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2026 Spring UVA CS - GenAI-Overview



Graduate Level Seminar and Projects on Generative AI and LLM Agents

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 SlideDeck Topic Notes Team Info Project Due
0113 W1 Introduction 2026-SP-W1.1-IntroLLM.pdf FMBasic LLM basics
0115 W1 LLM basics - Preference Alignment 2026-SP-W1.2-basic-llm-alignment.pdf BasicLLM Basic Preference Optimization
0127 W3 More - LLM Alignments 2026-SP-W2.1-advanced-llm-alignment.pdf Basics More PO Teaming due
0129 Intro - LLM Agents 2026-SP-W2.2-basic-agent.pdf Basics Agent basics
0203 W4 More Intro on Language agents Framework differnt agent frameworks
0205 More Intro on Language agents Framework differnt agent frameworks Team Set Topics
WE ARE HERE
0210 W5 Agents Science Applications Application T1
0212 Agents HCLS Applications Application Baseline-A
0217 W6 FM/Agent - in Life Science / Pharma HCLS Life science Agent T2
0219 Agent - Perception Input Input module for LLM agents Proposal-A
0224 W7 Agent Brain - Reasoning Reasoning world model T3
0226 Diffusion models Diffusion other foundation model Mid-A
0310 W9 Agent - Memory Memory Memory system for LLM agents T4
0312 Agent - Memory Memory Memory system for LLM agents Final-A
0317 W10 Model Serving for Agents Serving Agents with efficient model serving T5
0319 Model Serving for Agents Serving Agents with efficient model serving Topic-B
0324 W11 Agent Evaluation Evaluation Benchmarks for evaluating LLM agents T6
0326 Agent Safety Evaluation safety for agent LLM Baseline-B
0331 W12 Agent - Planning / Test time scaling Planning Agents planning T7
0402 Agent - Planning Planning Agents planning Proposal-B
0407 W13 Agent - World model Environments Understanding environments for Agents T8
0409 Agent - World model Environments Understanding environments for Agents Mid-B
0414 W14 Agent - Multiagent collaboration MAS Multi-Agents T9
0416 Agent - Multiagent collaboration MAS Multi-Agents Final-B
0421 W15 Agents Optimization Optimization Agents Optimization T10
0423 Agents Optimization Optimization Prompt Tuning + Agent Customization + Model Optimization + Synthetic Data? Demo
0428 W16 buffer Evaluation buffer T11
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