THADOMAL SHAHANI ENGINEERING COLLEGE

DEPARTMENT OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE & DATA SCIENCE

Advanced AI PT-1 QB

Sem VIII A.Y: 2023-24

Prepare softcopy for the answer(10 marks) w.r.t the question assigned
Submission Date : 9/2/2023
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No UNIT 1- Compilation Responsibility Roll No 9
1 What is the significance of Generatiev models in AI?
2 What is a generative probabilistic model?
3 What are the chnallenges faced with Generative Models?
4 Explain Gaussian Mixture Models in detail.
5 Explain Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) in detail.
6 Explain Bayesian Networks in detail.
7 Explain Markov Random Field (MRFs) in detail.
8 What is significnace of Probabilistic Graphical Models.
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Explain the basic architecture of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). How do
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the generator and discriminator components interact in a GAN?
Describe the role and functionality of the discriminator model in a GAN. How does it
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contribute to the adversarial training process?
What is the primary function of the generator model in a GAN? How does it generate
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realistic data from random noise?
Discuss the overall process of training GANs. What are the key steps involved in the
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training phase?
How does the loss function play a crucial role in the training of GANs? Explain the
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adversarial training concept.
Provide an overview of the Vanilla GAN architecture. What are its main components,
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and how do they work together?
16 Explain the significance of the MinMax loss function used in GANS
17 What challenges or limitations are associated with the Vanilla GAN architecture?
Briefly explain the concepts and characteristics of DCGAN (Deep Convolutional
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GAN) and how it differs from the Vanilla GAN.
What motivated the development of WGAN (Wasserstein GAN)? How does it
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address some of the challenges faced by Vanilla GANs?
Describe the key features of Conditional GAN and how it enables controlled
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generation of specific outputs.

21 Explain the principle behind CycleGAN and its application in image translation tasks.

Elaborate on the challenges of training GANs, particularly focusing on issues like

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training instability and model collapse.
 How do techniques like batch normalization and weight clipping address some of the
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challenges associated with GAN training?
Provide examples of how GANs are used in image synthesis applications. What are
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the advantages of using GANs in this context?
Explain the concept of style transfer in the context of GANs. How do GANs
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contribute to artistic image transformations?
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UNIT 3 - Compilation Responsibility Roll No 39
27 What are the fundamental components that make up a Variational Autoencoder?
28 Explain the role of encoder and decoder w.r.t architecture of VAE?
29 How is the training process of a VAE different from traditional autoencoders?
30 Explain the role of the reparameterization trick in the training of VAEs.
Expalin the loss function of VAE. How does the reconstruction loss contribute to the
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overall loss in a VAE?
Explain how the encoder maps input data to the latent space in a VAE And how the
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latent space is carried further to decoder.
33 Discuss the role of VAEs in image generation and synthesis.
How does the latent space representation contribute to the diversity of generated
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images in VAEs?
35 Explain Undercomplete autoencoders.
36 Explain Sparse autoencoders,
37 Explain Contractive autoencoders,
38 ExplainDenoising autoencoders