EE 269: Foundation Models and Advances in Ai

2025-26

Units: 4

Hours: Lecture, 3 hours; research, 3 hours

Catalog page 359

Prerequisites: CS 228, EE 228, EE 242A, CS 224; graduate standing; or consent of instructor

Description: Explores key concepts in foundation models and recent advances in AI. Covers model architectures such as attention, transformers, and state space models; training pipelines including pretraining, fine-tuning, and reinforcement learning from human feedback; data acquisition strategies; tool augmentations; multimodal models; and techniques for efficient training and inference.

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Year F W S Su Total
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