Schedule — Fall 2026
Lectures run in weeks 42–47: Mondays 12:00–13:45 in C2-055 and Tuesdays 10:00–11:45 in B2-065. All lectures are taught by Leif Anders Thorsrud and Vegard H. Larsen; the allocation of individual lectures will be announced later.
Lectures
| # | Date | Time | Topic | Room |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mon 12 Oct | 12:00–13:45 | Introduction to text as data | C2-055 |
| 2 | Tue 13 Oct | 10:00–11:45 | Bag-of-words, TF-IDF, and cosine similarity | B2-065 |
| 3 | Mon 19 Oct | 12:00–13:45 | Bag-of-words-based methods | C2-055 |
| 4 | Tue 20 Oct | 10:00–11:45 | Learning from prediction 1: n-gram language models | B2-065 |
| 5 | Mon 26 Oct | 12:00–13:45 | Practical day 1 | C2-055 |
| 6 | Tue 27 Oct | 10:00–11:45 | Learning from prediction 2: word embeddings | B2-065 |
| 7 | Mon 2 Nov | 12:00–13:45 | Introduction to LLMs and tokenization | C2-055 |
| 8 | Tue 3 Nov | 10:00–11:45 | Attention and transformers | B2-065 |
| 9 | Mon 9 Nov | 12:00–13:45 | LLM input/output, training, and fine-tuning | C2-055 |
| 10 | Tue 10 Nov | 10:00–11:45 | Practical day 2 | B2-065 |
| 11 | Mon 16 Nov | 12:00–13:45 | Prompt engineering, alignment, and summary | C2-055 |
| 12 | Tue 17 Nov | 10:00–11:45 | Mini-project presentations and feedback | B2-065 |
Assignment milestones
| When | Milestone |
|---|---|
| Lecture 1 | Groups formed (1–3 students), assignments introduced |
| Lecture 5 | Practical day 1: guidance on assignment 1 |
| Lecture 10 | Practical day 2: guidance on assignments 2–4 |
| Lecture 12 | Group presentations with feedback |
| End of semester | Submission of the collected assignments (30% of final grade) |
| December 2026 | Written school exam, 3 hours (70% of final grade) |