Tutorial on Deep Learning I
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Claims that modern deep nets win only with very large datasets and practical tricks: hierarchical representations work well for vision, language and even medical tasks; empirical elements are ReLU activations and training with SGD plus momentum, plus regularizers like dropout with p=0.5 and batch normalization per-mini-batch. Examples shown: unsupervised word embeddings from Reuters, neural image captioning that samples plausible sentences, autoencoder pre‑training, and over‑parameterized ImageNet models (tens of millions of weights) that reach near‑zero training error then generalize.
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chapters (33)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:53Mining for Structure
- 1:36Impact of Deep Learning
- 2:22Deep Generative Model
- 3:36Example: Understanding Images
- 5:09Caption Generation
- 5:29Talk Roadmap
- 6:26Learning Feature Representations
- 7:02Traditional Approaches
- 7:19Computer Vision Features
- 7:40Audio Features
- 8:24Neural Networks Online Course
- 8:51Feedforward Neural Networks
- 9:19Artificial Neuron
- 10:11Activation Function
- 12:15Single Hidden Layer Neural Net
- 12:37Multilayer Neural Net
- 13:02Capacity of Neural Nets
- 13:37Universal Approximation
- 15:50Stochastic Gradient Descend
- 17:27Computational Flow Graph
- 20:04Model Selection
- 21:19Early Stopping
- 23:42Mini-batch, Momentum
- 26:51Local vs. Distributed Representations
- 29:00Inspiration from Visual Cortex
- 31:56Why Training is Hard
- 34:39Unsupervised Pre-training
- 37:29Fine-tuning
- 46:35Dropout at Test Time
- 51:41Batch Normalization
- 57:16Optimization Tricks
- 57:57Visualization








