2026 Spring UVA CS - GenAI-Overview

Feel free to email me, when you find my typos or have comments. The covered materials are by no means an exhaustive list of machine learning, but are contents that we have taught or plan to teach in my machine learning introductory course.
Please pay attention to special dates: (0119 MLK, 0303 break,0305 break, 0120+0122 AAAI ) no class, holiday or spring recess; and (0428) Last lesson day of Spring 2026 .

Website for 2026 Spring-UVA-CS GenAI Foundation and LLM Agents: Risk and Benefits Overviews (Graduate 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 / Our Survey Slide Deck	Topic	Notes	Team Info	Project Due
0113	W1	Introduction	FMBasic	deep learning basics
0115	W1	LLM basics - Preference Alignment	BasicLLM	Basic Preference Optimization		Teaming due
WE ARE HERE
0127	W3	Survey - LLM Agents	Basics
0129		Survey - LLM Agents	Basics			Team Set Topics
0203	W4	Tooling for LLM agents	Action	connect agents to tools	T1
0205		Tooling / Action for LLM agents	Action	connect agents to tools		Baseline-A
0210	W5	Survey - Agents Applications	Application		T2
0212		Survey - Agents Applications	Application			Proposal-A
0217	W6	Agent - in Healthcare	Input	Special Agent	T3
0219		Agent - Perception	Input	Input module for LLM agents		Mid-A
0224	W7	Agent Brain - Reasoning	Reasoning	world model	T4
0226		Agent Brain - Reasoning	Reasoning	world model
0310	W9	Agent - Memory	Memory	Memory system for LLM agents	T5
0312		Agent - Memory	Memory	Memory system for LLM agents		Final-A
0317	W10	Model Serving for Agents	Serving	Agents with efficient model serving	T6
0319		Model Serving for Agents	Serving	Agents with efficient model serving
0324	W11	Agent Evaluation	Evaluation	Benchmarks for evaluating LLM agents	T7
0326		Agent Safety	Evaluation	safety for agent LLM		Baseline-B
0331	W12	Agent - Planning / Test test scaling	Planning	Agents planning	T8
0402		Agent - Planning	Planning	Agents planning		Proposal-B
0407	W13	Agent - World model	Enviroments	Understanding enviroments for Agents	T9
0409		Agent - World model	Enviroments	Understanding enviroments for Agents		Mid-B
0414	W14	Agent - Multiagent collaboration	MAS	Multi-Agents	T10
0416		Agent - Multiagent collaboration	MAS	Multi-Agents		Final-B
0421	W15	Agents Optimization	Optimization	Agents Optimization	T11
0423		Agents Optimization	Optimization	Agents Optimization
0428	W16	buffer	Evaluation	buffer	T12	Demo

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