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Schedule & Materials

# Date Topics Assignments Reading List
01 3/3 Intro to NLP, Deep Learning Basics [slides]    
02 3/8 Deep Learning Basics (2), Tokenization, Word Embedding, Text Classification [slides]   MNIST, [Mikolov et al., 2014]
03 3/10 Text Classification, Tokenization, Word Embedding, Recurrent Neural Networks [slides]    
04 3/15 Training, LSTM [slides]   [Hochreiter & Schmidhuber, 1997]
05 3/17 Jupyter Notebook, Token Classification, NER, MRC [slides] Assignment 1 is up Vanishing Gradients and Fancy RNNs
06 3/22 Text Generation (Machine Translation, Summarization), Encoder-Decoder, Decoder Attention [slides]   [Cho et al., 2014], [Bahdanau et al., 2015], [Luong et al., 2015]
07 3/24 Encoder Attention, Transformer [slides]   [Hermann et al., 2015], [Wang & Jiang, 2017], [Seo et al., 2017], [Vaswani et al., 2017]
08 3/29 Transformer [slides]   [Vaswani et al., 2017], Annotated Transformer
09 3/31 Annotated Transformer [slides] Assignment 1 is due Annotated Transformer
10 4/5 LayerNorm, Teacher Forcing, Beam Search, Byte Pair Encoding (BPE), Language Model [slides] Assignment 2 is up [Ioffe & Szegedy, 2015], [Ba et al., 2016]
11 4/7 Language Model, Syntactic Parsing [slides]   Syntactic Parsing
12 4/12 Syntactic Parsing, Semantic Parsing [slides]   Syntactic Parsing, [Zhong et al., 2017]
  4/14 No lecture (Minjoon can’t make it)    
  4/19 No lecture (midterm week) Assignment 2 is due  
  4/21 No lecture (midterm week)    
13 4/26 Semantic Parsing, NLP paper analysis [slides] Assignment 3 is up [Chen et al., 2016], [Rajpurkar et al., 2016]
14 4/28 NLP paper analysis discussions [slides]    
15 5/3 Pretrained Language Model [slides]   [Peters et al., 2018], [Howard & Ruder, 2018] [Radford et al., 2018], [Devlin et al., 2018]
  5/5 No lecture (어린이날)    
16 5/10 Pretrained LM and Tools [slides] Assignment 3 is due  
17 5/12 Pretrained LM Tools [slides] Assignment 4 is up (5/14 Fri) transformers
18 5/17 Open-domain QA and Final Project Tutorial [slides] Final Project is up [Chen et al., 2017], [Karpukhin et al., 2020]
  5/19 No lecture (석가탄신일)    
19 5/24 Nearest Neighbor Search, Large Language Models [slides]   faiss, [Malkov & Yashunin, 2016], [Yang et al., 2019], [Liu et al., 2019], [Lewis et al., 2020]
20 5/26 Large Language Models [slides] Assignment 4 is due (5/28 Fri 11pm) [Lan et al., 2020], [Clark et al., 2020], [Raffel et al., 2020], [Xu et al., 2020], [Sun et al., 2020], [Radford et al., 2019], [Roberts et al., 2020], [Hong et al., 2021]
21 5/31 In-context Learning, Recent Trend in NLP [slides]   [Kaplan et al., 2020], [Brown et al., 2020], [Ramesh et al., 2021]
  6/2 No lecture (work on your final project!)    
22 6/7 Final project presentation    
23 6/9 Final project presentation    
  6/14 No lecture (finals week)    
  6/16 No lecture (finals week) Final Project Report is due