Deep Diffusion Model Workshop
***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.***
https://forms.gle/Uu2EGmttYEUb4Lx76
** 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.**
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)
https://www.su.se/english/profiles/c/chunl
Co-hosts: Lee-Wei Yang (Institute of Bioinformatics and Structural Biology, NTHU) and Hung-Wen Li (Dept. of Chemistry, NTU)
Meeting Place and Date:
Date: May25 (Mon) - May 29 (Fri) Morning sessions: 9:30am-noon Afternoon
sessions: 1:30pm-4pm
Location: Dept. of Chemistry, National Taiwan University
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 email.
This workshop is in part sponsored by NSTC and National Center for Theoretical Sciences (NCTS).
