Teachers:

• Quentin Bertrand (CR Inria, MALICE team)
• Rémi Emonet (IUF, Associate professor, Jean Monnet University, MALICE Team)
• Mathurin Massias (CR Inria, OCKHAM team)

Tentative program

• 10/09 Class cancelled
• 11/09 Introduction to GenAI, MLE, Bayes + Base Models, Mixtures of Gaussian, EM (notes by Y. Dziki)
• 17/09 Maximum a posteriori vs max likelihood, PCA, PPCA, VAE notes by M. Ottavy
• at home: LAB 1 : simple generative models: PCA, mixture of Gaussian, pretrained models, VAE
• 18/09 [postponed due to ENS being closed] GAN/WGAN
• 24/09 Flow matching notes by H. Martel, blog post on Flow Matching
• 25/09 Lab on Flow Matching
• 01/10 GANS (material 1, material 2, material 3)
• 02/10 WGAN + Lab WGAN
• 08/10 Diffusion 1/2
• 09/10 Introduction to sequence modelling: tokenizers, bigram models, autoregressive models, Transformers
• 15/10 Diffusion 2/2 (links with flow matching, conditional generation)
• 16/10 Metrics (FID/rec/recall/density), conditional generation, classifier/classifier-free guidance, OT, Reflow
• 17/10 Project progress evaluation
• 22/10 Lab transformers
• 23/10 No class (work on Lab)
• 05/11 Discrete models
• 06/11 Discrete models + lab DDPM/DDIM
• 12/11 Project defense 1/2
• 13/11 Project defense 2/2