致谢
本书的完成离不开以下各位的慷慨帮助与宝贵建议：Kathryn Hume, Kevin Murphy, Christopher Bishop, Peng Xu, Yann Dubois, Justin Domke, Chris Fletcher, Yanshuai Cao, Wendy Tay, Corey Toler-Franklin, Dmytro Mishkin, Guy McCusker, Daniel Worrall, Paul McIlroy, Roy Amoyal, Austin Anderson, Romero Barata de Morais, Gabriel Harrison, Peter Ball, Alf Muir, David Bryson, Vodika Parulkar, Patryk Lietzau, Jessica Nicholson, Alexa Huxley, Oisin Mac Aodha, Giuseppe Castiglione, Josh Akylbekov, Alex Gongoulaki, Joshua Omilabu, Alister Guenther, Joe Goodier, Logan Wade, Joshua Guenther, Kylan Tobin, Benedict Ellett, Jad Araj, Andrew Glennerster, Giorgos Sfikas, Diya Vibhakar, Sam Mansat-Bhattacharyya, Ben Ross, Ivor Simpson, Gaurang Aggarwal, Shakeel Sheikh, Jacob Horton, Felix Rammell, Sasha Luccioni, Akshil Patel, Alessandro Gentilini, Kevin Mercier, Krzysztof Lichocki, Chuck Krapf, Brian Ha, Chris Kang, Leonardo Viotti, Kai Li, Himan Abdollahpouri, Ari Pakman, Giuseppe Antonio Di Luna, Dan Oneață, Conrad Whiteley, Joseph Santarcangelo, Brad Shook, Gabriel Brostow, Lei He, Ali Satvaty, Romain Sabathé, Qiang Zhou, Prasanna Vigneswaran, Siqi Zheng, Stephan Grein, Jonas Klesen, Giovanni Stilo, Huang Bokai, Kevin McGuinness, Qiang Sun, Zakaria Lotfi, Yifei Lin, Sylvain Bouix, Alex Pitt, Stephane Chretien, Robin Liu, Bian Li, Adam Jones, Marcin Świerkot, Tommy Löfstedt, Eugen Hotaj, Fernando Flores-Mangas, Tony Polichroniadis, Pietro Monticone, Rohan Deepak Ajwani, Menashe Yarden Einy, Robert Gevorgyan, Thilo Stadelmann, Gui JieMiao, Botao Zhu, Mohamed Elabbas, Satya Krishna Gorti, James Elder, Helio Perroni Filho, Xiaochao Qu, Jackang Shin, Joshua Evans, Robert Dobson, Shibo Wang, Edoardo Zorzi, Stanislaw Jastrzębski, Pieris Kalligeros, Matt Hewitt, Zvika Haramaty, Ted Mavroïdis, Nikolaj Kuntner, Amir Yorav, Masoud Mokhtari, Xavier Gabaix, Marco Garosi, Vincent Schönbach, Avishek Mondal, Victor S.C. Lui, Sumit Bhatia, Julian Asilis, Hengchao Chen, Siavash Khallaghi, Csaba Szepesvári, Mike Singer, Mykhailo Shvets, Abdalla Ibrahim, Stefan Hell, Ron Raphaeli, Diogo Tavares, Aristotelis Siozopoulos, Jianrui Wu, Jannik Münz, Penn Mackintosh, Shawn Hoareau, Qianang Zhou, Emma Li, Charlie Groves, Xiang Lingxiao, Trivikram Muralidharan, Rajat Binaykiya, Germán del Cacho Salvador, Alexey Bloudov, Paul Colognese, Bo Yang, Jani Monoses, Adenilson Arcanjo, Matan Golani, Emmanuel Onzon, Shenghui Yan, Kamesh Kompella, Julius Aka, Johannes Brunnemann, Varniethan Ketheeswaran, Alex Ostrovsky, Daniel Burbank, Gavrie Philipson, Roozbeh Ehsani, Len