Past Sessions

Term 2, 24/25

Title Date Speaker References
Two-Timescale Methods in Learning 12 Mar 2025 David Leslie Slides
Policy-Based RL 6 Mar 2025 Jack Slides
Advanced Bandit Algorithms 19 Feb 2025 James Grant Slides
Bandits and Exploration v.s. Exploitation 12 Feb 2025 Theo C Slides
Tabular RL and Q-Learning 6 Feb 2025 Adam Slides
Amortized Bayesian Experimental Design 5 Feb 2025 Adrien Corenflos Slides
MDPs and How to Solve Them 29 Jan 2025 Rui Notes ; Codes
Introduction to RL 22 Jan 2024 Andreas Slides

Term 1, 24/25

Title Date Speaker References
Commercial Diffusion Models 11 Dec 2024 Jack Paper
Flow Matching 27 Nov 2024 Chris N Slides
Code
Conditional Diffusions 20 Nov 2024 Tamas Slides
Transformers 13 Nov 2024 Jack Slides
Paper; Video; Blog
Technical Report
Mathematical Intro
Score Matching 6 Nov 2024 Connie Slides
DDPMs 30 Oct 2024 Andreas Slides
Google Colab ; Paper
Model Weights
Introduction to Deep Learning 23 Oct 2024 Andreas Slides
Google Colab ; Paper
Introduction to PyTorch
A Brief Overview of Diffusion Models 16 Oct 2024 Rui Score-Based Diffusion paper
Diffusion Models Survey