FNLP: Week 7

Tasks

Your major tasks and deadlines this week are:

  • Attend lectures 19, 20, and 21.
  • Read the readings for this week.
  • Attend Lab 3.
  • Start looking at questions for Tutorial 3.
  • Post a question on Piazza
  • Ask a questions at the lectures and/or
  • Ask your tutor

Lectures

NoDateTitle
Lecture 19March 4Transfer Learning II (T5, GPT) [lecture] [quiz]
Lecture 20March 5Prompting and In-context Learning [lecture] [quiz]
Lecture 21March 7Scaling Laws and Instruction Tuning [lecture] [quiz]

Readings

Jurafsky and Martin, 3rd edition

Chapter 10, Sections 10.1-10.3

Chapter 12, Sections 12.1-12.3

required
Radford et al. (2018)Improving Language Understanding
by Generative Pre-Training
required
Brown et al. (2020)Language Models are Few-shot learnersrequired
Kaplan et al (2020)Scaling Laws for Neural Language Modelsrecommended

 

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