Reading List for Student Lectures

  • Multiscale Neural Modeling by Arya Teymourlouei (Tues, Oct 28, 2025)
  • Pareto Optimal Deep Reinforcement Learning by Chi-Chang Lee (Tues, Oct 28, 2025)
  • Differential Learning Rates for Learning by Dayal Kalra (Tues, Oct 28, 2025)
  • Differentiable Discrete Learning via Continuous Relaxations by Karan Jain (Thur, Oct 30, 2025)
  • Differentiable Dynamic Programming by Mihil Sreenilayam (Thur, Oct 30, 2025)
  • Streaming Algorithms by Eric Wang (Thur, Oct 30, 2025)
  • Signal Temporal Logic Formulas by Daniel Huber (Tues, Nov 4, 2025)
  • Sparse Attention Methods for Multimodal Transformer Models by Vijaykaarti Sundarapandiyan (Tues, Nov 4, 2025)
  • Differentiable Quantum Architecture Search (DQAS) by Jayden John (Tues, Nov 4, 2025)
  • TextGrad: An Automatic Differentiation Tool for Textual Gradients by Atharv Umap (Thur, Nov 6, 2025)
  • Chain of Thought by Aditya Menachery (Thur, Nov 6, 2025)
  • AI Prompt Generation intersected with Intellectual Property and Copyright Law by Chaitanya Kotikalapudi (Thur, Nov 6, 2025)
  • Differentiable Data Augmentation by Raghav Thind (Tues, Nov 11, 2025)
  • Adversarial Attacks on LLMs by Daniel Kiely (Tues, Nov 11, 2025)
  • Differentiable Heterogeneous Quantitative Trading by John Cole (Tues, Nov 11, 2025)
  • Implicit Neural Scene Representations and Differentiable Rendering by Pavan Mantripragada and Naitri Rajyaguru (Thur, Nov 13, 2025)
  • Differentiable Rendering: Inverse Reconstruction and Forward Generation by Wenxuan Wu (Thur, Nov 13, 2025)
  • End-to-End Optimized Optical Metasurfaces for Computational Imaging by Andrew Curran (Tues, Nov 18, 2025)
  • Beyond Geometry: Integrating Semantic Understanding into Differentiable 3D Representations (Gausian Splatting) by Jincheng Yang (Tues, Nov 18, 2025)
  • Differentiable CAD Generation by Haiyang Ying (Tues, Nov 18, 2025)
  • Mesh Parameterization by Jinhong Xia (Thurs, Nov 20, 2025)
  • Differentiable Programming for 3D Reconstruction by Dongki Jung (Thurs, Nov 20, 2025)
  • Differentiable 3D Mesh Reconstruction by Michael Wang (Thurs, Nov 20, 2025)
  • Pose Estimation/Pose Tracking by Kaushal Janga (Tues, Nov 25, 2025)
  • Differentiable Symbolic Music for Violin Fingering Generation by Minsi Hu (Tues, Nov 25, 2025)
  • Learned Feature Uncertainty Systems for Monocular SLAM by Raymond Chen (Tues, Nov 25, 2025)
  • Generalized Visual Odometry by Phuc Nguyen (Tues, Dec 2, 2025)
  • Social Robot Navigation by Phani Kuppa and Laurel Sun (Tues, Dec 2, 2025)
  • Hierarchy of Traffic Models by Nandini Ramachandran (Thur, Dec 4, 2025)
  • Differentiable Control for Autonomous Vehicle Systems by Grace Cai and Joey Lee (Thur, Dec 4, 2025)
  • The Rise of Differentiable Models in Shaping Human Systems by Saanvi Kataria, Krishnan Tholkappian, Peter Hong (Tues, Dec 9, 2025)
  • Differentiable Fluid Simulation by Hee Chan Yoon (Thur, Dec 11, 2025)
  • Differentiable Physics and Soft-Body Manipulation by Rocktim Jyoti Das (Thur, Dec 11, 2025)