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About the Course

In the fifth course of the Deep Learning Specialization, you will become familiar with sequence models and their exciting applications such as speech recognition, music synthesis, chatbots, machine translation, natural language processing (NLP), and more. By the end, you will be able to build and train Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) and commonly-used variants such as GRUs and LSTMs; apply RNNs to Character-level Language Modeling; gain experience with natural language processing and Word Embeddings; and use HuggingFace tokenizers and transformer models to solve different NLP tasks such as NER and Question Answering. The Deep Learning Specialization is a 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 take the definitive step in the world of AI by helping you gain the knowledge and skills to level up your career....

Top reviews

JY

Oct 29, 2018

The lectures covers lots of SOTA deep learning algorithms and the lectures are well-designed and easy to understand. The programming assignment is really good to enhance the understanding of lectures.

WK

Mar 13, 2018

I was really happy because I could learn deep learning from Andrew Ng.

The lectures were fantastic and amazing.

I was able to catch really important concepts of sequence models.

Thanks a lot!

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By Chegva Y

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Dec 29, 2021

It is better to talk more about bi-directional RNN and give assightment about it before week three and week four. Moreover, it is also better to give two more weeks to talk more about the material in week 3 and 4.

By Jeffrey D

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Mar 11, 2020

Programming exercises did show you quite a bit, but got complex enough that most of my time was spent reading and understanding the preamble than doing any programming. That being said it delivered on the promise.

By Salamat B

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Sep 24, 2018

Course content is really good! However, I found it quite difficult to truly understand deep learning algorithms. However, it provides good glimpse of of sequence models and intuitions behind various useful models.

By Georges B

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Feb 20, 2018

Great course and material, Andrew NG really know who to explain difficult subjects in an intuitive way. However, the course seems that it still needs some work (there are some bugs in the lectures and assignments)

By Andrew D

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Feb 9, 2022

The lectures are suitable. Andrew, as always, is very clear and goes into necessary detail on each topic.

The programming assignments have adequate assistance and hints, except for the final week on Transformers.

By Mayank A

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Jun 30, 2020

The NLP Section of this course is quite difficult to understand(The Notations are quite confusing as well as prior knowledge is required to understand) but other than that RNN, GRU, LTSM are explained clearly.

By Seungjin B

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Sep 8, 2018

Week1 lessons are a little complex than the previous classes and there are gaps between ground-up python version and keras version of LSTM model. Keras will need to be taught a bit more in detail to follow up.

By Lester A S D C

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Jul 29, 2019

This is by far the hardest course in the specialization. But it was explained well. My only complain is there were errors in the first programming exercise. All in all, I learned a lot in this specialization.

By Guoqin M

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Jul 2, 2018

Great content! I really love Andrew's teaching style. (1 star deduction for some programming assignments where I spent time debugging but it turned out that the point deduction was due to the grading system.)

By Marek M

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Apr 20, 2024

Great course, but the transformers section was much, much more difficult than the rest of the material. More time, lectures and exercises should be given to give us intuition about these very alien concepts.

By Akoji T

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Oct 12, 2022

Overall course content is great but I feel like improvements can be made on the lab exercises to give students concrete understanding along with hands-on experience. A great job by the deeplearning.AI team.

By Divya G

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Mar 25, 2019

The programming exercises are a little heavy in this course where we need to load and re-load for them to give correct output even if the code had been correct all throughout. Otherwise, the course is great.

By Deleu M

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Sep 10, 2018

4 stars and not 5 stars because the course is shorter than the others and it feels like an exemple in classical forecasting is lacking (sales, time series...).

Really interesting but may be too focus on NLP.

By Zhaoqing X

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Jul 24, 2018

It's an excellent course! I will give it 5 stars if it could offer more interesting and meaningful assignments(Not offend, but it a little too easy and the assignments are not very related to the real work).

By Ayush N G

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Sep 23, 2019

The course should contain more explanation about natural language processing like tf-idf,lemmatization,stemming,dialog flow. Although i got a good explanation of working of RNNs,LSTM and machine translation

By Md Z S

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Feb 3, 2019

Great course to start off with sequence model. The programming exercises were in depth and deliver a great learning experience. Would love to see more of sequence literature in the course's future versions.

By Michele I

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Apr 18, 2018

Again a brilliant course from Andrew NG, but though and dense this time. In order to grasp the meanings videos and lectures need to be revised a few times. Also, get some extra info elsewhere does not hurt.

By Aleksi S

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Feb 22, 2018

Excellent presentation, and interesting assignments. One star dropped because a couple of technical issues with the assignment material (typos in the mathematical formulas / expected results here and there)

By Zhao L

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Jun 8, 2019

The contents are great as always. However, the server is not reliable. Once, the grader is down and you can't submit homework. For another time, the connection is lost and all the changes made are lost.

By Eoin T

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Feb 20, 2018

Great course, but I felt the gap between the very high level lectures and very low level labs was a bit too wide. I had some issues with the autograder and losing progress in the notebook between sessions.

By Jose B

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Jan 23, 2021

Great course. The only frustrating part are the programming assignments as it is very cumbersome to have to go thru the discussion forums to resolve issues. Tough to find helpful insights thru the forums.

By Muhammed A Ç

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Oct 19, 2020

Andrew Ng is perfect like everytime. I didn't have any issue with programming exercises unlike other comment so probably it fixed. I wish course to be more detailed especially training word vectors part.

By Angelo C

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Jun 23, 2019

Very well produced and explained. In my case, the nature of the Sequence Model makes understanding the concepts and finishing the assignment more challenging than other segments of the specialization.

By ROHITH R E

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Feb 22, 2019

The course is very short when compared to first 3 courses in this series. It would have been better if more explanation and shorter assignments were provided in the initial weeks and increase the pace.

By Prashant J

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Apr 3, 2019

The previous courses raised the bar and expectations. The assignments for Week 1 and Week 2 were a bit unclear. Lectures for Week 1 and Week 2 can be improved as well. Besides, this is a great course!