Teaching LLMs at Charles University: Assignments and Activities

Jindřich Helcl, Zdeněk Kasner, Ondřej Dušek, Tomasz Limisiewicz, Dominik Macháček, Tomáš Musil, Jindřich Libovický


Abstract
This paper presents teaching materials, particularly assignments and ideas for classroom activities, from a new course on large language modelsThe 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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2024.teachingnlp-1.9
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Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Teaching NLP
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August
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2024
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Bangkok, Thailand
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Sana Al-azzawi, Laura Biester, György Kovács, Ana Marasović, Leena Mathur, Margot Mieskes, Leonie Weissweiler
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Jindřich Helcl, Zdeněk Kasner, Ondřej Dušek, Tomasz Limisiewicz, Dominik Macháček, Tomáš Musil, and Jindřich Libovický. 2024. Teaching LLMs at Charles University: Assignments and Activities. In Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Teaching NLP, pages 69–72, Bangkok, Thailand. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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