Generative Modelling for Natural Language Processing
Table of Contents
Instructors
Syllabus
Session 1: Word Embeddings
Lecture and Lab on
References:
- Advances in Pre-Training Distributed Word Representations (Mikolov, Tomas and Grave, Edouard and Bojanowski, Piotr and Puhrsch, Christian and Joulin, Armand, 2018) pdf
- Neural Word Embedding as Implicit Matrix Factorization (Levy, Omer and Goldberg, Yoav, 2014) pdf
- Closed-Form Training Dynamics Reveal Learned Features and Linear Structure in Word2vec-Like Models (Karkada, Dhruva and Simon, James B. and Bahri, Yasaman and DeWeese, Michael R., 2025)
Session 2: Language Models
Session 3: Attention in RNN and Transformer Language Models
Session 4: Chatbots fine-tuning RHLF and DPO
Lecture/Lab on
References:
- Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (Nathan Lambert, 2024)
- Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction (Sutton, Richard S. and Barto, Andrew G., 2018 )
- Learning to summarize from human feedback (Nisan Stiennon and Long Ouyang and Jeff Wu and Daniel M. Ziegler and Ryan Lowe and Chelsea Voss and Alec Radford and Dario Amodei and Paul F. Christiano, 2020)
- Simple statistical gradient-following algorithms for connectionist reinforcement learning (Williams, R. J., 1992)
- Direct Preference Optimization: Your Language Model is Secretly a Reward Model (Rafael Rafailov and Archit Sharma and Eric Mitchell and Christopher D Manning and Stefano Ermon and Chelsea Finn, 2023)
Session 5: Deep Latent Variable Models for Texts
Exam
References
- Advances in Pre-Training Distributed Word Representations (Mikolov, Tomas and Grave, Edouard and Bojanowski, Piotr and Puhrsch, Christian and Joulin, Armand, 2018) pdf
- Neural Word Embedding as Implicit Matrix Factorization (Levy, Omer and Goldberg, Yoav, 2014) pdf
- Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (Nathan Lambert, 2024)
- Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction (Sutton, Richard S. and Barto, Andrew G., 2018 )
- Learning to summarize from human feedback (Nisan Stiennon and Long Ouyang and Jeff Wu and Daniel M. Ziegler and Ryan Lowe and Chelsea Voss and Alec Radford and Dario Amodei and Paul F. Christiano, 2020)
- Simple statistical gradient-following algorithms for connectionist reinforcement learning (Williams, R. J., 1992)
- Direct Preference Optimization: Your Language Model is Secretly a Reward Model (Rafael Rafailov and Archit Sharma and Eric Mitchell and Christopher D Manning and Stefano Ermon and Chelsea Finn, 2023)