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MIT 6.7960 L14: Generative Models Basics — Density/Energy Models, GANs, Autoregressive, Diffusion

Generative models learn the data distribution p(x). Density models model probability directly, energy models use an unnormalized potential + sampler, GANs let a discriminator force realistic samples, autoregressive predicts the next token step by step, and diffusion dodges tricky maximum-likelihood via 'add noise then learn to denoise'.

MIT 6.7960 L16: Conditional Generative Models — cGAN, cVAE, and Classifier-Free Guidance

The key to conditional generation is 'feed y into the model': cGAN concatenates y into G/D; cVAE passes y to both encoder and decoder; in diffusion, Classifier Guidance uses gradients from an external classifier to push samples toward a class, while Classifier-Free Guidance trains conditional + unconditional together and linearly combines them at inference — the latter is the standard weapon behind Stable Diffusion and Imagen.