NLP to LLMs
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    • Before Day 1 · Module 0 (pre-work)
    • Day 1 · Foundations
    • Day 2 · Transformers and Pretraining
    • Day 3 · Using and Aligning LLMs
    • Day 4 · Calibration, Decisions, RAG
    • Day 5 · Agents and Capstone
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Schedule

Five Days, 09:00 to 17:00

On Day 1, each module is 95 minutes: 45 minutes of briefing, then 50 of lab. On Days 2 to 5, each module is 120 minutes: 55 minutes of briefing, 55 of lab, then a 10-minute debrief. On Days 2 to 4 the second module breaks for lunch between its briefing and its lab. On Day 5, the capstone build runs on across lunch. The capstone (Module 15) has no briefing: it takes 11:30–12:25, 13:25–14:30 and 14:45–16:45 on Day 5.

The intro slides, shown in the welcome slot on Day 1, give the setup and this schedule in short form.

Day 1 keeps the shorter modules because its briefings are the lightest. From Day 2, each briefing has room for its predictions, checks and demo, and each lab ends with a debrief: what the room found, and where results differed. Those days open with a warm-up, a few knowledge check questions from earlier days, and close with a wrap-up: the day’s results go into a running table, and the room names the limitation that is left.

Module 0 · Coding Agents in the Terminal is optional pre-work, done on your own laptop before Day 1. There is no talk and no notebook. If you get stuck, the room opens at 08:00 on Day 1 for an optional drop-in clinic. The workshop proper starts at 09:00.

Briefing Lab Debrief Break Optional clinic

Day 1 · 95-Minute Modules

Time Day 1 Foundations
08:00–09:00 Drop-In Clinic: Module 0 Pre-Work (optional)
09:00–09:10 Welcome, Setup Check
09:10–10:45 1 · Text as Data Briefing 09:10Lab 09:55
10:45–11:00 Break
11:00–12:35 2 · Word Vectors and Neural Networks Briefing 11:00Lab 11:45
12:35–13:35 Lunch
13:35–15:10 3 · Sequence Models Briefing 13:35Lab 14:20
15:10–15:25 Break
15:25–17:00 4 · Seq2seq and Attention Briefing 15:25Lab 16:10

Days 2–5 · 120-Minute Modules

Time Day 2 Transformers and Pretraining Day 3 Using and Aligning LLMs Day 4 Calibration, Decisions, RAG Day 5 Agents and Capstone
09:00–09:15 Warm-Up Warm-Up Warm-Up Warm-Up
09:15–11:15 5 · The Transformer Briefing 09:15Lab 10:10Debrief 11:05 8 · LLMs Through APIs Briefing 09:15Lab 10:10Debrief 11:05 11 · Calibration Briefing 09:15Lab 10:10Debrief 11:05 14 · Agents Briefing 09:15Lab 10:10Debrief 11:05
11:15–11:30 Break Break Break Break
11:30–12:25 6 · Pretraining and the Hugging Face Stack Briefing 11:30 9 · Reinforcement and Preference Learning Briefing 11:30 12 · Calibrated Decisions: RLCD and Jev Briefing 11:30 15 · Capstone: Build Hands-on
12:25–13:25 Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch
13:25–14:30 6 · Pretraining and the Hugging Face Stack Lab 13:25Debrief 14:20 9 · Reinforcement and Preference Learning Lab 13:25Debrief 14:20 12 · Calibrated Decisions: RLCD and Jev Lab 13:25Debrief 14:20 15 · Capstone: Build Hands-on
14:30–14:45 Break Break Break Break
14:45–16:45 7 · Fine-Tuning and LoRA Briefing 14:45Lab 15:40Debrief 16:35 10 · RLHF Briefing 14:45Lab 15:40Debrief 16:35 13 · Retrieval-Augmented Generation Briefing 14:45Lab 15:40Debrief 16:35 15 · Capstone: Evaluate and Share Hands-on
16:45–17:00 Wrap-Up Wrap-Up Wrap-Up Wrap-Up and Close

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