The Little Book of Generative AI Foundations: An Intuitive Mathematical Primer(arxiv.org)
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arXiv listing for a 195-page book offering a derivation-oriented mathematical primer on generative AI, from PCA and VAEs to diffusion, flows, GANs and energy-based models.










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