MVA Course: Generative Modeling

(2024-2025)

Master 2 MVA, Télécom Paris

• Lectures given by:
  • Bruno Galerne
  • Arthur Leclaire
• Course summary on Master MVA (www.master-mva.com)
• The outline is given on the slides of the first lecture.
• Assignment due for February 25th.
• Instructions for Final Projects

Courses

Course 1 (Tuesday January 14, 2025, Bruno Galerne):

• Introduction to generative models for images & Texture synthesis
• Practical session using Stochastic recipes in imaging: Texture synthesis using CNN statistics

Course 2 (Tuesday January 21, 2025, Arthur Leclaire):

• Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN and WGAN)
• Large-Scale GAN

Course 3 (Tuesday January 28, 2025, Bruno Galerne):

• Variational Auto-Encoders and Normalizing Flows
• Practical session: Hierarchical VAE

Course 4 (Tuesday February, 4, 2025, Arthur Leclaire):

• Practical session: GAN and WGAN learning with a synthetic dataset (Solution for Exo 1)
• Practical session: DCGAN learning for MNIST

Course 5 (Tuesday February 11, 2025, Arthur Leclaire):

• Inverse Problems and Generative Models
• Practical session:
  • Exercise 1: Inverse problems with Explicit regularization
  • Exercise 2: Inverse problems with Generative Prior

Course 6 (Tuesday February 18, 2025, Bruno Galerne):

• Diffusion Models