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PurdueX: Introduction to Deep Learning

Learn how deep learning algorithms can be used to solve important engineering problems.

16 weeks
6–9 hours per week
Instructor-paced
Instructor-led on a course schedule
This course is archived

About this course

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This 3-credit-hour, 16-week course covers the fundamentals of deep learning. Students will gain a principled understanding of the motivation, justification, and design considerations of the deep neural network approach to machine learning and will complete hands-on projects using TensorFlow and Keras.

At a glance

  • Institution: PurdueX
  • Subject: Engineering
  • Level: Advanced
  • Prerequisites:

    This course is designed for students who have an undergraduate degree in electrical and computer engineering, computer science, or similar. Undergrauadate coursework in probabilistic methods in electrical and computer engineering and linear algebra is recommended before taking this course.

  • Language: English
  • Video Transcript: English
  • Associated skills:Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Artificial Neural Networks, TensorFlow, Algorithms

What you'll learn

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  • Justify the development state-of-the-art deep learning algorithms.
  • Make design choices regarding the construction of deep learning algorithms.
  • Implement, optimize and tune state-of-the-art deep neural network architectures.
  • Identify and address the security aspects of state-of-the-art deep learning algorithms.
  • Examine open research problems in deep learning and propose approaches in the literature to tackle them.

Module 1: Introduction to Deep Feedforward Networks

    • Gradient-based learning
    • Sigmoidal output units
    • Back propagation

Module 2: Regularization for Deep Learning

    • Regularization strategies
    • Noise injection
    • Ensemble methods
    • Dropout

Module 3: Optimization for Training Deep Models

    • Optimization algorithms: Gradient, Hessian-Free, Newton
    • Momentum
    • Batch normalization

Module 4: Convolutional Neural Networks

    • Convolutional kernels
    • Downsampled convolution
    • Zero padding
    • Backpropagating convolution

Module 5: Recurrent Neural Networks

    • Recurrence relationship & recurrent networks
    • Long short-term memory (LSTM)
    • Back propagation through time (BPTT)
    • Gated and simple recurrent units
    • Neural Turing machine (NTM)

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