Deep Generative Models

1 Course Unit

Generative models have found widespread applications in science and engineering. Recent progress in deep learning has enabled the application of generative models to complex high-dimensional data such as images, videos, text and speech. This course will cover state-of-the- art deep generative models, including variational autoencoders (VAEs), auto-regressive models, diffusion models, and generative adversarial networks (GANs). The course will also illustrate various applications of deep generative models to image and video generation, text and speech generation, image captioning, text-to-image generation, and inverse problems. Fall Prerequisites: Students must take ESE 4020 OR ESE 5420 OR CIS 5200 OR CIS 5190 before taking ESE 6450. 1 Course Unit