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About the Course

In the second course of the Deep Learning Specialization, you will open the deep learning black box to understand the processes that drive performance and generate good results systematically. By the end, you will learn the best practices to train and develop test sets and analyze bias/variance for building deep learning applications; be able to use standard neural network techniques such as initialization, L2 and dropout regularization, hyperparameter tuning, batch normalization, and gradient checking; implement and apply a variety of optimization algorithms, such as mini-batch gradient descent, Momentum, RMSprop and Adam, and check for their convergence; and implement a neural network in TensorFlow. The Deep Learning Specialization is our foundational program that will help you understand the capabilities, challenges, and consequences of deep learning and prepare you to participate in the development of leading-edge AI technology. It provides a pathway for you to gain the knowledge and skills to apply machine learning to your work, level up your technical career, and take the definitive step in the world of AI....

Top reviews

AM

Oct 8, 2019

I really enjoyed this course. Many details are given here that are crucial to gain experience and tips on things that looks easy at first sight but are important for a faster ML project implementation

XG

Oct 30, 2017

Thank you Andrew!! I know start to use Tensorflow, however, this tool is not well for a research goal. Maybe, pytorch could be considered in the future!! And let us know how to use pytorch in Windows.

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By Sankalp B

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Apr 11, 2020

Great teaching from Andrew Ng as always. Would've loved to learn the math behind optimization techniques, but nevertheless Andrew gave intuitions of the algorithms which cleared up a lot of stuff.

By Peter F

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Nov 6, 2018

few minor errata within the assignments that haven't appeared to be fixed even 1 year after reported. But otherwise learned a lot and enjoyed the course style and will continue to learn this spec

By Charles-Edouard C

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Dec 6, 2017

one remark for the last assigment, the neural network to read the hand signs, once finished and validated , I tried with my own pictures from my webcam, and it never worked (always predicting 2).

By Patrick S

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Sep 18, 2017

Having a good understanding of tuning the Hyperparameters is key to build powerful neural networks.

The course helped me to keep a focus on tuning and understanding the relationships parameters.

By Mark P

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Jun 26, 2019

very quick moving but the assignments were too easy - they give you too much of the code (both the surrounding code which is fine but also the precise code for running optimisers for example.

By John R

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Jun 16, 2020

This course helped me a lot to clear my confusion regarding various Machine learning jargon of words. It gave a intuitive understanding and helped solidify my foundation in Machine Learning.

By Tianhao C

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Oct 5, 2019

I like this course a lot! 4 star due to the programming assignment. It is well designed, but hope the assignment could be more challenging instead of just giving us a taste of deep learning.

By Ayham S

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Aug 26, 2022

There were a couple of bits of maths that weren't fully explained and the very final programming assignement definitely had missing explanations but otherwise was really engaging and useful

By Ricardo A F

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Aug 13, 2020

The concepts were explained in a very understandable way. I would give it 5 stars if it treated the subjects in a deeper mathematical way and if the tensorflow version used was 2 and not 1.

By Oliverio J S J

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Jan 25, 2019

The course is interesting but I am not sure that the best learning strategy is to fill in some lines within a program. I am disappointed that I can not download the material for future use.

By Noah M

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Dec 10, 2019

With the basic knowledge I earned in course 1, it was very helpful attenting this coruse on improving Deep NN and I took a lot of notes during the course, to which can refer in the future.

By sai v

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Feb 13, 2019

Nice course for improving deep neural networks , they will show the all the paths available to improve a neural network , all you have to do is explore it based on your passion and need :)

By Shivank Y

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Jan 26, 2019

The course content is great but the ending lacks tensorflow implementation of regularisation, hyperparameter tuning, learning rate decay, etc. and aslo still not confident enough in those.

By Kai H

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Jan 22, 2019

The final programming task might contain minor bug, passed all sub-sections, but the final one result didn't match with the provided results, better provide more info for easier debugging.

By C. I

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Aug 31, 2017

Good material. The exercises are a little bit easy. The worst part is that after the last assignment, the certificate is done immediately and you don't have a chance to correct any errors.

By Miro A

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Jan 27, 2019

Excellent lectures, well prepared, very good examples, great teacher.

I would happily give it 5 stars, if not the constant issues with Coursera infrastructure, crashing notebooks/kernels.

By Anthony K

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Nov 8, 2018

The course is very interesting and fairly well laid out but some simple typos can cause some confusion and they have been there for a long time based on some info in the discussion forums

By Sandeep P

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Jun 24, 2018

Nice course. Great introduction to hyper parameters in neural networks and also nice assignment on tensorflow. It would have been even better if they introduced tensorflow in more detail!

By ZW

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Sep 2, 2018

Good material and some very nice practical tips. A few typos here and there in the course material made it difficult at times to debug the code, which is the reason for docking one star.

By Dany J

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Nov 10, 2017

Good covering of many implementation aspects of neural networks. I find the practical exercises to lean on the tedious side while not bringing a tremendous amount of learning themselves.

By Jose L M

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Sep 14, 2018

It was somewhat frustrating to spend so much time coding raw python, just to discover that TF can do all of that with one-liners. Nevertheless it was valuable to learn the nitty-gritty.

By Akhtar H

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Jan 21, 2021

Nice explanation of Tensor flow. Hyperparameter tuning was explained in easy and robust way. Programming Assignment is tricky but forum comments helped a lot in resolving the problem.

By Aditya L

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Aug 8, 2020

Some extra information on various optimization algorithms will be good. Moreover, if there are links to some of the research papers and resources to dive into, it will help out a lot.

By Tilman H

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May 10, 2020

Excellent course, but I did not learn many new things (some just from a different angle). Maybe the course description should be updated to be more specific about the target audience.

By Darvoftw

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Jul 7, 2019

Some very interesting material for beginners. At times it feels like concepts are being repeated over and over again, but there is enough new concepts to keep it worthwhile to repeat.