Stanford CME296 Diffusion & Large Vision Models | Spring 2026 | Lecture 8 - Trending Topics

Learn more details about this course: https://online.stanford.edu/courses/cme296-diffusion-and-large-vision-models To follow along with the course schedule and syllabus, visit: https://cme296.stanford.edu/syllabus/ Chapters: 00:00:00 Introduction 00:01:38 Diffusion 00:05:23 Score matching 00:13:02 Flow matching 00:19:04 Latent space and guidance 00:25:11 Image generation architectures 00:29:47 Model training 00:37:23 Evaluation 00:44:28 State-of-the-art models 00:55:03 Video generation models 01:12:51 Image editing 01:20:35 Diffusion for LLMs 01:38:54 Closing thoughts For more information about Stanford’s graduate programs, visit: https://online.stanford.edu/graduate-education Afshine Amidi is an Adjunct Lecturer at Stanford University. Shervine Amidi is an Adjunct Lecturer at Stanford University. View the course playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoROMvodv4rNdy8rt2rZ4T2xM0OjADnfu