SDSU CS 696 Applied Large Language Models
Spring Semester, 2025
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Reading

Texts:
SLP: Speech and Language Processing
Scratch: Build a Large Language Model (from Scratch)
Prompt: Prompt Engineering for generative AI

Tuesday Thursday
Jan 21 Jan 23 SLP Chapter 7
Jan 28 Scratch: Chapter 1 Jan 30 Scratch: Chapter 2
Feb 4 Scratch: Chapter 3 Feb 6 Scratch: Chapter 4
Feb 11 Scratch: Chapter 5 Feb 13 Scratch: Chapter 6
Feb 18 Feb 20 Scratch:Appendix D, E
Feb 25 Feb 27 LoRA explained
LoRA methods
IA3
Mar 4 Soft prompts
Logit Lens
Mar 6
Mar 11 Exam Mar 13 How To Train Your PyTorch Models (Much) Faster
Mar 18 Mar 20
Mar 25 Project Proposal Mar 27 Prompt Chapters 1 & 3
Apr 1 Spring Break Apr 3 Spring Break
Apr 8 Prompt Chapters 4 & 5 Apr 10 Project Milestone
Apr 15 Prompt Chapters 6, Testing 18 RAG Techniques Apr 17
Apr 22 Apr 24
Apr 29 Apr 30
May 6 May 8 Last Class
May 13 May 15 Projects Due