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.
  • Post a question on Piazza
  • Ask a questions at the lectures and/or
  • Ask your tutor

Lectures

NoDateTitle
Lecture 19March 3Transfer Learning  (BERT) [lecture] [quiz]
Lecture 20March 4Prompting and In-context Learning [lecture] [quiz]
Lecture 21March 6Scaling Laws and Instruction Tuning [lecture] [quiz]

Readings

Jurafsky and Martin, 3rd edition
Chapter 10 and Chapter 7required
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

Tutorial 3 Solutions

Tutorial 3 solution


Lab 3

lab3 gzipped tar file

License
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