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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....

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YL

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very useful course, especially the last tensorflow assignment. the only reason i gave 4 stars is due to the lack of practice on batchnorm, which i believe is one of the most usefule techniques lately.

NC

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Yet another excellent course by Professor Ng! Really helped me gain a detailed understanding of optimization techniques such as RMSprop and Adam, as well as the inner workings of batch normalization.

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By Luisa F V C

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Aug 5, 2020

You learn about improving your capacity in the modeling and logic in your neural networks. This course is full of tips and tricks very important in your career in deep learning.

By Hind A b

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Mar 5, 2020

explained very well, interesting and engaging assignments, sometimes I get lost with all the mathematical representation and details but overall very good course I recommend it.

By Mustafa S Ç

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Oct 22, 2019

Everything was great. Every peace of information scratch in my mine. I learned a lots from course.

In the last part; Tensorflow has dramaticly changed but content didn't renewed.

By Pavel B

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Dec 29, 2018

everything you need to do is given in form of the hint. That was a nice course in terms of the explanations, but too easy in terms of applying it in a programming assignments.

By Abhishek Y

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Jan 15, 2023

Amazing content. Learned a lot. The math was a bit hard to keep up with at first but the intuitions behind them were well explained, so that the students can understand better.

By Carlos M

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Feb 27, 2018

Great for the most part, but the TensorFlow assignments felt flat and "incomplete." I ended up using Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn & Tensorflow to bridge the gap.

By Scott V

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Nov 4, 2017

There were a few errors in the final assignment and grading is very slow. That being said, the course was informative and provided some additional "tools" to add to my toolbox.

By Rocco I

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Feb 16, 2020

Good course, as the previous ones. I wish we had the possibility to download the slides or get some summary notes... Going back to the videos to check some infos is not handy.

By John O

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Jan 18, 2021

A solid Part 2 to the deep learning sequence. My only issue here is that the final exercise emphasizes TensorFlow 1.0, which felt a little funny since TF 2 works differently.

By Lorenzo M

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Nov 26, 2020

The content of the course is really good and well presented. I would have appreciated more labs in the in-week material so to have more feedback on the practical coding side.

By Alex O

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Sep 2, 2020

Like this course. It gives you good basic understanding of how to optimize you Deep Neural Network. But sometimes it is not so much practice. But this is not critical for me.

By Jag S S

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Mar 26, 2020

Tensorflow Version used in last assignment is old and syntax has been changed in tensorflow 2.0, it should be updated. But Overall very knowledgeable and insightful course.

By Nguyen X M

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Sep 6, 2017

The course help me to understand more clearly the optimizers as well as the process of

pyperparameter tuning. I think the assignments should be a little bit more challenging.

By Mike W

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Feb 16, 2024

An excellent course, Andrew Ng is an interesting and knowledgable instructor. Better course summary materials are all that is missing, as they are mostly copies of slides.

By Sergey N

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Mar 30, 2021

Very nice course, but the exercises should be more complicated and longer.

How come the last week exercise does not deal with any regularization or hyperparameter training?

By Christopher B

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May 13, 2020

Kind of short, well explained, good assignments. The tensorflow video is for version 1 of tensorflow, so I was unable to follow along with it. Other than that, good course.

By Kurt B

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Dec 31, 2017

the course is focused on the main elements - it's a lot of material to work through - it would also be good to elaborate a project (could be an own one) during the course

By Jerome B

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Dec 11, 2017

This course made a lot more sense to me, compared to the first one. Still a bit excessive on calculus in my opinion, but I guess calculus makes more sense for other people.

By Anson W

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Sep 25, 2020

It's comprehensive, even covering tensorflow. More details on tensorflow are suggested. Also the theory are more abstract and not quite well explained as previous courses.

By Anish A

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Jul 19, 2020

Week 2 was very informative, Prof Andrew discusses the concepts behind gradient descent and momentum in detail. The programming exercises could have been more challenging.

By Jek D

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May 23, 2020

The videos were great! Personally I was lacking some additional reading material and more quizzes. Other than that, the course demystified different optimization technics.

By Nagaraju K S V

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Oct 24, 2021

Very informative and explained very well. This course increased my enthusiasm and interest in ML further more. Looking forward to learn more about DL in the next courses.

By Roelof v W

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Jul 5, 2020

A very good course. The current course content related to Tensorflow syntax detail (week 3) can be improved. Future coursework should probably use the latest framework/s.

By KUMAR M

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Feb 9, 2020

A great course to learn how to make our deep learning models better. The flow of the course is superb. The only thing I felt can be improved was the level of assignments.

By Minha H

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Jan 1, 2020

Good coverage of practical issues in hyper-parameter tuning, regularization, and optimization of algorithms. Would be better if it covers TensorFlow 2.0 (instead of 1.0).