50.040 Natural Language Processing
Fall 2025 (Term 7) | Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)
Announcements
- [Sep 4, 2025] Welcome to a brand new 50.040! Check this website regularly for updates.
Teaching Team
Instructor: Prof. Wenxuan Zhang
- Email:
wxzhang@sutd.edu.sg - Office: 1.602-17
- Chen Huang (
chen_huang@mymail.sutd.edu.sg) - Shaoyang Xu (
shaoyang_xu@mymail.sutd.edu.sg)
Grading Policy
Note: more details regarding the grading policy will be discussed in the first lecture.- Attendance & Participation: 8% (+2% survey)
- Assignments (Individual): 30% (10% each)
- In-class Quizzes: 30% (15% each)
- Final (Group) Project: 30%
Class Information
Lectures: Room 2.505- Monday: 1:00PM – 3:00PM
- Tuesday: 1:30PM – 3:30PM
- Note: No recording or streaming, please come!
- CI01: Tuesday 9:30AM – 10:30AM
- CI02: Thursday 4:00PM – 5:00PM
- Note: Cohorts only in certain weeks, check schedule below
Course Schedule
Note: Schedule is tentative and subject to change!| Week | Date | Topics | Materials / Readings | Cohorts | Deadlines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 15-Sep | Course Logistics Introduction & NLP Tasks |
- | - | - |
| 2 | 22-Sep | Recap on ML/NN Word Vectors 1 |
- | - | Release A1 |
| 3 | 29-Sep | Word Vectors 2 LM & RNN 1 |
- | Word2Vec Tutorial | A1 Due |
| 4 | 6-Oct | LM & RNN 2 Quiz-1 |
- | - | - |
| 5 | 13-Oct | Seq2Seq & Attention 1 Seq2Seq & Attention 2 |
- | - | Release A2 |
| 6 | 20-Oct | Transformer Project Announce |
- | HF Transformer Tutorial | A2 Due |
| 7 | 27-Oct | Recess Week | |||
| 8 | 3-Nov | LLM Pre-training Post-training (SFT/RLHF) |
- | - | - |
| 9 | 10-Nov | Project Proposal Presentation Efficient Adaptation |
- | LLM Tutorial | - |
| 10 | 17-Nov | Benchmark & Evaluation Quiz-2 |
- | - | Release A3 |
| 11 | 24-Nov | Advanced Topic-1 Advanced Topic-2 |
- | Help on Project | A3 Due |
| 12 | 1-Dec | Advanced Topic-3 Advanced Topic-4 |
- | - | - |
| 13 | 8-Dec | Final Project Presentations | |||