Attempted Schedule

Date Description Material
Wed Sept 10th
Cancelled
TBD
Thurs Sept 11th
Overview, introduction to generative models, maximum likelihood, Expectation Maximization
TBD
Wed Sept 17th
Back to GMM (slides, pdf), Bayesianism, variational inference, Variational autoencoders, (reparametrization trick)
TBD
Thurs Sept 18th
Cancelled
TBD
Wed Sept 24th
Conditional flow matching
TBD
Thur Sept 25th
Lab 1 on conditional flow matching
TBD
Wed Oct 1st
Generative Adversarial Networks
TBD
Thurs Oct 2nd
Wasserstein Generative Adversarial Networks + Lab 2
TBD
Wed Oct 8th
Thurs Oct 9th
Introduction to sequence modelling, tokenizer, autoregressive model, bigram
TBD
Wed Oct 15th
Diffusion 2/2, link between diffusion and flow matching, intro to conditional generation
TBD
Thurs Oct 16th
Evaluation of generative models, FID, precison, recall, density, conditional generation, CG CFG
TBD
Fri Oct 17th
Project Feedback
TBD
Wed Oct 22nd
Attention and Transformers + lab
TBD
Thurs Oct 23rd
No lecture
TBD
Wed Nov 5th
Discrete Diffusion
TBD
Thur Nov 6th
Energy-based models
TBD
Wed Nov 12th
Project Presentations 1/2
TBD
Thur Nov 13th
Project Presentations 2/2
TBD