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Section 4a: From the variational bound to a trainable min-max game

I am working through Mathematical Foundations of Generative AI , Prof. Prathosh AP's public lectures. The playlist is the spine. These notes are my deep dive on each section: a visual when the picture is the point, a detour when a prerequisite is doing real work, and every formula read aloud with a…

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    Section 4a: From the variational bound to a trainable min-max game

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