Foundation Models: Principles and Practice

4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)

Lecture, four hours; discussion, two hours; outside study, six hours. Requisite: course M146. Discussion of advanced topics and state-of-the-art research in training foundation models, including large language models (LLMs) and large vision language models (LVLMs). Topics include pretraining and post-training foundation models, safety alignment, training reasoning LLMs and VLMs, and synthetic data generation for foundation models. Concurrently scheduled with course C260F. Letter grading.