Welcome to the Army Educational Outreach Program for Summer 2021 at the University of Arkansas!
Week 1 will be a crash course on basic machine learning concepts from basic classifiers to deep neural networks. Week 2 will be crash course on NLP and a practical application of deep neural networks to text processing. Week 3-6 will be focused on researching a topic, performing experiments, and writing a paper. There will be workshops on paper reading and writing as well.
| Week | Activity |
|---|---|
| Week 1 | Introduction to Machine Learning, Tools, and Research Tuesday: Introduction Machine Learning & Research Wednesday: Univariate and Multivariate Linear Regression Thursday: Logistic Regression Friday: Neural Networks |
| Week 2 | Introduction to Natural Language Processing Monday: Text preprocessing and data exploration Tuesday: Topic Modeling Wednesday: Sequence Models & Attention Thursday: Transformers Friday: Fine-tuning pre-trained models |
| Week 3 | Reading Research Papers and Writing in LaTex Monday: Reading Research (HW: Read 1 paper) Tuesday: Researching a topic of interest Wednesday: Writing Workshop Thursday: Paper Presentations Friday: Fine-tuning models w/ HuggingFace |
| Week 4 | Project work week, Read Papers Monday: Choose a direction for paper Tuesday: Explore Datasets Wednesday: Preprocess text data Thursday: Run models Friday: Run models |
| Week 5 | Writing Paper week Monday: Begin writing Introduction of paper Tuesday: Write background section Wednesday: Write experiments section Thursday: Write Abstract and Conclusion section Friday: Writing Workshop |
| Week 6 | Wrapping up the project and finish writing paper Monday: Polish up paper and look into publication Tuesday: Q&A day Wednesday: Q&A day Thursday: Tips for future research and Q&A Friday: Final Presentation |
3Blue1Brown Youtube Channel for linear algebra and neural networks intuition: https://www.youtube.com/c/3blue1brown/playlists
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/
Arxiv (Search for research papers): https://arxiv.org/
Connected Papers: https://www.connectedpapers.com/
Paperswithcode: https://paperswithcode.com/
IEEE Xplore: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/home.jsp
Overleaf (online LaTex editor): https://www.overleaf.com
PyTorch website: https://pytorch.org/
HuggingFace Transformers: https://huggingface.co/transformers/