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 2025-07-28 22:21:09 Lukas Burk Improvie caching
Latest commits per lecture (times in UTC)
Lecture Branch Last Commit By Message
lecture_optimization main 2025-07-29 13:20:50 GitHub Merge pull request #41 from slds-lmu/update-service

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Slide status

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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 896: ! LaTeX Error: File ‘mdframed.sty’ not found. 896: Type X to quit or to proceed, 896: or enter new name. (Default extension: sty)
slides-concepts-1-differentiability 1204: ! LaTeX Error: Environment comment undefined. 1204: See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation. 1204: Type H for immediate help.
slides-concepts-2-matrix-calculus 1222: ! LaTeX Error: Environment comment undefined. 1222: See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation. 1222: Type H for immediate help.
slides-concepts-3-convexity
slides-concepts-4-conditions-for-optimality
slides-concepts-5-quadratic-forms-II
slides-concepts-6-quadratic-forms-I
slides-concepts-7-taylor

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

04-multivariate-first-order

Slide Compiles? Note
slides-multivar-first-order-1-GD
slides-multivar-first-order-10-sgd-details
slides-multivar-first-order-11-adam
slides-multivar-first-order-12-comparison 1242: ! LaTeX Error: Environment comment undefined. 1242: See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation. 1242: Type H for immediate help.
slides-multivar-first-order-2-stepsize
slides-multivar-first-order-3-gd-deepdive-optimality
slides-multivar-first-order-4-weaknesses-curvature
slides-multivar-first-order-5-weaknesses-saddle
slides-multivar-first-order-6-momentum
slides-multivar-first-order-7-gd-quadratic-forms
slides-multivar-first-order-8-quadratic-forms-momentum 1143: ! Missing &dollar; inserted. 1143: 1143: &dollar;
slides-multivar-first-order-9-sgd

05-multivariate-second-order

Slide Compiles? Note
slides-multivar-second-order-1-newton-raphson
slides-multivar-second-order-2-quasi-newton
slides-multivar-second-order-3-gauss-newton
slides-multivar-second-order-4-optimization-in-r
slides-multivar-second-order-5-comparison 1125: LaTeX Warning: File ‘figure_man/simu_linmod/GD_log_med_lr_iters.pdf’ not found on input line 92. 1125: ! Package pdftex.def Error: File ‘figure_man/simu_linmod/GD_log_med_lr_iters.pdf’ not found: using draft setting. 1125: See the pdftex.def package documentation for explanation.
slides-multivar-second-order-6-fisher

11-multicrit

Slide Compiles? Note
macros 8: ! LaTeX Error: Command ‌comment undefined. 8: See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation. 8: Type H for immediate help.
slides-multicrit-1-intro 549: ! LaTeX Error: File ‘algorithm2e.sty’ not found. 549: Type X to quit or to proceed, 549: or enter new name. (Default extension: sty)
slides-multicrit-2-evolutionary 549: ! LaTeX Error: File ‘algorithm2e.sty’ not found. 549: Type X to quit or to proceed, 549: or enter new name. (Default extension: sty)
slides-multicrit-3-bo 549: ! LaTeX Error: File ‘algorithm2e.sty’ not found. 549: Type X to quit or to proceed, 549: or enter new name. (Default extension: sty)
slides-multicrit-4-practical 549: ! LaTeX Error: File ‘algorithm2e.sty’ not found. 549: Type X to quit or to proceed, 549: or enter new name. (Default extension: sty)