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CS 6421:  Deep Learning
 
     

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Week Date Number Main Topic Details
BACKGROUND 1 15/01/2020 1 Overview Introduction to deep learning
    17/01/2020 2 Classification and Learning Using deep networks for classification and learning tasks
  2 22/01/2020 3 Modularity Architectures for Deep networks
    24/01/2020 4 Mathematical Background Matrices and differential calculus                                                                             
BASIC INFERENCE 3 29/01/2020 5 DL Inference Computation Graphs: Introduction
Theory of  Inference
TensorFlow
    31/01/2020 6 Inference: classification Computation graph:
Backpropagation               
  4 05/02/2020 7 TensorFlow: practical aspects TensorFlow implementation details
Programming Problem: fully-connected MNIST
    07/02/2020 8 Deep Learning: Training Backpropagation; Optimisation

Mid-Term: Practice Questions
Solutions to Practice Questions
PRACTICAL ASPECTS 5 12/02/2020 9 Practical Aspects Overview: Architectures; Activation and Loss functions
    14/02/2020 10 Practical Aspects Weight initialisation; Data pre-processing
  6 19/02/2020 11 Practical Aspects  Deep-Network practical issues; CPU/GPU practical issues

MidTerm Practice problems
    21/02/2020 12 Practical Aspects: Training Deep Networks Optimization, gradient analysis,batch optimization
Learning Rate
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CNN 8 04/03/2020 13 Convolution Neural Networks (CNNs) Theory of CNNs; architectures and convolution operations
    06/03/2020 14 Convolution Neural Networks (CNNs) Applications of CNNs
Programming Assignment 1
  9 11/03/2020 15    Applications of CNNs

TEMPORAL NETWORKS   13/03/2020 16 Temporal Deep Networks RNN                                                              
  10 18/03/2020 17 Temporal Deep Networks  LSTM
    20/03/2020 18 Temporal Deep Networks  RNN/LSTM applications
REINFORCEMENT LEARNING 11 25/03/2020 19 Deep Reinforcement Learning Deep Reinforcement Learning introduction; critic-based methods
    27/03/2020 20 Deep Reinforcement Learning Deep Reinforcement Learning: actor-based methods
  12 01/04/2020 21 Deep-RL-applications  
    03/04/2020 22 Deep Probabilistic Networks Restricted Boltzmann Machines; Deep Bayesian Networks            








































 


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