Neural Networks and Deep Learning

EC ENGR C247A Neural Networks and Deep Learning (Instructor: Suhas, D.) Lecture, four hours; discussion, two hours; outside study, six hours.

Requisites: courses 131A, 133A or 205A, and M146, or equivalent.

Review of machine learning concepts; maximum likelihood; supervised classification; neural network architectures; backpropagation; regularization for training neural networks; optimization for training neural networks; convolutional neural networks; practical CNN architectures; deep learning libraries in Python; recurrent neural networks, backpropagation through time, long short-term memory and gated recurrent units; variational autoencoders; generative adversarial networks; adversarial examples and training.

Concurrently scheduled with course C147.

Letter grading.