Mark H. Liu

Tenured finance prof; (founding) director of Finance Master's program at UKY; book author; programmer; tech enthusiast!

[Mark H. Liu @mark_h_liu]

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐊𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐮𝐜𝐤𝐲 𝐊𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐥 covered the 𝐒𝐲𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐮𝐦 https://t.co/SgQe25V8vK
Enjoyed presenting alongside Bingxin Zhao of @Wharton Zag ElSayed of @uofcincy, and Justin Miller and Muhammad Abu Bakar Siddique of @universityofky

[Mark H. Liu @mark_h_liu]

Join us tomorrow (April 1, Ballroom B, Gatton Student Center) at the Spring 2026 UKY AI Literacy and Training Symposium (https://t.co/WqJ5Gcxz5r). I'll talk about diffusion-based text-to-image generation based on my book 𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝 𝐚 𝐓𝐞𝐱𝐭-𝐭𝐨-𝐈𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫

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📝If you purchased 𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝 𝐚 𝐓𝐞𝐱𝐭-𝐭𝐨-𝐈𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐒𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 (https://t.co/lywDmtnwrs) by @ManningBooks or received a free copy, I’d appreciate it if you could leave a review on Amazon:
https://t.co/GxJP5Jewbo

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📚 Happy to receive my author copies of 𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝 𝐚 𝐓𝐞𝐱𝐭-𝐭𝐨-𝐈𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐒𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 (https://t.co/lywDmto4h0) by @ManningBooks

🎁 Love the new book smell, brought back fond childhood memories of getting new textbooks each school year

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Curious about how AI image generation really works? The book walks you through building a transformer-based model (#𝐃𝐀𝐋𝐋-𝐄) or a diffusion model (#StableDiffusion) from scratch using #PyTorch!

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🚀My latest book 𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝 𝐚 𝐓𝐞𝐱𝐭-𝐭𝐨-𝐈𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐒𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 (https://t.co/lywDmtnwrs) is in print today. Use code 𝐏𝐁𝐋𝐢𝐮2 to get 50% off through Jan 9.

@ManningPub95643 @JonathanGennick @AiraDucic

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50% off now till May 27 @ManningBooks including two of my books:
🚀 𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝 𝐚 𝐓𝐞𝐱𝐭-𝐭𝐨-𝐈𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫 (𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐒𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡)
🔗 https://t.co/Pfjh2q7g8f

🚀 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐏𝐲𝐓𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐡
🔗 https://t.co/TetOMOxJVF

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Deal of the Day May 9: Save 45% on my book 𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝 𝐚 𝐓𝐞𝐱𝐭-𝐭𝐨-𝐈𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐒𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 and other selected titles (https://t.co/nUoGo4ZEES) @ManningBooks. Check out the first 6 chapters here https://t.co/Pfjh2q7g8f

[Mark H. Liu @mark_h_liu]

My new book 𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝 𝐚 𝐓𝐞𝐱𝐭-𝐭𝐨-𝐈𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐒𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 (https://t.co/lywDmtnwrs) is among the best sellers at Manning Publications Co. Create/edit images with natural language; Add captions to images; Fine-tune LLMs; Detect deepfakes &more

[Mark H. Liu @mark_h_liu]

𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐚𝐧 𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐨𝐟 68.78% 𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 32.22% 𝐭𝐢𝐠𝐞𝐫?

Find out in Chapter 10 of my newest book 𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝 𝐚 𝐓𝐞𝐱𝐭-𝐭𝐨-𝐈𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐒𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 (https://t.co/lywDmtnwrs) with @ManningBooks

[Mark H. Liu @mark_h_liu]

In addition to learning to build a text-to-image generator, my book 𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝 𝐚 𝐓𝐞𝐱𝐭-𝐭𝐨-𝐈𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐒𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 (https://t.co/lywDmtnwrs) also teaches you other skills—like generating image captions. Here are 3 examples in ch4 @ManningBooks

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@ManningBooks "𝐀 𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐚 𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐲𝐜𝐥𝐞, 𝐰𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐮𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐰 𝐡𝐚𝐭."

Feeding this prompt into a text-to-image model, it can generate an image like the one below. Read my book and learn how

[Mark H. Liu @mark_h_liu]

Want to learn how to build your own text to image generator like DALL-E or Stable Diffusion, check out my new book?

[Manning Publications @ManningBooks]

📣 New in MEAP! 📣

Ready to transform art, design & content creation?

"Build a Text-to-Image Generator (from Scratch)" by @mark_h_liu empowers you to create AI models for generating stunning images from text.

Save 50% with code MLLIU250X before May 2: https://t.co/PnadpmN9HA

[Mark H. Liu @mark_h_liu]

𝐀 𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐚 𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐲𝐜𝐥𝐞, 𝐰𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐮𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐰 𝐡𝐚𝐭

This prompt can generate an image below

𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝 𝐚 𝐓𝐞𝐱𝐭-𝐭𝐨-𝐈𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫 (from Scratch) https://t.co/lywDmtnwrs
@ManningBooks

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happy to announce the launch of my latest book with Manning Publications Co.
🚀 𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝 𝐚 𝐓𝐞𝐱𝐭-𝐭𝐨-𝐈𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫 (𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐒𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡)
🔗 https://t.co/Pfjh2q7g8f
This book unpacks the tech behind text-to-image models and how to build 1 from scratch

[Mark H. Liu @mark_h_liu]

My book 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐏𝐲𝐓𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐡 (https://t.co/TetOMOxJVF) appears among the best sellers @ManningBooks from time to time. Ranked No. 9 in the past week.

Bought my book or received a free copy, leave a review here https://t.co/vovqtoXRr5

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Deal of the Day March 16: Save 50% on my book 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐏𝐲𝐓𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐡 (https://t.co/TetOMOxJVF) and other selected titles @ManningBooks
If you bought my book or received a free copy please consider leaving a review here https://t.co/vovqtoXRr5

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Now that my book 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐏𝐲𝐓𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐡 (https://t.co/k1eSb4R6YX) is in print, Manning Publications Co. is offering a 45% discount code 𝐩𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐮, valid through October 9, in all formats.

[Mark H. Liu @mark_h_liu]

@ManningBooks is fast! I already received my author copies today even though my book 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐏𝐲𝐓𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐡 (https://t.co/TetOMOyhLd) will be released Nov 26. You can pre-order on Amazon (https://t.co/kgcqB9ROQ4).

[Mark H. Liu @mark_h_liu]

Happy to receive author copies of my book 𝐀𝐥𝐩𝐡𝐚𝐆𝐨 𝐒𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐞𝐝 (https://t.co/3MUJUpOxzu).

𝐀𝐥𝐩𝐡𝐚𝐆𝐨 beat the world Go champion Lee Sedol in 2016, it has since been repurposed for other tasks with great success: e.g. 𝐀𝐥𝐩𝐡𝐚𝐅𝐨𝐥𝐝.
Thanks @randicohen89