Florian Tramèr: Catalogue data in Spring Semester 2023 |
| Name | Prof. Dr. Florian Tramèr |
| Name variants | Florian Tramèr Florian Tramer |
| Field | Computer Science |
| Address | Professur für Informatik ETH Zürich, CAB F 72 Universitätstrasse 6 8092 Zürich SWITZERLAND |
| florian.tramer@inf.ethz.ch | |
| Department | Computer Science |
| Relationship | Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) |
| Number | Title | ECTS | Hours | Lecturers | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 263-5354-00L | Large Language Models  | 8 credits | 3V + 2U + 2A | R. Cotterell, M. Sachan, F. Tramèr, C. Zhang | |
| Abstract | Large language models have become one of the most commonly deployed NLP inventions. In the past half-decade, their integration into core natural language processing tools has dramatically increased the performance of such tools, and they have entered the public discourse surrounding artificial intelligence. | ||||
| Learning objective | To understand the mathematical foundations of large language models as well as how to implement them. | ||||
| Content | We start with the probabilistic foundations of language models, i.e., covering what constitutes a language model from a formal, theoretical perspective. We then discuss how to construct and curate training corpora, and introduce many of the neural-network architectures often used to instantiate language models at scale. The course covers aspects of systems programming, discussion of privacy and harms, as well as applications of language models in NLP and beyond. | ||||
| Literature | The lecture notes will be supplemented with various readings from the literature. | ||||