Course Schedule
Class Time: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 3:30 PM - 4:59 PM
Location: AGH 105
Office Hours: Professor René Vidal: Thursday 5pm-5:45pm, AGH 615
Event
Date
Title
Topics
Lecture
Aug 26, 2025
Tuesday
Tuesday
Introduction
Introduction
Lecture
Aug 28, 2025
Thursday
Thursday
Background
Probability, Statistics, MLE, SGD, Learning
Lecture
Sep 02, 2025
Tuesday
Tuesday
Latent Variable Models
Gaussian Models, PPCA
Lecture
Sep 04, 2025
Thursday
Thursday
Latent Variable Models
PPCA
Lecture
Sep 09, 2025
Tuesday
Tuesday
Latent Variable Models
Variational Inference
Lecture
Sep 11, 2025
Thursday
Thursday
Latent Variable Models
EM, EM for GMMs, VAE (definition)
Lecture
Sep 16, 2025
Tuesday
Tuesday
Latent Variable Models
VAE (reparameterization trick) - application + hands on session
Lecture
Sep 18, 2025
Thursday
Thursday
Shallow Auto-regressive Models
Markov Models
Due
Sep 22, 2025
17:00
Monday
Monday
Homework 1 Due
Lecture
Sep 23, 2025
Tuesday
Tuesday
Shallow Auto-regressive Models
HMMs (Inference and Decoding)
Lecture
Sep 25, 2025
Thursday
Thursday
Recitation
Review HW1. Hands-on first with programming, analytical
Lecture
Sep 30, 2025
Tuesday
Tuesday
Shallow Auto-regressive Models
HMMs (Learning, Examples)
Lecture
Oct 02, 2025
Thursday
Thursday
Shallow Auto-regressive Models
Linear Dynamical systems (Model, Inference)
Lecture
Oct 07, 2025
Tuesday
Tuesday
Shallow Auto-regressive Models
Linear Dynamical systems (Learning)
Lecture
Oct 14, 2025
Tuesday
Tuesday
Shallow Auto-regressive Models
Linear Dynamical systems (Application)
Lecture
Oct 16, 2025
Thursday
Thursday
Deep Auto-regressive Models
RNNs - architecture
Lecture
Oct 21, 2025
Tuesday
Tuesday
Deep Auto-regressive Models
RNNS - training, vanishing gradients, application
Lecture
Oct 23, 2025
Thursday
Thursday
Deep Auto-regressive Models
RNNs - seq2seq and attention
Due
Oct 24, 2025
17:00
Friday
Friday
Homework 2 Due
Lecture
Oct 28, 2025
Tuesday
Tuesday
Deep Auto-regressive Models
Transformers - Attention is all you need
Lecture
Oct 30, 2025
Thursday
Thursday
Deep Auto-regressive Models
Transformers - BERT / ViT
Lecture
Nov 04, 2025
Tuesday
Tuesday
Deep Auto-regressive Models
Transformers - Vision Applications of Transformers
Lecture
Nov 06, 2025
Thursday
Thursday
Transformers - DALLE + Hands-On Session
Transformers - DALLE + Hands-On Session
Grades
Nov 08, 2025
Saturday
Saturday
Homework 2 Grades Released
Lecture
Nov 11, 2025
Tuesday
Tuesday
Diffusion Models - A VAE Perspective
Diffusion Models - A VAE Perspective
Lecture
Nov 13, 2025
Thursday
Thursday
Diffusion Models - A VAE Perspective II
Diffusion Models - A VAE Perspective II
Due
Nov 18, 2025
17:00
Tuesday
Tuesday
Homework 3 Due
Lecture
Nov 18, 2025
Tuesday
Tuesday
Hybrid Models
Diffusion Models - Stable Diffusion
Lecture
Nov 20, 2025
Thursday
Thursday
ControlNet and Vision Language Models
ControlNet and Vision Language Models
Lecture
Nov 25, 2025
Tuesday
Tuesday
DDPM, DDIM, and Applications on Image Editing
DDPM, DDIM, and Applications on Image Editing
Project
Dec 02, 2025
Tuesday
Tuesday
Project Presentation
Project Presentation
Project
Dec 04, 2025
Thursday
Thursday
Project Presentation
Project Presentation