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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

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    <tr> <th style="max-width: 30px;">Week</th> <th>Date</th> <th>Lecture</th> <th>Assignments</th> <th>Lecturer(s)</th> </tr>
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        <td style="max-width: 30px;">1</td>
        <td>Feb 10</td>
        <td>Intro + Background Review
            (<a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1zeNGBs78gVnvq84CvT0frsxEzig48B6P9VeMewC6ijE/edit?usp=sharing">slides</a>)
        </td>
        
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        <span class="label"><strong>Lecture Exercise</strong></span>
        <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1p_QsJX3d3T3mSeePed0_CDieP39g83Pc/view?usp=drive_link">Rockfall</a>
        -
        <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1r1_Kj7nzAd10DLk9D87AZet81uEnhBIa/view?usp=drive_link">Sol.</a>
        <br>
        <span class="label label-yellow"><strong>Homework 0</strong> (due 2/17)</span>
        <a href="/nmep/assets/hw0/hw0-pandas.ipynb">Pandas</a>
        <a href="/nmep/assets/hw0/hw0-numpy.ipynb">Numpy</a>
        </td>

        <td>
        Saathvik, Sara
        </td>
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    <tr>
        <td style="max-width: 30px;">2</td>
        <td>Feb 17</td>
        <td>Classical ML
        (<a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Mye0PcfKVVq_eeodda9gXvf88z5Ey61r3R6CNfBVGXc/edit?usp=sharing">slides</a>)
        </td>
        <td>
        <span class="label label-yellow"><strong>Homework 1</strong> (due 2/24)</span>
        <a href="/nmep/assets/hw1/hw1-math.pdf">Math</a>
        </td>
        <td>Sara, Saathvik</td>
    </tr>
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        <td style="max-width: 30px;">3</td>
        <td>Feb 24</td>
        <td>Deep Learning (<a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Z6k34i9iTDIVwnZeSixB3Hs4RVgQ5Qnh-AivbI8CfSY/edit?usp=sharing">slides</a>)</td>
        <td>
            <span class="label label-red"><strong>Reading</strong></span>
                <a href="https://web.stanford.edu/class/ee384m/Handouts/HowtoReadPaper.pdf">How to read a paper</a>
            <span class="label"><strong>Worksheet</strong></span>
                <a href="/nmep/assets/hw2/wk2-nns-worksheet.pdf">NNs</a>
            <span class="label label-yellow"><strong>Homework 2</strong> (due 3/3)</span>
                <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/19PjHfjENgXNRtdmY3GIA1KPORSL5tTJ6/view?usp=sharing">PyTorch</a>
                <a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1DVRrDCCJnCFfxydAt-oGoFv_e2xUOeYk?usp=sharing">Word embeddings</a>
        </td>
        <td>Saathvik, Sara</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td style="max-width: 30px;">4</td>
        <td>Mar 3</td>
        <td>CNNs (<a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1_JN_QI8Zoz0i2bp0jtmol79kyCygKGcgKkPqstzMHMI/edit?usp=sharing">slides</a>)</td>
        <td>
            <span class="label label-yellow"><strong>Homework 3</strong> (due 3/17)</span>
                <a href="https://github.com/mlberkeley/fa24-nmep-hw2/tree/main">Model Zhu</a>
        </td>
        <td>Stevie, Saathvik</td>
    </tr>
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        <td style="max-width: 30px;">5</td>
        <td>Mar 10</td>
        <td>NLP + Transformers I (<a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1KBzxrlhBYDFUqb9GjZGS9Lizz7k4Vhl1CV_Dat9VO8Q/edit?usp=sharing">slides</a>)</td>
        <td></td>
        <td>Tanmayi, Akshay</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td style="max-width: 30px;">6</td>
        <td>Mar 17</td>
        <td>Transformers II + LLMs (<a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1SFWDD-veOdSvfprR7oIswyq8oePFlpi_LV4qkgOWLTY/edit?usp=sharing">slides</a>)</td>
        <td>
            <span class="label"><strong>Worksheet</strong></span>
            <a href="/nmep/assets/hw4/wk4-worksheet.pdf">Tejasformer</a>
            <span class="label label-yellow"><strong>Homework 4</strong> (due 3/28)</span>
                <a href="https://github.com/tejasprabhune/hw3-transformers">Timformer</a>
        </td>
        <td>Bharat, Sara</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td style="max-width: 30px;">7</td>
        <td>Mar 31</td>
        <td><strong>Midterm</strong></td>
        <td>
            <span class="label label-red"><strong>NMEP Midterm</strong></span>
        </td>
        <td></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td style="max-width: 30px;">8</td>
        <td>Apr 7</td>
        <td>SSL + Object Detection</td>
        <td><span class="label label-green"><strong>Final Project Proposal</strong></span></td>
        <td>Eric, Julia</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td style="max-width: 30px;">9</td>
        <td>Apr 14</td>
        <td>RL</td>
        <td></td>
        <td>Narisam, Tvisha</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td style="max-width: 30px;">10</td>
        <td>Apr 21</td>
        <td>GANs + Diffusion</td>
        <td><span class="label label-green"><strong>Final Project Checkpoint</strong></span></td>
        <td>Nasrisam, Adi</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td style="max-width: 30px;">11</td>
        <td>Apr 28</td>
        <td>Ethics</td>
        <td>
        </td>
        <td>CK, Srinithi</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td style="max-width: 30px;">12</td>
        <td>May 5</td>
        <td><strong>Final project showcase</strong></td>
        <td><span class="label label-green"><strong>Final Project Due</strong></span></td>
        <td></td>
    </tr>
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