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Use AI productively while protecting privacy, checking outputs, and preserving human accountability.
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Analyze AI systems through rights, equity, governance, safety, and public-interest outcomes.
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Understand language models, retrieval, agents, evaluation, cost, and deployment safeguards through practical system design.
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LoRA Sliders for Image Editing
LoRA sliders are tiny add-on modules that give you a continuous dial to push a single attribute of an image up or down, like age, smile, or rust, without…
Visual AIInstructPix2Pix Instruction Editing
InstructPix2Pix lets you edit a photo by typing a plain command like 'make it winter' or 'turn the cat into a dog', no masks or selection tools required.
Visual AIPrompt-to-Prompt Cross-Attention Editing
Prompt-to-Prompt edits a generated image by tweaking its text prompt while reusing the model's internal attention maps, so changing one word swaps…
Visual AIESRGAN and GAN Super-Resolution
ESRGAN uses a generator-versus-discriminator contest to invent realistic detail when upscaling images, going beyond blurry interpolation.
Visual AIReal-ESRGAN Practical Restoration
Real-ESRGAN extends ESRGAN to handle the messy, unknown degradations of real-world photos rather than clean synthetic blur.
Visual AISwinIR Transformer Restoration
SwinIR applies the Swin Transformer's shifted-window attention to image restoration tasks like super-resolution, denoising, and JPEG artifact removal.
Visual AILatent Consistency Models
Latent Consistency Models (LCMs) are a technique that lets diffusion image generators produce high-quality pictures in just one to four steps instead…
Visual AIVision Transformers
Vision Transformers (ViTs) apply the transformer architecture that powers ChatGPT to images, treating a picture as a sequence of patches instead of a grid…
Visual AIStable Diffusion
Stable Diffusion is an open-source text-to-image model, released by Stability AI in 2022, that generates pictures by gradually removing noise from a random…
Visual AIMidjourney
Midjourney is a popular commercial text-to-image service known for its striking, highly aesthetic results and its origins as a Discord bot.
Visual AIDALL-E
DALL-E is OpenAI's family of text-to-image models that turn a written description into an original picture.
Visual AICLIP and Vision-Language Models
CLIP is a model from OpenAI that learns to connect images and text by placing both in the same mathematical space.
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