Attempted Schedule

Date Description Material
Wed Sept 10
Cancelled
TBD
Thurs Sept 11
Overview, introduction to generative models, maximum likelihood, Expectation Maximization
TBD
Wed Sept 17
Back to GMM (slides, pdf), Bayesianism, variational inference, Variational autoencoders, (reparametrization trick)
TBD
Thurs Sept 18
Cancelled
TBD
Wed Sept 24
Normalizing Flows
TBD
Thur Sept 25
Lab 1: simple generative models, numpy+pytorch, autoencoders
TBD