Deep Diffusion Model Workshop

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Date: May 25 (Mon) - May 29 (Fri) Morning sessions: 9:30am-noon. Afternoon sessions: 1:30 pm-4:00 pm
Venue: Dept. of Chemistry, NTU
Registration Deadline (April 13, Mon. 20:00): https://forms.gle/Uu2EGmttYEUb4Lx76
***Intend to register should be completed by April 13 (Mon) 20:00. Selection will be announced and notified by April 15 (Wed) 5 PM by email.***
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** Due to the mid-East conflict, the speaker changed his travel plan. The workshop will now hold on May 25-29, 2026. Considering the schedule change. Please kindly re-fill your intend-to-register again, in case there are changes. Thank you for your understanding.**

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 (5/25)
Morning: Advanced concepts in Deep Learning: U-Net, attention mechanism, positional encoding, etc.
Afternoon: Continue on advanced concepts in deep learning

Tue (5/26)
Morning: Variational autoencoders and Deep Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPM)
Afternoon: Project and discussions

Wed (5/27)
Morning: Score matching and Langevin MCM
Afternoon: Relations between different types of diffusion models, validation methods

Thu (5/28)
Morning: Classifier guidance and classifier-free guidelines
Afternoon: Project and discussions

Fri (5/29)
Morning: Latent diffusion models and diffusion transformers
Afternoon: Continue on diffusion transformers, more validation methods, conditioning methods, flow-based diffusion models (if time permits).

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 numbers 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 April 13 (Mon) 20:00. Selection will be announced and notified by April 15 (Wed) 5 PM by email.***

Sponsored by NSTC and NCTS Physics Division