| 16-Jan | Introduction |
| 18-Jan | Representing Words |
| 23-Jan | Language Modeling |
| 25-Jan | Sequence Encoding |
| 30-Jan | Transformers |
| 01-Feb | Generation Algorithms Assgn-1 out |
| 06-Feb | Prompting |
| 08-Feb | NLP Tasks and Instruction Tuning |
| 13-Feb | Experimental Design and Human Annotation |
| 15-Feb | Retrieval and RAG Assgn-1 due Assgn-2 out |
| 20-Feb | Distillation and Quantization |
| 22-Feb | Reinforcement Learning |
| 27-Feb | Debugging and Interpretation Techniques |
| 29-Feb | Ensembling and Mixture of Experts Assgn-3,4 out |
| 05-Mar | Spring Break |
| 07-Mar | Spring Break |
| 12-Mar | Tour of Modern Large Language Models Assgn-2 due |
| 14-Mar | Long Sequence Models |
| 19-Mar | Code Generation |
| 21-Mar | Complex Reasoning - Guest Lecture by Emmy |
| 26-Mar | Bias and Fairness in AI - Guest Lecture by Maarten Sap |
| 28-Mar | Language Agents Assgn-3 due |
| 02-Apr | Knowledge-based QA and Information Extraction |
| 04-Apr | Linguistics and Computational Linguistics |
| 09-Apr | Multilingual NLP |
| 11-Apr | Spring Carnival |
| 16-Apr | Guest Lecture - Hao Zhang |
| 18-Apr | Guest Lecture - Akari Asai |
| 23-Apr | Posters |
| 25-Apr | Posters |
| 29-Apr | Assgn-4 due |