Overview

This topic bounds the unit's treatment of generative deep learning. It develops only the mechanisms supported by the on-disk texts and does not substitute a broad systems, safety, diffusion, or LLM-pretraining curriculum.

By the end of this note you should be able to:

• identify the topic's model interface and objective;
• distinguish representation learning from downstream adaptation;
• state the evaluation boundary that prevents unsupported conclusions.

1. Contents
2. The big picture