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| 1 | +--- |
| 2 | +title: NMEP Fall 2025 |
| 3 | +nav_order: 1 |
| 4 | +parent: past |
| 5 | +layout: home |
| 6 | +--- |
| 7 | + |
| 8 | +## NMEP Fall 2025 |
| 9 | + |
| 10 | +Welcome everyone! |
| 11 | +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! |
| 12 | + |
| 13 | +Your instructors this semester are [Aaditya Agnihotri](mailto:aaditya_agni@berkeley.edu), [Aditya Ghai](mailto:aditya_ghai@berkeley.edu) and [Tanmayi Dasari](mailto:tanmayi_dasari@berkeley.edu)! |
| 14 | + |
| 15 | + |
| 16 | +### Schedule |
| 17 | + |
| 18 | +<table style="table-layout: fixed;"> |
| 19 | + <colgroup> |
| 20 | + <col span="1" style="width: 30px;"> |
| 21 | + <col span="1" style="width: 60px;"> |
| 22 | + <col span="1" style="width: calc(40% - 120px)"> |
| 23 | + <col span="1" style="width: calc(60% - 120px)"> |
| 24 | + <col span="1" style="width: 150px;"> |
| 25 | + </colgroup> |
| 26 | + |
| 27 | + <tbody> |
| 28 | + <tr> <th style="max-width: 30px;">Week</th> <th>Date</th> <th>Lecture</th> <th>Assignments</th> <th>Lecturer(s)</th> </tr> |
| 29 | + <tr> |
| 30 | + <td style="max-width: 30px;">1</td> |
| 31 | + <td>Sep 15</td> |
| 32 | + <td>Intro + Background Review |
| 33 | + (<a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1bjh2TxylNo9ICEUp-4cGwDpdBBQUuvf6BmNdUQEF6AY">slides</a>) |
| 34 | + </td> |
| 35 | + |
| 36 | + <td> |
| 37 | + <span class="label"><strong>Lecture Exercise</strong></span> |
| 38 | + <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1p_QsJX3d3T3mSeePed0_CDieP39g83Pc/view?usp=drive_link">Rockfall</a> |
| 39 | + - |
| 40 | + <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1r1_Kj7nzAd10DLk9D87AZet81uEnhBIa/view?usp=drive_link">Sol.</a> |
| 41 | + <br> |
| 42 | + <span class="label label-yellow"><strong>Homework 1</strong> (due 9/26)</span> |
| 43 | + <a href="/nmep/assets/hw1/hw1-numpy.ipynb">Numpy</a> |
| 44 | + <a href="/nmep/assets/hw1/hw1-intro-pytorch.ipynb">Pytorch</a> |
| 45 | + </td> |
| 46 | + |
| 47 | + <td> |
| 48 | + Aaditya, Tejas |
| 49 | + </td> |
| 50 | + </tr> |
| 51 | + <tr> |
| 52 | + <td style="max-width: 30px;">2</td> |
| 53 | + <td>Sep 22</td> |
| 54 | + <td>Classical ML |
| 55 | + (<a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1K2fFV9_dYichrDxjXkIZ04aJ_cgfNfeIc6JI5hesdQY">slides</a>) |
| 56 | + </td> |
| 57 | + <td> |
| 58 | + <span class="label label-yellow"><strong>Homework 1</strong> (due 9/26)</span> |
| 59 | + <a href="/nmep/assets/hw1/hw1-math.pdf">Math</a> |
| 60 | + </td> |
| 61 | + <td>Aaditya, Aditya, Tanmayi</td> |
| 62 | + </tr> |
| 63 | + <tr> |
| 64 | + <td style="max-width: 30px;">3</td> |
| 65 | + <td>Sep 29</td> |
| 66 | + <td>Deep Learning (<a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/14RE7f7HXmqpzRjGxOvJunsJ-vnWSvi7ENvag4pGrW1c/">slides</a>)</td> |
| 67 | + <td> |
| 68 | + <span class="label label-red"><strong>Reading</strong></span> |
| 69 | + <a href="https://web.stanford.edu/class/ee384m/Handouts/HowtoReadPaper.pdf">How to read a paper</a> |
| 70 | + <!-- <span class="label"><strong>Worksheet</strong></span> |
| 71 | + <a href="/nmep/assets/hw2/wk2-nns-worksheet.pdf">NNs</a> --> |
| 72 | + |
| 73 | + <br> |
| 74 | + |
| 75 | + <span class="label label-yellow"><strong>Homework 2</strong> (due 10/6)</span> |
| 76 | + <a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1fSEXCMcF8t8U4UCQDlkncTFR5b72KhPs">Word Embeddings</a> |
| 77 | + </td> |
| 78 | + <td>Aaditya, Aditya, Tanmayi</td> |
| 79 | + </tr> |
| 80 | + <tr> |
| 81 | + <td style="max-width: 30px;">4</td> |
| 82 | + <td>Oct 6</td> |
| 83 | + <td>Computer Vision (<a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/15xuS2jh0KqBKpTMyNwb-DhgsvEER2-A8IFNwBd6RzZE/edit?usp=sharing">slides</a>)</td> |
| 84 | + <td> |
| 85 | + <span class="label"><strong>Lecture Exercise</strong></span> |
| 86 | + <a href="https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1aBFBPwhhulkr8n2eRkGygPJsrTekXNk6?usp=sharing">YOLO</a> |
| 87 | + <br /> |
| 88 | + <span class="label label-yellow"><strong>Homework 3</strong> (due 10/20)</span> |
