Schedule and Calendar

Overall schedule can be found here and calendar here.

Week 1 - Introduction, Virtual Environments, Virtual Machines

Sep 03

Introduction: Lecture 1 , Setup & Installation

Sep 05

Virtual Enviroments and Virtual Machines: Lecture 2

Week 2 - Containers

Sep 10

Containers I: Lecture 3

Sep 12

Containers II: Lecture 4

Week 3 - Data Pipelines

Sep 17

Data Pipelines/ Data Management: Extract, Transform, Data Version: Lecture 5

Sep 19

Data Labeling, Data Versioning: Lecture 6

M1 due 09/20

Week 4 - LLM Tools and Agents

Sep 24

LLM tools and agents 1: LangChain, LlamaIndex, API calls, RAG, AI agents: Lecture 7

Sep 26

LLM tools and agents 2: LangChain, LamaIndex, API calls, RAG, AI agents: Lecture 8

HW 1 due 09/27

Week 5 - Data, Advanced training workflows

Oct 1

Model Optimization: Distillation, Quantization, Compression, and LORA: Lecture 9

Oct 3

LLM fine tuning and LORA: Lecture 10

Week 6 - Project Week

Oct 8: Project
Oct 10: Project

Week 7 - Advanced Training Workflows

Oct 15

Advanced training workflows: experiment tracking (W&B), multi GPU, serverless training (Vertex AI), LLM fine tuning: Lecture 11

Oct 17

Model Deployment: Hosting, APIs, and Serving LLMs: Lecture 12

M2 due 10/18

Week 8 - Guest Lecture,Model Deployment, Performance Monitoring

Oct 22

Model performance monitoring, data drift, or other post release items: Lecture 13

Oct 24

Modal Labs - Guest Lecture: Lecture 14

Week 9 - Midterm, Cloud Functions, Vertex AI Pipelines

Oct 29

Testing, Cloud Functions, Cloud Run, Kubeflow, Vertex AI Pipelines: Lecture 15

Oct 31

Midterm (M3) Presentations: M3 due 10/31

Week 10 - Github Actions, App Development

Nov 5

Automating Software Development: CI/CD with GitHub Actions and other tools: Lecture 16

Nov 7

App design, setup and code organization: Lecture 17

HW2 due 11/08

Week 11 - APIs & Frontend, Ansible

Nov 12

APIs & Frontend (Optional: Frontend - React - To be Scheduled on Zoom): Lecture 18

Nov 14

Deployment: Ansible: Lecture 19

M4 due 11/15

Week 12 - Scaling Kubernetes, CI CD

Nov 19

Scaling: Kubernetes: Lecture 20

Nov 21

Final: CI/CD releases: Lecture 21

Week 13 - Thanksgiving

Nov 26: Thanksgiving Week
Nov 28: Thanksgiving Week

Week 14 - Projects

Dec 3: Project; HW3 due 12/02

Week 15 - Projects

Dec 11: Project Deliverables Due
M 5 due 12/11

Setup & Installation

Refer to the setup and installation document for a full list of softwares and tools we will be using in this class

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