Hands-on Exercises for GeMSS 2026

These are the exercises for the hands-on sessions at the Generative Modeling Spring School 2026.

The material consists of two Jupyter notebooks:

• 1-VAE.ipynb: Variational Autoencoders, used in the Monday session
• 2-FM.ipynb: Flow Matching, used in the Tuesday session

The notebooks run out of the box in Google Colab, but they can also be run locally with minimal setup.

Prerequisites

• The background material presented in the lectures and the book.
• Programming experience in Python using PyTorch