Exercises
To get more comfortable with generative models, try your hand at these exercises:
Create an SGAN in order to train an MNIST image classifier. How few images can you use to achieve over 90% classification accuracy?
Using LSTMs, you can build an autoencoder for stock price movements. Using a dataset such as the DJIA stock prices, build an autoencoder that encodes stock movements. Then visualize what happens to the outputs as you move through the latent space. You can find the dataset here: https://www.kaggle.com/szrlee/stock-time-series-20050101-to-20171231.