Chenyang Yuan
chenyang.co
Chenyang Yuan
@chenyang.co
Optimization and ML researcher at Toyota Research Institute, PhD at MIT, Berkeley CS
chenyang.co
In the problem sets, we use the library introduced in the first lecture (github.com/yuanchenyang...) to train diffusion models on custom data, as well as using pretrained models as building blocks for a variety of downstream tasks (see examples above).
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GitHub - yuanchenyang/smalldiffusion: Simple and readable code for training and sampling from diffusion models
Simple and readable code for training and sampling from diffusion models - yuanchenyang/smalldiffusion
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Using score distillation for 3D shape generation (L5) and wrapping up with a summary of the latest research making diffusion models better and faster (L6)

The lecture recordings can be found here: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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MIT 6.S183 A Practical Introduction to Diffusion Models, IAP 2025 - YouTube
MIT 6.S183 A Practical Introduction to Diffusion Models, IAP 2025Instructors: Chenyang Yuan, Cole Becker, Boyuan Chen, Chris Scarvelis, Artem LukoianovView t...
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We then talked about different theoretical perspectives and derivations of diffusion (L2), how guidance and conditioning works (L3), the puzzling question of how and why diffusion models generalize (L4), ...

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