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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 - 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 Final-A
0310 W9 Agent - Memory 2026-SP-W5-agent-memory3papers.pdf Memory Memory system for LLM agents T4
0312 Diffusion models to Generate 2026-SP-W4.4-zhe-MaskedDiffusionLM.pdf Diffusion Not transformer foundation model Topic-B
0317 W10 Model Serving for Agents 2026-SP-W6-survey-model-serve.pdf Serving Agents with efficient model serving T5
0319 Agents Optimization Optimization + Lectures/2026-SP-W4.2-virtual-cell-modeling Grading-A
0324 W11 Agents Auditing 2026-SP-W7.1-AttackDefenseLandscapeAgenticAI.pdf Evaluation Agents Risk Evaluations T6
0326 Agent Safety 2026-SP-W7.2-Jailbreak4DataSynth.pdf Evaluation safety for agent LLM Proposal-B
0331 W12 Agent Evaluation 2026-SP-W7.3-AgentEvaluationMa.pdf Evaluation Benchmarks for evaluating LLM agents T7
0402 Agent - Planning / Test time scaling Planning Agents planning
0407 W13 Agent - Planning Planning Agents planning T8
0409 Agent - World model Environments Understanding environments for Agents Mid-B
0414 W14 Agent - World model Environments Understanding environments for Agents T9
0416 Agent - Multiagent collaboration MAS Multi-Agents Final-B
0428 W15 Project Evaluation Project T10 Demo-combined
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