CSE 291A/DSC 291: Data Systems for Machine Learning
Instructor: Hao Zhang, UC San Diego, Spring 2026
Cross-listed as DSC 291.
Announcements
Week 1 Announcements
- Welcome to CSE 291A/DSC 291: Data Systems for Machine Learning, Spring 2026!
- We will start on Tuesday, March 31.
- Please check the syllabus for course details and policies.
- Join us on Piazza for discussions and Q&A, and on Gradescope for submitting your reading summaries and programming assignments.
- For course-related inquiries, Piazza is the preferred place. Otherwise, please email cse291a-sp26@googlegroups.com.
Enrollment update: For all enrollment requests, please email cse291a-sp26@googlegroups.com. Please do not email Hao or any individual TA directly. We are enrolling students based on the amount of TA support provided by the departments. Right now, CSE/HDSI has allocated 3 TAs in total, so we are keeping enrollment at around 165 students.
We currently have a waitlist of nearly 100 students. We expect some seats to open once the quarter starts and some students drop. If new spots become available, we will enroll students based on the order in which they filled out the enrollment form (for CSE students) or submitted the EASy request (for HDSI students).
Week 1
- March 31
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- 1 Introduction
- Slides
- Survey Beginning of Quarter Survey (Due: End of Week 2 - 4/12)
- Readings (Due 4/7)
- Required: 1.1 - MLSys : Intro
- Optional: 1.2 - DL Primer, 1.3 - DNN Architectures, 1.4 - Systems Challenges for AI
- April 2
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- 2 Basics: Modern DL, computational graph, frameworks
- Slides • Recording • Scribe Note