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Coursera Deep Learning Specialization

Completed all the courses on 17th March, 2018.

Schedule of the Coursera Deep Learning Specialization Courses, which I started taking from Jan 2018. This specialization has five courses which are listed below with their end dates, for the current session. Even though the order of the course is as listed in table, but it is not necessary to take in that order.

Course NameSpecific Topics CoveredLengthEnd Date
Neural Nets & Deep Learning
Quiz: 2,
Prog. Assignments: 4
* Intro. to Deep Learning
* Neural Nets Basics
* Numpy & Vectorization
* Gradient Descent & Back propagation
* Shallow 1-layer nets
* Deep Neural Nets Intro.
* Parameters & hyperparameters
4 weeks19/Feb
Improving Deep Neural Nets
Quiz: 3,
Prog. Assigments: 4
* Regularization
* Initialization, bias & variance
* Tensorflow
* Understanding drop-outs
* Gradient checking
* Mini-batch gradient descent
* RMSprop
* Adam Optimization algo.
* Hyperparams tuning - Pandas & Caviar
* Fitting Batch Norm
* Softmax regression
3 weeks12/Mar
Structuring Machine Learning Projects
Quiz on Case study: 2
* Orthogonalization
* Train/dev/test distribution & sizing
* Avoidable bias
* Bias/variance with mismatched data distr.
* Transfer learning
* Multitask Learning
* End-to-end Deep Learning
2 weeks19/Feb
Convolutional Neural Nets
Quiz: 4,
Prog. Assigments: 6
* Computer vision
* Edge detection
* Strided convolutions
* Simple CNN example
* ResNets, Inception Nets
* Transfer learning, Data Augmentation
* State of Computer Vision
* Keras tutorial
* Residual nets
* Object detection & YOLO algo
* Face detection & Neural style transfer
4 weeks05/Mar
Sequence Models
Quiz: 3,
Prog. Assigments: 7
* RNNs & backprop thru' time
* Gated Recurrent Unit & LSTM
* Bi-directional & Deep RNNs
* NLP & Word embeddings
* Attention Model
* Speech Recognition
3 weeks21/Feb

Courses Completion - Time-table

Note: Scheduling of other weeks for IDNN & CNN have to be done - Target 15/Feb. These schedule can follow the actual course weekly completion dead-lines.

DateCourseActivityEst. TimeActual TimeMilestone/Comments
11/FebNNDLQuiz 30.5 hrs0.75 hrsScored 1 mark less 'coz of not reviewing answers.
11/FebNNDLQuiz 40.5 hrs0.5 hrsScored full
11/FebSMWk 1 - Videos & Notes1.0 hrs
11/FebSMQuiz 1, PA-1, PA-2, PA-32.0 hrs
18/FebNNDLPA-3, PA-42 hrsCompleted NNDL
13/FebSMLPWk 1 - Videos & Notes1.5 hrhr
13/FebSMLPCase study 11 hrhr
14/FebCNNWk 1 - Videos & Notes1.5 hrhr
14/FebCNNQuiz, PA-1, PA-22.0 hrhr
15/FebSMLPWk 2 - Videos & Notes3 hrs
11/MarSMLPCase study 21 hrhrCompleted SMLP
16/FebIDNNWk 1 - Videos & Notes5 hrshrs
17/FebIDNNQuiz 1, PA-1, PA-23 hrshrs
17/FebSMWk 2 - Videos & Notes4 hrshrs
18/FebSMQuiz 2, PA-4, PA-51.5 hrshrs
18/FebSMWk 3 - Videos & Notes4.5 hrshrs
05/MarSMQuiz 3, PA-6, PA-72 hrshrsCompleted SM
19/FebCNNWk 2 - Videos & Notes5 hrshrs
24/FebIDNNWk 2 - Videos & Notes4 hrshrs
17/MarCNNQuiz 4, PA-5, PA-63 hrshrsCompleted CNN
07/MarIDNNQuiz 3, PA-41.5 hrshrsCompleted IDNN

Other references for this courses include:

  1. PDF version of MIT book on "Deep Learning" by Goodfellow, et. al.
  2. deeplearning.org - lecture slides & some videos

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