Calendar

Week 1

Jan 8

Lec 1 Course Introduction: Recording

Project 0 out

Week 2

Jan 13

Lec 2 Image Classification: Recording

: 📖 GBC Ch. 1

: 📖 231n Image Classification

Jan 14

Dis 0 Intro to Python and Pytorch: Recording

Jan 15

Lec 3 Linear Classifiers: Recording

Project 1 out: 📖 231n Linear Classification

Jan 19

Project 0 due

Week 3

Jan 20

MLK Day-No Class

Jan 21

Dis 1 Datasets + P1 Primer: Recording

: 📖 Chen et al., ProgressLabeller

Jan 22

Lec 4 Regularization + Optimization: Recording

: 📖 231n Optimization

: 📖 GBC Sec 8.1-8.6

: 📖 Li et al., Visualizing Loss Landscaps

: 📖 Goh, Why Momentum Really Works

Week 4

Jan 27

Lec 5 Neural Networks I: Recording

: 📖 231n Neural Networks

: 📖 GBC Sec 6.1-6.4

Jan 28

Dis 2 Neural Networks II: Recording

: 📖 Nielsen, Universal Approximation

Jan 29

Lec 6 Backpropagation: Recording

: 📖 cs231n Backpropagation

: 📖 GBC Sec 6.5-6.6

: 📖 Olah, Backpropagation

Feb 2

Project 1 due Project 2 out

Week 5

Feb 3

Lec 7 Convolutional Neural Networks: Recording

: 📖 cs231n ConvNets

: 📖 GBC Ch. 9

: 📖 Araujo et al., Receptive Fields of CNNs

: 📖 Olah et al., Feature Visualization

Feb 4

Dis 3 Local Jupyter Notebook Demo: Recording

Feb 5

Lec 8 CNN Architectures: Recording

: 📖 Krizhevsky et al., AlexNet

: 📖 Simonyan and Zisserman, VGG

: 📖 Szegedy et al., GoogLeNet

: 📖 He et al., ResNet

Week 6

Feb 10

Lec 9 Training Neural Networks I: Recording

: 📖 cs231n Training I

: 📖 Olah et al., Equivariance in Networks

Feb 11

Dis 4 P2 Help: Recording

: 📖 Krizhevsky et al., AlexNet

Feb 12

Lec 10 Training Neural Networks II: Recording

: 📖 cs231n Training II

: 📖 Goodfellow et al., Adversarial Examples

Feb 16

Project 2 due Project 3 out

Week 7

Feb 17

Lec 11 Object Detection I: Recording

: 📖 Girshick et al., R-CNN

: 📖 Redmon et al., YOLO

: 📖 Lin et al., FCOS

Feb 18

Dis 5 P3 & SAM2: Recording

: 📖 cs231n Training II

Feb 19

Lec 12 Object Detection II: Recording

: 📖 Redmon, Darknet

: 📖 Jia et al., Caffe

: 📖 Abadi et al., TensorFlow

: 📖 Paszke et al., PyTorch

Week 8

Feb 24

Lec 13 Pose Estimation: Recording

: 📖 Xiang et al., PoseCNN

: 📖 Mildenhall et al., NeRF

Feb 25

Dis 6 How to Read Research Papers: Recording

: 📖 Vannevar Bush, Science The Endless Frontier

Feb 26

Lec 14 Final Project Topics: Recording

Spring Break

Mar 3: Break
Mar 4: Break
Mar 5: Break
Mar 9: Project 3 due

Week 9

Mar 10

Lec 15 Deep Learning Software: Recording

: 📖 Xiang, PoseCNN

: 📖 Wang, DenseFusion

Mar 11

Dis 7 Midterm Review: Recording

Mar 12

Lec 16 Midterm

Mar 16

Project 4 out

Week 10

Mar 17

Lec 17 Sequences: Recording

: 📖 Andrej Karpathy, Recurrent Neural Networks

: 📖 Lena Voita, NLP Course For You

: 📖 Vaswani, Attention Is All You Need

Mar 18

Dis 8 Generative Models

Mar 19

Lec 18 Attention, Transformer: Recording

: 📖 Dosovitskiy, ViT

: 📖 Carion, DETR

: 📖 Xie, SegFormer

Week 11

Mar 24

Lec 19 Vision Transformers: Recording

: 📖 Devlin, BERT

: 📖 Radford, CLIP

: 📖 Kerr, LERF

Mar 25

Dis 9 P4 Help

Mar 26

Lec 20 More Transformers: Recording

Mar 30

Project 4 due

Week 12

Mar 31

Lec 21 3D Vision: Recording

: 📖 Qi et al., PointNet

Apr 1

Dis 10 Discussion

Apr 2

Lec 22 NeRF & 3D Gaussian Splatting: Recording

: 📖 Mildenhall et al., NeRF

: 📖 Kerbl et al., 3DGS

Week 13

Apr 7

Lec 23 Visualizing Models: Recording

Apr 8

Dis 11 Final Project Help

Apr 9

Lec 24 Multi-Sensor Fusion: Recording

Week 14

Apr 14

Lec 25 Invited Speaker: Prof. Kaveh Fathian—SLAM in the Era of AI: Recording

Apr 15

Dis 12 MemryX AI chip demo: Recording

Apr 16

Lec 26 Invited Speaker: Prof. Karhik Desingh—Object Assembly, a Spatial-Geometric Reasoning Pathway to Physical Intelligence: Recording

Week 15

Apr 21

Lec 27 Invited Speaker: Prof. Glenn Chou—Toward End-to-End Reliable Learning-based Control for Robot Autonomy: Recording

Apr 22

Dis 13 Project Showcase

Apr 23

Lec 28 No Class

Week 16

Apr 28: No Class; Final Project Due