| 89 | + <a href="docs/homeworks/hw3.html">Model Zhu</a> |
| 90 | + </td> |
| 91 | + <td>Tim & Andrew</td> |
| 92 | + </tr> |
| 93 | + <tr> |
| 94 | + <td style="max-width: 30px;">5</td> |
| 95 | + <td>Oct 13</td> |
| 96 | + <td>NLP + Transformers I (<a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1QAqkpaoEulM478d3REZHvZYb_uNEQe8XptfVyPF_I4c/edit?usp=sharing">slides</a>)</td> |
| 97 | + <td></td> |
| 98 | + <td>Bharat, Tejas</td> |
| 99 | + </tr> |
| 100 | + <tr> |
| 101 | + <td style="max-width: 30px;">6</td> |
| 102 | + <td>Oct 20</td> |
| 103 | + <td>Transformers II + LLMs (<a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/11Cg3YT4JDLdou8v18p7sruhxOvNXnLt8swQL5sEkf2E/edit?usp=sharing">slides</a>) </td> |
| 104 | + <td> |
| 105 | + <span class="label"><strong>Worksheet</strong></span> |
| 106 | + <a href="/assets/hw4/transformers_pseudo_fa25.pdf">Transformer Basics</a> |
| 107 | + |
| 108 | + <br> |
| 109 | + |
| 110 | + <span class="label label-purple"><strong>Solutions</strong></span> |
| 111 | + <a href="/assets/hw4/transformers_pseudo_fa25_sol.pdf">Transformer Basics Solutions</a> |
| 112 | + |
| 113 | + <br> |
| 114 | + |
| 115 | + <span class="label label-yellow"><strong>Homework 4</strong> (due 3/28)</span> |
| 116 | + <a href="docs/homeworks/hw4.html">Transformers!</a> |
| 117 | + </td> |
| 118 | + <td>Aaditya</td> |
| 119 | + </tr> |
| 120 | + <tr> |
| 121 | + <td style="max-width: 30px;">7</td> |
| 122 | + <td>TBD</td> |
| 123 | + <td><strong>Midterm</strong></td> |
| 124 | + <td> |
| 125 | + <span class="label label-red"><strong>NMEP Midterm</strong></span> |
| 126 | + </td> |
| 127 | + <td></td> |
| 128 | + </tr> |
| 129 | + <tr> |
| 130 | + <td style="max-width: 30px;">10</td> |
| 131 | + <td>Nov 3</td> |
| 132 | + <td>State Space Models and Self-Supervised Learning(<a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1_whj4gntfZ35t_3uzTJLfMXKF7DJouAzeMIdG_iQPGM/edit?usp=sharing">slides</a>)</td> |
| 133 | + <td> |
| 134 | + <span class="label"><strong>Lecture Exercise</strong></span> |
| 135 | + <!-- <a href="https://github.com/tejasprabhune/lec10-diffusion">U-Net</a> --> |
| 136 | + </td> |
| 137 | + <td>Tejas, Julia</td> |
| 138 | + </tr> |
| 139 | + <tr> |
| 140 | + <td style="max-width: 30px;">8</td> |
| 141 | + <td>Nov 10</td> |
| 142 | + <td>GANs and Diffusion(<a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1EK1BM6dbD8GslEg218Qfz579cg_KcQC6T91pF4lhjx4/edit?usp=sharing">slides</a>)</td> |
| 143 | + <td> |
| 144 | + <span class="label label-yellow"><strong>Homework 5 Part 1</strong> (due Nov 17)</span> |
| 145 | + <a href="https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1FPC6aq6oye9VMVNYb837pCwj3Bv9zsBy?usp=sharing">U-Nets and Diffusion!</a> |
| 146 | + </td> |
| 147 | + <td>Aditya, Aaditya</td> |
| 148 | + </tr> |
| 149 | + <tr> |
| 150 | + <td style="max-width: 30px;">9</td> |
| 151 | + <td>Nov 17</td> |
| 152 | + <td>RL(<a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1NU4cYmHmOZGF3L_j78qVQ1LKqcu7dk7dtSzio1kn0iA/edit?usp=sharing">slides</a>)</td> |
| 153 | + <td> |
| 154 | + <!--<span class="label"> |
| 155 | + <strong>Lecture Exercise</strong> |
| 156 | + </span> |
| 157 | + <a href="https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1A8OUfUPW4DOSbQ8Ieb1soa_AsPR7IQOy?usp=sharing">Ant PPO</a> --> |
| 158 | + </td> |
| 159 | + <td>Tanmayi</td> |
| 160 | + </tr> |
| 161 | + <tr> |
| 162 | + <td style="max-width: 30px;">11</td> |
| 163 | + <td>Nov 24</td> |
| 164 | + <td>AI Safety</td> |
| 165 | + <td><span class="label label-green"><strong>Final Project Checkpoint</strong></span></td> |
| 166 | + <td>Andrew</td> |
| 167 | + </tr> |
| 168 | + <tr> |
| 169 | + <td style="max-width: 30px;">12</td> |
| 170 | + <td>TBD</td> |
| 171 | + <td><strong>Final project showcase</strong></td> |
| 172 | + <td><span class="label label-green"><strong>Final Project Due</strong></span></td> |
| 173 | + <td></td> |
| 174 | + </tr> |
| 175 | + </tbody> |
| 176 | +</table> |
| 177 | + |
| 178 | + |
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