NMEP Spring 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 Sardaana Eginova and Saathvik Selvan!
Schedule
| Week | Date | Lecture | Assignments | Lecturer(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Feb 10 | Intro + Background Review (slides) | Lecture Exercise Rockfall - Sol. Homework 0 (due 2/17) Pandas Numpy | Saathvik, Sara |
| 2 | Feb 17 | Classical ML (slides) | Homework 1 (due 2/24) Math | Sara, Saathvik |
| 3 | Feb 24 | Deep Learning (slides) | Reading How to read a paper Worksheet NNs Homework 2 (due 3/3) PyTorch Word embeddings | Saathvik, Sara |
| 4 | Mar 3 | CNNs (slides) | Homework 3 (due 3/17) Model Zhu | Stevie, Saathvik |
| 5 | Mar 10 | NLP + Transformers I (slides) | Tanmayi, Akshay | |
| 6 | Mar 17 | Transformers II + LLMs (slides) | Worksheet Tejasformer Homework 4 (due 3/28) Timformer | Bharat, Sara |
| 7 | Mar 31 | Midterm | NMEP Midterm | |
| 8 | Apr 7 | SSL + Object Detection (slides) | Final Project ProposalSpec | Eric, Julia |
| 9 | Apr 14 | RL (slides) | Lecture Exercise Ant PPO | Narisam, Tvisha |
| 10 | Apr 21 | GANs + Diffusion (slides) | Final Project Checkpoint Lecture Exercise U-Net | Narisam, Adi |
| 11 | Apr 28 | Ethics | CK, Srinithi | |
| 12 | May 5 | Final project showcase | Final Project Due |