NMEP Fall 2026
Welcome everyone! In the New Member Education Program (NMEP), we’ll be paving a sturdy ML foundation for you - from basic ML definitions to LLMs, generative models, and reinforcement learning. Come hungry to learn and get to know the rest of your class!
Your instructors this semester are Aaditya Agnihotri and Alexander Tian!
Schedule
| Week | Date | Lecture | Assignments | Lecturer(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sep 16 | Introduction + Math Review (slides) | Lecture Exercise Rockfall Homework 1 (due Sep 22) Math NumPy PyTorch | Aaditya, Alex |
| 2 | Sep 22 | Classical Machine Learning (slides) (notes) | Aaditya, Alex | |
| 3 | Sep 28 | Deep Learning (slides) (notes) | Reading How to read a paper Homework 2 (due Oct 5) Word Embeddings Micrograd | Aaditya, Alex |
| 4 | Oct 5 | Computer Vision (slides) (notes) | Lecture Exercise YOLO Homework 3 (due Oct 19) Model Zhu | Tim, Andrew |
| 5 | Oct 12 | NLP + Transformers (slides) (notes) | Aaditya, Alex |