Deep Diffusion Model Workshop

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Date: Mar 30 (Mon) - Apr 3 (Fri) Morning sessions: 9:30am-noon Afternoon sessions: 1:30 pm-4:00 pm
Venue: Dept. of Chemistry, NTU
Registration Deadline (March 11 Wed 20:00): https://forms.gle/Uu2EGmttYEUb4Lx76
***Intend to register should be completed by March 11 (Wed) 20:00. Selection will be announced and notified by March 13 (Fri) 5 PM.***
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Introduction: 
This short workshop provides a practical introduction to the theory and application of deep diffusion models. Essential mathematical concepts are included and explained in a self-contained manner. We emphasize developing an intuitive understanding of both foundational and modern concepts, enabling participants to engage effectively with current literature in the field.

Workshop lecturer: 
Prof. Chun-Biu Li (Stockholm University)

Co-hosts: 
Lee-Wei Yang (Institute of Bioinformatics and Structural Biology, NTHU) 
Hung-Wen Li (Dept. of Chemistry, NTU)

Meeting Plan (Tentative):
Mon (3/30)
Morning: Advanced concepts in Deep Learning: U-Net, attention mechanism, positional encoding, etc.
Afternoon: Continue on advanced concepts in deep learning

Tue (3/31)
Morning: Variational autoencoders and Deep Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPM)
Afternoon: Continue on DDPM, score matching and Langevin MCMC, small projects

Wed (4/1)
Morning: Continue on score matching and Langevin MCMC
Afternoon: Relations between different types of diffusion models, validation methods

Thu (4/2)
Morning: Classifier guidance and classifier-free guidelines
Afternoon: Continue on guidelines, latent diffusion models and diffusion transformers

Fri (4/3)
Morning: Continue on latent diffusion models and diffusion transformers, flow-based diffusion models (if time permits)
Afternoon: Discussion of project

Detailed schedule and reference (link).

Registration:
Workshop size of <20 people, and the organizers intend to maximize the number of participating research groups in the diverse research disciplines. We might restrict the number of participants from each research group. A $3000 NTD security deposit is required for selected participants and will be returned on the last day of the workshop upon full participation.

***Intend to register should be completed by March 11 (Wed) 20:00. Selection will be announced and notified by March 13 (Fri) 5 PM.***

Sponsored by NSTC and NCTS Physics Division