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Efficient AI

Methods for making modern AI systems faster, smaller, and cheaper to train and serve.

Course details

Name
Efficient AI
Timings
WF 11:00 – 12:30
Room
CC 101

Instructor

Name
Aditya Desai
Office hours
W 12:30 – 1:30

Teaching assistants

TA 1
TBD · Office hours: TBD
TA 2
TBD · Office hours: TBD
TA 3
TBD · Office hours: TBD

Project

Semester-long model compression recipe: given a model and target domain, compress while preserving performance. This year’s setup uses Qwen-3.5-4B on the math domain. Checkpoints on Sep 15 and Nov 15, 2026.

Course schedule

Lecture materials will be linked here as they become available.

Date Lecture Topic Slides Notes
7/29/2026 1 Course Logistics, DL Overview Logistics · DL review
7/31/2026 2
8/5/2026 3
8/7/2026 4
8/12/2026 5
8/14/2026 6
8/19/2026 7
8/21/2026 8
8/26/2026 9
8/28/2026 10 Seminar
9/2/2026 11
9/4/2026 12 Seminar
9/9/2026 13
9/11/2026 14 Seminar
9/16/2026 15
9/18/2026 16 Seminar
9/23/2026 17
9/25/2026 18 Seminar
9/30/2026 19
10/2/2026 20 Seminar
10/7/2026 21
10/9/2026 22 Seminar
10/14/2026 23
10/16/2026 24 Seminar
10/21/2026 25
10/23/2026 26 Seminar
10/28/2026 27
10/30/2026 28 Seminar
11/4/2026 29
11/6/2026 30 Seminar

References

Selected readings linked by topic.

Topic References
Deep Learning Review