Stanford CME296 Diffusion & Large Vision Models | Spring 2026 | Lecture 6 - Model Training
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Chapters:
00:00:00 Introduction
00:07:45 Training lifecycle overview
00:10:39 Loss parameterization
00:16:08 Timestep sampling
00:22:27 Logit normal distribution
00:25:44 Sampling shift for different resolutions
00:43:56 Representation alignment (REPA)
00:49:21 Pre-training
00:52:46 Continued training (CT)
00:54:02 Supervised finetuning (SFT)
00:54:39 Preference tuning
00:56:48 Reward feedback learning (ReFL)
01:00:16 Flow-GRPO
01:03:23 Diffusion-DPO
01:05:06 Prompt enhancement (PE)
01:10:00 DreamBooth, low-rank adaptation (LoRA)
01:16:35 Distillation
01:21:42 Progressive distillation (PD)
01:25:14 InstaFlow
01:30:18 Consistency models (CM)
01:34:23 Distribution matching distillation (DMD)
01:39:16 Adversarial diffusion distillation (ADD)
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Afshine Amidi is an Adjunct Lecturer at Stanford University.
Shervine Amidi is an Adjunct Lecturer at Stanford University.
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