Free primer book derives math foundations from VAEs and diffusion to WGANs
kalyan_kpl · x · 2026-11-07
- The Little Book of Generative AI Foundations is a compact, derivation-oriented math primer for generative AI.
- Covers probabilistic PCA, variational autoencoders, diffusion models and normalising flows, autoregressive factorisations, GANs and Wasserstein GANs, and energy-based models.
- Free to access; aimed at mathematically curious researchers, practitioners and students.
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