NMEP Fall 2025
Welcome everyone! In the New Member Education Program (NMEP), we’ll be paving a sturdy ML foundation for you—from classical ML to diffusion models. Come hungry to learn and get to know the rest of your class!
Your instructors this semester are Aaditya Agnihotri, Aditya Ghai and Tanmayi Dasari!
Schedule
| Week | Date | Lecture | Assignments | Lecturer(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sep 15 | Intro + Background Review (slides) | Lecture Exercise Rockfall - Sol. Homework 1 (due 9/26) Numpy Pytorch | Aaditya, Tejas |
| 2 | Sep 22 | Classical ML (slides) | Homework 1 (due 9/26) Math | Aaditya, Aditya, Tanmayi |
| 3 | Sep 29 | Deep Learning (slides) | Reading How to read a paper Homework 2 (due 10/6) Word Embeddings | Aaditya, Aditya, Tanmayi |
| 4 | Oct 6 | Computer Vision (slides) | Lecture Exercise YOLO Homework 3 (due 10/20) Model Zhu | Tim & Andrew |
| 5 | Oct 13 | NLP + Transformers I (slides) | Bharat, Tejas | |
| 6 | Oct 20 | Transformers II + LLMs (slides) | Worksheet Transformer Basics Solutions Transformer Basics Solutions Homework 4 (due 3/28) Transformers! | Aaditya |
| 7 | TBD | Midterm | NMEP Midterm | |
| 10 | Nov 3 | State Space Models and Self-Supervised Learning(slides) | Lecture Exercise | Tejas, Julia |
| 8 | Nov 10 | GANs and Diffusion(slides) | Homework 5 Part 1 (due Nov 17) U-Nets and Diffusion! | Aditya, Aaditya |
| 9 | Nov 17 | RL(slides) | Tanmayi | |
| 11 | Nov 24 | AI Safety | Final Project Checkpoint | Andrew |
| 12 | TBD | Final project showcase | Final Project Due |