Spek, Christoph Brune, Mohammad Nosrati, Bian Li, Runqi Chen, Qifu Hu, Rasmi Elasmar, Ronaldo Butrus, Carles Mesado, Jeffrey Wolberg, Olivier Koch, Edoardo Lanari, Fanmin Shi, Neel Maniar, Maksym Taran, Falk Langhammer, Reinaldo Lepsch, Max Talberg, Vishal Jain, Christian Arnold, Charles Hill, Nikita Panin, Steven Dillmann, Suhas Mathur, Harris Abdul Majid, Guolong Lin, Charles Elkan, Benedict Kuester, Vladimir Ivanov, Mohammad-Hadi Sotoudeh, Daniel Enériz Orta, Ian Jeffrey, Kwok Chun, Yu Liu, Tom Vettenburg, Angelo Coluccia, Vladyslav Moroshan, Rami Luisto, Peter Zaki, Lucase Curtin, Victor Liu, Giacomo Cirò, Louis Neltner, Ahmet Çeşmeci, Yanzhe Bekkemoen, Judith Katzy, Jannes Bruns, Ondra Jelínek, Yancan Yi, Tamás Szép, Diego Ortega Hernandez, Yancan Yi, Felix Winterhalter, Renato Assunção, Jixin Liu, Benjamin Sambale, Jeremy Mikkelsen, Volodymyr Ivanchenkok, Coco Bögel, Betty Qi, Joy Kuri, Tom Jacobs, Lei Fang, Fabian Henning, Umesh Rajashekar, Jay Park, Kai Liu, Pablo Renard Guiral, Federico Barbero, Rongjiang Pan, Betin Bilkan Karaman, Leonidas Varveropoulos, William Locke IV, Filip Jasionek, Yuanhang Wang, Stefan Bach, Ivan Yevtushenko, David Gwyer, Bohan Cui, Ali Darijani, Rouhollah Farhang, Li Tang, Aleksandrs Koselevs, Mason Wang, Pablo Fernandez, Angelo Coluccia, Vladyslav Moroshan, Rami Luisto, Peter Zaki, Lucase Curtin, Victor Liu, Giacomo Cirò, Louis Neltner, Ahmet Çeşmeci, Yanzhe Bekkemoen, Judith Katzy, Jannes Bruns, Ondra Jelínek, Yancan Yi, Tamás Szép, Diego Ortega Hernandez, Yancan Yi, Felix Winterhalter, Renato Assunção, Jixin Liu, Benjamin Sambale, Jeremy Mikkelsen, Volodymyr Ivanchenkok, Coco Bögel, Betty Qi, and Joy Kuri.
我要特别感谢 Daniyar Turmukhambetov、Amedeo Buonanno、Andrea Panizza、Mark Hudson、Bernhard Pfahringer、Alexander Nordin 和 Nicholas Lord，他们对本书多个章节提供了详细的评注。我还要特别感谢 Andrew Fitzgibbon、Konstantinos Derpanis、Toshiaki Kurokawa 和 Tyler Mills，他们通读了全书，他们的热忱帮助我完成了本项目。我还要感谢 Neill Campbell 和 Özgür Şimşek 在巴斯大学（University of Bath）对我的接待，我在那里首次基于这些材料开设了课程。最后，我非常感谢我的编辑 Elizabeth Swayze 在整个过程中给予的坦诚建议。
第12章（Transformer）和第17章（变分自编码器）最初以博客形式发表于 Borealis AI，改编版本经加拿大皇家银行（Royal Bank of Canada）及 Borealis AI 许可转载。我对他们的支持深表感谢。第16章（归一化流）大致基于 Kobyzev 等人（2020）的综述文章，我是该文的共同作者。第21章的写作得益于与达尔豪斯大学（Dalhousie University）Travis LaCroix 的合作，他既是出色的合作者，也是令人愉快的工作伙伴，承担了大部分工作。
图片来源
- 图 1.13 中的棋盘图像改编自 http://tinyurl.com/yc2d54d4
- 图 1.2、1.4、1.10 中的齿轮图像改编自 http://tinyurl.com/2c7tttr8
- 图 19.1–19.5 和 19.6–19.9 中的企鹅图像改编自 http://tinyurl.com/ycx9je56
- 图 19.2–19.5、19.7、19.10–19.12 中的鱼类图像改编自 http://tinyurl.com/4ueyhtsu