2025 Spring UVA CS - GenAI-Overview



Graduate and Senior Under Level Seminar

Website for 2025 Spring-UVA-CS GenAI Foundation and Application Overviews (Graduate and Undergraduate Advanced)

Course Schedule and Notes

The schedule below is tentative and is continually subject to change; We will move at whatever pace we find comfortable.  

Date Week Title / Information SlideDeck Topic Lead Team
0113 W1 Introduction W1.1-deepNNtext instructor deep nlp basics
0115 W1 LLM basics - emergent ability and GenAI platform W1.2-IntroLLMv3 instructor llm basics
0120 W2 more LLM basics - a survey W2.1-moreLLM instructor more llm basics
0122 W2 Survey - BioScience LLMs W2.2-bioLM instructor llm in life science
0127 W3 Survey - FMs in healthcare W3.1-GenAI-healthcare team help FM in healthcare survey
0129 W3 Survey - FMs in Robotics W3.2-GenAI-Robotics team-3 GenAI for Robotics
0203 W4 advanced LLM - for code reasoning W4.1-Gen AI-code team-2 deepSeek code and more LLM4code
0205 W4 advanced LLM - Math reasoning W4.2-LLM-Math-Reasoning team-4 FM 4 math reasoning
0210 W5 Platform - Prompting Engineering tools / Prompt Compression W5.1.Team5-Prompt team-5 Prompting survey
0212 W5 Platform - Context construction via RAG and Agent W5.2.Team6-RAGagent team-6 Introduction of agent and aentic RAG
0217 W6 Platform - Agent Tooling W6.1-team2-master-ai-agent-book-review team-2 a book on agent
0219 W6 Platform - More agent related W6.2-team2-agent24-full team-2 more on tools for LLM agent
0224 W7 Platform - Model Jailbreaking / Safeguarding W7.1-team3-jailbreak team-3 LLM jailbreak and defense
0226 W7 Platform - VLM Jailbreaking / Probing W7.2-team4-MMJailbreak-garak team-4 Multimodal FM Jailbreaking
0303 W8 Platform - Model Customization - instruction tuning / LoRA W8.1-LoRA-Team5 team-5 LoRA, DoRA, vs. PPO
0305 W8 Platform - Model Serving + PPO W8.2-Model Serving-team6-t5 team-6 vLLM, KV cache, model Serving survey
0310 WB Extra - BioLLM instructor Extra readings
0312 WB Extra readings - Agent Guardrailing instructor Extra readings
0317 W9 Agent - In Healthcare TA Health AI Agents
WE ARE HERE
0319 W9 Platform - long context vs RAG + Hallucination team-2
0324 W10 Agent - Planning / World Model team-3
0326 W10 Agent Safety / More Autonomous Agents team-4
0331 W11 Agent - multiagent collaboration team-5
0402 W11 Agent Efficiency - Model Serving + PPO W11.2-team6-PPO team-6
0407 W12 Project discussion session! instructor QA discussion date
0409 W12 multimodal FMs - video / audio team-2
0414 W13 Small foundation models team-3
0416 W13 Model Interpretibility for FM team-4
0421 W14 Inference test time scaling law team-5
0423 W14 Model serving - Efficiency + PPO team-6
0428 W15 students project presentations all
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