Neural Network Design and Training
The slides to the introduction given in class you can find here. We further created a short Introduction about the prerequisites of the course, which hardware to use and how to set up the programming environment.
Projects will be handled using BlackBoard.
| Project Nr. | Announcement | Submission Deadline | Teaching Assistant | Topic | Project Instructions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2025-08-31 | 2025-09-21 | Aleksandar Cvejic | Fully Connected Neural Networks | Download |
| 2 | 2025-09-21 | 2025-10-15 | Fedor Rodionov | Convolutional Networks | Download |
| 3 | 2025-10-15 | 2025-11-09 | Jianqi Chen | Transformer / Sentiment Analysis | Download |
| 4 | 2025-11-12 | 2025-12-07 | Ahmed Abdelreheem | Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) | Download |
| Task | Nr. | Topic | Announcement Date | Due Date | #Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assignment | 1 | Course Review | Sunday, August 31 | Sunday, September 07 | 7 |
| Assignment | 2 | Course Review | Sunday, September 07 | Sunday, September 14 | 7 |
| Project | 1 | Fully Connected Neural Networks | Sunday, August 31 | Sunday, September 21 | 21 |
| Quiz | 1 | Assignments 1-2, Project 1 | Wednesday, September 24 | Wednesday, September 24 | 0 |
| Assignment | 3 | Course Review | Sunday, September 21 | Sunday, September 28 | 7 |
| Assignment | 4 | Course Review | Sunday, October 05 | Sunday, October 12 | 7 |
| Project | 2 | Convolutional Networks | Sunday, September 21 | Wednesday, October 15 | 24 |
| Quiz | 2 | Assignments 3-4, Project 2 | Sunday, October 26 | Sunday, October 26 | 0 |
| Assignment | 5 | Course Review | Sunday, October 26 | Sunday, November 02 | 7 |
| Assignment | 6 | Course Review | Sunday, November 02 | Sunday, November 09 | 7 |
| Project | 3 | Transformer (BERT) | Wednesday, October 15 | Sunday, November 09 | 25 |
| Quiz | 3 | Assignments 5-6, Project 3 | Wednesday, November 12 | Wednesday, November 12 | 0 |
| Assignment | 7 | Course Review | Sunday, November 09 | Sunday, November 16 | 7 |
| Assignment | 8 | Course Review | Sunday, November 16 | Sunday, November 23 | 7 |
| Assignment | 9 | Course Review | Sunday, November 30 | Sunday, December 07 | 7 |
| Project | 4 | Dreambooth / LoRA | Sunday, November 12 | Sunday, December 07 | 24 |
| Quiz | 4 | Assignment 7-9, Project 4 | Wednesday, December 10 | Wednesday, December 10 | 0 |
| Assignment | 10 | Course Review | Sunday, December 07 | Sunday, December 14 | 7 |
| Final Exam | 1 | Full Course Content | Tuesday, December 16, 04:30 p.m. | 0 | |
| Makeup Final | 1 | Full Course Content | Thursday, January 15, 03:00 p.m. | 0 |
Please attend the Slack Workspace of the course to ask questions. Please always use the #general channel to ask project-related questions and only contact the respective TA in exceptional cases.