CS 6966/5966, Spring 2026, Kahlert School of Computing, University of Utah

Tuesdays & Thursdays, 10:45am–12:05pm, WEB L112

Instructor: **Ana Marasović** (she/her), Office Hours: Fridays (use the appointment link in Syllabus)

TA: Fateme Hashemi Chaleshtori (she/her), Office Hours: Tuesdays 2–3pm, MEB 3225 + Zoom

Course evaluation

• 30% three in-person quizzes
• 70% serious (🙂) project [many components: framing activity + proposal, intermediate report + peer feedback activity + changes report, poster preparation + presentation + participation]

Schedule

I'm not assigning lectures to specific dates at the beginning of the semester. Topics I plan to cover are below this schedule.

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Planned course topics

Intro

• Course overview + Logistics

Neurons:

• Finding Neurons in a Haystack: Case Studies with Sparse Probing

Feature representations and descriptions:

• Superposition / polysemantic vs. monosemantic
• Sparse dictionary learning