Indian Institute of Technology Madras
BS Degree Programme · Examination & Study Paper
Mathematical Foundations of Generative AI
Quiz 1 · 26 Oct 2025 (Afternoon)
Examination Instructions & Guidelines
- Solve on notebook/paper first before checking solutions.
- MCQ: Exactly 1 option is correct. Negative marking applies.
- MSQ: One or more options correct. Select all to score.
- NAT: Numerical response. No negative marking.
- Scientific calculator allowed for all calculations.
- Official answer key is sealed at the end of this sheet.
- Q1MCQ2 Marks·Choose one option
Suppose you replace the log-loss in the original GAN with a general f-divergence minimization framework. Which of the following cannot be directly represented as an f-divergence?
- AKL divergence
- BReverse KL divergence
- CTotal Variation distance
- DWasserstein distance
- Q2MCQ2 Marks·Choose one option

- A−log 2
- B0
- C−log(0.3)
- Dlog 2
- Q3MCQ2 Marks·Choose one option

- A

- B

- C

- D

- A
- Q4MCQ2 Marks·Choose one option

- A−0.8008
- B−0.6432
- C−1.1412
- D−0.4794
- Q5MCQ2 Marks·Choose one option

- A80,402
- B99,402
- C242,503
- D159,3
- Q6MCQ2 Marks·Choose one option

- A0.22
- B0.28
- C0.34
- D0.41
- Q7MCQ2 Marks·Choose one option

- A

- B

- C

- D

- A
- Q8MCQ2 Marks·Choose one option

- AThe first term measures bias shift; the second term measures covariance mismatch.
- BBoth terms measure covariance only.
- CBoth terms are dominated by the generator’s variance.
- DThe first term measures variance difference; the second measures mean shift.
- Q9MCQ2 Marks·Choose one option
FID compares real and generated image distributions by assuming they follow multivariate Gaussian distributions in a feature space extracted from a pretrained neural network. Which layer’s activations are typically used to compute this feature space in practice?
- AThe output logits of the generator
- BRaw RGB pixel values
- CThe first convolution layer of the discriminator
- DThe penultimate layer of an Inception-v3 network
- Q10MCQ2 Marks·Choose one option

- A

- B

- C

- D

- A
- Q11MCQ3 Marks·Choose one option

- A

- B

- C

- D

- A
- Q12MCQ3 Marks·Choose one option

- A0.20
- B0.35
- C0.55
- D0.75
- Q13MCQ3 Marks·Choose one option

- A0.57
- B0.24
- C0.32
- D0.137
- Q14MCQ3 Marks·Choose one option

- A[−2.1, 0.4]
- B[−2.2, −4.3]
- C[0.2, 0.1]
- D[0, 0]
- Q15MSQ3 Marks·Choose all correct options
Which of the following are valid reasons why GAN training based on JSD minimization is unstable?
- AJSD saturates when the supports of p_(data) and p_g do not overlap.
- BGradients for the generator can vanish when the discriminator becomes too strong.
- CJSD is not continuous w.r.t. the parameters of the generator distribution.
- DJSD always provides unbiased gradients in high dimensions.
- Q16MSQ4 Marks·Choose all correct options

- A

- B

- C

- D

- A
- Q17NAT2 Marks·Write the number
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