llm2026

LLMs: From Transformers to GPT| Winter 2026


Professional Masters Program | University of Washington, Seattle


Instructor - Dr. Karthik Mohan


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Lectures and Lecture Notes


Lecture Lecture Topic Pre-Lecture Slides Annotated Lecture Slides Lecture Videos Notebooks
Jan 5 Introduction to the Course Lecture 1 Lecture 1 annotated Video -
Jan 7 History of LLMs & DL Foundations Lecture 2 Lecture 2 part 2 Lecture 2 annotated Video -
Jan 12 DL Foundations Lecture 3 Lecture 3 annotated Video -
Jan 14 DL Foundations and Semantic Search Lecture 4 part 1 Lecture 4 part 2 Lecture 4 Part 1 annotated Video Part 1 Video Part 2 -
Jan 19 Semantic Search Demo     Video -
Jan 21 Embeddings, Transformers, BERT Lecture 6 Lecture 6 annotated Video Demo
Jan 26 Multi-Head Attention and sBERT Lecture 7 Lecture 7 annotated Video  
Jan 28 Multi-Head Attention, FFN, sBERT Lecture 8 MHA walkthrough Lecture 8 annotated MHA walkthrough annotated Video  
Feb 2 Moltbook, Training BERT, SBERT Lecture 9 Lecture 9 annotated Video  
Feb 4 Instacart use-case Recommendations and Prompting Lecture 10 Prompting Lecture 10 annotated Video  
Feb 9 Prompting Principles & RAG Prompting, ICL ChatBot Design Lecture 11 annotated Video Coding Exercise
Feb 11 ChatBot Design and LLM Attacks Lecture 12 Lecture 12 annotated Video  
Feb 23 LoRA Fine-Tuning Lecture 13 Lecture 13 annotated Video Coding Exercise
Feb 24 LLM Agents Lecture 14 Lecture 14 annotated Video  
Feb 25 LLM Agents Continued Lecture 15 Lecture 15 annotated Video Coding Exercise
Mar 2 Llama3 & DeepSeek (Part 1) Lecture 16 Lecture 16 annotated Video  
Mar 9 Llama3 Inferencing (Part 2) Lecture 17 Lecture 17 annotated Video  
Mar 11 Llama3 Inferencing (Part 3) Lecture 18 Lecture 18 annotated Video Coding Exercise