Hi, Hope you're doing well. I'm an undergrad student and planning to go through two courses over the next 2-3 months. I'm looking for two others who’d be down to seriously study these with me, not just casually watching lectures, but actually doing the assignments, discussing the concepts, and learning the material properly.
The first course is CS492(D): Diffusion Models and Their Applications by KAIST (Fall 2024). It’s super detailed — the lectures are recorded, the assignments are hands-on, and the final project (groups of 3 max allowed for assignments and project). If we team up and commit, it could be a solid deep dive into diffusion models.
Link: https://mhsung.github.io/kaist-cs492d-fall-2024/
The second course is Stanford’s CS336: Language Modeling from Scratch. It’s very implementation-heavy, you build a full Transformer-based language model from scratch, work on efficiency, training, scaling, alignment, etc. It’s recent, intense, and really well-structured.
Link: https://stanford-cs336.github.io/spring2025/
If you're serious about learning this stuff and have time to commit over the next couple of months, drop a comment and I’ll reach out. Would be great to go through it as a group.
Thanks!
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