Fall 2024
Instructor: Dr. Grace Guiling Wang
Textbook: No textbook.
| Date | Topic | Programming Assignment | Competition Winner |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9/4 | Introduction and ML Basics | AI Image Generation (Canvas) | |
| 9/11 | Deep Learning Basics |
Framewise Phoneme Classification (Kaggle) Gradient Descent Implementation (Canvas) |
Fan Yang |
| 9/18 | CNN | Image Classification (Kaggle) | Fan Yang |
| 9/25 | GNN | Graph Neural Networks (Kaggle) | Anish Panicker |
| 10/2 | Attention and Self-Attention | Speaker Classification (Kaggle) | Jhilmit Asri |
| 10/9 | Transformer and Bert | Machine Translation (Canvas) | Eugene Langmer |
| 10/16 | ChatGT, GAN, AutoEncoder | Anime Face Generation with GAN (Canvas) | Kiran Mayee Bellam |
| 10/23 | Self-supervised Bert | ||
| 10/30 | Midterm (2 hour) | ||
| 11/6 | Auto-Encoder | Reading Comprehension (Kaggle) | Sai Srinivas Pedhapolla |
| 11/13 | Image Generation | Anime Face Generation with Diffusion Model (Canvas) | |
| 11/20 | Adversarial Attack | Adversarial Attack (Canvas) | |
| 12/4 | Advanced Reinforcement Learning |
* Our programming assignments will take the form of a competition. The best one (i.e., highest accuracy, lowest MSE, highest BLEU, highest AFD rate, etc, depending on the assignments) each week will receive a perfect score of 100 points and a $30 gift card as a reward. All other submissions will be graded on a scale relative to the performance of the winning entry.
| Topic | Details | Group No. | Members |
|---|---|---|---|
| World Model? LLM? LVLM? | Study evolvement of LLMs. Read book "The Nature of Technology". | 1 |
Jhilmit Asri Kaivalya Kishor Dixit Sai Dhiren Musaioji Srikanth Naidu |
| 2 |
Adit Chheda Harshad Ravindra Hatte Abhiram Krishnam Akul Lakha |
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| From GPT-3 to OpenAI-o1 | Watch Yann LeCun's presentation at Harvard: Objective-Driven AI: Towards AI systems that can learn, remember, reason, and plan (video) | 3 |
Amish Faldu Shrey Bhupendrabhai Patel Nimay Gautam Shah Snehi Pankajbhai Vora |
| 5 |
Aayush Chitransh Haren Doppalapudi Siddharth Chowdary Kundu Narmada Peddi |
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| Unbiased AI, Biased AI | Study the topic and also read the book "Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgement" by Daniel Kahneman | 4 |
Sai Deepak Gundala Eugene Langmer Lakshman Palli Sai Srinivas Pedhapolla |
| 6 |
Kiran Mayee Bellam Mukul Deepak Chokhani Supriya Ganga Khadhar Hameed Khan Pathan Salma Shaik |
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| Canvas: ChatGPT | ChatGPT is a powerful tool at the moment, but could it serve as an academic advisor or
teaching assistant, answering all student questions? These questions could include things like course selection or how to navigate Canvas features. |
7 |
Tianxing Hu Fan Yang Kaiheng Zhang Xuan Zhang |
| Oracle | Read Oracle (ORCL) Q1 2025 Earnings Call Script about Larry Ellison's comments on AI. What is your opinion? | 8 |
Aadish Jain Anish Panicker |
| Compound AI System | An analysis of their current ecosystem, recent advancements, and future challenges. | 9 |
Hariharasudhan Balakrishnan Vaishnavi Masapalli Teja Pavan Sai Singampalli |
| 10 | Abhijeet Sahdev | ||
| I-XRAY | The AI Glasses That Reveal Anyone's Personal Details just from looking at them”, what it is, its effects, and other relevant aspects. |