Course Schedule

DayDate TimeTopic
Pre-programIntroduction to language models and preprocession
Hands-on Exercise: Text Preprocessing, Language Models
Transformers
Hands-on Exercise: Text Emeddings
Thursday10/2/20258:30am ET – 11:00am ETSession 1: BERT + GPT
Hands-on Exercise: Pre-trained Models from HuggingFace
Friday10/3/20258:30am ET – 11:00am ETSession 2: ChatGPT
Hands-on Exercise: Working with LLM APIs
Saturday10/4/20258:30am ET – 11:00am ETSession 3: RAGs
Hands-on Exercise: RAG
Sunday10/5/20258:30am ET – 11:00am ETSession 4: RAGs/Agents
Hands-on Exercise: Self-RAG
Monday10/6/2025OFFOFF
Tuesday10/7/20259:00am ET- 10:00am ETIndustry Speakers: Nicholas Stern, Adam Wiemerslage
Wednesday 10/8/20258:30am ET – 11:00am ETSession 5: Agents
Hands-on Exercise: Simple Agentic Flow
Thursday10/9/20258:30am ET – 11:00am ETSession 6: Finetuning
Hands-on Exercise: Finetuning with QLoRA
Friday 10/10/20259:00am ET – 10:00am ETIndustry Speaker: Laura Kulowski
Saturday10/11/20258:30am ET – 10:30am ETSession 7: SOTA
Guest Speaker: Xiao-li Meng
Sunday 10/12/20259:00am ET – 12:00pm ETHackathon (optional activity)


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