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 | Lecture Exercise YOLO | Tim & Andrew |
| 5 | Oct 13 | NLP + Transformers I | TBD | |
| 6 | Oct 20 | Transformers II + LLMs | TBD | |
| 7 | TBD | Midterm | NMEP Midterm | TBD |
| 10 | Nov 3 | GANs + Diffusion | Lecture Exercise | TBD |
| 8 | Nov 10 | SSMs + SSL | TBD | TBD |
| 9 | Nov 17 | RL | Lecture Exercise | TBD |
| 11 | Nov 24 | AI Safety | Final Project Checkpoint | TBD |
| 12 | TBD | Final project showcase | Final Project Due |