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Special Course in Machine Learning: Deep Generative Models 2019/20 spring

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Lecture schedule

Seminars are held every week on Tuesday at 16.15 - 18.00 Delta (Narva mnt 18) - 1022 (starting from 11.02).

Please, choose a lesson that you will moderate and homework/test for which you will prepare here.

Week 1, Feb 11: Introduction and background (Mikhail: slides)

Week 2, Feb 18: Autoregressive Models, part 1 (Andreas)

  • HW1:P1 Maximum Likelihood Estimation and KL Divergence
  • HW1:P2 Logistic Regression and Naive Bayes

Week 3, Feb 25: Autoregressive Models, part 2 (Youssef: slides)

  • HW1:P3 Conditional Independence and Parameterization

Week 4, Mar 3: Variational Autoencoders, part 1 (Novin: slides)

  • HW1:P4 Autoregressive Models
  • HW1:P5 Monte Carlo Integration

Week 5, Mar 10: Variational Autoencoders, part 2 (Tarun)

  • HW2:P1 Implementing the Variational Autoencoder

Week 6, Mar 17: Normalizing Flow Models, part 1 (Egert: slides, recording)

  • HW2:P2 Implementing the Mixture of Gaussians VAE

Week 7, Mar 24: Normalizing Flow Models, part 2 (Dima: slides, recording)

  • HW2:P3 Implementing the Importance Weighted Autoencoder

Week 8, Mar 31: Generative Adversarial Networks, part 1 (Markus: slides, recording)

  • HW2:P4 Implementing the Semi-Supervised VAE

Week 9, Apr 7: Generative Adversarial Networks, part 2 (Mikhail: slides, recording)

  • HW3:P1 Generative adversarial networks

Week 10, Apr 14: Energy-based Models (Viacheslav: slides, recording)

  • HW3:P2 Divergence minimization

Week 11, Apr 21: Combining Generative Model Variants (Mohammad: recording)

  • HW3:P3 Conditional GAN with projection discriminator

Week 12, Apr 28: Evaluation of Generative Models (Novin, Mikhail: slides, recording)

  • HW3:P4:E1-4 Wasserstein GAN

Week 13, May 5: GAIL: Generative Adversarial Imitation Learning (Andre: slides, recording)

  • HW3:P4:E5 Implement Wasserstein GAN

Week 14, May 12: Discreteness in Latent Variable Modeling (Mikhail)

  • HW3:P5 Noise contrastive estimation

Week 15, May 19: reserved for general discussions

Week 16, May 26: reserved for occasional skip

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