Week 2: Controlled improvement and failure analysis

Apr 15, 2026 · Block 1: Lecture · Block 2: Lab

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Lab notebook: week2_lab.ipynb

Homework notebook: week2_homework.ipynb

Memo rubric: week2_memo_rubric.md

Readings: Pick 2–3 that connect to your memo.

• Cui 2019 — Class Balanced Loss
• Fang 2021 — Minority Collapse
• Kang 2020 — Decoupling
• Lin 2017 — Focal Loss
• Mallinar 2022 — Tempered Overfitting
• Menon 2021 — Logit Adjustment
• Nakkiran 2019 — Deep Double Descent
• Shi 2024 — Heavy Finetuning Hurts
• Zhang 2017 — Rethinking Generalization