March 2026 Course - Lecture 2: GANs and Early High-Fidelity Image Generation

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1451 pages of documents. No vids.

Core papers:

  1. Generative Adversarial Nets
    Ian Goodfellow et al., 2014

  2. DCGAN: Unsupervised Representation Learning with Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Networks
    Radford, Metz, Chintala, 2015

  3. StyleGAN: A Style-Based Generator Architecture for Generative Adversarial Networks
    Karras et al., 2018 / 2019

Topics:

  • Generator vs discriminator

  • Adversarial training

  • Why GAN images are sharp

  • Why GANs were important for face generation and deepfake systems

  • Limitations: instability, mode collapse, weak controllability

Engineering connection:

  • Deepfake pipelines

  • StyleGAN face generation

  • Super-resolution

  • Why diffusion models later became dominant