Neural Network Design and Training
The slides to the introduction given in class you can find here. We further created a short Introduction about the prerequisites of the course, which hardware to use and how to set up the programming environment.
Projects will be handled using BlackBoard.
| Project Nr. | Announcement | Submission Deadline | Teaching Assistant | Topic | Project Instructions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2024-08-25 | 2024-09-15 | Aleksandar Cvejic | Fully Connected Neural Networks | Download |
| 2 | 2024-09-15 | 2024-10-09 | Zhenyu Li | Convolutional Networks | Download |
| 3 | 2024-10-09 | 2024-11-03 | Qian Wang | Transformer 1 | Download |
| 4 | 2024-11-03 | 2024-11-27 | Jian Shi | Dreambooth / LoRA | PDF, ZIP |
| Task | Nr. | Topic | Announcement Date | Due Date | #Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assignment | 1 | Course Review | Sunday, August 25 | Sunday, September 01 | 7 |
| Assignment | 2 | Course Review | Sunday, September 01 | Sunday, September 08 | 7 |
| Project | 1 | Fully Connected Neural Networks | Sunday, August 25 | Sunday, September 15 | 21 |
| Quiz | 1 | Assignments 1-2, Project 1 | Wednesday, September 18 | Wednesday, September 18 | 0 |
| Assignment | 3 | Course Review | Sunday, September 15 | Wednesday, September 25 | 10 |
| Assignment | 4 | Course Review | Sunday, September 29 | Sunday, October 06 | 7 |
| Project | 2 | Convolutional Networks | Sunday, September 15 | Wednesday, October 09 | 24 |
| Quiz | 2 | Assignments 3-4, Project 2 | Wednesday, October 16 | Wednesday, October 16 | 0 |
| Assignment | 5 | Course Review | Sunday, October 20 | Sunday, October 27 | 7 |
| Assignment | 6 | Course Review | Sunday, October 27 | Sunday, November 03 | 7 |
| Project | 3 | Transformer (BERT) | Wednesday, October 09 | Sunday, November 03 | 25 |
| Quiz | 3 | Assignments 5-6, Project 3 | Wednesday, November 06 | Wednesday, November 06 | 0 |
| Assignment | 7 | Course Review | Sunday, November 03 | Sunday, November 10 | 7 |
| Assignment | 8 | Course Review | Sunday, November 10 | Sunday, November 17 | 7 |
| Assignment | 9 | Course Review | Sunday, November 24 | Sunday, December 01 | 7 |
| Project | 4 | Dreambooth / LoRA | Sunday, November 03 | Wednesday, November 27 | 24 |
| Quiz | 4 | Assignment 7-9, Project 4 | Sunday, December 01 | Sunday, December 01 | 0 |
| Assignment | 10 | Course Review | Sunday, December 01 | Sunday, December 08 | 7 |
Please attend the Slack Workspace of the course to ask questions. Please always use the #general channel to ask project-related questions and only contact the respective TA in exceptional cases.