Schedule

When	What
Week 1	Fundamentals of LLM generation and basic prompting techniques
Tue, Jan 7	Topics: Generation hyperparameters; zero-shot and few-shot prompting; prompting for code. In-class Notebook Out: Programming Capabilities. Create an ACCESS account immediately.
Fri, Jan 10	Topics: High-level overview of Transformers and GPUs. Reading: StarCoder and Llama. Out: Reading 0. In-class: Inference on GPU.
Week 2
Tue, Jan 14	Topics: Prompt-writing activity; more prompting techniques. In-class Notebook
Fri, Jan 17	Topics: Introduction to Conversational Models. Due: Reading 0. Reading: InstructGPT and UltraFeedback
Week 3
Tue, Jan 21	Due: Programming Capabilities
Fri, Jan 24
Week 4
Tue, Jan 28
Fri, Jan 31
Week 5
Tue, Feb 4
Fri, Feb 7
Week 6
Tue, Feb 11
Fri, Feb 14
Week 7
Tue, Feb 18
Fri, Feb 21
Week 8
Tue, Feb 25
Fri, Feb 28
Week 9	Spring Break
Tue, Mar 4	No class
Fri, Mar 7	No class
Week 10
Tue, Mar 11
Fri, Mar 14
Week 11
Tue, Mar 18
Fri, Mar 21
Week 12
Tue, Mar 25
Fri, Mar 28
Week 13
Tue, Apr 1
Fri, Apr 4
Week 14
Tue, Apr 8
Fri, Apr 11
Week 15
Tue, Apr 15	Last day of class