Hi, my name is James and I'm a current student in the MathSys II CDT under the supervision of Ranko Lazic (DCS), Matthias Englert (DCS), and Nikolaos Zygouras (WMI). I'm interested in the phenomenon of model collapse, a process in which the performance of generative models declines (losing both diversity and accuracy) over iterations of retraining the model on its own data.