No Quiz
19 14 Nov RLHF/RLAIF: Reinforcement Learning from Human (and AI) Feedback Slides Recording Quiz 17
20 16 Nov Tasks and Benchmarking Revisited Slides Recording Quiz 18
21 Nov No Class: Thanksgiving
23 Nov No Class: Thanksgiving
21 28 Nov Compositionality in Neural Network Representations (Guest Lecture, Michael Lepori) Slides Recording No Quiz
22 30 Nov Language Grounding (Guest Lecture, Roma Patel) Slides Recording No Quiz
5 Dec No Class
7 Dec No Class