CM0091 - Artificial Intelligence

Course Repository CM0091 Artificial Intelligence at Universidad EAFIT

INSTRUCTOR	Juan David Martínez Vargas ([email protected])
LECTURES	Tuesday 7:30 – 9:00 33-203, Thursday 7:30 - 9:00 33-202
MATERIAL	repo

Sketchnote by Tomomi Imura

Roadmap of the course

Roadmap of the Course

We will learn in this course:

• Neural Networks and Deep Learning, which are at the core of modern AI. We will illustrate the concepts behind these important topics using code in two of the most popular frameworks - TensorFlow and PyTorch.
• Neural Architectures for working with images and text. We will cover recent models but may be a bit lacking in the state-of-the-art.
• State of the art Generative AI applications.

Evaluation

Event	Topic	Material	Starting Date	Final Date
Assignment 1 (20%)	Fully Connected Nets and Backpropagation		Week 05	Week 08
Assignment 2 (20%)	Application of Computer Vision		Week 08	Week 10
Assignment 3 (20%)	Application of Transformers and NLP		Week 10	Week 12
Assignment 4 (20%)	Application of GenAI		Week 14	Week 16
Final Project (20%)	AI Applications		Week 12	Week 18

Lectures

Lecture 01

• Lecture01.pdf — Introduction to AI, DL and ML
• Lecture01b.pdf — Linear Algebra for DL
• Homework:
  • Review the Pytorch in one our blog
  • Review the pytorch basics notebook
  • Review the broadcasting notebook

Lecture 02

• Lecture02.pdf — Linear Regression from a Deep Learning Perspective

• Lecture02b.pdf — Logistic and Softmax Regression from a Deep Learning Perspective

• BiasVariance.pdf — Bias–Variance Trade-off and Decomposition

• Notebooks:

  • L02_linear-regr-scratch.ipynb — Linear regression implemented from scratch
  • L02b_softmax_regression_scratch.ipynb — Logistic and softmax regression from scratch
  • L02_fitting.ipynb — Model fitting and training dynamics
  • L02_regularization.ipynb — Regularization techniques
  • L02_hyperparameter_tunning.ipynb — Hyperparameter tuning basics

• Homework:

  • Review the bias–variance trade-off and relate it to underfitting and overfitting
  • Run and modify the linear and softmax regression notebooks
  • Experiment with regularization strength and observe its effect on generalization

Lecture 03

• Lecture03.pdf — Feed-Forward Neural Networks (FFNNs)

• Lecture03b.pdf — Optimization for Machine Learning
  (SGD, Momentum, RMSProp, Adam, AdamW)

• Lecture03c.pdf — Backpropagation and Regularization in Neural Networks

• Notebooks:

  • L03_FFNNs.ipynb — Feed-forward neural networks from scratch
  • L03_mlp_pytorch_softmax_crossentr.ipynb — MLPs in PyTorch with softmax and cross-entropy loss
  • L03_sgd_scheduler_momentum.ipynb — Optimization strategies: SGD, momentum, and learning-rate scheduling
  • L03-autograd_tutorial.ipynb — PyTorch autograd and gradient computation

• Homework:

  • Explain the role of backpropagation in training neural networks
  • Compare different optimizers (SGD vs Adam) in terms of convergence behavior
  • Modify the MLP architecture (depth, width) and observe training dynamics
  • Experiment with learning rates and schedulers and analyze their effect on performance

Lecture 04

• Lecture04.pdf — Training Neural Networks with PyTorch (Step-by-step)

• Notebooks:

  • L04_mnist.ipynb — Step-by-step NN training in PyTorch (MNIST)
  • L04_asl.ipynb — Homework: apply the training pipeline to the ASL dataset

Lecture 05

• Lecture05.pdf — Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) Basics

• conv2D.pdf — Convolutions and Backpropagation (Mathematical Foundations)

• Notebooks:

  • L05_Convolucion.ipynb — Understanding the convolution operation step-by-step
  • L05_CNNBackpropagation.ipynb — Backpropagation through convolutional layers
  • L05_ConvNetsPyTorch.ipynb — Building CNNs in PyTorch
  • L05_CNN-CIFAR-10.ipynb — Homework: Train and evaluate a CNN on CIFAR-10

Lecture 06

• Lecture06.pdf — Common CNN Architectures and Transfer Learning

• BatchNorm.pdf — Batch Normalization (1D and 2D)

• Notebooks:

  • L06_CNN_Transfer.ipynb — Example: applying transfer learning to an image dataset
  • L06_CNN_Transfer_HW.ipynb — Homework: Fine-tune a pretrained CNN on a new dataset

Resources:

• Computational resources: I strongly recommend creating (free) accounts on the following platforms:

  • Google collaborative
  • HuggingFace
  • Kaggle
  • LightingAI
  • Weights and Biases

• Deep Learning books:

  • Deep Learning
  • Dive into Deep Learningas
  • Deep Learning - Foundations and Concepts
  • Deep Learning with Python

• Artificial Intelligence Books:

  • Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
  • Artificial Intelligence with Python: A Comprehensive Guide to Building Intelligent Apps for Python Beginners and Developers

• Large Language Models:

  • Building a Large Language Model from Scratch

• Online courses:

  • Intro to Deep Learning
  • DeepMind Deep Learning course