Schedule Overview

This is a 7-week half-semester course (Mini 3) meeting Tuesdays and Thursdays for 80 minutes each. The schedule below is tentative and subject to changes.

Course Overview by Week

Week Topics Deliverables
Week 1-2 Probabilistic & generative modeling
Denoising diffusion models
Score-based SDEs
HW 1 (15%)
Week 3-4 Flow Matching
Fast sampling algorithms
Controllable generation
HW 2 (15%)
Week 5 Distillation & consistency models
Flow maps
SOTA conditional models
HW 3 (20%)
Week 6 Discrete diffusion
Discrete flow matching
 
Week 7 Final presentations & buffer HW 4 (20%)
Final Presentation (15%)

Lecture Schedule

Below is the tentative schedule of the course (subject to changes).

Lecture Date Topic Resources
1 01/13-01/15 Basics of Probabilistic & Generative Modeling  
2 01/15-01/20 Denoising Diffusion Models  
3 01/20-01/22 Score-Based SDEs  
4 01/27-01/29 Flow Matching  
5 02/03 Fast Sampling Algorithms  
6 02/05 Controllable Generation  
7 02/10 Distillation, Consistency Models & Flow Maps  
8 02/12 SOTA Conditional Diffusion/Flow Models  
9 02/17 Discrete Diffusion  
10 02/19 Discrete Flow Matching