2026 Spring UVA CS - GenAI-Overview
Graduate Level Seminar and Projects on Generative AI and LLM Agents
Graduate Level Seminar and Projects on Generative AI and LLM Agents
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 - LLM Alignments | 2026-SP-W2.1-advanced-llm-alignment.pdf | Framework | advanced preference alignment | ||
| 0205 | Research Agents | 2026-SP-W3.1-HCLS-agent.pdf | Framework | Agents Use in Research | Team Set Topics | ||
| 0210 | W5 | Agents in Healthcare | 2026-SP-W3.2-Team05-Agent-Healthcare.pdf | Application | HCLS agents | T1 | |
| 0212 | Agents in Life Science | 2026-SP-W3.3-Team06-BioinfomaticsAgents.pdf | HCLS | Bioinf Agents | Baseline-A | ||
| 0217 | W6 | Agents HCLS Data | 2026-SP-W3.6-HealthCare-FMs.pdf | Application | 2026-SP-W3.4-Team0506-HCLS-agentData | T2 | |
| 0219 | Agent in Genome Science | 2026-SP-W3.5-LifeScience-ProteinLLM.pdf | HCLS | 2026-SP-W3.7-LifeScience-genomeLLM | Demo-A | ||
| 0224 | W7 | Agent Brain - Reasoning + GRPO | 2026-SP-W2.2-llm-reasoning-GRPO-landscape.pdf | Reasoning | Reasoning | T3 | |
| 0226 | Agents Optimization - Data synthesis | 2026-SP-W4.1-data-syn.pdf | Optimization | Lectures/2026-SP-W4.3-data-syn-agent2usecases + Lectures/2026-SP-W4.2-virtual-cell-modeling | Final-A | ||
| 0310 | W9 | Agent - Memory | 2026-SP-W5-agent-memory3papers.pdf | Memory | Memory system for LLM agents | T4 | |
| 0312 | Diffusion models to Generate | Diffusion | other foundation model | Topic-B | |||
| 0317 | W10 | Model Serving for Agents | Serving | Agents with efficient model serving | T5 | ||
| 0319 | Model Serving for Agents | Serving | Agents with efficient model serving | Proposal-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 | Demo-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 | Agents Optimization | Optimization | Agents Optimization | T9 | ||
| 0416 | Agent Customization | Memory | Final-B | ||||
| 0421 | W15 | Agent - Multiagent collaboration | MAS | Multi-Agents | T10 | ||
| 0423 | Agent - Multiagent collaboration | MAS | Multi-Agents | Demo-combined | |||
| 0428 | W16 | buffer | Evaluation | buffer | T11 |