CLJul 29, 2024

Teaching LLMs at Charles University: Assignments and Activities

arXiv:2407.19798v126 citationsh-index: 30
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This provides practical resources for educators teaching LLM courses, but it is incremental as it focuses on sharing existing teaching methods rather than advancing research.

The paper presents teaching materials from a new course on large language models at Charles University, including assignments like weather report generation and machine translation experiments, and classroom activities such as quizzes and interactive paper sessions.

This paper presents teaching materials, particularly assignments and ideas for classroom activities, from a new course on large language models (LLMs) taught at Charles University. The assignments include experiments with LLM inference for weather report generation and machine translation. The classroom activities include class quizzes, focused research on downstream tasks and datasets, and an interactive "best paper" session aimed at reading and comprehension of research papers.

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