CS 486-686 GenAI in Practice

Spring 2025 Lecture/Lab Zoom

Week01

Tue, Jan 21: Lec Introduction to GenAI in Practice
Wed, Jan 22: Lab Dev Setup for GenAI; Summary, Lab01
Thu, Jan 23: Lec Programming with LLM APIs; Summary, Recording

Week02

Tue, Jan 28: Lec Prompts; Summary, Recording, Notes on System Prompts
Wed, Jan 29: Lab Lab01 Interactive Reviews; Summary, Recording, Project01
Thu, Jan 30: Lec Chat Assistants; Summary, Recording

Week03

Tue, Feb 4: Lec LLMs for Data Extraction; Summary, Recording
Wed, Feb 5: Lab Project01 Work; Summary, Recording
Thu, Feb 6: Lec Paper Discussion: Chain of Thought; ChainChain-of-Thought Prompting Elicits Reasoning in Large Language Models; https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.11903

Week04

Tue, Feb 11: Lec Embeddings and RAG; Summary, Recording,
Wed, Feb 12: Lab Deep Dive into LLMs with Karpathy Part 1
Thu, Feb 13: Lec Project01 Demos; Summary, Recording

Week05

Tue, Feb 18: Lec LLamaIndex; Summary, Recording,
Wed, Feb 19: Lab LlamaIndex Lab
Thu, Feb 20: Lec Source Code Indexing; Summary, Recording

Week06

Tue, Feb 25: Lec LLamaIndex; Summary, Recording
Wed, Feb 26: Lab Deep Dive into LLMs with Karpathy Part 2
Thu, Feb 27: Lec Source Code Indexing; Summary, Recording

Week07

Tue, Mar 4: Lec Discussion: Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Large Language Models: A Survey
Wed, Mar 5: Lab Deep Dive into LLMs with Karpathy Part 3
Thu, Mar 6: Lec Chat Assistants; Summary, Recording, iPad Notes

Week08

Mon, Mar 10 - Fri, Mar 14: Spring Break

Week09

Tue, Mar 18: Lec Information Retrieval Metrics; Summary, Recording iPad Notes
Wed, Mar 19: Lab Ground Truth; Summary, Recording
Thu, Mar 20: Lec LLM as a Judge; Summary, Recording

Week10

Tue, Mar 25: Lec Project02 Presentations
Wed, Mar 26: Lab Project02 Presentations
Thu, Mar 27: Lec Agents; Summary, Recording, iPad Notes