Big Data Analytics and Text Mining (Module 1)

**Tutor** — M.S. in Artificial Intelligence, University of Bologna. The course introduces students to the fundamentals and state-of-the-art methodologies of Natural Language Processing, actively incorporating recent milestones and newly published research. Content focuses on Large Language Models, covering prompt optimization, model compression and quantization, parameter-efficient fine-tuning, and multimodal language models, as well as approaches for integrating external knowledge such as Retrieval-Augmented Generation, Graph Neural Networks, and agents.