CME 296: Diffusion & Large Vision Models

Spring 2026 · Stanford University · Afshine Amidi & Shervine Amidi

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Lecture 1 title slide

Lecture 1: Diffusion

April 3rd, 2026

Lecture 2 title slide

Lecture 2: Score matching

April 10th, 2026

Lecture 3 title slide

Lecture 3: Flow matching

April 17th, 2026

Lecture 4 title slide

Lecture 4: Latent space and guidance

April 24th, 2026

Lecture 5 title slide

Lecture 5: Image generation architectures

May 8th, 2026

Lecture 6 title slide

Lecture 6: Model training

May 15th, 2026

Lecture 7 title slide

Lecture 7: Evaluation

May 22nd, 2026

Lecture 8 title slide

Lecture 8: Trending topics

May 29th, 2026