Schedule

Lectures are highlighted corresponding to the broad topic they belong to: basics, optimizations, and platforms. Lecturer names are given in parentheses: Alexios Balatsoukas Stimming (ABS), Federico Corradi (FC), Orlando Moreira (OM), Willem Sandberg (WS), Lorenzo Pes (PS) and Zhanbo Shen (ZS).

Week	Day/Time	Type	Topic	Publication	Deadline
Week 1	Tuesday February 3, 10:45-12:30	Lecture (ABS)	Basics I: Introduction and feedforward neural networks (NNs)	Assignment 1A
Week 1	Friday February 6, 15:30-17:15	Lecture (ABS)	Cancelled
Week 2	Tuesday February 10, 10:45-12:30	Lecture (ABS)	Basics II: Training of feedforward NNs	Assignment 1B
Week 2	Friday February 13, 15:30-17:15	Lecture (ABS)	Basics III: Overfitting and convolutional NNs (CNNs)
	Carnival Break (1 week)
Week 3	Tuesday February 24, 10:45-12:30	Lecture (ABS)	Optimizations I: Pruning & quantization	Assignment 2A	Assignment 1
Week 3	Friday February 27, 15:30-17:15	Lecture (ABS)	Optimizations II: Knowledge distillation and compact-aware network design	Assignment 2B
Week 4	Tuesday March 3, 10:45-12:30	Lecture (WS)	Optimizations III: Neural architecture search (NXP lecture)	Assignment 2C
Week 4	Friday March 6, 15:30-17:15	Lecture (FC)	Platforms I: SystemVerilog Essentials for Digital Hardware Design
Week 5	Tuesday March 10, 10:45-12:30	Lecture (OM)	NeuroFlow Architecture	Assignment 3 A&B	Assignment 2
Week 5	Friday March 13, 15:30-17:15	Lecture (FC)	Platforms II: Design objectives for deep NN (DNN) hardware (HW)
Week 6	Tuesday March 17, 10:45-12:30	Lecture (OM)	Basic IV: Transformers Models (Attention mechanism, ViT, Multi-modal Transformers)
Week 6	Friday March 20, 15:30-17:15	Lecture (FC)	Platforms III: Parallelization & Stationarity in DNN HW Accelerators
Week 7	Tuesday March 24, 10:45-12:30	Lecture (FC)	Platforms IV: Sparsity & Quantization in DNN HW Architectures
Week 7	Friday March 27, 15:30-17:15	Lecture (FC)	Platforms V: Binary Neural Networks & TinyML HW
Week 8	Tuesday March 31, 10:45-12:30	Lecture (FC)	Platforms VI: Spiking Neural Networks & Neuromorphic Computing Architectures
Week 8	Friday March April 3, 15:30-17:15	No lecture (Good Friday)			Assignment 3