MVA Course: Generative Modeling

(2025-2026)

Master 2 MVA, Télécom Paris

• Lectures given by:
  • Bruno Galerne
  • Arthur Leclaire
• Course summary and schedule on Master MVA (www.master-mva.com)
• The outline is given on the slides of the first lecture.

Courses

Course 1 (Tuesday January 13, 2026, Bruno Galerne):

• Introduction to generative models for images and basics on image restoration

Course 2 (Tuesday January 20, 2026, Bruno Galerne):

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

Course 3 (Tuesday January 27, 2026, Arthur Leclaire):

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

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

• Practical session: GAN and WGAN learning with a synthetic dataset
• Practical session: DCGAN learning for MNIST