{"id":29288,"date":"2024-08-16T11:18:06","date_gmt":"2024-08-16T15:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/?page_id=29288"},"modified":"2026-05-13T16:36:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T20:36:28","slug":"cs788","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/academic-programs\/courses\/cs788\/","title":{"rendered":"Generative AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<style><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span> p {margin-bottom:0px;} .course-feed .cf-course h4 {display: none; white-space: wrap;} .button{width:125px;}<\/style>\n<hr \/>\n<div class=\"course-feed\"><div class=\"cf-course\">\n\t<h4>Generative AI<\/h4>\n\t<p class=\"meta\">MET CS 788 (4 credits)<\/p>\n\t\n\t<p>Prerequisites: MET CS 577, Python programming, mathematics required for machine learning, and familiarity with neural networks. Or consent of instructor. - The first part of the course covers statistical concepts required for generative artificial intelligence. We review regressions and optimization methods as well as traditional neural network architectures, including perceptron and multilayer perceptron. Next, we move to Convolutional Neural Networks and Recurrent Neural Networks and close this part with Attention and Transformers. The second part of the course focuses on generative neural networks. We start with traditional self-supervised learning algorithms (Self Organized Map and Restricted Boltzmann Machine), then explore Auto Encoder architectures and Generative Adversarial Networks and move toward architectures that construct generative models, including recent advances in NLP, including LLMs, and Retrieval Augmented Methods. Finally, we describe the Neural Radiance Field, 3D Gaussian Splatting, and text-2-image models.<\/p>\n\t\n\t<p class=\"\"><em>2026SPRGMETCS788A1, Jan 20th to Apr 30th 2026<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"responsive-table\">\n<table>\n\t<tr>\n\t\t<th>Days<\/th>\n\t\t<th>Start<\/th>\n\t\t<th>End<\/th>\n\t\t<th>Type<\/th>\n\t\t<th>Bldg<\/th>\n\t\t<th>Room<\/th>\n\t<\/tr>\n\t<tr>\n\t<td>R<\/td>\n\t<td>06:00 PM<\/td>\n\t<td>08:45 PM<\/td>\n\t<td><\/td>\n\t<td>CAS<\/td>\n\t<td>B06A<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><strong>Format &amp; Syllabus:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"btn-group\">\n<div class=\"dropdown\">\n<p><button class=\"button\">On Campus<\/button><\/p>\n<div class=\"dropdown-content\"><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2025\/04\/METCS-788-Syllabus.pdf\"><\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2026\/03\/METCS-788-Syllabus.pdf\">788 A1 SPRG26<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2025\/04\/METCS-788-Syllabus.pdf\">CS788 SUM25<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2025\/01\/Generative-AI-Syllabus.pdf\">CS788 SPRG25<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2024\/08\/788-Generative-AI-Syllabus.docx\">CS788 FALL24<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"dropdown\">\n<p><button class=\"button\">Online<\/button><\/p>\n<div class=\"dropdown-content\"><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2026\/05\/CS788_SUMO1.pdf\">CS788 SUM26<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"dropdown\"><button class=\"button\" disabled=\"disabled\">Blended<\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"clearfloat\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Format &amp; Syllabus: On Campus 788 A1 SPRG26CS788 SUM25CS788 SPRG25CS788 FALL24 Online CS788 SUM26 Blended &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22903,"featured_media":0,"parent":7301,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/no-sidebars.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29288"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22903"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29288"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31765,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29288\/revisions\/31765"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}