Calendar · Post Training

Date

Lecture

Lab

Materials

Assignments Due

Jan

26

Week 1 · Foundations

What We Owe Machines

Inference Playground

Slides Notes

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Feb

2

Week 2 · Foundations

Lifecycle of a Language Model

Slides Notes

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Feb

9

Week 3 · Tuning

Post-Training Foundations

RLHF/DPO/GRPO on Tinker

Slides Notes

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Feb

16

Holiday

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Final Project A Due

Feb

23

Week 4 · Tuning

RL: From Optimization to Exploitation

Reward Hacking

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Mar

2

Week 5 · Tuning

Model Behavior: Evals, Debugging, Alignment

Model Debugging & Eval Design

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Mar

9

Week 6 · Agents

Search, Planning, Memory

Build a Planning Agent

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Final Project B Due

Mar

16

Week 7 · Agents

Retrieval, Tool Use & Function Calling

Build a RAG-Augmented Tool Agent

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Mar

23

Spring Break

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Mar

30

Week 8 · Scaling

Prompt Optimization

DSPy Lab

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Final Project C Due

Apr

6

Week 9 · Scaling

Multi-Agent Systems

Multi-Agent Orchestration Lab

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Apr

13

Week 10 · Product

Product Workshop

Self-Play Experiment

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Apr

20

Week 11

Guest Lecture TBA

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Final Project D Due

Apr

27

Week 12

Guest Lecture TBA

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May

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RRR Week

Demo Day (TBD)

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Demo Day