Pre-work Modules

Complete before the first class. Total time: 2-3 hours.

Each module has a short slide deck and a hands-on Kaggle notebook.

#	Module	Slides	Notebook
1	Tokenization and Truncation	Slides	Notebook
2	Pretrained Encoders for Classification	Slides	Notebook
3	Train vs Eval Mode	Slides	Notebook
4	Confusion Matrices and Macro F1	Slides	Notebook
5	Calibration Basics	Slides	Notebook
6	LoRA/PEFT Basics	Slides	Notebook
7	Quantization Basics	Slides	Notebook
8	The Distillation Idea	Slides	Notebook
9	How LLMs Are Built (Optional)	Slides