This document tabulates the state of the slides in lecture_*/slides/<topic>/ based on

  1. compilation checks (does it compile,and if not, is there a salient error message?) and
  2. (optionally and rarely) comparison with presumably “known good” versions of the slides located in lecture_*/slides-pdf/

Latest Commits

Displaying the latest commits of the lecture service repository and each of the currently included lectures (for debugging and race condition mitigation (kind of)).

Status of the lecture_service repo (time in UTC)
Branch Last Commit By Message
main 2025-12-16 14:24:45 Lukas Burk Minor additions for exercise preamble (via i2ml) (p 2)
Latest commits per lecture (times in UTC)
Lecture Branch Last Commit By Message
lecture_optimization main 2026-01-07 16:00:50 GitHub Merge pull request #53 from slds-lmu/mutlcrit_rework

If you’re missing a lecture here after rendering this site interactively, you might have to add them to the included_lectures files or ensure they are downloaded correctly.

Slide status

Click to expand explanation of table columns 
lecture_advml/slides/gaussian-processes/slides-gp-bayes-lm.tex
\___________/        \________________/ \________________/
   lecture                 topic            <slide-name>

lecture_advml/slides-pdf/slides-gp-bayes-lm.pdf
                        \___________________/
                       pdf_static / "Reference PDF"

Tables are organized by lecture (first level) and lecture topics corresponding to folders in slides/<topic> (second level), with a table per topic. Topics ignore certain folders like attic and all.

  • Slide: The <slide-name> with a link to the compiled .tex file (if it compiles).
  • Compiles?: Whether the .tex file compiles without error using latexmk -pdf. This can depend on the availability of specific LaTeX dependencies, but assuming they are not the issue, this usually indicates syntax issues or things like \includegraphics calls using relative paths that work on Overleaf but not locally.
  • Comparison: Checking the compiled <slide-name>.tex against slides-pdf/<slide-name>.pdf using diff-pdf-visually:
    • ❌: The check failed surely, either due to differing page counts or because there is no reference PDF.
    • ❓: The check indicates differences on at least one slide, but they may be minor and need manual checking.
    • ✅: The check seems to be fine, the PDF files match.
  • Note: A comment on the previous column listing the specific reason for a failing check. Also enumerates the slide pages where differences are found, and links to a PDF containing a diff of the two files generated with diff-pdf (at a lower resolution than the originals).

lecture_optimization

10 topics with a total of 62 slides

01-mathematical-concepts

Slide Compiles? Note
_convergence_rates ❌ 908: ! LaTeX Error: Missing ‌begin{document}. 908: See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation. 908: Type H for immediate help.
slides-concepts-1-differentiability ✅
slides-concepts-2-matrix-calculus ✅
slides-concepts-3-convexity ✅
slides-concepts-4-conditions-for-optimality ✅
slides-concepts-5-taylor ✅
slides-concepts-6-qfun-1 ✅
slides-concepts-7-qfun-2 ✅

02-optimization-problems

Slide Compiles? Note
slides-problems-1-unconstrained ✅
slides-problems-2-constrained ✅
slides-problems-3-other ✅

03-univariate-optimization

Slide Compiles? Note
slides-univariate-1-golden-ratio ✅
slides-univariate-2-brent ✅

11-multicrit

Slide Compiles? Note
macros ❌ 8: ! Undefined control sequence. 8: l.203 ‌RestyleAlgo 8: {algoruled}
slides-multicrit-1-intro ❌ 553: ! LaTeX Error: File ‘algorithm2e.sty’ not found. 553: Type X to quit or to proceed, 553: or enter new name. (Default extension: sty)
slides-multicrit-2-evolutionary ❌ 553: ! LaTeX Error: File ‘algorithm2e.sty’ not found. 553: Type X to quit or to proceed, 553: or enter new name. (Default extension: sty)
slides-multicrit-3-bo ❌ 553: ! LaTeX Error: File ‘algorithm2e.sty’ not found. 553: Type X to quit or to proceed, 553: or enter new name. (Default extension: sty)
slides-multicrit-4-practical ❌ 553: ! LaTeX Error: File ‘algorithm2e.sty’ not found. 553: Type X to quit or to proceed, 553: or enter new name. (Default extension: sty)