NLP-Hexmoor

Foundation models are a recent class of AI models that are large-scale in terms of number of parameters and are trained on broad data. This course will outline the fundamental concepts of foundation models including the capabilities of pre-trained models for AI-powered applications. Topics covered include Transformers, Large Language Models such as GPT- 4, Diffusion models, generative modeling, and multi-modal foundation models. There is no required textbook, and we will be mostly reading publicly available research papers. The papers will be mostly from major conferences. This course is suitable for students who are willing and able to learn abstract concepts, complete programming assignments, develop a project, and produce a term paper.

Team project is a key part of this course. Each project will demonstrate a salient application of interest to students.

Objective: The course will provide skills to investigate digital forensic incidence handling and analysis as well as recommend security mitigations.

The course will offer skills to conduct incidence response, and subsequent handling.

Course administration and grading.The course will be run as a regular lecture class with four indiviual home works (15 points each--60 points in all); Project presentation and report (30 points), One mid-sem presentation (10 points), Teaming is Required.

Dan Jurafsky and James H. Martin, 2023, Natural Language Processing, 3rd edition (in draft form), Prentice Hall, ISBN not known.

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